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prove a still more intimate connection with Egypt. A Lydian name 

 of hoar antiquity is Sipylua or Sliobal. The oldest king, however, 

 "whose name is recorded is Manes, who seems to reappear as the 

 Maeon of Phrygia in the story of Atys. Manes is Menes and 

 Manahath. His son is variously called Atys or Cotys. This is a 

 mistake vexy likely to ba made, Atys or Cotys being the nephew of 

 Manahath, but ruling in Egypt as he did, while Alvan remained in 

 Palestine. Atys or Cotys is Jachath. The sons of Atys are Lydus 

 and Torybus. The former is Lahad. The latter is a word obscurely 

 connecting with Achumai as the head of the Zorathites. We have 

 a better name for him in the Aciamus, under whom Ascalus built 

 Ascalon according to Lydian tradition.^" Now Ascalus in the Arab 

 story is a man of Ludim of Ad, and Lud is Lahad, the brother of 

 Achumai. The relations of Moab and the line of Shobal we have 

 already seen to be intimate, as Syria Sobal forms part of Moab, the 

 image of the god Hobal came from that region, and Khem or 

 Achumai is Chemosh, the Moabite god. But Mopsus, who is 

 Moab, and Sipylus, who is Shobal, are represented as droAvning 

 Ichthys, the son of Atargatis, in a lake near Ascalon.®" In Attis, 

 Sabus and Minotaurus, so closely joined by Guigniaut, we find the 

 three names Shobal, Manahath and Jahath.*^ Although not in Asia 

 Minor, I may mention in this place the solar line of Colchis, includ- 

 ing two forms of Jachath or the Egyptian Ati and Hekt. These 

 are Aeetes and Hecate. The temple of Jupiter Actceus at lolcos 

 also commemorates Jachath. 



Greece. — Among the islands, Crete is worthy of attention. There 

 Minos is said to have ruled, and in him we see Menes and Manahath. 

 The labyrinth agreeing with that of Mendes,^^ and the Minotaur, 

 which is Mouth-Hor or the Persian Menoutchehr, confirm the 

 identification. The Egyptian origin of E-hadamantus, the presence 

 of Cherethites or Creti in the south of Palestine, and a town 

 Minois near Gaza, are more than sufficient evidence of the trans- 

 mission of the old Egyptian history to the island of the Mediter- 

 ranean.^' The names of Deucalion (Dhu Calyan) and Androgens 

 (Nawder or Kaater) in the Cretan genealogies are also worthy of note. 



60 Xaiithu3 ap. Creuzeri Pragmenta. 

 <'i Guigniaut, ii. 944. 

 «a Diod. Sic. 1. 61, 66. Strab. xvii. 1, 43. 

 s» Vide Hitzig, die Philistaer. 



