styled Cuthim; and this word likewise among the antients
signified gold: from hence these priests were styled [Greek: Chruseioi
kunes]. We find the like history in Crete: here too was a golden dog, which
Zeus had appointed to be the guardian of his temple[95]. By comparing these
histories, I think we cannot fail of arriving at the latent meaning. The
God of light among other titles was styled Cahen, or Chan-Ades: but the
term being taken in the same acceptation here, as in the instances above,
the Deity was changed to a dog, and said to reside in the infernal regions.
From hence he was supposed to have been dragged to light by Hercules of
Thebes. The notion both of Cerberus and Hades being subterraneous Deities
took its rise from the temples of old being situated near vast caverns,
which were esteemed passages to the realms below. Such were in Messenia, in
Argolis, in Bithynia, and at Enna in Sicily; not to mention divers other
places. These temples were often named Kir-Abor; and the Deity Chan-Ades;
out of which terms the Greeks formed [Greek: Ton Kerberon kuna hadou]; and
fabled, that he was forced into upper air by Hercules, through these
infernal inlets. And as temples similar in name and situation were built in
various parts, the like history was told of them all. Pausanias takes
notice of this event, among other places, being ascribed to the cavern at
[96]Taenarus; as well as to one at [97]Troezen, and to a third near the city
[98]Hermione. The Poet Dionysius speaks of the feat being performed in the
country of the Marianduni, near Colchis.

[99][Greek: Kai Mariandunon hieron pedon, enth' enepousin]
[Greek: Oudaiou Kronidao megan kuna Chalkeophonon]
[Greek: Chersin anelkomenon megaletoros Herakleos,]
[Greek: Deinon apo stomaton baleein sialodea chulon.]

But however the Deity in all these instances may have been degraded to the
regions of darkness, yet he was the God of light, [Greek: Kun-hades]; and
such was the purport of that name. He was the same as Apollo, as may be
proved from the Cunidae at Athens, who were a family set apart for his
service. [Greek: Kunnidai, genos Atheneisin, ex hou ho hiereus tou Kunniou
Apollonos.] Hesychius. _The Cunnidai are a family at Athens, out of which
the priest of Apollo Cunnius is chosen_. He styles him Apollo Cunnius: but
the Cunidai were more properly denominated from Apollo Cunides, the same as
Cun-Ades. Poseidon was expressly styled Cun-Ades; and he was the same De