526 THE HOaiTES. 



to tlie name of tlie Egyptian god. The son of Seb is E,a, the sun, 

 and in him we have the II or E-a of the Babylonians, and the Alvan 

 or Keaiah of the sacred narrative. A brother of E-a is the deity 

 Month or Month-ra. I am indebted to Mr. Osburn for a confirma- 

 tion of my identification of the name Manahath with that of this 

 god.'"' Still another is An-ra, connected with On or Heliopolis, and 

 he is Onam, the youngest or last mentioned of the Shobalian breth- 

 ren. Fuerst points out that the m of Onam is a noun tei'mination 

 common among the Edomites. Jahath, or as we may also read it, 

 allowing for the pov/er of the medial Cheth, Jachath, appears in 

 subjection to these, and among the descendants of Seb, as Ati-ra or 

 Achthoes-ra, a name we are yet to become more familiar with. 

 Lower still in order, yet not in point of dignity and importance, is 

 Ahom-ra, and he is the Aliumai who appears as the eldest son of 

 Jahath. Two goddesses connect with this remarkable line. One is 

 Neith, whose name, meaning to level a how, is identical with the 

 Hebrew Nahath, which is the same as Manahath, without the pre- 

 fixed Mem. The other is Hekt, which is simply an abbreviated form 

 of Jachath, the initial yod being converted into a breathing. 



Some of these divinities were rulers in Egypt. As for Seb or 

 Shobal and E,a or Alvan, we have no evidence that they ever exer- 

 cised sovereignty in that land. Alvan, whom we have seen to be in 

 all probability the Ilus of Sanchoniatho, ruled, I am persuaded, in 

 the south of Palestine, whence his more adventurous brother Mana- 

 hath pushed on into Egypt, probably taking with him Onam and 

 Jahath the son of Alvan. I shall yet give good reasons for limiting 

 Alvan to Palestine, and making a probable connection for him with 

 the Abimelechs of Gerar. Tlie region chosen by Manahath for his 

 settlement was Tanis oi Zoan in the north-east of the land of Egypt, 

 a city built seven years before Hebron in Palestine. It may have 

 been built at that time by IManahath himself, but this I think hardly 

 probable. Close at hand is Mendes giving its name to the Mendes'an 

 nome. This Mendes is the city of Month, who is Manahath ; and 

 Manahath himself is the first ruler of the Egyptians, the great 

 Menes, whose name and fame descended to all lands as Menu, 

 Minos, Mannus, Manes, Menw, Mingti, and even it may ^Q the 

 Algonc[uin Manitou. The first ruler of Egypt, and the first law- 

 giver among all peoples who ever pretended to the benefits of Egypt's 

 early civilization, is the second son of Shobal the Horite. 



s« Monumental History of Egypt, i. 341. 



