es rendered Eleon; from whence came [Greek: helios], and [Greek:
helion]. The Syrians, Cretans, and Canaanites, went farther, and made a
combination of the terms Ab-El-Eon, Pater Summus Sol, or Pater Deus Sol;
hence they formed Abellon, and Abelion before mentioned. Hesychius
interprets [Greek: Abelion, Helion; Abelion, Heliakon.]

Vossius thinks, and with good reason, that the Apollo of Greece and Rome
was the same as the Abelion of the East. [62]Fortasse Apollo ex Cretico
[Greek: Abelios;] nam veteres Romani pro Apollo dixere Apello: ut pro homo,
hemo; pro bonus, benus; ac similia. The Sun was also worshipped under the
title Abaddon; which, as we are informed by the Evangelist, was the same as
Apollo; or, as he terms him, [Greek: Apolluon]: [63][Greek: Onoma autoi
Hebraisti Abaddon, kai en tei Hellenikei Apolluon.]

AIT.

Another title of Ham, or the Sun, was Ait, and Aith: a term, of which
little notice has been taken; yet of great consequence in respect to
etymology. It occurs continually in Egyptian names of places, as well as in
the composition of those, which belong to Deities, and men. It relates to
fire, light, and heat; and to the consequences of heat. We may, in some
degree, learn its various and opposite significations when compounded, from
antient words in the Greek language, which were derived from it. Several of
these are enumerated in Hesychius. [Greek: Aithai, melainai. Aithein,
kaiein. Aithaloen] (a compound of Aith El), [Greek: kekaumenon. Aithinos,
kapnos. Aithon, lampron. Aithona] (of the same etymology, from Aith-On)
[Greek: melana, purode.] [64][Greek: Aithos, kauma.] The Egyptians, when
they consecrated any thing to their Deity, or made it a symbol of any
supposed attribute, called it by the name of that attribute, or
[65]emanation: and as there was scarce any thing, but what was held sacred
by them, and in this manner appropriated; it necessarily happened, that
several objects had often the same reference, and were denominated alike.
For, not only men took to themselves the sacred titles, but birds, beasts,
fishes, reptiles, together with trees, plants, stones, drugs, and minerals,
were supposed to be under some particular influence; and from thence
received their names. And if they were not quite alike, they were, however,
made up of elements very similar. Ham, as the Sun, was styled [66]Ait; and
Egypt, the land of Ham, had, in consequence of it, the name of Ait,
rendered by the Greeks [Greek: