pia), and conducting
his army through the desert of Lybia, feels a burning thirst, and
conjures _Ihou_, his father, to succor him in his danger.

Instantly the (celestial) Ram appears. Hercules follows him and arrives
at a place where the Ram scrapes with his foot, _and there instantly
comes forth a spring of water_.[70:1]

Samson's sixth exploit happened when he went to Gaza to visit a harlot.
The Gazites, who wished to take his life, laid wait for him all night,
but Samson left the town at midnight, and took with him the gates of the
city, and the _two posts_, on his shoulders. He carried them to the top
of a hill, some fifty miles away, and left them there.

This story very much resembles that of the "Pillars of Hercules," called
the "_Gates of Cadiz_."[70:2]

Count de Volney tells us that:

"Hercules was represented naked, carrying on his shoulders
_two columns_ called the Gates of Cadiz."[70:3]

"The _Pillars_ of Hercules" was the name given by the ancients to the
two rocks forming the entrance or _gate_ to the Mediterranean at the
Strait of Gibraltar.[70:4] Their erection was ascribed by the Greeks to
Hercules, on the occasion of his journey to the kingdom of Geryon.
According to one version of the story, they had been united, but
Hercules tore them asunder.[70:5]

[Illustration: Fig. No. 3.]

Fig. No. 3 is a representation of Hercules with the two posts or pillars
on his shoulders, as alluded to by Count de Volney. We have taken it
from Montfaucon's "L'Antiquite Expliquee."[70:6]

J. P. Lundy says of this:

"Hercules carrying his two columns to erect at the Straits of
Gibraltar, may have some reference to the Hebrew story."[71:1]

We think there is no doubt of it. By changing the name Hercules into
Samson, the legend is complete.

Sir William Drummond tells us, in his "OEdipus Judaicus," that:

"_Gaza_ signifies a Goat, and was the type of the Sun in
Capricorn. The _Gates of the Sun_ were feigned by the ancient
Astronomers to be in Capricorn and Cancer (that is, in
_Gaza_), from which signs the tropics are named. Samson
carried away the gates from Gaza to Hebron, the city of
conjunction. Now, Count Gebelin tells us that at Cadiz, where
Hercules was anciently worshiped, there was a representation
of him, _with a gate on his shoulders_."[71:2]

The stories of the amours of Samson with Delilah and other females, are
simply counterparts of