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Brahmins in the West of India, where the name is held in the 

 highest veneration. 



9. On my, shewing the Egyptian Pantheon to a Hindoo he at 

 once identified the robed Osiris as Bramah. 



10. The relations of Misraim, viz : Ham, Seba, Sabtechah, and 

 Phut have had their memories preserved in Egypt in the names of 

 the Gods Amun, Seb, Set, and To-th. 



11. The great gods of the Osiris circle, seven in number with 

 a transition to an eighth, including Osiris himself, had for their 

 originals, probably, Misraim and his seven sons. The statues of 

 the God of Memphis, Ptah Osiri, or Osiris, and his seven sons, 

 were shewn to Cambyses in the temple of that city. A Gana or 

 circle of Hindoo gods consisted of eight Vasus. 



12. Osiris is the human God, the God-man of Egypt. 



13. Diodorus writes that Osiris said of himself " I am the son 

 of Chronos born of an egg." Precisely the same myth attaches 

 to the birth of Bramah in Indian Mythology. 



14. How far the names of other members of the family of Ham 

 have spread in the East appears below : 



Ancient names of the family Countries. Names of Gods, 



of Ham preserved. 



Ham in Thibet as Mahaammonee. 



Phut „ Siam 



Cush „ China „ Saka. 



Cush „ Tonquin "„ Chaka and 



Ham, in Ava and India, as Godama. 



The name of Ham, Amun, or Aum, has been preserved in the 

 names of the Buddhist Gods, thus. 



God 



AUM 



a 



Got 



AUM 



a 



G 



AUM 



uta 



Maha 



AMUN 



ee 



