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to Djebel Attaka. Echetxis, the cruel \mS ^^ Epirus, may be a 

 memory of tlie same date, and the very word Echthos, an enemy, a 

 generalization of the character of one whose early death cannot atone 

 for his wickedness. ®® 



It is, however, in the great family of the Dorians that we must 

 find the ancestors of the Caphtorim and Zorathites. Their history 

 begins with a deluge, the third which has come under our notice. 

 This deluge I have good authority for placing on the borders of 

 Egypt.''^'^'^ It is that of Deucalion. I have already anticipated, by 

 taking it for granted, that Deucalion is the Arab Dhu-calyan. He 

 is Alvan, the Deev. A like name from a place in the same Pales- 

 tinian region, the town of Nyssa, south of Gaza, is Dionysius, a 

 Dhu-Nyssa. As Gilshah, we have found Deucalion ruling at Elusa, 

 not far from the town which Diodorus connects with the Bacchic 

 god.®' Him, however, for the present we must dismiss. The wife of 

 Deucalion is Pyrrha, the Rhea of Ilus, and a female Egyptian Phrah. 

 The son of Deucalion is Hellen. Here we find the Dorian annalists 

 guilty of multiplication like Manetho arid his Egyptian predecessors, 

 for Hellen and Deu-calion are one, the former replacing by a simple 

 aspirate the hard initial sound of the latter, made necessary by the 

 prefix Deu. Hellen is Allan, and the original Hellenes are the 

 Alonim, a truly royal name. Of the sons of Hellen, we must dismiss 

 .ZEolus. I know nothing certainly concerning him. Dorus and 

 Xuthus remain. The foi-mer appears too early. The latter is 

 Jachath. Dorus is another name for Achumai, answering in a mea- 

 sure to the Toiybus, who is brother of Lydus. The Zorathites, in 

 the form Zorah, furnish the Dorian name by the ^olic change of z 

 to d. Of Apollo and Phthia, a purely Egyptian name, a,nswering to 

 Phthah, while Apollo is any solar personage, came Dorus and 

 Laodocus, and these are the solar Achumai, the Zorathite, and 

 Lahad, his brother. These answer to Lydus and Torybus of Atys or 

 Cotys. The daughter of Dorus is Xanthippe, but the daughter of 



S3 I have not given aiithnrities for^tliis Homeric and similar names witli their connected 

 legends, as they are accessible in any good classical dictionary, and a useless list of references 

 would unnecessarily swell the size of the paper. 



68* Hieronymi, Chronicon Eusebii. It is true that the deluge of Ogyges (Agag) is named 

 instead of that of Peucalion, but it is plain that they are one, for Ogyges is the founder of 

 Eleusis, which is Elusa in Gerar. Africanus, in the third Book of his Chronicle, quoted by 

 Syncellus, seems to speak of Ogyges and Actaeus as if one person. Now, Actaeus is Jachath» 

 son of Alvan or Deucalion. 



«9 Diod. Sie. iv. 2. 



