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borders of the Arabian desert, "which marks the ancient Phagriopolis
and the Phagroriopolite nome. The fish Phagres, (the eel), which
was "worshipped as Phagriopolis, was fabled to have deroured the
member of Osiris which was missing when Isis went in, sea.rchr of his
discerped body, in honour of which, that phallus worship arose which,
is always associated with the idolatry of Baal Peor.. Sheth certainly
dwelt in the Rabbahs of Ammon and in Ar-Moab, so that the
connection is far from being an improbable one. The Phre, who is
a god of the Shethites with Ashtar and Amun, cannot be a form of
the Horite Ka, and is, I am inclined to think, this Beor. He will
also be the Pheron, whom Herodotus makes the son of Sesostris, in
connection with whom it is well to observe that the same author
attributes to him the erection of phallic pillars. I reser\re what I
have to say concerning the Shethites or descendants of Achashtari
for the Palestinian connections of the Egyptian Ashchurites.
