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Elishah, or Eliseus ((ヘブライ語:אֱלִישָׁה) ''’Ělîšāh'') was the son of Javan according to the Book of Genesis (10:4) as well as the mediaeval, rabbinic ''Book of Jasher'' (Hebrew transliteration: Sefer haYashar); he is said in ''Jasher'' to have been the ancestor of the "Almanim", possibly a reference to Germanic tribes (Alamanni). An older and more common traditions refers to him as a settler of Greece,〔(A view of ancient geography and ancient history: Accompanied with an atlas of ten select maps, calculated for the use of seminaries, &c, Robert Mayo ), Robert Mayo, Volume 340 Harvard social studies textbooks preservation microfilm project, Published and sold by John F. Watson, no. 51 Chestnut Street, A. Fagan Printer, 1813, Universidade de Michigan, p. 153〕 particularly Elis in the Peloponese. The Greek Septuagint of Genesis 10 lists ''Elisa'' not only as the son of Javan, but also among the sons of Japheth, possibly a copyist's error. Lusitanian mythology traditionally makes Elishah (under the name Lysias/Lísias)〔''Portugal Terra de Mistérios'', Paulo Alexandre Loução, p.283〕 an ancestor and predecessor of Lusus (Elisha being older, having arrived accompanying his uncle Tubal founding Portalegre in 1900 BC under Iberian king Brigo),〔see (Portalegre, * * * Carlos Leite Ribeiro * * * Distritos e Concelhos de Portugal ), (Portalegre, distoedakilo ), (Portalegre ).〕 Lysias' own supposed tomb (in Portalegre) claiming that he was the first "cultivator" of Lusitania.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dialogos de dom Frey Amador Arraiz Bispo de Portalegre )〕 Lusus' reign is traditionally placed in the sixteenth-fifteenth centuries BC, e.g., in the ''Livro Primeiro da Monarchia Lusitana''.〔Frei Bernardo de Brito, (Capítulo XV )〕 All this is debated; Lusus has also been described as coming before Lysias, who would thus be too late to be Elishah〔E.g., in Frei Bernardo de Brito's ''Livro Primeiro da Monarchia Lusitana'', (Capítulo XVIII, pg. 240 ), the (Dialogos de dom Frey Amador Arraiz Bispo de Portalegre ), p. 21, ''Defensam da monarchia Lvsitana, Volumes 1-2'', Bernardino da Silva, pp. 36 - 37, and (''Ulyssipo'' ), António de Sousa de Macedo, p. 29- 30,〕 or vaguely at the same time, or even the same individual under different names.〔E.g., in Paulo Alexandre Loução's Portugal Terra de Mistérios, p. 283.〕 Lusus is sometimes called a son of Baccus and of the lineage of Lysias, or the other way around, or even a mere companion.〔For this discussion, see Livro Primeiro da Monarchia Lusitana, Frei Bernardo de Brito, pp. (242 ) - (243 )〕 The Portuguese orator and mythographer Father António Vieira (1608-1697) refers to Elishah (under his actual biblical name) as founder and eponym of Lisbon and Lusitania (when he came to the Iberia with his uncle Tubal), as well as the origin of the name of the mythological Elysium.〔(''Cartas do padre Antonio Vieira - Volumes 1-4 de Cartas do padre Antonio Vieira'' ), J.M.C. Seabra & T.Q. Antunes, 1854, p. 114〕〔''Dicionário do nome das terras - origens,curiosidades e lendas das terras de portugal'', João Fonseca, Cruz Quebrada/Casa das letras, 2007. Entry ''Lisboa''〕 Vieira also identified Elisha's biblical brother Tarshish as the founder of Tartesos in Andalucia, implying both would have come to Iberia with Tubal (though this isn't the only theory on the identity of Tarshish).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historiantes: Tarsis y Tartessos )〕 Elishah in this Portuguese portrayal is identified with Bacchus' captain Lysias/Lísias, sometimes also with Lusus and Phoroneus〔''Portugal Terra de Mistérios'', Paulo Alexandre Loução, p. 283〕 and is referred as the founder of Portalegre and being buried at the ''Ermida de São Cristovão'' (Chapel of Saint Christopher) inside the town.〔''(Dialogos de dom Frey Amador Arraiz Bispo de Portalegre )'', p. 21〕 A proposed resolution of these conflicting versions of the myth involves considering an early Lysias, Elishah (mythical founder of Portalegre in 1900 BC) and Lusus (having as mortal father king Siceleo of Iberia, grandson of Atlante/Atlas, founder of Atlantis,〔A version appearing in ''Livro Primeiro da Monarchia Lusitana'', Frei Bernardo de Brito, Capítulos XIV - XVII〕 to be a possible descendant of Elishah, but possibly Bacchus being his real and divine father), and later lived another Lysias, son of Bacchus (who in this version is clearly the son of Semele who conquered Iberia, not the son of Jupiter and Io who conquered India or the son of Jupiter and Proserpina who was an agrarian and herding culture hero),〔(Livro Primeiro da Monarchia Lusitana, Frei Bernardo de Brito, p. 237 ) - (238 )〕 who was of a different cast but with the similarity of name to the above was claimed by his father Bacchus to be their reincarnation to please the Lusitanians he subjected, becoming under his father the new separate king of the Lusitanians since Lusus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Livro Primeiro da Monarchia Lusitana - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes )〕 Judean historian Flavius Josephus related the descendants of Elishah with the Aeolians, one of the ancestral branches of the Greeks.〔(The works of Flavius Josephus: the learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior, to which are added, three dissertations, concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's command to Abraham, etc. with an index to the whole, Volume 1 ), translated by William Whiston, Publisher Lackington, Allen and co., 1806, Princeton University〕 Others〔(The expansion of the Greek world, eighth to sixth centuries B.C. ), John Boardman, Volume 3 Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-521-23447-6, ISBN 978-0-521-23447-4〕 have identified Elishah with Cypriots as in ancient times the island or part of it was known as Alashiya. == See also == * Dodanim * Javan * Kittim * Tarshish * Sons of Noah 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elishah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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