544 THE HORITES. 



Ereya, tlio Egyptian Plire, and as 11 in the annual feast wliicli was 

 held in his liononr, called Yule." Ondurdis also is the Egyptian 

 Onderah or Denderah, which takes its name from the god and first 

 ruler of Heliopolis. The Celtic divinity, Ogmius, with his Mercury 

 and Hercules associations, has been frequently identified with A horn, 

 and is Achumai. The Irish Ogomuin, son of Thoi, must be the 

 same, Thoi being a form of Jahath, an Achthoes without the first 

 syllable. He seems to be represented by the British Beli, who is 

 called erroneously son of Manhogan (Manachath), and correctly the 

 father of Llud (Lahad). Beli may be the name of Alvan himself, 

 given to Jachath when accurate history perished, and a tendency 

 arose to reduce the solar divinities to unity. 



The Ethiopian deity Assabinus, and its earliest monarch Arwe, 

 may be Eshban and Haroeh. Manachath may appear not only in 

 the Chinese Ming-ti but also in the Peruvian Manco-Guina-Capac 

 and the Algonquin Manitou. It would be strange if the ancient 

 people of China and the tribes of this continent could be shown to 

 have dwelt within the influence of a Horite civilization. The unity 

 and recent origin of the human race would be at once established 

 could this be done, as I doubt not it will be befoi-e long. In the 

 meantime, the various traditions of civilized peoples have carried us 

 back to the days of Abraham and to the lands in which he sojourned — 

 Palestine, Egypt, and the region lying between ; and pomted these 

 out as the time and the place when and where man, a second time 

 beginning to fill the earth, laid the foundations of his present pros- 

 perity. The facts I have given, through the connections established 

 between the Scripture narrative and tradition, are a besom to sweep 

 into the waste-basket of literature the utterly unfounded hypotheses 

 of Bunsen and others, which throw the commencement of Egyptian 

 history thousands of years into the past. They abolish, I trust for 

 ever, that absurd class of interpreters of mythology, who make 

 Euhemerus a continual object of scorn, and pleasingly imagine a 

 world sitting down in its various divisions to weave out of its own 

 brain a complex and unintelligible solar allegoi-y. They say to the 

 ethnologist, the student of language, the comparative geographer, the 

 groper towards a science of religions, the historian, as they point to 

 the eastern life of nearly four thousand years ago — there is the long- 

 forgotten field in which your studies must begin if they are to be 



78 Mallet's Northern Antiquities. Bolrn ; 110. 



