[994] Capricorn.
[995] Similarly in the Gigantomachy as figured on the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi, Æolus, god of the winds, helps the deities against the giants by deflating two bags of wind. He is represented by an Ionian sculptor as working his wind-bags with all the concentration of a Hun working his machine-gun. See G. Perrot—C. Chipiez, Histoire de l’Art dans l’antiquité (Paris, 1903), VIII. 368 and 375, fig. 172.
[996] Cf. Babylonian Religion (op. cit.), pp. 62-85.
[997] Throughout my pages the words, Jews and Jewish, are generally used in the popular sense, and not as merely signifying members of the tribe of Judah. To my friend Dr. A. R. S. Kennedy, Professor of Hebrew at Edinburgh University, my thanks are due for advice and for reading the proof-sheets of my section on the Jews.
[998] In this chapter the word Assyrian generally stands for Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian proper.
[999] Remains of the Hyksos kings are far-scattered; e.g. an alabaster vase-lid of very fine work, bearing the name of Khian, was discovered in the palace of Cnossos in Crete, while a granite lion bearing the king’s cartouche on his breast, unearthed many years ago at Bagdad, is to be seen in the British Museum. J. H. Breasted, History of Egypt, p. 218 (London, 1906).
[1000] The verse is not conclusive that they were called Israelites during their sojourn in Goshen. The name used by the older sources is Ibrim, probably identical with the Egyptian word Aperu or Apriu.
[1001] This is probably a shortening of the Sumero-Babylonian Abara-rakku, equalling seer. H. de Genouillac was the first to connect the word with the Hebrew Abrek, in his Tablettes Sumériennes Archaiques.
[1002] See p. 94, Flinders Petrie, Israel and Egypt, of which in this section I frequently avail myself. Inscriptions of c. XXVIth Dynasty, or c. 600 b.c. disclose that there was an actual priesthood dedicated to the god YHW, which word is clearly spelt out.
[1003] Archæology and the Bible, p. 109 (London, 1916).