534 THE HOKITES. 



Chaldcea. — The Ilus of Sanclioniatlio and the II or Ra of Bahylonia 

 are generally allowed to be the same.^^* In the ancient Belus of that 

 early empire, not that he really ruled in whal I's known as Babylonia, 

 but his descendants, we have Alvan as II with the Coptic article in & 

 softened form prefixed, forming, as I ha-ve elsewhere shown, the word 

 Baal, which is simply 7]/ with an initial ^. As for Ninus, he is, 

 doubtless, a nunnated Onam, and the same as Anu, Cannes or Dagon, 

 the Onnos, whose descendants were driven from Egypt into Babylonia, 

 This is, indeed, the derivation given in all ancient records of Oannes 

 and his family.*" The god of Assyria is Asshur, and in him we haver 

 I am persuaded, a reminiscence of the Egyptian TJsecheres or Ashchur, 

 his son Achashtari or Sesostris being the Chaldean Xisuthrus, as I 

 hope yet to have an opportunity of proving at lerigth." 



Arabia. — One of the regions in which most naturally we should 

 be incliaed to look for traces of the Horites, is Arabia. In the 

 raythology and early history of that country we accordingly find 

 them. An old god known to the Creeks is Dusares, otherwise Dhu- 

 Sair.*^ The word Dhu signifies Lord, and Sair gives us the Bible 

 name Seir. Connected with him is Hobal, a god whose worship waa 

 brought from the region of Syria Sobal, and who is the same as Aud, 

 being the Cronus or Seb of the Arabians.*^ The people of Aud or 

 Hobal are the original inhabitants of Irem, in which we find Jearim, 

 the Kirjath or villages of which Shobal and his family inhabited.** 

 Intimately allied to Aud or Hobal, as his sons and descendants, are 

 II or Dhucalyan, Monat, Shedad, Yaguth, Lokman and Lud. In II, 

 Calyan and Dhucalyan, we find Alian, the power of the initial ayin 

 appearing in the second, and the princely Dhu preceding it in the 

 third. Monat, though a name generally applied to a goddess, as in 



39« The Greek form niinos given \>y Damascius, and -with which Sir Henry Rawlinson 

 (Rawliuson's Herodotus, App. Blc, i., Easay 10, 2, (111) ), connects the Babylonian Il-enu, is 

 more lilce Alvan or Alian. Guigniaut says Helou or El is the oriental Cronus. (Religions de 

 I'antiquite, ii. 897.) 



<o Cory's Ancient Fragments, 22, 31. 



*i The Rev. W. B. Galloway (Egypt's Record, 157) identifies Xisuthrus and Sesostris. Whistort 

 in Josephus (Ant. i. 2, 3) also identifies Seth and Sesotris. Seth, Sheth or Ashtar, the deity of 

 the Egyptian Shepherds, is the same. So is the Persian Tashter and the Indian Tvashtar or 

 Satya\Tata. The stories connected with all tliese names recall an ancient deluge, and a warfare 

 with a Horite line. The children of Sheth (Numbers xxiv. 17), connected in Balaana's prophecy 

 • with Moah, are of this ancestry. 



42 Guigniaut, iii. 919. 



« Sale's Koran, Preliminary Discourse. Guigniaut ii. 874, Lenormact and Chevalier, ii, 351,- 



*^ Sale's Koran, Preliminary Discourse .^ 



