THE HORITES. 533 



aiSTORY AND MYTHOLOGY OP PhCENICIA, ChALD^A, ArABIA, PeRSIA, 



India, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, and of the Celtic and 

 German peoples. 



Fhceuicia. — -We have ah'eady seen that the Phoenicians are a 

 Horite stock, not in the line of Shobal but of Ezer, the father of 

 Akan. In him we mnst find the Isiris of Sanchoniatho, called by 

 him erroneously the brother of Ohna, who was the first to be named 

 a Phoenician. ISTow Ohna I make Akan, and not, as the semi-Hebrew 

 later Phoenicians said, Canaan. Akan becomes Chna by the proper 

 pronunciation of the initial ayin, for which, as in the Arabic, I have 

 always vindicated a sound approaching that of g, the correctness of 

 which appears in the Septuagint very frequently rendering ayin by 

 gamma. Gakan would be more like the true form of the name of 

 the son of Ezer than Akan or Jaakan. This form gives us the swan 

 of Canaan, one of its insignia, being identical with the Latin cygnus, 

 Greek Kbr.voq. Let the unshemitic vowels be removed, and we have 

 at once, with slight reduplication, the Chnas, given as the ancestor cf 

 the Phoenicians ; and this Chnas or Akan we find coming from the 

 shore of the B-ed Sea, according to the ancient tradition of the origin 

 of the buildei-s of Tyre and Sidon. He is their first king, Agenor 

 or Akan the Horite. I reserve much that I have to say under this 

 head for a future paper on the Phoenicians. Thabion, the Phoenician 

 teacher, who led people astray, may have had the same name, if he 

 be not the same person as Zibeon, the next to Shobal among the sons 

 of Seir.^® Shobal seems to be lost in the Phoenician stoiy, unless 

 Asbolus, who is obscurely mentioned as the same with Coum, or 

 Achumai or Khem, the son of Belus and nephew of Canaan, father 

 of the Phoenicians, and Mestraim father of the Egyptians, be he.^' 

 But the Cronus or Time which represents him, or that he represents 

 in the Egyptian mythology as Seb, in Sanchoniatho is applied to his 

 son, Ilus or Alvan, the brother of Onam or Dagon, the husband of 

 Hhea (a word which is simply the Eeaiah, Poeh or Ra, by which the 

 eldest of the Shobalians is known), and the father of Jehid or Jeoud. 

 Sanchoniatho plainly says that he went into Egypt, but did not 

 reign there, his kingdom being in Palestine. The story of Sanchon- 

 iatho is a venerable record of primeval history, somewhat obscure and 

 corrupted, yet of inestimable value. 



S3 Sanclioniatho's Phcen. Hist. 93, 343 seq. Cumberland with a totally different end La view 

 finds that Thabion is a Greek form of an older Zahion. 

 ■8^ Sanchoniatho's Phren. Hist., 115. 



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