The word _Khairūm_ or _Khūrūm_ is a compound one. Gesenius renders _Khūrūm_ by the word _noble_ or _free-born: Khūr_ meaning _white, noble_. It also means the opening of a window, the socket of the eye. _Khri_ also means _white_, or an _opening_; and _Khris_, the orb of the Sun, in _Job_ viii. 13 and x. 7. _Krishna_ is the Hindu Sun-God. _Khur_, the Parsi word, is the literal name of the Sun. From _Kur_ or _Khur_, the Sun, comes Khora, a name of Lower Egypt. The Sun, Bryant says in his Mythology, was called _Kur_; and Plutarch says that the Persians called the Sun _Kūros. Kurios, Lord_, in Greek, like _Adonaï, Lord_, in Phœnician and Hebrew, was applied to the Sun. Many places were sacred to the Sun, and called _Kura, Kuria, Kuropolis, Kurene, Kureschata, Kuresta_, and _Corusia_ in Scythia. The Egyptian Deity called by the Greeks "_Horus_," was _Her-Ra_. or _Har-oeris, Hor_ or _Har_, the Sun. _Hari_ is a Hindu name of the Sun. _Ari-al, Ar-es, Ar, Aryaman, Areimonios_, the AR meaning _Fire_ or _Flame_, are of the same kindred. _Hermes_ or _Har-mes_, (_Aram, Remus, Haram, Harameias_), was Kadmos, the Divine Light or Wisdom. _Mar-kuri_, says Movers, is _Mar_, the Sun. In the Hebrew, AOOR, is Light, Fire, or the Sun. Cyrus, said Ctesias, was so named from _Kuros_, the Sun. _Kuris_, Hesychius says, was Adonis. Apollo, the Sun-god, was called _Kurraios_, from _Kurra_, a city in Phocis. The people of _Kurene_, originally Ethiopians or Cuthites, worshipped the Sun under the title of _Achoor_ and _Achōr_. We know, through a precise testimony in the ancient annals of Tsūr, that the principal festivity of _Mal-karth_, the incarnation of the Sun at the Winter Solstice, held at Tsūr, was called his _rebirth_ or his _awakening_, and that it was celebrated by means of a pyre, on which the god was supposed to regain, through the aid of fire, a new life. This festival was celebrated in the month _Peritius (Barith)_, the second day of which corresponded to the 25th of December. KHUR-UM, King of Tyre, _Movers_ says, first performed this ceremony. These facts we learn from _Josephus, Servius_ on the Æneid, and the _Dionysiacs_ of _Nonnus_; and through a coincidence that cannot be fortuitous, the same day was at Rome the _Dies Natalis Solis Invicti_, the festal day of the invincible Sun. Under this title, HERCULES, HAR-_acles_, was worshipped at Tsūr. Thus, while the temple was being erected, the death and resurrection of a Sun-God was annually represented at Tsūr, by Solomon's ally, at the winter solstice, by the pyre of MAL-KARTH, the Tsūrian Haracles.