Elishah

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Elishah

Elishah was the son of Javan

Javan

Javan was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Table of Nations" in the Hebrew Bible. Flavius Josephus states the traditional view that this individual was the ancestor of the Greek people....
according to the Book of Genesis (10:4) as well as the mediaeval, rabbinic Book of Jasher; he is said in Jasher to have been the ancestor of the "Almanim", possibly a reference to Germanic tribes (Alamanni

Alamanni

The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic languagess located around the upper Main river . One of the earliest references to them is the cognomen Alamannicus assumed by Caracalla, who ruled the Roman Empire from 211?17 and claimed thereby to be their defeater....
). The Greek Septuagint

Septuagint

The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
of Genesis 10 lists Elisa not only as the son of Javan, but also among the sons of Japheth

Japheth

Japheth is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic language citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh ....
, possibly a copyist's error.

The Portuguese

Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of Southern Europe-Western Europe Europe....
orator

Orator

An orator, or oratist, is a speaker.An orator may also be called an oratarian - literally, "he who orates".Etymology...
and mythographer Father António Vieira

António Vieira

Father Ant?nio Vieira, pronunciation. , , was a Portugal Jesuit and writer, the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time....
refers to him as being the mortal ancestor of Lusus

Lusus

Lusus is the supposed son or companion of Bacchus, the Roman mythology of wine and divine madness, to whom Portugal National myth attributed the foundation of ancient Lusitania and the fatherhood of the its inhabitants, the Lusitanians, seen as the ancestors of the modern Portuguese people....
(his divine ancestor being his father Bacchus

Bacchus

Bacchus may refer to:* Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and intoxication, known as Bacchus to Romans* Saint Bacchus, Christian martyr, companion to Saint Sergius...
), founder and eponym of Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
and Lusitania

Lusitania

Lusitania was an ancient Ancient Rome Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river, and part of modern Spain ....
(when he and his brother Tarshish

Tarshish

Tarshish occurs in the Hebrew Bible with these meanings:*One of the sons of Javan .*The name of a remote place across the sea which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon ....
, the founder of Tartessos

Tartessos

Tartessos was a harbor city and its surrounding culture on the south coast of the Iberian peninsula , at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river. It was mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo in Pliny's Natural History....
, came to Iberia

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
with their uncle Tubal

Tubal

Tubal, ???? Help:IPA pronunciation key [ t?u'bal ] or ??? [ tu'bal ], "Thou shalt be brought", in Book of Genesis 10 , was the name of a son of Japheth, son of Noah....
), as well as the origin of the name of the mythological

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
Elysium

Elysium

In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Greek Underworld . The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous....
.

Others have identified Elishah with Cypriots

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
; in ancient times the island or part of it was known as Alashiya

Alashiya

Alashiya or Alasiya was an important state during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages and was situated somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean....
.

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