The Manx poets are not behind their neighbours in compofitions on Offian; they say he was the son of Om, (c) the great prophet of the ancient Perfians or Scythians, and their descendants the Irish, Erse and Manx, for they were three fods of one native foil, as they are called by an ancient Irish poet, fpeaking the fame language, governed by the fame laws, enjoying the fame cuftoms, and poffeffing all the Britannic Iles, till difunited and broken by invasions from the North and from Gaul. The Manx poets have brought Mananann down to the time of Patrick-not fo with their Offian, unlike the Scotch and Irish Bards, they have preferved the Pagan æra throughout. מרבה יופי מרבה משאון מרבה האור מרבה עברון Ubi multa pulchritudo, ibi multa deceptio ; (c) Osfhin Mac Owm, or the son of Om, the God of Terror. See conclufion, ch, ix. in the Hindoftan collated with the Irish, INDEX BRAHAM and Anobret, story of in Sanchonia- Aho, copied from the Hiberno-Scythi Abraham difperfes the Southern Scythi, warring against the Canaanites Acmon, father of Uranus, 1ft King of the Atlantes, a firft King of Perfia Adad, the fun, word of Irish origin PAGE. 428 362 xlviii II 397 214 and Molochbal, Irish Deities Aifrion, the Mafs, a Perfian and Chaldean word Aiteach Cotti, Scythians why fo called 202 xxix Airgiodlamh of Irish hift. Zerduft the First Alban, fignification of the name Algarv, etym. of the name Page 160 xv, xxi 306 Alphabet cæleftial of the Chaldæans, explained Amarcall or fignum x of the Irish, explains the Immorcalim of the Hebrews. (See Thau.) Antra Mithræ in Ireland 544 viii, 521 207, 211 Anakim of Scripture, So. Scythi, ancestors of the Irish 150 Aodh-flaine of Ir. hift. Ifaac of S. S. 428 Armeni, Aramai, Scythians XXV Armenians, their fabulous hift. fame as the Irish. xlix Arrarat, fo called from the Irish Aorth (a), a ship xxxvii Artizoe (a) I think our Southern Scythian navigators have been miftaken for the Royal Shepherds, that made an irruption into Ægypt, as mentioned by Manetho. The fragment is preferved by Jofephus, in thefe words: "We had formerly, fays he, a King named Timeus; in whose reign, I know not why, but it pleafed God to vifit us with a blaft of his displeasure: when on a fudden there came upon this country a large body of obfcure people from the East, and with great boldness invaded the land, and took it without oppofition. Their behaviour to the natives was very barbarous, for they flaughtered the men, and made flaves of their wives and children. The whole body of this people were called Hukfos or Ukfos, that is, Royal Shepherds; for the first fyllable in the facred dialect fignifies a King, as the latter in the popular language fignifies a fhepherd. These two compounded together conftitute the word Hukfos. These people are faid to have been Arabians." "After . Architecture, ftudy of, why not cultivated by ancient Irith 462, 464 Aftro ADDITIONAL NOTES. "After thefe came another fet of people, who were fojourners in Ægypt in the reign of Amenophis. These, says Manetho, chose themselves a leader; one who was a priest of Heliopolis, and whofe name was Ofar fiph; and after he had lifted himself with this body of men, he changed his name to Mofes." "The first intruders, adds Manetho, at length conftituted one of their body to be their King, whose name was Salatis. He built the city of Abaris (a name that had fome relation to the ancient theology of the nation) and placed in it a garrison of two hundred and forty thousand men." The learned Bryant, in his obfervations on the ancient history of Ægypt, has clearly proved that thefe Royal Shepherds (as the Greeks called them) were diftinct from the Ifraelites and prior to thein; and were also called Aurite; a name he thinks derived from " aur, fire, i e. Fire-worshippers. As to the first name, Hukfos, which Eufebius writes Hukoussos, I think it plainly appears to have been Scythian, derived from the Irish Oc, or' Oic, a prince, and Ess, a fhip: that is, our Southern Scythians who navigated the Ægyptian fhips, and had fettlements in Ægypt, (as the foregoing history has fhewn) were called Oic-Efs, or Ship-commanders. We have also thewn that Aorth in Irish is a fhip, (Introd. p. xxxvii) and that Cadis (or the Ship-island, p. 58,) was called Erytha by the Greeks, from the Irish or Scythian Aorth-aoi, i. e. the Ship-ifland; I conjecture, they called themselves in Egypt Aorthi, that is Shipmen, Mariners, whence Aurite. Abaris was alfo a Scythian name, fignifying the Father of Holiness, from Ab father, and Iris religion, |