538 THE HORITES. 



Rama is himself an incarnation of Siva ; and a later Parasurama, or 

 Rama witli the axe, is the Greek Perseus. The enemy of Siva or 

 Mahadeva, the great Deev, is Mahiasura, the great Asura, in whom 

 appears Ashcur or Usecheres, the father of Ashtari, Ashtar or Sheth. 

 Another Indian story furnishes, in a somewhat disguised form, the 

 names of several members of the Shobalian family. Shobal himself 

 is Kapila, a form like the Talmudical Kabil. Kalyana and Roja, 

 descended from him, are Alvan or Reaiah, and Mandhatu is plainly 

 Manahath, while the unfortunate and wicked Ghetiya represents the 

 unhappy and cruel Jachath.^^ Menu, Manu Swayambhu, the fertile 

 cow Sabala, and. many other mythological characters, belong to the 

 same Horite story. Different tribes have preserved the same narra- 

 tive in different forms, both as regards fact and the orthography of 

 proper names. 



Asia Minor. — I have already claimed for the famous city of Ilium 

 a connection with Ilus or Alvan, a connection favoured by Bishop 

 Cumberland.^^ The Atys of Phrygia gives us, in his mournful story, 

 a version of the history of Jahath or Jachath, called Ati upon the 

 Egyptian monuments. He is a solar divinity like Jahath, is born 

 of the stones cast behind them by Deucalion and Pyrrha (Dhu 

 Calyan*®''" and Phre, a Ra or Rhea, with the prefix of the Coptic 

 article), and is the first of the Galli, or priests of the Sun, a word 

 which is simply a plural of the Gil form of Alvan's name. He is 

 called Papas, and a striking coincidence appears in the fact that the 

 Egyptian Idng is termed Ati or Pepi.^' The Cappadocians, often 

 thought to be the Caphtorim, are truly a family of Copts. ^^ They 

 were an unmixed people, fond of independence, and distinguished 

 from others as the White Syrians. It is in Lydia, however, that we 

 look for the Horite family. This country had intimate relations 

 with Assyria and Palestine it is generally conceded,^* but I can 



55 Hardy's Manual of Buddhism, 134. 



6' feanchoniatho's Phoen. Hist., 473. 



66* Tlie value of Ihe k in Deukalion is at once known br the fact that the Irish Declan, wha 

 represents him, becomes the Welsh Dylan. The ayin of Alvan thus appears. Davies' British 

 Druids, 104. 



5' On this all Egj'ptologists are agreed. 



53 Vide Gesenii Thesaurum. 



59 Anthon's Classical Dictionary, Art. Lydia. In my articl9 on " The Coptic Element in 

 Languages of the Indo-European Family," (Canadian Journal, Dec, 1ST2, p. 408), I have 

 shewn decided Arabian connections in the change of Aciamus and Atys to Aleimus (Lokman) 

 and Alyattes, and in the presence of Sadyattes or Shedad in the Lydian dynasties. 



