from Chus, the great ancestor from
whom the Ethiopians were descended.

The Sun was styled by the Amonians, among other titles, Zan; as I have
before shewn: and he was worshipped under this denomination all over Syria
and Mesopotamia; especially at Emesa, Edessa, and Heliopolis. One region
was named Gauzanitis, from a city Gauzan, the Gosan of the [392]Scriptures.
Strabo calls it [393][Greek: Chazene], Cha-Zene, and places it near
Adiabene. Gauzan, or Go-zan, is literally the house of the Sun. I once
thought that the land of Goshen, in Egypt, was of the same purport as
Cushan; and have so mentioned it in a former [394]treatise. So far is true:
the land of Goshen was the land of Cushan, and possessed by the sons of
Chus: but the two terms are not of the same meaning. Goshen, or Goshan,
like Gauzan in Mesopotamia, signifies the temple of the Sun: hence it was
as a city, rendered by the Greeks Heliopolis. Artapanus, as we learn from
Eusebius, expresses it Caisan, [Greek: Kaisan]. Go-Shan, Gau Zan, Caisan,
Cazena, all denote a place sacred to the Sun; and are such variations in
rendering the same term, as must be expected in an interval of fifteen
hundred years, and from different transcribers. This luminary was also
called Abor, the parent of light; and his temple Cha-Abor, and Cho-Abor,
contracted Chabor and Chobar. Of this name both a city and river were to be
found in Gauzanitis; as well as in Susiana, and other parts: for rivers
often took their names from some temple, or city, by which they ran. The
temple at Dodona was, of old, called Cha-On, or house of the Sun; as we may
infer from the country having the name of Chaonia; for Chaonia is the land
of Chaon. The priests and inhabitants were called [395]Chaones, from their
place of worship: and the former had also the name[396] of Selli, which
signifies the priests of the Sun. In Arcadia, near the eruption of the
river Erasinus, was a mountain, clothed with beautiful trees, and sacred to
Dionusus. This, also, was called [397]Chaon, _the place of the Sun_; and
was, undoubtedly, so named from the antient worship; for Dionusus was, of
old, esteemed the same as Osiris, the Sun. There was also a place called
[398]Chaon in Media and Syria; Chaonitis in Mesopotamia: and in all these
places the same worship prevailed. So Caballis, the city of the Solymi, was
named from Ca-bal, the place of the god Bal, or Baal. It is mentioned by
Strabo. In like manner Caballion, in Gallia Narbon