536 THE HORITES. 



especially as in Slaobal we liave the head of a pre-eminently solar' 

 line. A better acquaintance with, the older Arabian historians would 

 enable me to speak more decidedly upon this point. 



Connected with the Arabian are the Talmudical legends. Some 

 of these treat of Kabil, the head of the Deevs or demons. Kabil, as 

 we shall yet see, is Shobal, associated in other mythologies with 

 these same Deevs. The great enemy of the Deevs is Seth, not the 

 son of Adam, but the Egyptian Sheth or Ashtar, whom we have 

 already found at enmity with the Horite family.*^ The Chemosh of 

 Moab is in all probability the Khem of Egypt and Cama of India, 

 Achumai the son of Jachath.*^ 



Persia. — Persia is the great Aryan land, an early name of which 

 was Haroiou, the same word as Haroeli.^" Its ancient history tells 

 us that the first king who ruled in the earth after the great flood or 

 destruction was Gil-shah or Kaiomers. He was called Abul-Muluk, 

 or the father of kings. ^^ This Gil or Gil-shah furnishes us with the 

 name II or Alvan, the full power of the initial ayin appearing in it ; 

 and he is the Abimelech who ruled in Gerar immediately after the 

 destruction of the Cities of the Plain.^^* Connected with him is 

 Menoutchehr, the Egyptian Menes or Manahath the Horite, whose 

 name on the monuments is Month-Hor. His son Nawder is a 

 ISTeith-ra, and perhaps the Naator of the tablets. The Persian 

 goddess Nahid is Neith or Nahath. We have already found that 

 Djemschid or Achsemenes of the line of Gil-shah is Achumai. I 

 have strong reasons, however, for making him the same as Kai Kobad, 

 supposed to be a later Persian king, as I will yet show when treating 

 of the Greek connections.^* In Kai Kobad we have the Copt or 

 ^gyptus already identified with Achumai. Lohurasp or Aurvadagpa 



*8 Baring Gould's Legends of Old Testament Characters, 6'/. 



te Sir Gardner Wilkinson, A Popular Account of the Aneient Egyptians, i. 286. 



60 Rawlinson's Herodotus, App. Bk. i. Essay xi. s. 14. 



61 RusseU's Connection of Sacred and Profane History, ii. 28. London : Tegg. 



51* Gilshali or Abimelech is probably the Abimelech of Abraham, who ruled in Gerar, his 

 town, called after himself, being the Elusa of Ptolemy and others, now called by the Arabs 

 El-Khulasa, thus shewing the power of the ayin. It Jis worthy of note that, although the 

 name Elusa is not mentioned in the Bible, the Arabic version in Gene^sis xx. 1, 2, for Gerar 

 reads El- Khulus, "as if referring it to Elusa." Robinson's Biblical Eesearchss, i. 202. This 

 is plainly the original of the Greek Eleusis, as well as of Elysium and Coelum, the Rarian 

 plain near it being the region of Aroer, not far from Elusa. The first monarchy after the 

 destruction of the Cities of the Plain was that of Gerar. The extensive and exceedingly 

 ancient ruins in the neighbourhood of Elusa point to a far distant and high civilization, 



''2 Vide Shah Nameh for this and other particulars in Persian History. 



