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54 ascribes expressly to the Sabians the notion that Seth taught the art of medicine, and that he had received it as an heritage from Adam.

Akhnúkha or Hánúkhá (&lrm;) is Enoch. Ibn-Abi-Oceibia, drawing from Sabian sources, calls Enoch (&lrm;). We know the part of “inventor” which this patriarch filled of old. The Arabs, also following these Sabian traditions, identify him with Hermes. No doubt the Babylonian Akhnúkha, often quoted in the same line with Armísá, is the legendary Enoch, who rises into such high favour towards the commencement of our era.

Anúhá, the Canaanite (&lrm;), another of