540 THE HORITES. 



Of scarcely less importance than the history <yf Crete is that of 

 Rhodes.®* Its line is one of Heliads, a solar line. The sons of 

 Helius, who is Ilus or Alvan, fled on account of a deluge, which 

 reminds us of that of Gilshah, to other lands. Among them, Actis 

 went to On or Heliopolis in Egypt, and taught the Egyptians 

 astrology. Who can fail to recognise Jachath 1 Another is Ochime, 

 whose name preserves more purely than any other the original form 

 Achumai. His daughter Cydippe married Cercaphus, another 

 Heliad, whom I have not yet been able to identify. From this 

 union sprang Lindu:S, Jalyssus and Camirus, the equivalents of 

 which I have not found. But in Cercaphus I recognise a head of 

 the Cercopes, who infested Lydia in the time of Omphale, and whom 

 Hercules changed into apes. Thus we have three traditions — the 

 Arab, the Indian, and the Lydian forming about Achumai as a 

 csntre. The narrative of Diodorus Siculus takes some of the 

 Heliades to Tabor in Palestine, although to him it is the Rhodian 

 Atabyris. Hitter holds that Tabor is the original of the Rhodian 

 name.®^ Some distance to the north of this mountain and westward 

 on the sea-coast is Ecdippa, commemorating the name of Ocliime's 

 daughter, and close beside Ecdippa is Ummali, a memorial of himself. 

 Cercaphus may survive in an Acrabbi (or Gecrabbi giving the force 

 of the ayin) lying near Carmel, which at least one writer has iden- 

 tified with Camirus. 



In Bo3otia we meet with Actfeon, the brother of a Hecate, who was 

 torn to pieces by his dogs, just as Jachath or Achthoes was killed by 

 his own guards, who should have defended him. His story is made 

 a parallel to that of Atys, son of Croesus, accidentally slain by his 

 attendant.^® In the same country, of T\rhich Thebes, a reminiscence 

 of an Egyptian Thebes, was the capital, Sipylus (Sliobal) and 

 Minytus (Manahath) are numbered among the sons of Amphion and 

 Niobe.^^ Amphion is the son of Epopeus (Apopliis) and Antiope 

 (E"eith-pe), while Antiope is the daughter of Nycteus (Ma-lSTachath). 

 A form resembling Nycteus, in the absence of the initial M, ia 

 Antaeus, whom Hercules slew in Egypt. Actseus, the ancient king 

 of Attica, preceding Cecrops, probably Cercaphus, is Jachath or 

 Achthoes, whose dominions, after the capture of On, would extend 



6* Diod. Sic. V. 55, seq. 



^^ Die Vorhalle Europaischer Volkergescliicliten 339, secL. 

 «s Diod. Sic. iv. 81, seq. 

 • •'T Apollodorij iii. 5, 6. 



