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the case of Neitli, gives us Manaliatli. Sheclad is Dagon or Onam. 

 Close to On, or perhaps the same place, is Fostat, which is simply a 

 form of Shedad with the Coptic article prefixed, and meaning, like 

 On, the strong city. Again, Dagon is the divinity of Ashdod in 

 Philistia, which is of the same root as Shedad. Shedad plainly is a 

 translation and not a corruption of the word Onam. For the con- 

 nection of Shedad and Alvan I quote the authority of Hyde, who 

 says that Shedad, the son of Aud, sent Dahak the Arab, the son of 

 his brother TJlvanus, against Djemschid.*' The historical statement 

 is false, inasmuch as Djemschid was the son of this Dahak, if, as is 

 most likely, he be Jachath son of Alvan, but the connection of Alvan 

 and Onam as Shedad in the son of the former, is valuable. The 

 Phoenician history of Sanchoniatho mentions a Sadid as a son of Ilus. 

 Another representative of this family is Yaguth, who is Jachath, 

 and he very properly is the supreme divinity of the Dhukailite 

 Arabs,*® the sons of Dhu-Calyan. Of the Adite line descended from 

 Hobal, a prominent member is Lokman. He is Lubad or Gypt, the 

 vvlture man, and presents to iis Achumai, Ahom or Achfemenes, 

 with the prefix somewhat disguised of the Arabic article Al. The 

 head of the Achsemeliian Persians was said to have been nursed by 

 an eagle or vulture, and Lokman is simply Al Acheemenes. Lubad 

 is a form like Al Gypt, without the strong power of the cheth, rising 

 from Ahumai rather than Achumai. He and his followers are 

 reported to have been transformed into monkeys, the reverse of Mr. 

 Darwin's hypothesis, and a tradition that we shall yet meet with in 

 other lands." To the above may be added Lud, the Arab, whose 

 descendant Askelos founded the city of Ascalon, and who is 

 undoubtedly the Lahad that gave to some of the Egyptians the 

 name of Lud. He also is an Adite of Hobal. Among the kings of 

 Egypt, whom the Arabs claim, are Kabus and his brother Al Walid. 

 These may be Achumai and Lahad, the first in the form which we 

 find in Cheops. Saba or Abd Shems (the servant of the sun), a veiy 

 old Arabian king, I think may be Shobal, and his son Cahlan, Alvan, 



45 Hyde, Religio Vet. Pers. 183. 



« Banier, La Mythologie et les Fables expliquees par I'histoire, i. 528 seq. Kail or Cayl is & 

 title of autliority similar to Dhu, and is doubtless a form of (al or) II, giving the full force of 

 the initial ajin. The people of Khaulan who worship II take their name from Alvan. The 

 solar deity Dhu Kolosa is the lord of Blusa or Khulasa, the highest in heaven (Coelum) ox 

 Elysium. Eleusis is the same word. 



« Sale's Koran, Preliminary Discourse. Lenormant and Ckevalier, ii. 299. 



