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A
BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS

One of the Mountain-tops of Time
Is left in Africa to climb.
A
BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS

CONTAINING AN ATTEMPT TO RECOVER AND RECONSTITUTE THE LOST ORIGINES
OF THE MYTHS AND MYSTERIES, TYPES AND SYMBOLS, RELIGION AND LANGUAGE,
WITH EGYPT FOR THE MOUTHPIECE AND AFRICA FOR THE BIRTHPLACE
BY
GERALD MASSEY.
VOLUME I.
EGYPTIAN ORIGINES IN THE BRITISH ISLES.
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CELEPHAÏS PRESS.
2019
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WITH
FRATERNAL AFFECTION
THIS BOOK
IS
Inscribed by the Author
TO
NICHOLAS FABYAN DAW
ITS
FIRST BEFRIENDER.
CONTENTS.
SECTION PAGE
I. EGYPT . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF ENGLISH AND EGYPTIAN WORDS. 49
III. HIEROGLYPHICS IN BRITAIN . . . . . . . 83
IV. EGYPTIAN ORIGINES IN WORDS . . . . . . 135
V. EGYPTIAN WATER-NAMES . . . . . . . 180
VI. EGYPTIAN NAMES OF PERSONAGES . . . . . . 208
VII. BRITISH SYMBOLICAL CUSTOMS AND EGYPTIAN NAMING . . 249
VIII. EGYPTIAN DEITIES IN THE BRITISH ISLES . . . . . 311
IX. EGYPTIAN PLACE-NAMES AND THE RECORD OF THE STONES . 379
X. TYPE-NAMES OF THE PEOPLE . . . . . . 444

E G Y P T.
EGYPT ! how I have dwelt with you in dreams,

So long, so intimately, that it seems
As if you had borne me; though I could not know
It was so many thousand years ago !
And in my gropings darkly underground
The long-lost memory at last is found
Of motherhood—you Mother of us all !
And to my fellow-men I must recall
The memory too; that common motherhood
May help to make the common brotherhood.
Egypt! it lies there in the far-off past,
Opening with depths profound and growths as vast
As the great valley of Yosemité;
The birthplace out of darkness into day;
The shaping matrix of the human mind;
The Cradle and the Nursery of our kind.
This was the land created from the flood,
The land of Atum, made of the red mud,
Where Num sat in his Teba throned on high,
And saw the deluge once a year go by,
Each brimming with the blessing that it brought,
And by that water-way, in Egypt's thought,
The gods descended; but they never hurled
The Deluge that should desolate the world.
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There the vast hewers of the early time
Built, as if that way they would surely climb
The heavens, and left their labours without name—
Colossal as their carelessness of fame—
Sole likeness of themselves—that heavenward
Forever look with statuesque regard,
As if some Vision of the Eternal grown
Petrific, was forever fixed in stone !
They watched the Moon re-orb, the Stars go round,
And drew the Circle; Thought's primordial bound.
The Heavens looked into them with living eyes
To kindle starry thoughts in other skies,
For us reflected in the image-scroll,
That night by night the stars for aye unroll.
The Royal Heads of Language bow them down
To lay in Egypt's lap each borrowed crown.
The glory of Greece was but the After-glow
Of her forgotten greatness lying low;
Her Hieroglyphics buried dark as night,
Or coal-deposits filled with future light,
Are mines of meaning; by their light we see
Thro‘ many an overshadowing mystery.
The nursing Nile is living Egypt still,
And as her low-lands with its freshness fill,
And heave with double-breasted bounteousness,
So doth the old Hidden Source of mind yet bless
The nations; secretly she brought to birth,
And Egypt still enriches all the earth.
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SECTION I.
EGYPT.
TRAVELLERS who have climbed and stood upon the summit of the
Great Pyramid of Ghizeh tell us how all that is most characteristic
of Egypt is then and there in sight. To the south is the long
Necropolis of the Desert, whose chief monuments are the Pyramids
of Abooseer, Dashoor, and Sakkarah. That way lies the granite
mountain flood-gate of the waters, which come winding along from
the home of the hippopotami to leap down into the Nile-valley at
last with a roar and a rush for the Mediterranean Sea. To the north
there is desert also, pointed out by the ruined pyramid of Aboorash.
To the west are the Libyan Hills and a limitless stretch of yellow
sand. Again, there is a grey desert beyond the white line of Cairo,
under the Mokattam Hills.
And through these sandy stony desert borders, Egypt runs along-
side of its river in a double line of living green, the northward
flowing waters and their meadowy margin broadening beneficiently
into the Delta. Underfoot is the Great Pyramid, still an inscrutable
image of might and of mystery, strewn round with reliquary rubbish
that every whirl of wind turns over as leaves in a book, revealing
strange readings of the past; every chip and shard of the frag-
ments not yet ground down to nothing may possibly have
their secret to tell.1
The Great Pyramid is built at the northern end of the valley
where it relatively overtops the first cataract, nearly 600 miles
away to the south, and, as the eye of the whole picture, loftily
1 Ancient History from the Monuments, by Dr. Samuel Birch. Egypt of the
Pharaohs, Zincke. Mummies and Moslems. Warner. P. 92. Martyrdom of
Man. Reade. Ch. i. Life and Work at the Great Pyramid. Smyth, Ch.
i. p. 29.
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looks down on every part of the whole cultivated land of Egypt. It
is built where the land comes to an apex like the shape of the
pyramid itself lying flat and pointing south, and the alluvial soil
of the Delta spreads out fan-wise to the north. It is near to the
centre of the land-surface of the globe. A Hermean fragment
shows the earth figured as a woman in a recumbent position
with arms uplifted towards heaven, and feet raised in the direction
of the Great Bear. The geographical divisions are represented by
her body, and Egypt is typified as the heart of all. 1 They set the
base of the Great Pyramid very near the heart of all, or about one
mile 568 yards south of the thirtieth parallel of latitude.2
There, in the stainless air, under the rainless azure, all is so clear
that distance cannot be measured, and the remotest past stands up
close to you, distinct in its monumental forms and features as it was
thousands of years ago; the colour yet unfaded from its face, for
every influence of nature (save man) has conspired to preserve the
works of art, and make dead Egypt as it were the emblamed body
of an early time eternized.
Once a year the deluge comes down from above, flowing from
the lakes lying far away, large as inland seas, and transforms the
dry land into a garden, making the sandy waste to blossom and
bear the ―double-breasted bounteousness‖ of two harvests a year,
with this new tide of life from the heart of Africa. Not only
does the wilderness flush with colour, for the waters, which had
been running of a dull green hue, are suddenly troubled and turned
crimson. The red oxide of iron mixes with the liquid and gives
it a gory gleam in the sunlight, making it run like a river of blood.
There is an antithesis to the inundation in another phenomenon
almost as unique. This is found in the steady continuance of the
north-wind that blows back the waters and spreads their wealth
over a larger surface of soil, and enables the boatman to sail up the
river right against the descending current. Everything Egyptian is
typical, and when we see how the people figures the two truths
of mythology as the two factors of being, and how they personified
breath and water, we shall more or less perceive the initiatory import
of this wonderful arrangement of wind and tide, and its combination
of descending and ascending motive power.
The Nile water is highly charged with ammonia and organic
matter, which are deposited as manure. It is, for instance, three
times as rich in fertilsing matter, whether in suspension or in
solution, as the Thames at Hampton Court.
The Great Mendes Stele (17) says:—
―The entire wealth of the soil rests on the inundation of the Nile
that brings its products.‖ This bounty was spread out for all by
1 Stobæus, Ecl. Eth., p. 992, Ed. Heeren.
2 Piazzi Smyth.
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the breath of the beneficient wind. Num, Lord of the Inundation,
is painted on the monuments as the Green God, and the limit of the
inundation was the measure of Egypt‘s greenness. The waters
that brought the silt clothes the soil with that colour just so far
as they were blown.
From the beginning Lower Egypt, the Delta, was a land literally
rained down by the immdation as a gift of the gods. For the
clouds arise from their several seas and sail off heavily-laden
toward Equatorial Africa, and there pour forth their weight of water
during a rain of months on mountain slopes that drain into the
fresh lakes until these are brimmed to bursting, and their northern out-
let of birth is the Nile. The White Nile at first, until the Abyssinian
highlands pour into it their rushing rivers of collected rain with force
enough to float a mass of silt that is part of a future soil, the presence
of which in the waters makes the Blue Nile; then the river becomes
the turbid Red Nile of the inundation, and as it spreads out fan-
wise towards the Mediterranean Sea, it drops that rich top-dressing
of soil or the very fat of land and unctuous mud-manure, every
year renewed and rained down by that phenomenal flood. We
shall find the whole of the deluge legends of the world, and all the
symbolical deluge language used in astronomical reckoning, are
bound up inseparably with this fact of the inundation of Egypt.
The universal mythical beginning with the waters, the genesis
of creation and of man from the mud, are offspring of this birth-
place and parentage. In no other part of earth under heaven can
there be found the scenery of the inundation visibly creating the
earth, as it is still extant in the land of marvel and mystery.
Only in Egypt could such a phenomenon be observed as the
periodic overflow of the river Nile, that not only fertilises the fields
with its annual flood, but actually deposits the earth, and visibly
realises that imagery of the mythical commencement of all creation,
the beginning with the waters and the mud, preserved in so many
of the myths.
According to Aulus Gelluus (Diodorus i. 19), Egypt was named
Aeria. The Egyptian Aur (later Aer) is the name of the river
Hebrew Iar. Aeria is the land of the river, possibly with the further
meaning of the pure, as Ia means to wash, whiten, purify. Another
name of Egypt is Tameri. Ta is to drop, heap, deposit, type; meri
is the inundation. Tameri is land thus deposited. The vulgar
English to ta is a child‘s word, and it means to deposit soil; also
Ta-meri reads the gift of the inundation, the gift of the goddess
Meri who has a dual form as Meri-Res (South) and Meri-Mehi (North).
Egypt is also designated the Land of the Eye. 1 The eye of the
cow shedding an emblematic tear was a type of Ta-ing.
It is also called Khemi, the land of the gum-tree, and the acacia
1 Wilk, 2nd. ser. vol. ii. p. 48.
gum-tree supplied another symbol of shedding substance; or, of the
Kamai-plant, from which the Egyptians obtained a precious oil.
Khemi, Egypt, is personified as a female who wears on her head a
sign which Wilkinson thought indicated ―cultivated land,‖ but it
means the land created from the waters, determined by the sign of
marshland or land recovered from the waters. The sign is the de-
terminative of Hat, chaos, or precommencement, and its true value
may be found in the Cornish Hatch, a dam.
Egypt is often called Kam, the Black Land, and Kam does signify
black; the name probably applied to the earliest inhabitants whose
type is the Kam or Ham of the Hebrew writers. But Kam is
likewise to create, and this was the created land; visibly created like
the gum from the tree by droppings. Kam is the root and has the
value of the word chemistry, and the land of Kam was the result of
Nature‘s chemistry; aided by the Hatches or Dams.
The Assyrians called Egypt Muzr. Muzau is sourcce, an issue of
water, a gathering or collecting. It is the Egyptian mes, the product
of a river. Now it is important for the present purpose to wring the
meaning out of Egyptian words, drop by drop, every one is porten-
tous and symbolical. For example, mes means mass, cake, chaos, it
is the product of the waters gathered, engendered, massed. The sign
of this mass was the hieroglyphic cake, the Egyptian ideograph of
land.1 This cake of Mesi was figured and eaten as their bread
of the mass, a seed-cake too as the Hieroglyphics reveal. And the
cake is extant to-day in the wafer still called by the name of the
Mass, as it was in Egypt. Mes, the product of the waters and
the cake, is likewise the name for chaos, the chaos of all mytho-
logical beginning. Mes, then, the mass or product of the river when
caked, is the primæval land, the pure land periodically produced
from the waters, the land of Mesr, whether of black mud or red.
We find a word in Æthiopic similar to metzr meaning the earth,
land, soil. Mazr, or mizr, is an Arabic name of red mud. There is,
however, a mystical reason for this red applied to mud as a synonym
of source or beginning.
These derivations of the names from Kam, the created land; mes,
the product or the river; tameri, the soil and girt of the inunda-
tion, show that Lower Egypt was designated from the soil that was
shed, dropped, wept, deposited by the inundatlon of the Nile, and
that the natives were in various ways calling it the Alluvial Land.
But the Hebrew name of Egypt, Mitzraim, applies to both lands.
For this we have to go farther than Lower Egypt, and mes, the pro-
duct of a river, the Mud of mythology.
We may rest assured, says Brugsch Bey, that at the basis of the
designations Muzur (Assyrian), Mizr (Arabic), Mitzraim (Hebrew),
there lies an original form consisting of the three letters m r s, all
1 Egyptian room, British Museum, 9,900.
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explanations of which have as yet been unsuccessful. His rendering of
the meaning as Mazor, the fortified land, the present writer considers
the most unsuccessful of all. Mest-ru and Mest-ur are the Egyptian
equivalents for the Hebrew Mitzr, plural Mitzraim, and the word
enters into the name of the Mestræan Princes of the old Egyptian
Chronicle. Mest (Eg.) is the birth-place, literally the lying-in chamber,
the lair of the whelp; and ru is the gate, door, mouth of outlet; ur
is the great, oldest, chief. Mest-ru is the outlet from the birth-place.
In this sense the plural Mitzraim would denote the double land of the
outlet from the inland Birth-place.
There is a star ―Mizar‖ in the tail of the Great Bear, the Ty-
phonian type of the Genitrix and the birth-place, whose name is
that of Lower Egypt or Khebt. Mest (Eg.) is the tail end, sexual
part, the womb, and ur is the great, chief, primordial. Thus Mitzraim
and Khebt are identical in the planisphere as a figure of the birth-
place, found in Khebt or Mitzraim below. Mest-ur yields the chief
and most ancient place of birth which is not to be limited to Lower
Egypt.
It is certain, however, says Fuerst, that rxm rwxm meant origin-
ally and chiefly the inhabitants. It is here that mest-ur has the superi-
ority over Mest-ru. The ru in mest-ru adds little to the birth-place,
whereas the compound mestur expresses both the eldest born and
the oldest birth-place. The Hebrew x represents a hieroglyphic Tes
which deposited a phonetic T and S, hence the permutation; mtzr is
equated by mstr, and both modify into rnisr. In the same way the
Hebrew Matzebah (hbxm) renders the Egyptian Mastebah. Also,
Mizraim is written Mestraim by Eupolemus. Khum, he says, was
the father of the Æthiopians, and brother of Mestraim, the father
of the Egyptians.1
The name Egypt, Greek Aiguptos, is found in Egyptian as
Khebt, the Kheb, a name of Lower Egypt. Khebt, Khept or Kheft
means the lower, the hinder part, the north, the p1ace of emanation,
the region of the Great Bear. The f, p and b are extant in Kuft,
a town of Upper Egypt; in Coptos, that is Khept-her or Khept
above, whence came the Caphtorim of the Hebrew writings (Gen. x.
14), enumerated among the sons of Mitzraim, and Kheb, Lower
Egypt.
The Samaritan Pentateuch (Gen. xxvi. 2) renders Mitzraim by the
name of Nephiq qypn which denotes the birth-land (ka.) with the
sense of issuing forth; Aramaic qpn to go out. In Egyptian nefika
would indicate the inner land of breath, expulsion, going out, or it
might be the country of the sailors.
The Land of Egypt was reborn annually as the product of the
waters was added layer by layer to the soil. Three months inun-
dation and nine months dry made up the year. The nine months
1 Euseb. Præp. Evang. B. 9 [cap. 17]
coincided with the human period of gestation, a fact most fruitful
in suggestion, as everything seems to have designedly been in this
birth-place of ideas. They dated their year from the first quicken-
ing heave of the river, coincident with the summer solstice and the
heliacal rising of the Dog-star. The Nile not only taught them to
look up to the heavens and observe and register there the time and
tide of the seasons, but also how to deal with the water by means of
dykes, locks, canals, and reservoirs, until their system of hydraulics
grew a science, their agriculture an art, and they obtained such
mastery over the waters as finally fitted them for issuing forth to
conquer the seas and colonise the world.
The waters of Old Nile are a mirror which yet reflects the earliest
imagery, made vital by the mind of man, as the symbols of his
thought. A plant growing out of the waters is an ideograph of
Sha, a sign and image of primordial cause, and becoming, the
substance born of, the end of one period and commmencement of
another, the emblem of rootage in the water, and breathing in
the air, the type of the two truths of all Egypt‘s teaching, the two
sources of existence ultimately called flesh and spirit, the blood
source and breathing soul.
About the time when the Nile began to rise in Lower Egypt, there
alighted in the land a remarkable bird of the heron kind, which had
two long feathers at the back of its head. This, the Ardea purpurea,
was named by the Egyptians the Bennu, from ―nu,‖ a periodic type,
and ―ben,‖ splendid, supreme—literally, as the crest indicated, tip-
top. It was their Phœnix of the Waters, the harbinger of re-arising
life, and was adopted as an eschatological type of the resurrection.
The planet Venus is called on the monuments the ―Star of Bennu
Osiris,‖ that is of Osiris redivivus.
The beetle appeared on the Nile banks in the month previous to that
of the inundation,1 the month of re-birth, Mesore, and formed its
ark against the coming flood to save up and reproduce its seed in
due season. This they made their symbol of the Creator by trans-
formation, and type of the only-begotten Son of the Father.2
The inundation supplied them with the typical plough. To
plough is to prepare the soil for seed. The inundation was the
first preparer of the soil. The inundation is called Mer, and one
sign of the Mer is a plough. This shows that when they had invented
the primitive hand-plough of the hoe kind they named it after the
water-plough or preparer of the soil, and the Mer plough is a symbol
of the running water.
The river likewise gave them their first lessons in political economy
and the benefits of barter, by affording the readiest means of exchange.
Its direction runs in that of longitude, or meridian, with all the pro-
ducts ranged an either side like stalls in a street; so close to the
1 Pettigrew, History of Mummies, p. 220. 2 Hor-Apollo, B. i. 10.
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water-way was the cultivated soil. It crossed through every degree of
Egypt‘s latitude and became the commercial traveller of the whole
land, carrying on their trade for the enrichment of all.
Generally speaking the monuments offer no direct clue to the origin
of the people; they bring us face to face with nothing that tells of a
beginning or constitutes the bridge over which we can pass to look
for it in other lands. Like the goddess Neith, Egypt came from
herself, and the fruit she bore was a civilisation, an art, a mythology,
a typology, absolutely autochthonous.
We see no sign of Egypt in embryo; of its inception, growth,
development, birth, nothing is known. It bas no visible line of
descent, and so far as modern notions go, no offspring; it is without
Genesis or Exodus.
When first seen Egypt is old and grey, at the head of a procession
of life that is illimitably vast. It is as if it always had been. There
it stands in awful ancientness, like its own pyramid in the dawn,
its sphinx among the sands, or its palm amid the desert.
From the first, all is maturity. At an early monumental stage they
possess the art of writing, a system of hieroglyphics, and the ideo-
graphs have passed into the form of phonetics, which means a space
of time unspanable, a stage of advance not taken by the Chinese to
this day.
The monuments testify that a most ancient and original civi-
lisation is there; one that cannot be traced back on any line of its
rootage to any other land. How ancient, none but an Egyptologist
who is also an evolutionist dares to dream. At least twelve horizons
will have to be lifted from the modern mind to let in the vistas of
Egypt‘s prehistoric past. For this amazing apparition coming out of
darkness on the edge of the desert is the head of an immense pro-
cession of life—issuing out of a past from which the track has been
obliterated like footprints in the shifting wilderness of sand.
The life was lived, and bit by bit deposited the residual result. The
tree rooted in the waste had to grow and lay hold of the earth day
by day, year after year, for countless ages. Through the long long
night they groped their way, their sole witnesses the watchers on the
starry walls, who have kept their register yet to be read in the astral
myths, for the heavens are Egypt‘s records of the past.
The immeasurable journey in the desert had to be made, and was
made step by step through that immemorial solitude which lies
behind it, as certainly as that the river has had to eat its own way
for hundreds of thousands of years through the sandstone, the lime-
stone, and the granite, in order that it might at last deposit the
alluvial riches at the outlet, even though the stream of Egypt‘s long
life has left no such visible register on earth as the waters of old Nile
have engraved in gulf-like hieroglyphics upon the stony tablets of
geological time. The might and majesty of Egypt repose upon a
past as real as the uplifting rock of the Great Pyramid, and the base,
however hidden, must be in proportion to the building.
They are there, and that is nearly all that has been said; how or
when they got there is unknown. These things are usually spoken of as
if the Egyptians had done as we have, found them there. The further
we can look back at Egypt the older it grows. Our acquaintance
with it through the Romans and Greeks makes it modern. Also their
own growth and shedding of the past kept on modernizing the myths,
the religion, the types. It will often happen that a myth of Egyptian
creation may be found in some distant part of the world in a form far
older than has been retained in Egypt itself.
It is a law of evolution that the less-developed type is the oldest in
structure, reckoning from a beginning. This is so with races as with
arts. The hieroglyphics are older than letters, they come next to the
living gesture signs that preceded speech. But less-developed stages
are found out of Egypt than in it because Egypt went on growing
and sloughing off signs of age, whilst the Maori, the Lap, the
Papuan, the Fijian suffered arrest and consequent decadence. And
the earlier myth may be recovered by aid of the arrested ruder form.
Fortunately the whole world is one wide whispering-gallery for
Egypt, and her voice may be heard on the other side of it at times
more distinctly than in the place where it was uttered first. And
looking round with faces turned from Egypt we shall find that
language, the myths, symbols. and legendary lore of other lands,
become a camera obscura for us to behold in part her unrecorded
backward past. The mind of universal man is a mirror in which
Egypt may be seen. We shall find the heavens are telling of her
glory. Much of her pre-monumental and pre-monarchical past
during which she was governed by the gods has to be reflected for
us in these mirrors; the rest must be inferred. Vain is all effort to
build a boundary wall as her historic starting-point with the débris
of mythology.
The Stone Age of Egypt is visible in the stone knife continued to
be used for the purpose of circumcision, and in the preparation of
their mummies. The stone knife was a type persisting from the
time of the stone implements. The workers in bronze, iron, and
other metals did not go back to choose the flint weapon. The
―Nuter‖ sign of the god is a stone axe or adze of the true Celt type.
The antiquity of Egypt may be said to have ended long before
the classical antiquity of the moderns begins, and except in the
memorials of myth and language it was pre-monumental. We know
that when Egypt first comes in sight it is old and grey. Among the
most ancient of the recipes preserved are prescriptions for dyeing the
hair. There are several recipes for hair dye or washes found in the
Ebers Papyrus, and one of these is ascribed to the lady Skheskh,
mother of Teta, the first king on the monuments after Mena.
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This is typical. They were old enough more than 6,000 years
ago for leprosy to be the subject of profound concern. A manu-
script of the time of Rameses II. says:—
―This is the beginning of the collection of receipts for curing
leprosy. It was discovered in a very ancient papyrus inclosed in
a writing-case under the feet (of a statue) of the god Anubis, in the
town of Sakhur at the time of the reign of his majesty the defunct
King Sapti,‖1 who was the fifth Pharaoh of the first dynasty, in the
list of Abydus.
Leprosy was indigenous to Egypt and Africa; it has even been
conjectured that the white negroes were produced by it, as the
Albinos of the Black race.
The most ancient portion known or the ritual, getting on for 7,000
years old, shows that not only was the Egyptian mythology founded
on the observation of natural phenomena at that time established,
but the mythology had then passed into the final or eschatologicaI
phase and a system of spiritual typology was already evolved from
the primordial matter of mythology. The text of chapter cxxx.
is said in the annotation to have been found in the reign of King
Housap-ti, who, according to M. Déveria, was the Usaphais of Manetho,
the fifth king of the first dynasty, and lived over 6,000 years since;
at that time certain parts of the sacred book were discovered as
antiquities of which the tradition had been lost. And this is the
chapter of ―vivifying the soul for ever.‖
The Lunar myth with Taht as the Word or logos, is at least as
old as the monuments (it is indefinitely older), and we know from
the ritual (ch. xiii.) that Sut was the announcer, the Word, and
represented the Two Truths before the time of That; Sut was the
first form of Hermes the Heaven-born.
From almost the remotest monumental times, dated by Bunsen
as the seventh century after Mena, or according to the present
reckoning nearly 4,000 years B.C., they had already attained to the
point of civilisation at which the sacrifice of buman beings as
offerings to the gods is superseded by that of animals. There is no
doubt of the human victims once sacrificed, as the sacrificial stamp,
with the victim bound and knife at the throat, still remains to attest
the fact,2 as well as the Ideographic Kher, the human victim bound
for slaughter; Kher being one with Kill.
There is a stone in the museum at Boulak consecrated to the
memory of a noteworthy transaction. We learn from it that in the
time of Kufu of the fourth dynasty, and founder of the Great
Pyramid, that the sphinx and its recently discovered temple not
only existed already, but were then in a state or dilapidation, and
1 Brugsch‘s History of Egypt, vol. i. p. 58, Eng. Tr.
2 Wilkinson, Ancient Egypt, vol. v. p. 352.
it is recorded in the inscription that he restored them. He built the
temple of the Great Mother and replaced the divinities in her seat.
―The living Har-Sut1 King Kufu, giver of life, he founded the house
of Isis (Hest) dominating the pyramid near to the house of the
sphinx. North-west of the house of Osiris the Lord of Rusta he
built his pyramid near to the temple of that goddess, and near the
temple of his royal daughter Hantsen. He made to his mother
Athor, ruling the monument, the value as recorded on the tablet, he
gave divine supplies to her, he built her temple of stone and once
more created the divinities in her seat. The temple of the sphinx
of Har-Makhu on the south of the house of Isis, ruler of the pyramid,
and on the north of (that of) Osiris Lord of Rusta.‖2 This was in a
climate where as Mariette observes, there is no reason why monu-
ments should not last for a hundred thousand years, if left alone by
man. The dilapidation and overthrowal may, to some extent, have
been the work of man.
One of the loveliest things in all poetry is in Wordsworth‘s lines—
― And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.
Yet this was anticipated by the father of King Pepi of the sixth
dynasty in the ―Praise of Learning,‖ who says to his son—
― Love letters as thy mother !
I make its [learning‘s] beauty go in thy face.‖
And in another papyrus, some fifty-five centuries old, the wise sage
and thorough artist, Ptah-hept, advises his reader to ―beware of pro-
ducing crude thoughts; study till thy expression is matured.‖
Bunsen tried to fix the place of Egypt in history with no clue
to the origin and progress of its mythological phenomena; no grasp
of the doctrine of evolution; no dream of the prehistoric relationship
of Egypt to the rest of the world. The Egypt of the lists and
dynasties is but the briefest span when compared with the time
demanded for the development of its language, its myths, its
hieroglyphics. Egypt as an empire with its few thousand years
dating from Mena is but as yesterday, it only serves as the vestibule
for us to the range of its pre-eval past. The monuments of 5,000
years do not relate a tithe of Egypt‘s history which is indirectly
recorded in other ways. She is so ancient that we are shown nothing
whatever of the process of formation in the creation of the earliest
mythology. Their dynasties of deities are pre-monumental; their
system is perfected when history begins. A glance at the list of
1 ―Har-Sut.‖ I read the Tie sign in this passage as ―Sut.‖ The name of Suti
(Lepsius, Königsbuch) is several times written with the Tie sign.
2 De Rougé, Les Monuments qu’on peut attribuer aux six premières Dynasties,
pp. 46, 47. Bunsen, Egypt’s Place, vol. v. p. 719.

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divinites paralleled in the present work will show the signification
of this fact, and help to bring the hidden past of Egypt into sight.
The traces of evolution and development are not to be expected
upon monuments which begin with some of the finest art yet found.
Evidence of the primeval nature of the people is not likely to be
found contemporary with the perfection of their art. The ascent is
out of sight, and the Stone Age of Egypt is buried beneath a hundred
feet of Nile sediment, but the opponents of evolution gain nothing by
the negative facts. Perfect art, language, and mythology did not
alight ready-made in the valley of the Nile; and if the ascent be not
traceable here, neither is it elsewhere. There is not a vestige of
proof that these were an importation from other lands.
Bunsen assumed that the roots of Egypt were in Asia, although
the evidence for that origin has never been given. He speaks of
religious records and monuments older than those of Egypt but does
not name them.1 Also of Semitic roots (of language) found in the
names of Egyptian gods, whereas no Egyptian toots are found in
the names of Semite gods.2 He affirms that the Egyptian language
clearly stands between the Semitic and Indo-Germanic, its forms and
roots cannot be explained by either singly, but are evidently a com-
bination of the two.3 Evidence will be adduced in this work such
as will go some way to show that there is originally neither Semitic
nor Indo-Germanic independently of the Egyptian or African
parentage. Bunsen argued that the religion of Egypt was merely
the mummy of the primal religion of Central Asia, its mythology
the deposit of the oldest beliefs of mankind which once lived in
primeval Asia, and were afterwards found petrified in the valley of
the Nile. He has to get rid of the particular country, people, and
language, by means of a vast catastrophe in which they sank from
sight and left but a few floating fragments.
The foundations for such a theory are entirely mythical, and
belong at last to the legends of the Genesis, the primeval home in
the Vendidad, and of the deluge, the typology of which subjects
will be dealt with in the present work. The Asiatic origin of the
Egyptians is necessary to support the delusive theory of the Indo-
European migration of races and languages. But not a vestige o(
evidence has been adduced for the pre-existence of the Egyptian
civilisation, art, hieroglyphics, in any other land before these are
discovered ready-made in the valley of the Nile.
Brugsch-Bey observes, ―Whatever relations of kindred may be
found always to exist between these great races of mankind, thus
much may be regarded as certain, that the cradle of the Egyptian
people must be sought in the interior of the Asiatic quarter of the
world. In the earliest ages of humanity, far beyond all historical
1 Egypt’s Place, vol. iv. p. 71. 2 Ibid.
3 Vol. i. p. 10, Preface.
remembrance, the Egyptians, for reasons unknown to us, left the
soil of their primeval home, took their way towards the setting sun,
and finally crossed that bridge of nations, the Isthmus of Suez, to
find a new fatherland on the favoured banks of the holy Nile.‖ 1
For these assumptions and assertions there is not a grain of evidence
adduced or adducible. The only point of departure for such a wild
goose chase as seeking the roots of Egypt in Asia is the fact that on
the earliest monuments the etnnological type has changed vastly
from what it was tens of thousands of years earlier. Egyptologists
as a rule are not evolutionists, and M. Brugsch finds no difficulty in
removing a race ready-made bag and baggage in the old cataclysmal
fashion. But where, he asks. ―is the modern Hir-Seshta to lift the
veil which still hides the origin of these men of yore?‖ Where,
indeed! The Egyptian language, he asserts, ―shows in no way
any trace of a derivation and descent from the African families of
specch.‖2 He thinks the rude stone monuments of Æthiopia are
but a clumsy imitation, an imperfect reproduction of a style of
art originally Egyptian. He sees the stamp of antiquity not in
primitive but in perfectly polished work. One might as well derive
the knife, as a flake of flint, from a model formed in Sheffield steel.
Egypt can only be understood by an evolutionist.
Jomard also considered that the monuments of Nubia are more
modern than those of Thebes. But, for all who dare trust to the
guidance of the laws of evolution, one of which shows us that the
ruder the structure the more elementary and antique the art, may see
the civilisation of Egypt descending the Nile in the Nubian and
Æthiopian Pyramids, which are as certainly prior to those of Egypt
as Stonehenge is to Gothic architecture. That is, the type is earlier,
no matter when last copied! Such types were not designed by the
Egyptians of the monumental period who went back to re-conquer
Æthiopia. They mark the height of attainment of the Egyptians
before they came down into the Nile valley. Art does not go back in
that way, nor is it a question of retrogression but of development.
The Æthiopian would still be the older if the latest built, because the
builders had advanced no farther, and would not be the result of
the Egyptians or their imitators going back to the more primitive
style. Compared with the Great Pyramid they are pre-monumental
so to say, or pre-Egyptian as Egypt is known to us, which means they
are yet earlier in type.
If the Egyptians were of Asiatic origin, how comes it that the Camel
has no place among the hieroglyphics? No representation of the
camel is found on the monuments. It will be seen when we come
to consider the origin and nature of the typology and hieroglyphics
that this is almost an impossibility for any but an African people.
The camel being a late importation into Egypt and other African
1 Brugsch, History of Egypt, vol. i. p. 2, Eng. Tr. 2 Ibid., vol. i. p. 3.
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countries, will alone explain its absence from the pictures of an
African people.
―The origin of the word Nile,‖ says M. Brugsch, ―is not to be
sought in the old Egyptian language, but as has been lately suggested
with great probability, it is derived from the Semitic word Nahar or
Nahal, which has the general signification of river.‖ 1 So good an
Egyptologist should have remembered that aur or aru (Eg.) is the
river and that nai is the definite plural article The, which gives all
the Egyptian significance to the River as the double stream, the two
waters or waterer of the two lands north and south. Naiaru inter-
changes with Naialu, whence the Nile. But for this combination of
nai (plural the) and aru, earlier Karn river, extant in Æthiopic as
Nachal, for the Nile, the Semites would have had no such Nahar or
Nabal.
M. Brugsch is the Semitizer of Egyptology. He finds a Semitic
foundation for doctrines so ancient in Egypt itself as to be almost
forgotten there; so long ago rejected and cast out as to have become
the sign and symbol of all that was considered foreign to later
Egypt. Nothing is older than the Great Mother and Child; and
as Ta-Urt and Sut, the Great Bear and Dog-Star, these were the
gods of the Typhonians within the land long ages bclore they were
re-introduced as the Semite Astarte and Bar-Sutekh. The same
deities that were worshipped in Lower Egypt by the Hekshus and
Palestino-Asiatic tribes were the divinities of pre-monumental Egypt
and of the Shus-en-Har. Sut is called a Semitic divinity and he
comes back with his Ass as such. But he returns as an Exile
to the old country, not a new creation.
The duad of the Mother and Child consecrated in Astarte and
Sutekh and execrated as Sut-Typhon was superseded in monu-
mental times by the men who worshipped the Fatherhood as well,
or instead of the Son. But the myth of Isis‘s descent into the under-
world in search or Osiris is that of the mother and son who
became her consort, and identical with that of Ishtar and Tammuz or
any other form of the duad consisting of mother and child. The
disk-worship re-introduced by the Amenhepts III. and IV. was looked
on as intolerable heresy by the Osirians and Ammonians; and yet
their sun was the same god Har-Makhu of the two horizons, the
God of the Sphinx and of the pre-monumental Shus-en-Har, the
Har of the double horizon; the Har who was earlier than Ra, and
Sabean before the title became solar.
The Goddess Anata appears in Egypt in the time of Rameses II.
as if from Syria, a goddess of the bow and spear; yet this was
but a re-introduction of a most ancient divinity who had gone forth
from Egypt to become the Anat and Anahita of the Chaidaio-
Assyrian religions. She was Neith, the goddess with the bow and
1 Vol. i. p. 12, Eng. Ed.
arrows whose earliest name on the monuments is Anit. This name
is written ―Anit-neb-her‖ in the time of the first dynasty.1
The great directress of Amenti, half hippopotamus, half lion, who is
pourtrayed in the scenes of the Hades sitting at the fatal corner
waiting wide-mouthed for the soul of the dead, is the degraded form
in the Egyptian eschatology of the Great Mother who in the earlier
mythology had been doubly-first in heaven in her twin starry types
of the Great Bear and Sothis the Dog-star, the types of Sut-Typhon.
The dog and hippopotamus in heaven still identify her when in hell
as a victim of theology.
In Egypt this oldest form of the Great Mother had been reduced
from the status of deity to that of demon, and her idols to that of
dolls. Two painted wooden dolls used as children‘s toys are copied
by Wilkinson.2 One of these reproduces the black negroid Isis
with her veil or net thrown back. The other is a womb-shaped figure
with the old Typhonian Genitrix the Gestator on it, with the tongue
hanging out, but not enceinte, not Great as in the worshipful images.
Yet this old hippopotamus goddess was before Nupe, Isis, and Neph-
thys; hence we find they continued her type, and were imaged in
her likeness. Not because she was hideous but primordial, the most
ancient genitrix of the gods; and first mother of the sun, as Sut, who
became her husband and his own father. She was the good Typhon,
and Nephthys takes her place in Plutarch as consort of Typhon, and
is found united to Sut.3 Her knot or noose is the earliest form of the
Ankh symbol of life. Her numerous statuettes in the tombs where she
accompanies the mummies of the dead, leaning over her emblematic
Tie as the image of brooding life, shows the goddess in her ancient
rôle as the genitrix of mythology continued in the eschatological
phase as the giver of re-birth. Hers is a figure so ancient that it
belongs to a typology which preceded both eschatology and my-
thology, of an order that was set in heaven for use, not for worship;
types of time and force, and not of beauty.
Againt Brugsch-Bey says ―the Semitic nations used to turn the
face to the east, the quarter of the rising sun, and accordingly they
called the east the ‗front side,‘ the west the ‗hinder side,‘ the south
the ‗right‘ and the north the ‗left.‘ In opposition to all this the
ancient Egyptians regarded the western side as the right, the eastern
as the left. Accordingly they turned their face to the south, which.
they called upwards (her) or foreward, so that the north lay at their
back, and hence its appellation of the lower (khar) or hinder (pehu)
region. Now having regard to all this, the appellation of khar in the
sense of ―hinder land‖ could only have originated with such peoples
as had their fixed abodes to the east of the land of khar (Phœnicia)
that is, on the banks of the Euphrates. Thus Babel and its famous
1 See Königsbuch, taf. 3, Lepsius. 2 Vol. ii. p. 426.
3 Group in the Musée de Louvre, Salle des Dieux.
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tower appear unmistakably as the great centre whence the directions
of the abodes of nations were estimated in the earliest antiquity.‖ 1
But Mr. Brugsch does not have regard to ―all this;‖ only to one part
of it. He does not touch bottom in the matter, and the inference is
fallacious. He begins with the solar nomenclature which is not
primary, but the latest or all. Just as it was with the Sabbath, which
was Sabean first, the seventh day being that of Sut, before it became
Solar as Sunday. True, the Assyrians named the west Akharru, as
the Egyptian Akar is the mountain of the west, the entrance to the
hinder place, but a far earlier people in the land, the Akkadians, called
the east mer-kurra. What then becomes of the Semitic emanation
and naming from the centre found in the Biblical Babel? The
Egyptian rule of perspective is positively based upon the right hand
being the upper, and the left the lower. In the scenes of the Hades
the blessed on the right hand are represented as those above, whilst
the damned, those on the left hand, are down below.2 So that in
facing the east, their upper land of the south was on the right hand,
the lower on the left. In vain we talk of origin until Egypt has
been fathomed. The question is whether Phœnicia was named Khal
(Kar) the lower and hinder part from the east or the south. The
Egyptians employed both reckonings according to the Sabean or
Solar starting point. With them Apta was both equatorial and
equinoctial. Kheft is the hinder part in the west as well as in the
north. This gives a hinder part reckoning from the east and another
reckoning from the south. The reckoning from south and north—
Sothis and Great Beat—we call Sabean. With the Egyptians south
and north were the front and back, the upper and lower heaven, and
the lower as the Kar or the Kheft was the hindward part to the south
as the front. So in England we go up to the south and down to
the north; people go up to London and down to the shires (or
Kars).3 M. Brugsch assumes that Phœnicia was named Khal the west
as the hinder part to the east, and what is here maintained in opposi-
tion to his assumption is that Phœnicia is named from the south.
The Egyptians called it kefa or kheft, their north and hinder part,
the lower of the two heavens and the region of the Great Bear
(khepsh) and it was so named as an extension of Lower Egypt,
khebt, in still going farther northward. In Fijian Hifo is the name
of the underworld or down below; the northern quarter entered at
the west, whilst Hev, in English Gipsy, is the Hole or Void. In the
annals of Rameses III., Northern Palestine, Taha, is reckoned with
the hinder parts of the earth.
Here is another fact, although it does not concern the naming of
1 Hist. of Egypt, vol. i. p. 479. 2 Sarcophagus in the Soane Museum.
3 Speaking of the lower world, the north, the Osirian says, ―I came like the sun
through the gates of the lords of Khal‖ (Ritual, ch. cxlvii, Birch). He had come
through the celestial Phœnicia, or kheft of the north.
Khal as the lower land from either the south or east, it does apply to
the position and age of the primeval namers. The Egyptians had a
Sabean orientation still more ancient than either of these two. Time
was when the right hand was also the east, Ab, the right hand and the
east side. On the other hand the west (sem) is the left side, semhi
is the left hand, Assyrian samili, Hebrew samali. Now for the east
to be on the right and the west on the left, the namers must face the
north, and that this the region of the Great Bear was looked to as the
great quarter, the birth-place of all beginning, is demonstrable. Those,
then, who looked northward with the east on their right and the west
on their left hand were naming with their backs to the south and not
their faces; nor were their faces to the east. This mode of orienting
was likewise the earliest with the Akkadians, who looked to the north
as the front, the favourable quarter, the birth-place. They, like the
dwellers in the equatorial regions, had seen the north was the starry
turning point, and the quarter whence came the breath of life to the
parched people of the southem lands. This accounts for the south
being the Akkadian ―funereal point‖ and the hinder part.
When the namers from the south had descended the Nile valley and
made out their year, of which the Dog-Star was the announcer, then
they looked south as their front, and the west was on the right, the east
on the left hand, hence we find Ab for the left hand east. 1 Thus the
Egyptians have two orientations, one with the east on the right hand,
one with the east on the left, and both of these precede the frontage in
the east. Perhaps it was a reckoner by one of the first two methods
who asserted that there were in Nineveh ―more than 120,000 persons
who could not discern between their right hand and their left hand.‖
The earliest wise men came from the south, not the east, and
made their way north. With the Hebrews Kam is a synonym of
the south. Their south as Kedar was the place of coming forth,
and as negeb it is identical with the Egyptian goddess, Nekheb, who
brought forth in the south, and was the opener in that region, as the
Chaldean god Negab is the opener in the west
Khent, the Egyptian name of the south, is the type-word for going
back. Khent means to go back, going back, and going up, at the same
time that khebt is the hinder part and the place of going down. This
may be said to be merely solar. But Khent the southern land, the
name for farthest south, which can now be traced as far as Ganda
(the U-ganda), means the inner land, the feminine abode, the birth-
place, and the lake country. Brugsch-Bey and Bunsen have read
from right to left that which was written from left to right.
Egypt, says Wilkinson, was certainly more Asiatic than African.
But when? We have to do with the origin, not with the later
appearances on the monuments after ages of miscegenation. It
is true that a long gradation divides Negroes from the Egyptians,
1 Pierret, Vocabulaire, ―Ab, the Left.‖
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but the whole length of that gradation lies behind them in the
coloured races of the dark land, and in no other. All the four
colours, black, red. yellow, and white, meet upon the monuments,
and they all blend in Egyptian types. The red men and the yellow
are there as Egyptians, with the background of black out of which
the modifications emerge. The problem of origin cannot be
worked back again from white, yellow, or red to black, as it can
forwards from black, with Egyptians for the twilight dawning out of
darkness. The red skin similar to the complexion of the earliest
men of the monuments is not an uncommon variety of the Africans.
Bowditch asserts that a clear brownish-red is a complexion frequently
found among the Ashantis although deep black is the prevailing colour.
Dr. Morton, the American craniologist, recanting an earlier opinion
says: ―I am compelled by a mass of irresistible evidence to modify
the opinion expressed in the Crania Egyptiaca, namely, that the
Egyptians were an Asiatic people. Seven years of additional inves-
tigation, together with greatly increased materials, have convinced me
that they are neither Asiatics nor Europeans but aboriginal and
indigenous inhabitants of the Nile or some contiguous region—
peculiar in their physiognomy. isolated in their institutions, and
forming one of the primordial centres of the human family.‖
Professor Huxley has asserted that the aborigines of Egypt were
of the same physical type as the original nature of Australia, for, he
says, ―although the Egyptian has been modified by admixture, he
still retains the dark skin, the black silky wavy hair, the long skull,
the fleshy lips, and broadish alæ of the nose which we know distin-
guished his remote ancestors, and which cause both him and them to
approach the Australian and the Dashyu more nearly than they do any
other form of mankind.‖1
A vocabulary of Maori and Egyptian words is given in this work
such as will corroborate his statement with the testimony of another
witness. This list of words by itself is sufficient to prove the primal
identity of the Maori and Egyptian languages. The evidence from
mythology is if possible still more conclusive and unique. A reply to
Professor Huxley‘s declaration has been attempted by contrasting
two Egyptian heads with two of an Australian type which would
show the greatest unlikeness and asking where was the likeness?2
But for aught known to the contrary this unity of Maori and
Egyptian may be a thing of twenty thousand years ago. Not that
the author has any certain data except that some of the Mangaian
myths appear to him to date from the time whcn the Sun was
last in the same sign at the spring equinox as it is now, and
that the equinox has since travelled once round the circle of pre-
cession, which means a period of twenty-six thousand years. And he
does not doubt that on their line the ethnologists will ultimately demand
1 Journ. of Ethnol. Soc. 1871. 2 Owen, Journal of Anthrop. Soc. 1874.
as great a length of time (probably five times as long) to account for
the variations of race now apparent.
Professor Owen who replied to Professor Huxley is forced to admit
that ―The large, patent, indisputable facts of the successive sites of
capitals of kings of the ancient race, from the first to the fourteenth
dynasties, do not support any hypothesis of immigration; they are
adverse to the Asiatic one by the Isthmus. They indicate rather,
that Egypt herself, through her exceptionally favourable conditions
for an easy and abundant sustenance of her inhabitants, had been
the locality of the rise and progress of the earliest civilisation known
in the world.1
It will be maintained in this book that the oldest mythology,
religion, symbols, language, had their birth-place in Africa, that the
primitive race of Kam came thence, and the civilisation attained in
Egypt emanated from that country and spread over the world.
The most reasonable view on the evolutionary theory—and those
who do not accept that have not yet begun to think, for lack of a
starting point—is that the black race is the most ancient, and that
Africa is the primordial home. It is not necessary to show that the
first colonisers of India were negroes, but it is certain that the black
Buddha of India was imaged in the negroid type. In the black
negro god, whether called Buddha or Sut-Nahsi, we have a datum.
They carry in their colour the proof of their origin. The people who
first fashioned and worshipped the divine image in the negroid
mould of humanity must according to all knowledge of human
nature, have been negroes themselves. For the blackness is not
merely mystical, the features and the hair of Buddha belong to the
black race, and Nahsi is the negro name. The genetrix represented
as the Dea Multimammæ, the Diana of Ephesus, is found as a
black figure, nor is the hue mystical only, for the features are as
negroid as were those of the black2 Isis in Egypt.
We cannot have the name of Kam or Ham applied ethnologically
without identifying the type as that of the black race.
True, the type on the earliest monuments had become liker to the
later so-called Caucasian, but even the word Caucasian tells also of
an origin in the Kaf or Kaffir. Philology will support ethnology in
deriving from Africa and not from Asia.
The type of the great sphinx, the age of which is unknown, but it
must be of enormous antiquity, is African, not Aryan or Caucasian.
The Egyptians themselves never got rid of the thick nose, the full
lip, the flat foot, and weak calf of the Nigritian type, and these were
not additions to any form of the Caucasian race. The Nigritian
elements are primary, and survive all modifications of the old
Egyptians made in the lower land. The single Horus-lock, the
Rut, worn as a divine sign by the child-Horus in Egypt, is a
1 Journ. of Anthrop. Soc. 1874, p. 247. 2 Montfauçon, pl. 47.
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distinguishing characteristic of the African people, among whom were
the Libyans who shaved the left side of the head, except the single
lock that remained drooping down. This was the emblem of Horus
the Child, continued as the type of childhood from those children of
the human race, the Africans. Yet the Egyptians held the Libyans in
contempt because they had not advanced to the status of the cir-
cumcised, and they inflicted the rite upon their conquered enemies in
death, by excising the Karunata.
The African custom of children going undressed until they
attained the age of puberty, was also continued by the Egyptians.
Princesses went as naked as commoners; royalty being no exception
to the rule. At that age the children assumed the Horus-lock at the
left side of the head as the sign of puberty and posterity.
The Egyptians were pre-eminent as anointers. They anointed the
living and the dead, the persons of their priests and kings, the statues
of their gods; anointing with unguents being an ordinary mode of
welcome to guests on visiting the houses of friends. This glorifying
by means of grease is essentially an African custom. Among some
of the dark tribes fat was the grand distinction of the rich man.
According to Peter Kolben, who wrote a century and a halt ago, the
wealthier the Hottentot the more fat and butter he used in anointing
himself and family. A man‘s social status was measured by the
luxury of butter and fat on his body. This glory of grease was only
a grosser and more primitive form of Egyptian anointing.1
The custom of saluting a superior by going down on the knees and
striking the earth with the head is not limited to Africa, but is widely
spread in that land. The king of the Brass people never spoke to
the king of the Ibos without acknowledging his inferiority by going
down on his knees and striking his head against the ground. On the
lower Niger, as a mark of supreme homage, the people prostrated
themselves and struck their foreheads against the earth. The Coast
Negroes are accustomed to fall on their knees before a superior and
kiss the earth three times. 2 It is etiquette at Eboe for the chief
people to kneel on the ground and kiss it thrice as the king goes
by. In the Congo region prostration on the knees to kiss the earth
is a mode of paying homage. The custom is Egyptian, and was
designated ―Senta,‖ for respect, compliment, congratulation, to pay
homage ; the word signifies literally, by breathing the ground.
Of the Congos, Bastian says, ―When they spoke to a superior they
might have sat as models to the Egyptian priests when making the
representations on the Temple walls, so striking is the likeness be-
tween what is there depicted and what actually takes place here.‖3
Theirs were the primitive sketches, the Egyptians finished the pictures.
1 Kolben, State of the Cape of Good Hope, vol. i. pp. 50, 51; London, 1731.
2 Cited by Spencer, Ceremonial Institutions, 116, 121-4.
3 Bastian, Africanische Reisen, 143.
The oldest and most peculiar images in the Ideographs point
backward toward the equatorial land of the hippopotamus, rhino-
ceros, giraffe, ostrich, camelopard, ibis, various cranes, the serau,
or goat-kind of sheep, the khebsh and oryx, the rock snake and
great serpent of the Libyan desert, the cobra, the octocyon, a small
primitive fox-like dog of South Africa, which has forty-eight teeth, the
fox-like type of Anup, the Fenekh, a type of Sut ; the caracal lynx
and spotted hyæna, the kaf-monkey, or clicking cynocephalus, that
typified the word, speech, and language on the monuments, which is
now found in Upper Senegal,—as the old home of the aborigines.
The symbolism of Egypt represented in the hieroglyphics has its
still earlier phase extant amongst the Bushmen, whose rock-pictures
testify to their skill as hieroglyphists, and show that they must have
been draughtsmen from time immemorial.
But, beyond this art, just as they have pre-human clicks assigned
to the animals, so they have a system of typology of the most
primitive nature; one in which the animals, reptiles, birds and
insects are themselves the living, talking types, by the aid of which
the earliest men of our race would seem to have ―thinged‖ their thoughts
in the birthplace of typology. In the ―fables‖ of the Bushmen, the
hieroglyphics are the living things that enact the representations.
These point to an art that must have been extant long ages on ages
before the likenesses of the animals, birds, and insects could be
sculptured in stone or pictured in colours on the papyrus and the
walls of the tombs and temples of Egypt, or drawn on the rocks by
the Bushmen, Hottentots, and Kaffirs.
It was confidently declared by Seeley1 that the cobra capella, or
hooded snake, was unknown to Africa, and that as it appeared amongst
the hieroglyphics, these must have been adopted by the Egyptians
from some country where the cobra was native. Seeley was
wrong, the cobra is African also. The latest testimony is that of
Commander Cameron who walked across Africa, and who records the
fact of snakes not being numerous and the ―greater portion are not
venomous, but the cobra capella exists and is much dreaded.‖ 2
The Egyptians marked the solstices as being in the horizon. The
solstices, says Lepsius. ―were always considered as in the horizon, and
the vernal equinox as up in the sky.‖ There is reason to think this
may be the result of astronomical observation made in the equatorial
lands. When at the equator the poles of the heaven are both on the
horizon, and the North Pole star would furnish there a fixed point of
beginning which answers to the starting-point in the north; this
would be retained after they had migrated into higher latitudes and
the pole of the heaven had risen thirty degrees. The mythology
of Egypt as shown in the Ritual, obviously originated in a land of
lakes, the lake being and continuing to a late time to be the typical
1 Caves of Ellora, p. 216. 2 Across Africa, vol. ii. p. 289.
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great water which dominated after they were aware of the existence
of seas. The water, or rather mud of source is a lake of primordial
matter placed in the north. Another hint may be derived from
the fact that aru is the river in Egyptian, and the ante-
rior form of the word, karu, is the lake or pond.
No geological formation on the whole surface of this earth could
have been better adapted for the purpose of taking the nomads as
they drifted down from the Æthiopic highlands, into the valley that
embraced them, to hold them fast, and keep them there hemmed
in by deserts and mountains with no outlet except for sailors, and
compressed them until the disintegrating tendencies of the nomadic
life had spent their dispersing force and gave them the shaping
squeeze of birth that moulded them into civilised men. Divinest
foresight could have found no fitter cradle for the youthful race, no
more quickening birth-place for the early mind of man, no mouth-
piece more adapted, for utterance to the whole world. It was
literally a cradle by reason of the narrow limits. Seven hundred miles
in length, by seven wide, fruitful and fertile for man and beast. Life
was easy there from the first.
―They gather in the fruits of the earth with less labour than other
people, for they have not the toil of breaking up the soil with the
plough, nor of hoeing, nor of any other work which an other men
must labour at to obtain a crop of corn; but when the river has come
of its own accord and irrigated their fidds, and having irrigated them
subsided, then each man sows his own land and turns swine into it,
and when the seed has been trodden in by the swine, he waits for
harvest time.‖1 But the land was a fixed quantity on the surface,
however much it increased in depth, and the supply of food was
therefore limited by boundaries, as stern as Egypt‘s double ranges of
limestone and sandstone hills. Lane calculated the extent of land
cultivated at 5,500 square geographical miles, or rather more than one
square degree and a half.2 And this appears to be a fair estimate in
round numbers, of its modern limits.
Such a valley would soon become as crowded with life as the womb
of a twin-bearing woman in the ninth month, and as certain to expel
the overplus of human energy. It was as if they had gradually
descended from the highlands of Africa with a slow glacier-like
motion and such a squeeze for it in the valley below as should launch
them from the land altogether and make them take to the waters.
There was the water-way prepared to teach them how to swim, and
float, and sail, offering a ready mode of transit and exit and when over-
crowded at home, free carriage into other lands. The hint was taken
and acted upon. Diodorus Siculus declares that the Egyptians
claimed to have sent out colonies over the whole world in times of the
1 Herodotus, ii. 14.
2 Encyclopædia Brit. 8th edition, vol. viii. p. 421.
remotest antiquity.1 They affirmed that they had not only taught the
Babylonians astronomy, but that Belus and his subjects were a colony
that went out of Egypt. This is supported by Genesis in the
generations of Noah. By substituting Egypt for the mythical Ark
we obtain a real starting point from which the human race goes
forth, and can even utilise the Hebrew list of names.
Diodorus Siculus was greatly impressed with the assertions of the
priests respecting the numerous emigrations including the colonies of
Babylon and Greece, and the Jewish exodus, but they named so many in
divers parts of the world that he shrank from recording them upon
hearsay and word of mouth, which is a pity, as they may have been
speaking the truth. He tells us they had sacred books transmitted to
them from ancient times, in which the historical accounts were
recorded and kept and then handed on to their successors.2
In the inscription of Una belonging to the sixth dynasty, we find
the earliest known mention of the Nahsi (negroes) who were at
that remote period dominated by Egypt, and conscribed for her
armies. In this, one of the oldest historical documents, the
negroes from Nam, the negroes from Aruam, the negroes from
Uaua (Nubia), the negroes from Kau, the negroes from the land of
Tatam are enumerated as being in the Egyptian army. Una, the
governor of the south, and superintendent of the dock, tells us how
the Pharaoh commanded him to sail to some locality far south to
fetch a white stone sarcophagus from a place named as the abode
of the Rhinoceros. This is recorded as a great feat.
―It came thence, brought in the great boat of the inner palace with
its cover, a door, two jambs, and a pedestal (or basin). Never
before was the like done by any servant.‖ (Lines 5, 6, 7.) The place
named Rumakhu, or Abhat, is an unknown locality. But the
performance is considered unparalleled.3
The Egyptians literally moved mountains and shaped them in
human likeness of titanic majesty. ―I dragged as hills great monu-
ments (for statues) of alabaster (for carving) giving them life in the
making‖ says Rameses III., he who built a wall 150 feet in depth,
60 feet below ground, and 90 feet above. They carried blocks of
syenite by land and water, weighing 900 tons. It was said by
Champollion that the cathedral of Notre Dame might be placed in
one of the halls of the Temple at Karnac as a small central orna-
ment; so vast was the scale of their operations. They painted in
imperishable colours; cut leather with our knife of the leather-cutters;
wove with the same shuttles; used what is with us the latest form
of blow-pipe, for the whitesmith. It is the height of absurdity or the
profoundest ignorance to suppose they did not build ships and launch
navies. The oar-blade or paddle, called the kherp, is the emblem of
1 Book i, 28, 29, 81. 2 Book i. 44.
3 Records of the Past, vol. ii. p. 3.

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all that is first and foremost, excellent and surpassing, the sceptre of
majesty, the sign of rule. Thus, to paddle and steer are synonymous
with sovereignty. Ship-building yards were extant and are shown to
be busy in the time of the pyramid builders. And here is Una, the
great sailor, superintendent of the dock, going so far south that the
geographically locality is out of sight. But the name shows it was the
land of the hippopotamus or rhinoceros.
At this time, then, ships of war were built in the south, of con-
siderable dimensions, over 105 feet long, together with the Uskhs or
broad ships in which the armies of Egypt, composed of enrolled
Æthiops and negroes, were floated down the river to fight her battles
against those on the land.
The crumbling shell of Egypt‘s past proves it to have been as crowded
with life as a fossil formation. But the shell did not merely shed a
life that became extinct in the place of its birth. It was a human
hive rather, that swarmed periodically; and the swarms went forth and
settled in many parts of the world, leaving the proofs in language,
myths, and in one far-off place, the hieroglyphics; in other lands the
religious rites, the superstitions, the symbolical customs and cere-
monies are the hieroglyphics still extant amongst races by whom they
are no longer read, but which can be read as Egyptian. The parent
recognises her offspring when the children have lost all memory of
their origin and birthplace.
As Karl Vogt says, ―Our civilisation came not from Asia, but from
Africa, and Heer has proved that the cultivated plants in the Swiss lake-
villages are of African, and to a great extent, of Egyptian origin.‖
According to Logan, 1 the pre-Aryan civilisation of southern India
had a partially Egyptian character. The oldest races, he asserts, were
of a variable African type who spoke language allied to the African.
Egypt, and not India is the common cradle of all we have in
common, east, west, north, and south, all round the world. The
language, beliefs, rites, laws and customs went out to India, but did
not return thence by means of the apocryphal Aryan migrations.
The Indian affinity with our European folk-lore and fairyology is
neither first nor final, ‘tis but the affinity of a collateral relationship.
Egypt supplied the parent source, the inventive mind, the propagating
migratory power. In Egypt alone, we shall find the roots or the
vast tree, whose boughs and branches have extended to a world-
wide reach.
The greatest difficulty in creation is the beginning, not the finishing,
and to the despised black race we have at length to turn for the
birth of language, the beginnings of all human creation, and, as the
Arabic saying puts it, let us ―honour the first although the followers
do better.‖
Among the Æthiops of many thousand years ago there lived and
1 Author of Languages of the Indian Archipelago.
laboured the unknown humanisers of our race who formulated the
first knowledge of natural facts gathered from the heavens above and
the earth beneath, and the waters of the wonderful river which
talked to them as with a voice from out the infinite, and who twined
the earliest sacred ties of the family-fold to create cohesion and
strength and purity of life; men of the dark and despised race, the
black blood-royal, that fed the red, yellow, and white races, and got the
skin somewhat blanched in Egypt; the men who had dwelt in the
Nile valley, and by the fountains of its waters in the highlands above
so long in unknown ages past, that the negroid type of form and
complexion had modified into the primitive Egyptian; so long, that
in this race the conical head of the Gorillidæ had time to grow and
bulge into the frontal region and climb into the human crown, until
Egypt at length produced and sent forth her long-heads, the
melanochroid type found in divers parts of the world. Blackness in
the beginning did not depend on, and was not derived merely from,
the climatic conditions; these modify, but did not create. Once the
black race is extinct it can never be repeated by climature. Its
colour was the result of origin from the animal prototype, and not
only from nearness to the sun. On the oldest known monuments the
Egyptians pourtray themselves as a dusky race, neither negroid nor
Caucasian. Livingstone found the likeness of these in the typical
negro of Central Africa, or rather he affirms that the typical negro
found in Central Africa is to be seen in the ancient Egyptians, not
in the native of the west coast.1
It is possible that the first intellectual beginnings of the race and
of the Egyptians themselves were about the sources of the Nile.
The link between the African and Chinese is yet living in the
Hottentott, not to say, on the other side, between man and the ape.
Casilis observes2:—
―The yellow colour of the Hottentot, his high cheek-bones, half-
shut eyes, so wide apart, and set obliquely in his head, his lanky
limbs, place him in close connection with the Mongolian race.‖
And he has the ape‘s eyes, the negro‘s woolly hair, and a body
that is like the missing link for its anatomy.
The Bushman, as described by Lichtenstein, presents the ―true
physiognomy of the small blue ape of Kaffraria. What gives the
more verity to such a comparison was the vivacity of his eyes and
the flexibility of his eyebrows; even his nostrils and the corners of
his mouth, nay, his very ears moved involuntarily.‖3
For this development a consensus of cumulative evidence demands
a pre-historic past indefinitely remote, but not to be gauged or
guessed at as a period less than tens of thousands of years; and this
evidence, consisting of facts instead of the recital of them, is more
1 Last Travels, vol. ii. p. 259. 2 Basutos, p. 10.
3 Travels in South Africa, vol. ii. p. 224.
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trustworthy than that which has been tampered with by the composers
of history. It is difficult, however, to get any time-gauge of Egypt‘s
existence by the ordinary method, nor are those concerned to fight
for a little time more or less, who are solely in search after truth
which is eternal.
In our researches we shall find that at the remotest vanishing points
of the decaying races we continually come upon the passing presence
of Egypt, diminishing on the horizon in the far-off distance from the
world she once engirdled round with language and laws, rites and
customs mythology and religion. Wheresoever the explorers dig
deepest, in Akkad, Karchemish, Palestine, Greece, or Italy they dis-
cover Egypt. 1 And the final conclusion seems inevitable, that the
universal parent of languages, of symbolism, of early forms of law,
of art and science, is Egypt, and that this fact is destined to be
established along every line of research.
If we find that each road leads back to Egypt, we may safely infer
that every road proceeded from Egypt.
In the very morning of the times these men emerged from out the
darkness of a pre-historic and pre-eval past from one centre to bear the
origins to the ends of the earth. The scattered fragments still remain,
whereby they can be traced more or less along each radiating line to
prove the common model, the common kinship, and the common centre.
As Sir William Drummond observes, if in crossing the desert you find
the spring of a watch in one place, an index in another, and pieces of
a broken dial-plate in a third, you will scarcely doubt that somebody
in the desert had once the whole watch. So is it here. And when
the watch is re-constructed it will be found to have been of Egyptian
workmanship. Hitherto we have never looked beyond the Phœnicians
or Etruscans for a great sea-faring colonising people of the past.
But they were Egyptians, not Phœnicians, who were the pioneers of
the fore-world whose footprints are indelible wherever they once trod,
and of a size to fit no foot that followed after. Only a few ruins of
majestic greatness may be left above ground, and these are widely
scattered, but they all show the one primeval impression that had no
secondary likeness. And there remain the imperishable proofs that
live for ever in the myths and the fossils of language, which constitute
the geology of pre-historic humanity.
1 ―Another remarkable fact became the subject of discussion, and we await with
some interest the fuller details which the report will supply. Professor Lieblein, of
Christiana, noticed the Egyptian antiquities which had been disinterred in Sardinia,
and Signor Fabiani exhibited specimens of others found in a tomb at Rome, under
the wall of Servius Tullius. The remains were chiefly Egyptian divinities. It was
argued by Fabiani that the site of Rome must have been occupied at a date anterior
to the well-known era of ‗Urba Condita.‘
―Phœnician remains were also found, supporting the hypothesis that there
meant have been an Egyptian and Phœnician influence in the pre-historic Italian
civilisation.‖—Journal of Anthropological Institute, Feb. 1879.
An opponent of the doctrine of evolution recently wrote of the
mythical serpent—
―There is an Aryan, there is a Semitic, there is a Turanian, there
is an African serpent, and who but an evolutionist would dare to say
that all these conceptions came from one and the same original
source, and that they are all held together by one traditional chain?‖1
No one. But, if the doctrine of development be true, none but an
evolutionist will ever get to the origin of anything. And so surely
as evolution is true in the development of our earth, so surely is it
true for all that has been developed on the earth. The unity of the
human race is fast being established, and the present attempt is
directed towards establishing the unity of mythology and symbolism,
the serpent included. The serpent is but one of a number of types
that have the same current value the world over, because as will be
maintained throughout this work, they had one origin in common.
The hare is accounted unclean by Kaffir, Egyptian, Hebrew
and Briton alike, because each of these was once in possession of
that system of typology in which the hare (Un) was a sign of
periodicity, especially in a certain feminine phase called by the
name of the hare.
There is an Egyptian, there is a Maori, there is a Hebrew, there is
an English, there is an Akkadian mythology, and none but an
evolutionist would dream that these have one primary source still
extant. Yet this is probable, and the present writer is about to
adduce evidence in proof. But then he is among those who think
that one of the supreme truths made known to our day and genera-
tion is that creative cause is evolutionary everywhere and for ever.
Not mindless evolution; evolution without the initial force of purpose,
evolution without increase of purpose in the accumulative course;
evolution without the fulfilment of purpose as the result of all, is
simply inconceivable.
The world is old enough and time has existed long enough for the
widest divergencies to have been made from one common centre of
mankind, and the prooofs of a unity of origin are plentiful enough.
What has been wanted is the common centre of the primeval unity.
This, it is now suggested, will be found in Africa as the womb of the
human race, with Egypt for the outlet into all the world.
Parent of all men give me grace
Our unity from first to trace.
And show the map through all the maze
Of winding, wandering, widening ways:
A shattered looking-glass replace
With wholeness to reflect Thy face,
And help establish for the race
The oneness that shall crown their days.
1 Max Müller, Academy, 1874, p. 548.

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The Egyptians identify themselves on the monuments as the Rut.
A pictorial representation is found on the tomb of Seti I. of four
races of people arranged in groups of four men each. These are the
Nahsi (negroes); the Hemu, men of a light brown hue, with blue
eyes, and hair in a bag; the Tamahut who are fair as Europeans; and
the Rut, who are Egyptians.
These are typical groups, not meant merely for conquered races, as
may be gathered from the signification of their names. The Tamahu
are light-complexioned people. In Egyptian, tama means people,
and created. Hu is white, light, ivory. The Tamahu are the ―Created
white‖ people. Na, is black, ink. Neh, a blackbird. Su is the
person, or birth. The Nahsu one black born, or, in Egyptian phrase,
black from the egg (su). Hem is the rudder, to paddle, fish; hemi, to
steer. The Hemu thus indicated are the sailors, sea-farers, the
people of the isles. The Isles of the Gentiles (Gen. x.) might be
rendered in Egyptian by the isles of the Amu or Hemu. The
hieroglyphic ―hem‖ is the sign of a water frontier.
The word ―rut‖ has various meanings, all significant when applied
to the Egyptians by themselves. Rut is to retain the form, be carved
in stone, a footstool, or a pair of feet, cause to do, plant, grow, repeat.
One hieroglyphic sign of ―rut‖ is an implement for pegging down
and making fast in the earth, to retain animals in one spot. This
is symbolic of the Rut as the people who dwelt where they first laid
hold and made fast to the earth. These are the Egyptians
themselves. They claim to be the root of the race of men or the
Rut, the Men, knowing of no other point of departure, and being
so ancient they have forgotten that their complexion was at one
time black. The word passed into Sanskrit as Reta, produced from
the seed, and their likeness was the lotus, which contains the seed
within itself, and retains the name of the Rut or Reta.
The name of the Ruti went out into other lands as that of the
Ruten, upper and lower, and the Ludim; it had become a typical
name of race, long-lineage and enduring life in the Assyrian Palatu (pa,
is the Egyptian masculine article ―the‖), the Latins, the various Luds,
the Lithuanians, and others who fastened themselves firmly and took
root elsewhere. The Egyptians were and are the true Rut, the one
primordial people who first took conscious hold of the earth and
retained a knowledge of the fact. The land of Egypt is the footstool,
rut; the people were the feet (rut) on which the human being first
arose erect to attain its full stature. Incidentally however we learn
that the Egyptians recognised the black race to be the first of created
men. The people of Ra are born of the great one who is in the
heavens; the Rut are born of his eye in their persons of superior
men. He also created the Aamu and the Tamahu; further he has
comforted hlmsdf with a multitude who came from him in the shape
of negroes, but it is expressly said ―Horus has created them and he
defends their souls.‖ 1 This may be followed mythologically. Har
is older than Ra; his type goes back to Sut-Har, and Sut-Nub the
negro god who created the Nahsi.
It has been overlooked that the Egyptians do possibly tell us
something of their own origin beyond the Ruti of the monuments.
We team from Syncellus (Chronicon, li.) and Eusebius (Chron. vi)
that among the Egyptians there was a certain tablet called the Old
Chronicle; containing thirty dynasties in 113 descents, during the long
period of 36,525 years.
―The first series of princes was that of the Auritæ, the second was
that of the Mestræans, the third of the Egyptians.‖ 2 The first
divine name in the series is one that is earlier than the sun, given
through the Greek as Hephæstus, to whom no time is assigned,
because this deity was apparant both by night and day. This
contains matter of great moment not yet read nor readable until we
have seen more of Egypt‘s mythology. The present point is that the
Auritæ princes coincide with the reign of Hephæstus as the beginning.
The Auritæ of course the Ruti of monumental Egypt, the
typical name of the race of men par excellence. But the prefixed Au
will add something to our knowledge of the pre-monumental Rut. Au
in Egyptian means the oldest, the primordial. The word Au is the
Egyptian ―was‖ and the Au-rut means the race that was, the first
and oldest race of men. Au is a modified form of Af. Both Au and
Af signify born of. The name of Africa is derived from this root af
or au. The tongue of Egypt tells us that Af-rui-ka is the inner land,
born of, literally the birth-place. They knew of no other. Thus the
Auritæ were the Af-ritæ, people of the birth-place in Africa. But
Af in Egyptian has a still earlier form in Kaf and the Afritæ become
the primordial Kaf-ritæ. The Kaffirs have preserved the primal shape
of the word signifying the first, the embryotic, aboriginal root-race of
men. The Kaffirs likewise keep the true African colour of the
original Ruti or race. There is a sort of pre-Darwinianism in this
root Kaf, the name of the Kaffir and the Kafritæ of Egypt. The
Kaf is the symbolical monkey, the Cynocephalus. It is apparent
from the drawing of the nose of the figures of Taurt 3 that the Kaf
enters into her compound character with the hippopotamus and
crocodile. Not that the Kaffirs and Kafritæ named themselves
from the ape or as the ape-like, or as the beings evolved from the
ape. But they were the first, and the name signifies the first;
and when the primitive men had advanced and took other names,
the prior name was left to the primordial men, the pre-men, so
to say, and it remained with the ape and the aborigine. This
will help to explain the ape-men and monkey men of various tribes
1 Records of the Past, x. 109-10.
2 Syncellus, Chronicon, li., Eusebius, Chron. vi.
3 Wilk. pl. 32, figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
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who retained the earlier status in their name which mixed up the
pre-men and apes. So the Assyrian name of the monkey, Udumu, is
identical with the Hebrew name Adam for man.
The laws of language prove that the Auritæ, the first princes of this
long line of descent given at 36,525 years, were Kaf-ritæ; and the
laws of evolution prove the primal race, so far as we can get back,
to be the black people. The Kaf is the black, dog-headed, almost
human monkey. Ape and Kaf are named as the first preceding man,
and there was no other name known for the first than kaf, ap, au or
ap. The kaf-ruti name has the same relation to the Ruti of the
monuments that the ape, the pre-man, has to man. On another line
of modification and development the name Kafruti becomes Karuti,
found on the monuments as Karut, natives, autochthons, indigenous
inhabitants, also applied to masons, and workers in stone. The
Karuti, it is suggested, became the Kaldi and the Keltæ.
Maspero thinks the Egyptians had lost the remembrance of their
origin. But for the people who were the recorders and chronologers
of mankind that is good evidence of their having no foreign origin to
forget; the Ruti were the race. The Auritæ were the oldest race.
The Karuti were the natives, inhabitants, indigenes, aborigines,
and there was nothing more to be said. They had sloughed the
black skin of the Nahsi and repudiated it, as we have denied
the ape. Nevertheless, they came out or it as we do from the
ape without remembering the fact, which has to be re-collected
in evidence. ―The first series of the princes was that of the
Auritæ, the second was that of the Mestræans, the third of the
Egyptians.‖ This is a perfect panorama of the descent geographical
and ethnological.
By aid of the Auritæ (kafruti) name we ascend to the source
whence the race that always was (au) had descended. In Egyptian,
mest means the birth-place, the lying-in chamber, to whelp, be born.
Mest as the black is the name of kohl or stibium. Ru is the gate or
gorge of outlet: Ruan the gorge of a valley.
The Mestræans are the people of the outlet of the birth-place in
the stage next to the Auritæ. The Egyptian mest, to be born,
whelped, answers to the Hebrew axm, to become apparent, to exist,
the very first form of to be, the parallel with Au. And the Mestræans
are the people of the gorge, the place of outlet, the same that we
derived from Mitzraim as the dual land of the outtet from the birth-
place, and as mest means stibium, the Mestræans were apparently
black. It is in Egyptian alone that mes for birth is the equivalent of
mest, and mes-ru the outlet of birth of mestru, whence Mestræan. Now
one of the Hindu names of Egypt is Misra-Sthan. But the Sanskrit
misra, mixing, does not contain the primary meaning, and the word is
supposed to be taken from a lost root which it is here suggested may
be the Egyptian mes, generation and birth; the sense of mixing
applies to generating. Also, rxm, a strait, has a likeness to mest-ru,
the road or strait, issuing from the birth-place.
In the old chronicle the Mestræans are placed midway, correspond-
ing to the meaning of mest-ruan the outlet from the place of birth.
the human lair, mestruan the gorge from the birth-place, and the
mestru (mitzr) we may identify with the country below the furst
cataract, because at Kartoom and Assouan the inundation was born.
Kart signifies the child, um to perceive, and it was there the birth of
the child was first perceived. This adds another sense to the words
mestruan and mitzraim as the birth-place of the inundation.
Assouan says Mariette 1 ―always takes the traveller by surprise.
We seem to be quite in a new world—Egypt finishes; another country
begins. The inhabitants of Khartoom especially are remarkable by
their grand mien, their black skin, and their finely formed heads, that
remind one of the best types of northern races.‖ Here it may be
seen that with a skin as black, although more lustrous with light,
as that of any negro of the west coast, the African in Nubia
at times attained a type of face, and a sculpture of form as noble
and refined as any of the white skins of all the vaunted Caucasian
and Aryan races. The line of the Mestræns may have begun
hereabouts, leaving the Auritæ higher up in the old dark land
where the pre-lingual beings clicked away, in equatorial Africa for
many a myriad of years; so long ago that the primeval race can only
be known by its radiants and its rootage, and not by any stem extant-
—so long ago that the Hottentot, the west coast negro, the Nubian and
Egyptian are but conccntntions of form and colour along the lines
diverging from a centre out of sight in the far land of the Auritæ.
Herodotus2 says the oracle of Amen pronounced all those who drank
the water of the Nile and dwelt north of Elephantine to be Egyp-
tians. They were so in later times when Egypt was both upper
and lower, but the name of Khebt (for Egypt) belongs especially to
the lower land in the north.
The Egyptians, the people of Khebt come last, they dwelt in the
Delta. Three stages are here distinctly marked. The place of the
Auritæ above the cataracts. That of the Mestræans in the Ruan, the
gorge of the valley, and the Egyptians in Khebt or lower Egypt,
called the Delta, and the name of the Delta, Ter-ta, also shows the
descent from above, for ter (del) in Egyptian means the extreme
limit, the foot, that which ends and completes the whole, and ta is
the land.
The Auritæ of this passage, then, are not gods nor are the Mestræans
demi-gods, as they have been misrendered. Bunsen assumed that the
chronicle was fictitious, and asserted that the number of 36,525 years
represents the great year of the world.3 It does nothing of the kind.
1 Monuments of Upper Egypt, pp. 255-6. 2 B. ii. 18.
3 Egypt’s Place, vol. i. p. 215.
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The only great year of the world is that of precession—25,868 solar
years) and the twenty-five Sothiac cycles (25 × 1461) or 36,525 years
do not make any great year whatever. When we read in the
Syncellus that ―Manetho, the high priest of the Egyptian idols,
wrote a fabulous work on Sothis under Philadelphus;‖ that means
a book containing what the man uninstructed except in biblical
chronology considered mythological, not necessarily a forgery of
time-reckonings, for he denied their chronological nature in toto.
Jamblichus, in his work on the Mysteries, mentions the number of
36,500 books assigned to Taht, and this agrees very nearly with the
number of years given in the old chronicle. This also is denounced
by Bunsen as being nothing more than the year of the world in twenty-
five Sothiac cycles. The question of interest here is whether these
twenty-five Sothiac cycles had been observed and registered; if so, the
records were sure to be entitled the Books of Taht, the earliest forms
of which were columns called stelæ; the figure of these is yet extant
in our flat roundtopped gravestones. Syncellus describes Manetho
as having declared that certain of these stelæ still existing in the
Syriadic land were his authorities. They were engraved in hierogly-
phics and in the sacred tongue, and ―after the flood‖ they were
transcribed into Greek in hieroglyphical characters.
These columns, or stelæ, in the Syriadic land are referred to by
Josephus.1 He ascribes them to Seth, and says they were erected to
record the peculiar sort of wisdom which concerns the heavenly bodies,
that is as chronological tablets, because Adam had predicted that the
world was to be at one time destroyed by fire, at another by flood.
Plato, in the opening of his Timæus, refers to these so-called antediluvian
columns, or Stelæ, of the Syriadic land. They are likewise mentioned
in the ―Fragments of Hermes‖ in Stobæus. The Syriadic land has
been accepted unquestioningly as the land of Syria. This in Egyptian
is Karua. But there is Karua north and Karua south, and the country
of the stelæ is the southern Karua, the Æthiopic country. Now
here is a fact unknown to the Greeks, Christians, or Josephus, and
one sure not to be recorded by Manetho. We learn from a statement
in the Book of the Dead that Taht, the recorder of the gods, was
otherwise Sut, who had preceded Taht in the character of the
scribe. How this was so remains to be unravelled. Enough for the
present to say that it was so, and to refer here to the fact that the
stelæ assigned to Taht by Manetho are ascribed to Sut by Josephus;
both describing them as standing in the Syriadic land, which we
identify with Karua in the south. The Karuans are extant on the
monuments as a black people. In both accounts we find the flood.
But the monuments of the chronologers of mankind know nothing of
the Noachian deluge. The flood of Egypt is the inundation of the Nile.
And these antediluvian stelæ in the Karuan land before the flood we
1 Ant. B. i. ch. 2.
take to have stood in the Karuan country above the cataracts and the
land made by the inundation. The account thus rendered is that a
vast pre-monumental period of the Egyptians was represented by the
princes of the Auritæ, the ancient and original race under the divine
reign of Hephæstus before the time of Ra, and that the stelæ upon
which the time was inscribed were set up in. the Karuan land beyond
the cataracts or the flood, and that as the old dark people came down
into the lower parts of the Nile valley to be known as the children of
Ham, the black, Mizraim, Kush, and Phut, and the still later Egyptus,
they inscribed the same facts on the papyrus in what has been misin-
terpreted to be the tongue of the Achæan Greeks. Syriadic, then is
Karuadic, and we have to look for the Karua south, the land of Sut-
Anubis, who was earlier than Taht as the divine registrar. Some of
the inscriptions of the time of Tahtmes, III. designate the country of
Karu or Kalu, in the far south, as the southern boundary.
Brugsch considers this to be the ancient Koloe, which according to
Ptolemy. was situated on the fourth degree, fifteen minutes, of north
latitude, in those countries. Ka (Eg.) is an interior region or it may
be high land, and rua is the outlet, the place of exit. Karua is also
an Egyptian name for a lake, so so that the name might mean the lake
country.
It is noticeable that the true country of the stelæ and the rock-
inscriptions is sharply defined by the first cataract. In the route from
Assouan to Philæ the rock-insciptions abound on all sides. Schayl, a
small island in the cataract, is covered with such records, some of
which have yielded a clue to historical facts, 1 as it was obviously
intended they should do, for the name in Egyptian, read Skha-rui,
signifies the island of the writings or inscriptions. One cannot but
suppose the rocks in the upper country may still preserve some me-
morials of the remoter past. The account appears to mean that the
stelæ were erected in the time of Sut-Anubis, the first registrar of the
gods, and the contents were afterwards transcribed in hieroglyphics
and preserved in the Hermean writings assigned to Taht
The Egyptians, says Hor-Apollo (i. 21), depict three water-pots
and neither more nor less, because, according to them, there is a triple
cause of the inundation. One of these causes, he tells us, is the rain
which prevails in Southern Africa. He further observes, they make
the water-pot like a heart having a tongue, because the heart is the
ruling member of the body as the Nile is of Egypt, and they call it
the producer of existence. The tongue, as he calls it, of the three
vases, is the sign of the pouring out the libation; there are two
tongues or volumes of water answering to the blue and red Nile, and
these issue from the three vases, the triple heart. The vases are
three, and we may now fairly infer that this triple symbol with its
dual stream, was intended to connect the source of the Nile with the
1 Mariette, Monuments of Upper Egypt, p. 259.
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three great lakes in equatorial Africa. It has been rediscovered that
the river is fed by two of them, and Tanganyika may easily have been
classed with the system. The fact of their existence was known
already to the travellers and map-makers of some centuries ago; the
maps of the Arabs in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the
Portuguese of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and the
Dutch map of the seventeenth century; show that at least three great
lakes were known. It now becomes probable that the triple source
and fountain-head of the Nile was known to the Egyptians many
thousand years since, and that the fact is stereotyped in the triple
ideograph of the inundation.
Professor Oppert assures us from his standpoint, that in all cases
we may take for granted that the date of 11,512 B.C., given in his version
of the Berosian Chronology, reposes on a real historical tradition, and
that the two periods, the Chaldean moon period and the Sothiac period
(whether it was Egyptian or not) have the same origin. Professor
Oppert, by mathematical calculation, fixes the date of a double pheno-
menon which struck the sight of men, consisting in an eclipse and
in an apparition of Sirius, on Tuesday, 27th April, Julian, or the 28th
January, Gregorian. But as at this epoch Sirius was not visible to
Northern or Middle Egypt, on account of the equinoctial precession,
civilization must start from a more southern point. This, to say the
truth, adds Professor Oppert, is a mere hypothesis, and he trusts
that further investigation will either confirm or deny this special
view of his.
It is now about to be claimed that civilization did start from a
more southem point than Mid-Egypt.
For Egyptian, Hebrew, and Greek, there was nothing visible
beyond Egypt but the background of blackness in Africa, the land
of Ham, the source from which she was fed in secret by tributaries
that flowed as stealthily as the hidden fountains of the Nile.
The Hebrew Scriptures, among their other fragments of ancient lore,
are very emphatic in deriving the line of Mitzraim from Ham or Kam,
the black type coupled with Kush, another form of the black. They
give no countenance to the theory of Asiatic origin for the Egyptians.
In the Biblical account of the generations or Noah, Mitzraim is the
son of Ham, i.e. of Kam, the black race. Thus Ham occupies the
place of the Auritæ princes of the old chronicle at the head of the
Egyptians, Akkadians, Babylonians. and Assyrians. This account,
preserved in the tenth chapter of Genesis, could only have been kept
by the black race, the ―blameless Æthiopians‖ and Egyptians as
contemporaries of the early time, and recorded in the Hermean
books, fragments of which are found in the Hebrew writings.
―Egypt, mother of men, and first born of mortals,‖ the learned
Apollonius Rhodius in the Argonautika, calls that country.1 In the
1 4, 259.
time of Xerxes, Hippys of Rhegium designated the Egyptians
the most ancient of all nations. 1 ―For my part,‖ says Herodotus,
―I am not of opinion that the Egyptians commenced their existence
with the country called the Delta, but that they always were since
men have been; and that as the soil gradually increased many of
them remained in their former abodes, and many came lower down.
For anciently Thebes was called Egypt.‖2 He also tells us that the
Egyptians, before the reign of Psammetichus, considered themselves
to be the most ancient of mankind.3
We see, by the Greek report, the Egyptians knew that Egypt
was once all sea or water. Herodotus says the whole of Egypt (except
the province of Thebes) was an extended marsh. No part of that
which is now situate beyond the Lake Mœris was to be seen, the
distance between which lake and the sea is a journey of seven days.4
Plutarch also says Egypt was at one time sea. Diodorus Siculus
affirms that in primitive times, that which was Egypt when he wrote,
was said to have been not a country, but one universal sea.5
A persistent Greek tradition asserts that the primitive abode of the
Egyptians was in Æthiopia, and mention is made of an ancient
city of Meroe, from which issued a priesthood who were the founders
of the Egyptian civilisation. Meroe, or in Egyptian Muru, means
the maternal outlet, therefore the birthplace, which was typified by
the Mount Muru. The modernised form of Muru or Meroe, is Balua.
Ba-rua (Eg.) also yields the place of outlet. And this place may
be pursued according to the African naming up to the Rua moun-
tains and the outlets of the lakes. The Hebrew tradition manifestly
derives the Egyptians from above and not fron lower Egypt. ―I
will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to
return (into) the Land of Pathros; into the land of their habitation.‖
(Ezek. xxix. 14.)
Puthrus (swrtp) is obviously derived from the Egyptian, in which
rus is the south, southern. Pet is the name of the crib or birth-
place. Puth (Heb.) denotes the opening, the place of birth. Put
and Apt (Eg.) interchange, Apt or Aft being the abode and the name
of the goddess, the oldest great mother. Pet or Peth is the earlier
Beth, and Pathros is the birthplace in the south. ―Patoris‖ is the
south country (Upper Egypt.) In the Hebrew writings Æthiopia,
Kush, and Zaba are convertible terms for the same country, the
Egypt beyond Egypt. Zaba, the first-born son of Kush, is mentioned
with Kush and Mitzraim (Is. xliii. 3), and the Zabians are coupled
with Kush (xlv. 14). The inhabitants of Meroe were called Zabaim
(Ez. xxiii. 42). ―The Zabeans from the wilderness.‖
Zaba, the modified form of Khaba (or Kheft), inc1uding the ancient
Meroe, has been understood to mean the northern half of Æthiopia.
1 Schol. to Apoll., iv. 262. 2 B. ii. 15. 3 B. ii. 2.
4 B. ii. 4. 5 Lib. 3.
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The Æthiopians are called wq-wq from the reduplicated Pih, wq-wq
(belonging to hwq, a people of great might or double power (Is.
xviii. 27). Kefa (Eg.) means force, puissance, potency. Khefti or
Khepti, is a reduplicated Kef equivalent to Kev-Kev, and Kep-Kep
is an Egyptian name of Nubia.
In Egyptian Kheb, Kheft, or Khepsh, is the north, as the hindward
part, the front being the south. The Khepsh, equivalent of the
Hebrew `wk (Kvsh), is the hieroglyphic hinder part, and the name
of the Great Bear, as the constellation of the north.
If the reader will think for a moment of the sight presented by the
revolving Great Bear to those who watched it in equatorial lands,
he will realise what an arresting image of the north this must have
been with its settings and risings in that quarter to a people who did
not know the earth was round.
In the title of Psalm vii- mention is made of the Dibrai of Kush,
and Dabar (rbd) signifies the hinder part; it is the exact equivalent
for the Egyptian Khepsh. Zaba, as a name of Ethiopia, is the modi-
fied Kheba or Kefa. Also in Egyptian Khefti, the North the Goddess
of the North, was worn down to Uati or Uti, and in the time of the
Middle Empire a hieroglyphic U passed into an E. Thus we have
Eti-opia, Uti-opia, Khefti-opia, and opia from Api is the first, the
ancestral land. Cassiopœia, the Lady of the Seat, is the Queen of
Æthiopia or Kush, and her name, derived from khus, to found, or
earlier khepsh (cwk) the seat, denotes the Queen of the ―opia‖ or
―apia‖ in the north. Thus interpreted, Æthiopia is the first, the
ancestral seat, in the north.
This may be followed out. Æthiopia is claimed for the birthplace;
khab means to give birth to; khef is the one born of, the place we
come out of; af and au mean born of, and uti signifies to emit;
emane, go or come out at, and opia Dr apia is the ancestral land.
The diphthong Æ represents an earlier Au and yet earlier Af, hence
Æthiopia is Aftiopia or Kheftiopia. Yr Aipht is still the Welsh name
of Egypt.
In the celestial north was the mythical birthplace where the Great
Mother Taurt, the Goddess of the Great Bear and Seven Stars, was
represented as the bringer-forth from the waters in the shape of a
hippopotamus, and when Kush, or Æthiopia, was named as the North,
it must have beenby a people who were still farther south, as from no
other direction can the naming be applied. Kush, Zabba, or Æthiopia,
was once the north land to a people that dwelt above. The nam
would not be given by a people ascending the Valley of the Nile and
going due south. Whereas the name, once given high above Egypt,
can be followed down to Coptus, thence to Khebt in Lower Egypt,
and then to Kheft, the Egyptian name of Phœnicia. The birthplace
was in the north, and the Egyptians identified that with Æthiopia.
A typical title of the Repa, Prince, or heir-apparent to the throne of
Ra, was Prince of Æthiopia.
Diodorus (B. 1) tells of an annual Æthiopian festival at which the
statues of the gods of Egypt, who were represented by Jupiter and
Juno, were carried into the Æthiopian land, and then after a certain time
of sojourn there they were brought back again to Egypt. Eustathius
on Homer,1 says the Æthiopians used to fetch the images of Zeus
and other gods from the Temple at Thebes, and with these they went
about at a certain period in Libya and celebrated a splendid feast of
twelve gods. This was going back to the ancient birthplace, the back-
ward Khebt; and the carriage of the later divinities to the old home, to
celebrate a festival of the twelve gods, looks1ike a typical conquest o
the earlier domain of the old Mother Khebt, the Hippopotamus Goddess
who brought them forth. On this journey they were not following
the Celestial North, that lay directly opposite. The Libyans, be it
remembered, wore the Horus-lock of the Repa, the Prince of Æthiopia,
from whom perhaps they derived their name.
A rock tablet in the neighbourhood of the town of Assouan pro-
claims to the traveller that to Tahtmes II. (1600 B.C.), came the
Asiatics and the Kushite An, the Nomads, ―his frontier to the south
is at the summit of the world, and his frontier north at the farthest end
of Asia,‖ which places the southern limit of the land at the equator.
This range southward was no doubt attained in the backward ascent
from the lower lands after the Egyptians had become civilised there.
Under the rule of Tahtmes III. the southern boundary of the land
was designated Apta, the horn-point or tip-top of the land, the farthest
point to the south. This Apta was a type name for the extremity o
the land, and means equal, or equatorial land. Also Ap is first
ancestral, aboriginal, and divine. Apta describes the land (ta) or type
of all that is initial, primordial, first in being, place, or person. Apt
or Aft is the birth-place, the bringer-forth, the genitrix of the gods
and the equatorial land; the horn-point of the world is known and
named in Egyptian as Apta. Apt and Khebt are two forms of the
same word, as the name of the birthplace and the bringer-forth.
It may seem like considering the matter too curiously, and yet it
would not be without warrant from phonetic law if we were to see in
Apta the modification of Khepta as the secondary naming from the
north, or, with the frontage reversed, to the primal naming of the
north as Khebt, when that quarter was the front, and the namers
were looking north. Æthiopia includes both Apta and Khepta, and
the Great Mother, who was hippopotamus in front and crocodile
behind, was both Apt and Khept. Khept also modifies into Sebt.
The Ka sign of the crocodile‘s tail is a later Sa. Sebt (Sothis) passes
into Sut, the name of the south. Thus Sebt and Apt are both later
forms of Khept. The hinder part as the birthplace was first of all
1 Il. lib. 1, vide Smith‘s Classical Dictionary, ―Ethiopia.‖
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the region of the Great Bear that brought forth in the north. Then
in the solar imagery the Egyptians depicted the heaven by the figure
of a woman, whose body arched over the earth and rested on the
hands and feet. In this position she brought forth the sun, animal-
fashion, at the place of the hinder thigh (Khepsh), and her face was
the front, the south. Egyptian shows that the north, as the 1ower,
hinder, the night-side, the lower most, the dark part, was the first
named and the modification of the K into H reflects this fact, cor-
responding to Khept and Apt; Kak is darkness, and the deity of
the dark; Heh and Hui denote the light; Khekh signifies the in-
visible of being; Heh the visibly manifested. Kar is the lower,
Har the upper. Khept and Hut are tail and head. Khar is the
first Horus, the child, immature and mortal (Harpocrates). Har is
the second, perfected, immortal.
The word Kam is not a primary formation, and in Hebrew the
vau of a prior spelling is preserved. The word for Kam or Ham in
Eupolemeus is written \wj (Kvm), as in Hebrew Chush is written
`wk (Chvsh). Kvm is extant in Egyptian as Khebm or Kheb-ma.
The fuller form of the word is also indicated by Kâm, i.e., Kfm to create,
whcnce the Kamite was the created race. One reduced form occurs
in Kâm (Kfm) for the black stone, obsidian, determined by the
crocodile‘s tail.1 And this carries us beyond the land of the inunda-
tion to that of the hippopotamus, whose name is Khebma, the Mother
of the Waters, typified by the water-cow. Khab is the name of the
black hippopota.mus in the Namaqa Hottentot. Khab permutes with
Kam in Hebrew for black. And the permuation probably depends
on the word Kvm or Kbm dividing in twain to posit two forms.2
Kam, then, has to be sought in Kheb-ma the place of Kheb, or the
Mother Kheb.
This takes us back to Ethiopia, the land of Kush or Kvsh, which,
in the form of Khepsh, is still the name of the Great Bear, or
Hippopotaus. The land of the black Khab, the black Kaf, and
the black Kaffir, the Kafruti, the black race of Kvm, Kvsh, and Kvt,
the children of Taurt, the Typhonian Genitrix. Etymologically we
1 Champ. Gram. p. 90.
2 So the Gothic Kvimat shows the earlier form of Come. The Welsh Cwm implies
a prior Cfm. So the hieroglpyhic ―Peh‖ bifurcates into the P and H of the Setshuana
and other languages. This ―vm,‖ found in Hebrew, may show the connecting-
link between the Egyptian Kef, the hand, a figure of 5, and the supposed original
Aryan word quem-quem, for No. 5. Kef, Kep and Kem permute, as is now sug-
gested, on account of a form in Kafm, still found in \wj and in Khebma. This
abrades in quem and Khamesh for No. 5. Takking Khem as the equivalent of
Kef the hand, Khemt (Khemti) for No. 10 (Eg.) is the two hands. Khemsha
(Eg.) would read hand the first, or one hand, and Khemt two hands. This is at
a depth, however, that philology cannot bottom. It belongs to a primitive system
of typology. For example, the first hand was the creative matrix, the Khep
in Egyptian. The old Khebma is the paunchy pot-bellied hippopotamus-
goddess, and the Hebrew `mj for No. 5, the hand, also means the paunch, and
paunch, or panch, is the type-word for hand and No. 5 in other groups of
languages.
have the gradation of sounds from the f in Kaf, to the p in Coptus,
the b in Khebt. Also we find the later Egyptians calling uncivilised
and ignorant men the Khem-Rut. If we read this with a v we recover
the Khvm-ruti as the equivalent of Kafrutt the Auritæ, the Karti,
Kaldi, Keltæ, and the final Ruti. It is noticeable that the Lapps call
themselves the Sabme people, which is the word Khabma or \wj in a
later stage. The Japanese likewise claim to have descended from the
Kami or Kafmi.
Egyptian monumental history begins with the name of Mena or
Menes. The chronology ma.de out by different Egyptologists is
variously recorded thus:—
Bunsen . . . . 3623 B.C.
Lepsius . . . . 3892 ,,
Lauth . . . . 4157 ,,
Brugsch . . . . 4455 ,,
Unger . . . . 5613 ,,
Boeckh . . . . 5702 ,,
Brugsch-Bey makes use of the latest data, and also of the investiga-
tions of Lieblein into the pedigree of twenty-five Court architects;
he concludes that the year 4455 B.C. is about the nearest approxima-
tion that can be made to a correct date for the era of Mena. And, as
nearly as can be calculated, the Spring Equinox first occurred in the
sign of the Bull, 4560 B.C.
The clue is worth following. The present writer refuses to be
entangled in the maze and lost in the labyrinth of the dynastic
lists. It may be there was no monarch of the name of Mena. No
contemporary monument of his time has ever been found, nothing
inscribed with his name, nothing is known to have been made, in the
time of Mena.1 Tradition ascribes to him a dyke which still exists in
the neighbourhood of Cairo. Personally, however, the writer does
not doubt the existence or Mena, only if the man were removed the
era would still remain. That era has been made out to be nearly
coincident with the time when the colure of the spring equinox
entered the sign of the Bull. The name of Mena is identical with
that of the Bull Mnevis or Men-Apis, of Heliopolis, the celestial
birthplace of the Sun.
This apparently perilous subject of the mythological astronomy is
only introduced here with the view of making Mena, the admitted
head of a dynasty, a connecting link with the divine dynasties which
also are astronomically dated, but have been assumed to be fabulous.
It is certain that the dynasty of Mena coincides with the establish-
ment of an Osirian myth that is for ever connected with the sun in
the sign of the Bull by means of the legend relating to the death of
Osiris when the sun was in Scorpio, and the bull and the scorpion
1 Birch, History of Egypt, pp. 24, 25.
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were the two equinoctial signs, showing that the bull of Mena and
Osiris are one and the same. Now in the Egyptian zodiac 1 the
crocodile is in Scorpio (so to say) that is, it occupies the whole three
decans of that sign, and it was under the Osirian dynasty of deities
that the crocodile was transformed into an image of evil and a
symbol of Typho to be trampled under foot. This does not in the
least destroy the personality of Mena, because the Pharaohs of Egypt
were assimilated to the divnity, and monuments were raised and
temples built to their own ―name‖ in honour of the deity whose name
they bore. The divine, not the human, was the object of the worship.
In the present instance it is the divine, the solar Mena or bull that
makes it possible to account for the various Menas in different countries,
and gives us a common starting-point for the Manu who was the law-
giver in India, Minos, who was law-giver in Greece, Menw, who was
the law-giver to the Kymry, and Mena, who was law-giver to Egypt.
The law first given in each case was that of time and period. Mena, as
the bull who in Egyptian mythology (as Khem) is the bull of the mother,
is one with the Minos whose wife was Pasiphaë, and this gives a
natural interpretation to her passion for the bull. Mena is the head of
the Thinite dynasty reigning at Memphis, and Thinis is in Upper Egypt.
May not Tini and the Thinites derive their name in the same way
from the new point of departure in the bull? The highest functionaries
of the blood-royal were distinguished by the style of Princes of Tini.
Ten is the division, the place of the Tennu or equinoctial eclipses
and also means to fill up, complete, terminate, and determine.
The district in which Memphis stood was called Sekhet-Ra, the
field of the sun. Mena is accredited with having built Memphis, and
one of its names is Makha-ta, the land of the scales; or as Makha
equally applies to the equinox, from which the zodiacal scales were
named, this may be equinoctial, and as th.e name of Mena is
that of the bull Mnevis, there is nothing incredible in supposing that
Mena of Makha-ta represents the sun (or vernal colure) in the sign of the
Bull. The Arab name of Tel-Monf for Memphis points to its being
Men-pa, the House (or sign) of the Bull. King Teta, who follows the
name of Mena, built the Pyramid of the Bull at Ka-khema, the town
or shrine of the Bull. It is probable that this step-pyramid of
Sakkarah was the common grave or shrine of the dead Bulls, to judge
from its bones of bulls and the inscriptions relating to the royal Apis,
the Bull of that time being the representative or the sun instead
of the later Pharaoh. The builder of the Bull Pyramid would enable
us, if need were, to do without the human Mena. In Egyptian
symbolry the celestial is primordial and continually contains the clue
to the terrestrial; the earthly is but the image of the heavenly.
Thus the time of Mena is none the less real, and is all the more verifi-
able if astronomically dated. In Egypt the only fixed or definite
1 Drummond, Ædipus Judaicus, pl. 2.
era was astronomical. All the reports show that prior to the period
identified with the name of Mena the Egyptians reckoned vast
lengths of time as ―reigns‖ of some kind, sacred to monarchs left
without human name, because representative of the divinities, and
beyond these was the direct dominion of the gods. These last reigns
are mythical, but not therefore fabulous in the modern sense. The
truth is that a great deal of history and mythology have to change
places with each other; the history has to be resolved into myth,
whilst the myths will be found to contain the only history. The
ancient fables were veiled facts, and when we can get no further
records on the earth, it is in the heavens we must seek for the
Egyptian chronology. It is the astronomical mythology solely that
will reveal to us what the Egyptians and other nations meant by
dynasties of deities and the development of series and succession in
their rule. It was by astronomical numbers that the Chaldeans
reckoned the age of their sacred books.1
―In Egypt, if anywhere,‖ says Diodorus,2 ―the most accurate
observations of the positions and movements of the stars have been
made. Of each of these they have records extending over an in-
credible series of years. They have also accurately observed the
courses and positions of the planets, and can truly predict eclipses
of the sun and moon.‖ Diogenes Laertius states that they possessed
observations of 373 solar eclipses and 532 lunar; these were probably
total or almost total.
The Egyptians spanned spaces so vast that nothing short of
astronomical cycles could be the measure and record of time and
period for them. Plato, who spent some thirteen years in Egypt try-
ing to get into the penetralia of their knowledge, reports that they
had divine hymns or songs worthy of the deity which were held in
round numbers to be 10,000 years old. He tells us that he does not
speak figuratively, but that they are real and credible figures.3 The
authorship of these was assigned to the great mother Isis. These
figures are not to be utilised forthwith or straightway; that can only
be done by going round to work, when we shall see that such hymns
probably dated from the time when the sun was in the sign of
Virgo (Isis) at the spring equinox. When Plato wrote the colure of the
vernal equinox was coincident with the sign of Aries, and the
time was just over 10,000 years since it left the sign of Virgo.
Previous to the reign of Mena, the Papyrus of Turin, and other
documents assign a period of 5,613 years to twenty-three reigns.4
These of course are not mortal reigns. They are identified with the
Shus-en-Har, the followers, servants, or worshippers of Horus. A
period of 13,420 years is also assigned to the Shus-en-Har.
Nineteen Han are likewise mentioned. The Han is a cycle, and
1 Diod. Siculus, ii. 113. 2 B. i. p. 81. 3 Legg, ii. 657.
4 De Rougé, Six Premières Dynasties, p. 163.
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these were probably cycles of Anup or Sothis, the dog-star, whose
period was 1461 years, nineteen of which make a total of 27,759 years.
Two dynasties of gods and demigods were collected from the Temple
Records and rectified by Lepsius1 from the various Greek chronologi-
cal writers; these begin with Ptah (Hephaistos) and end with ―Bitus.‖
Of these—
Ptah reigned . . . 9,000 years.

Helios ,, . . . 1,000 ,,
Agathodaimon ,, . . . 700 ,,
Kronus (Seb) ,, . . . 500 ,,
Osiris ,, . . . 400 ,,
Typhon ,, . . . 350 ,,
Horus ,, . . . 1,800 ,,
Bitus ,, . . . 70 ,,
13,820
After this, says Eusebius,2 ―came a series of reigns down to

Bytis during 13,900 years;‖ meaning the above list ending with
Horus. It is clear that Bitus has no business to be in the list
of divine rulers. Nor is it necessary to assume with Bunsen that
13,800 years of reigns imply hero-worship in the modern sense.
These like the preceding may have been astronomical cycles, but
measured also by the reigns of sacerdotal kings, as according to
Jamblichus3 Bytis was a prophet of Ammon at Thebes, instead
of divine names. According to Eusebius, Manetho had computed
a total period of 24,900 years. Such numbers need not be rejected
because they do not offer the direct means of correlating and
reading them. They are quoted merely as mental eye-openers in the
hope that by and by we may see a little farther and more clearly.
Herodotus says ―from the first king to this priest of Vulcan (Ptah)
who last reigned (Sethon) were 341 generations of men; and during
these generations, there were the same number of priests and kings.
Now 300 generations are equal to 10,000 years, and the forty-one re-
maining generations make 1,340 years. Thus they said, in 11,340 years,
no god had assumed the form of a man; neither had such a thing
happened before or afterwards in the time of the remaining kings of
Egypt. During this time they related that the sun had four times
risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he
now sets (ii. 142), and twice set where be now rises.‖ Again, he
remarks, ―Hercules is one of the ancient gods of the Egyptians; and,
as they say themselves, it was 17,000 years before the reign of
1 Kritik der Quellen, p. 484. 2 Armenian Version, i. 19.
3 De Mysteriis, viii. 5, ix. 7.

Amasis, when the number of their gods was increased from eight to
twelve, of whom Hercules was accounted one‖ (ii. 43). That is they
reckoned 17,000 years of time during which the eight original great
deities were at the head of the Egyptian religion. Then four others
were added. Still earlier, before the creation of Taht, lord of the
eighth region, were the seven great gods as reckoned by the Chaldeans,
and the great mother of all who is synonymous with the number
seven, and who was personified as the goddess of the Great Bear. What-
soever truth there may be in the statement, there are no phenomenal
data known to the present writer by which the assertion of Herodotus
can be interpreted except those of the circle of the equinoctial preces-
sion. In no other circle or cycle does the sun ever rise at one time in
the quarter it sets in at another. He therefore holds that the
Egyptian priests did verily claim to have made chronological observa-
tions during a period, in round numbers, of 52,000 years. The
explanation that the priests were referring in any wise to the Sothiac
cycle, a period of 1,461 years, must be rejected as not only inadequate
but perfectly puerile.1 The speaking stones, the pictured papyri and
written rolls, are all antedated by the celestial chronology of the
divine dynasties, and if the present conjecture should prove correct it
will drop from above the keystone into the almost completed arch of
Egyptology.
My suggestion is that the divine dynasties founded on the cycles of
astronomical time, were continued by the era of Mena. And there
is evidence to support it in the table of Abydus.
Tinis is the name of the great city of Abydus, and the name of
Mena heads the first Thinite dynasty. Now the new table of
Abydus, discovered eleven years ago, in a corridor of the temple
of Seti I., at Harabat-el-Madfouneh, gives a succession of sixty-
five kings from Mena, the founder of the line, down to the last
reign of the twelfth dynasty. If we take the accepted average of
human life as about three generations to the century, this
succession of sixty-five monarchs will extend over a period of
2,166 years, leaving a fractional remainder.
100
M. Brugsch thus
assigns to them a period of 65 × 5 = 2,166 years.2 This is
as near to the length of time during which the equinox remains in
a single sign as need be, that time being 2,155 years. And this is
the table of Abydus, of the Thinites and of Mena.
Also the table comes to an end with a break so abrupt, an
interregnum of some kind so marked, that it leaves us staring into
a chasm, which is at present without a bridge, and we have to leap
or scramble from the twelfth dynasty to the eighteenth.
In further illustration of this interregnum, Maritte-Bey has pointed
out that the old Egyptian proper names of persons in the eleventh
and twelfth dynasties recur in the same forms on the monuments of
1 Bunsen, vol. iii. p. 60. 2 History of Egypt, Eng. Tr. vol. i. p. 33.
EGYPT. 43
the early part of the eighteenth dynasty, and the forms of the coffins
are so alike as to be undistinguishable. Now the eleventh and twelfth
are Diospolitan dynasties, and so is the eighteenth. After an interreg-
num of five dynasties the Diospolitans resume, and continue, as it
were, where they left off.
Meanwhile the thirteenth dynasty introduces Sebek-Ra.
It is noticeable that towards the end of the twelfth dynasty Egyp-
tian names compounded with Sebek became increasingly frequent.
Sut-Apep, i.e.. Sut-Typhon, is the name of the Mother of Mentu-Si,
on a funeral stele of the twelfth dynasty, whilst two of his sons are
named Amenemha and Usertasen, and whereas these names appear
on the monuments of this dynasty, names compounded with Amen
and Osiris are never found in the thirteenth dynasty. Mariette-Bey
concludes from this that the later of the two families must have been
the enemy of the more ancient one, the memory even of which it
proscribed. 1 It was religious enmity. Sebek had taken the place
of Osiris and Amen. The thirteenth may be called the Sebek
dynasty. It is that in which the Pharaohs are assimilated to the god
Sebek-Ra.
In the list of scutcheons given by M. Brugsch in his Histoire
d’Égypte, Plate 6, Fig. 109, and in Bunsen‘s list, the last monarch of
the twelfth dynasty is Sebek-nefer-Ra. According to Brugsch-Bey she
was the sister of the last king of the dynasty, Amenemhat IV., and an
heiress through whom the succession went by marriage to a new
race, the Sebekhepts or servants of Sebek. Possibly the name of
this Queen conveys the information that she was the continuer (Nefer)
of Sebek as the Ram-headed Sun-god Ra, whereas he had previously
been the Crocodile-god of the Fayoomm or Country of the Lake.
Whether she is out of place here and should be the first of the
thirteenth dynasty matters little. She marks the end of the twelfth,
and is the first known royal Sebek on all the monuments, and
the next dynasty is full of them; it is, in short, the Sebek dynasty.2
M. Brugsch gives the genealogical table 3 of a distinguished
family related to some members of the thirteenth dynasty in
which the name of Sebek, in the male and female titles, occurs
eighteen times. And the first mother of the king is named
Aaht-abu, the house (literally the womb) of the lamb. The ram
when young is the lamb, and the ram of the zodiac was represented
by the Persians as a lamb. Now the old Sebek or Khebek was
the crocodile-headed god of darkness, whose name of Khebek
modifies into Kek, the Suchos of the Greeks. And he was resusci-
tated in a new form as the ram-headed god, found at Ombos and
Selseleh. The ram‘s horns identify him with the Ram of the zodiac,
1 Notice des Principaux Monts. à Boulaq p. 74.
2 Egypt’s Place,, vol. 2, Scutcheons. Königsbuch, Lepsius.
3 App. 1, vol. 2, History of Egypt, Eng. Tr.
and it is in strict accordance with this new character of Kronus that
he should be styled the ―youngest of the gods.‖1 The ram-headed
crocodile god then we take to be the divine head of the Sebek
dynasties, and this will enable us to interpret the fabulous end of
Mena, who, according to the tradition and in the language of symbo-
lism, was said to have b.een seized and devoured by the Crocodile;
or the hippopotamus, another type of Typhon. The crocodile was
Sebek, whose reign, as the ram-headed god, began when that of the
celestial Bull (Mena) with its sixty-three monarchs of the table of
Abydus, came to an end.
The introduction of Sebek as the ram-headed Ra implies a religious
revolution. The capital of Shat, called by the Greeks Crocodilopolis
in the district of the lake Mœris, identifies the Typhonian nature of
the old Sebek, with whom the Osirians were at enmity. In the list of
Nomes the province of Lake Mœris was struck out as being hostile to
Osiris. In the Manethonian lists the names of the kings of the thir-
teenth dynasty are passed over in silence. Their Typhonian tendencies
will account for this neglect by the scribe who was too strongly
Osirian and anti-Typhonian to register the names of these servants of
Sebek or Satan. Still the Typhonians also kept the Chronology.
Everything in Egypt being typical, the name of the temple of Hara-
bat-el-Madfouneh, the set or sunken Harabat in which the table was
found, will now yield up its meaning. It was the set or sunken abode
of Har. Whatever sign the equinoctial colure was in there was the
place of manifestation of the son, Har, on the horizon, during 2,155
years. When this left the Bun of Mena for the Ram of Sebek the
abode and birthplace was changed in heaven, whilst on earth Thebes
took the place of Abydus, and the record of the celestial reign was
left in the sunken abode. The Egyptians built on celestial founda-
tions. They made the temple the centre of their city. The dead were
held in the heart of the living, and their place of preservation was
the earliest sanctuary. The tomb of one life was the womb of
the next. The meskhen, or place of new birth for the sun in heaven,
furnished the type of burial and rebirth below. Thus, when the sun
was annually re-born in the Bull, the Bull city of Memphis was built
as the representative place of resurrection; Abtu having become the
sunken and superseded place of birth and rebirth. The sign of the
Twins is possibly implied in tne name of Abydus. Apt is a name of
the pool of the twin truths, abtu is the double holy house of Anubis.
It is the name of a dual place of beginnings which the Twins were
when the colure was in that sign. Indeed, in an ancient Egyptian
zodiac the Twins are represented as a double Anubis;2 this identifies
one Abtu with that sign. Moreover, the god Shu (Anhar), who in his
dual character, forms the Twins of the zodiac, was the divinity
presiding over Abydus.
1 Wilk. Mat. Hierog. pl. 27, f. 2. 2 Drummond, Ædipus Judaicus, pl. 4.
EGYPT. 45
Nor is this all. It is especially manifest that there is a parallel re-
presentation of the ram-headed deity, adopted about the same time,
as the Amen-ra of Thebes, in whom Num and Khem, the old gods,
were merged in setting up an image of the one god, the Amen of
the hymn in which he is celebrated as the ―one in his works, single
among the gods,‖ the ―one maker of existences,‖ the ―one alone
with many hands,‖ the ―one alone without peer.‖1 Moreover, Amen-
emhat I., 2466 B.C. (12th dynasty), was the founder of the Temple of
Amen at Thebes, as the especial shrine prepared for the Ram-headed
God of the orthodox caste.
Osiris was the great god of the dynasty of the celestial Bull, who
was succeeded by the ram-headed Amen of one cult and Sebek of the
other. Brugsch-Bey bas called attention. to the remarkable zeal with
which the kings of the twelfth dynasty, one of whom, Usertasen I.
had himself represented standing as Osiris,2 set themselves to maintain
the cult of Osiris and his temple at Abydus.
The fullest testimony to this fact is supplied by a monumental stone
found but the other day in the cemetery of Abydus, and now in the
museum at Boulak, containing 163 inscriptions. This shows how a
certain Sehept-ab-ra, who lived under the reigns of Usertasen III. and
Amenemhat III., was commissioned and commanded to attend to the
service of the mysteries, the secret things and places in the temple of
Abydus; to regulate the feasts of the god and to build or rebuild the
holy temple-bark and cover it with painted figures.
The next king Amenemhat lV, was the last of the twelfth dynasty.
Thirteen years only are assigned by Brugsh-Bey to both reigns of
the brother and sister, Amenemnat IV. and Sebek-nefer-Ra. May
we not see in these instructions the preparation for the end of the
divine reign, the regulation and adjustment of astronomical time and
the change of the double-seated solar bark from the sign of the Bull
to that of the Ram? This suggestion is strengthened by the words
assigned to him. He says, ―I say a great thing; listen! I will teach
you the nature of eternity.‖ The Egyptian eternity was Æonian, and
he had been the time-keeper of its cycles and master of its mysteries,
the builder of the ark of the Eternal; who was now to re-build it and
cover it with fresh figures.
Nothing can be more probable than that the particular ram-headed
representations of the deity were especially adopted as Amen and as
Sebek-Ra about the time that the vernal equinox entered the sign of
the Ram, and that this time coincides with the end of the twelfth
dynasty, giving the exact date of 2410 B.C., and the date of 4565
B.C. for the commencement of the era or Mena.
In his list of the Pharaohs and their epochs, founded on the list of
kings in the table of Abydus and on the regnal years actually proved,
1 Records of the Past, vol. ii. p. 129.
2 Mariette-Bey, Notice des Principaux Monuments à Boulaq, p. 298.
Brugsch-Bey gives the date of 4400 B.C. for Mena and 2266 for
Amenemhat IV.,1 the last king of the twelfth dynasty, or a total of
2,134 years for the twelve dynasties; within twenty years of the time
required in the celestial reckoning!
The monuments do not come down to the time of the entrance of
the vernal colure into the sign of Pisces, but the Gnostics brought
on the imagery, and on one of the Greco-Egyptian Gnostic seals in
the British Museum 2 there is a figure of the young sun-god
Horus, with the solar disk on his head carrying the fish as his
latest type. He stands on the crocodile, and this illustration of the
manifester as Ichthus, with the fish above and crocodile beneath,
corroborates the view that the crocodile-god, with the ram‘s head, had
represented the sun in the sign of the Ram.
The same sequence is illustrated by the types of sacrifice. The
fish is now the sacrificial type, and has been ever since the equinox
occurred in the Fishes. Before that the type was the Ram or the Lamb.
Earlier still it was the Bull; amongst the primitive races we can get
back to the Twins as the typical sacrifice, and each of these types
corresponds to the solar sign, and to time kept in the astronomical
chronicles.
Also, the Egyptian month Choiak begins in the Alexandrian
year, on November 27th; and in the calendar of lucky and unlucky
days in the 4th Sallier papyrus it is said to be unlucky to eat
fish on the 28th day of the month Choiak, because on that date
—our Christmas Day—the Gods of Tattu assumed the form of a fish,
or in other words the sun entered the sign of Pisces, at which time
the equinoctial colure must accordingfy have been in the sign of
the Twins.
The importance of this sequence and of the identification of Mena‘s
era with the divine dynasties, and the consequent link established
with the backward past, will become more apparent when we
come to consider the cycle of the equinoctial precession, or the great
year of the world which began when the vernal colure left the sign of
Aries for that of Pisces nearly 28,000 years ago, and ended when it
re-entered the sign of the fishes 255 B.C.3
In this sketch of Egypt the outlines are drawn in accordance with
the intended filling in. The treatment will serve to show the ex-
tended and inclusive sense in which the name of of ―Egypt‖ has often
to be interpreted in these pages as the outlet from the African centre.
We have now to turn and follow the track of the migrations into the
north, called by the Hebrew writer (Gen. x. 5) the Isles of the Gevi
(ywg) or Gevim.
1 History of Egypt, vol. ii., Appendix.
2 No. 231, Dr. Birch‘s department.
3 This is the date given by Cassini and Sir William Drummond, and adopted
by the present writer on data kindly furnished by the Astronomer-Royal and the
EGYPT. 47
In Hebrew, Gev (wg) is the back or hinder part, identical with the
Egyptian Khef; and the Children of Kheft the Æthiopic Genitrix,
are designated thoe Gentiles who went northward and carried with
them the primordial name of the Birthplace in the Celestial North.
The race of Japheth (tpy) are none other than the race of Kheft,
whom we shall find in Britain as the Great Mother Kêd.
calculations of an eminent mathematician. The following is the official reply to my

question as to when the vernal equinox coincided with the fixed point supplied by
the first star (the last in the backward movement) in the Ram constellation:—
―ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH, LONDON, S.E.,
―July 23rd, 1877.
―DEAR SIR,
―IT appears from our computation, that the vernal
equinox passed through the star g Arietis about B.C. 400, subject to an uncertainty
of three or four years, or perhaps more. The uncertainty of observations at that
epoch might easily produce an apparent error of thirty or forty years in the
observed date of such a conjunction.
―I am, dead Sir,
―Yours faithfully,
―GERALD MASSEY, ESQ. ―W.
H. M. CHRISTIE.‖
SECTION II.
COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY
OF
ENGLISH AND EGYPTIAN WORDS.
THE following list of words, extant in the British Isles, compared with Egyptian
words—itself a work of years—needs but brief introduction. The title is not meant
to be taken literally; it is adopted simply for the sake of classifying the words. The
chief authorities for the Egyptian are the Wörterbuch of Brugsch-Bey, the Egyptian
Dictionary of Dr. Samuel Birch (Vol. 5, ―Egypt‘s Place‖), and the Vocabulaire
Hiéroglyphique of M. Paul Pierret. In these the references to the texts are given for
each word.
On the English side the Provincial Dictionary of Thomas Wright stands first, but
numberless volumes have been ransacked for the result. Keltic, Kymraig, or Gaelic
have not been especially drawn upon.
It may be stated generally, that the Hieroglyphics contain no phonetic C, D, E, G,
J, O, Q, V, W, X, Y, or Z, but that certain of these letters are introduced as equivalents
by later Egyptologists. One sign is rendered by L as well as by R.
Paralleled as the words are, they themselves sufficiently explain the laws of permu-
tation or interchange of the equivalent letters.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
A.
a, one. a, one.
aak, the oak-tree. akh, how great, tall, green, magnificent.
acorn. aak (oak), ren, the young, shoot, offspring, to
renew.
ab, sap of a tree. ap, liquid essence.
abode. abut, abode
aboo, Irish war-cry, expressing thirst, desire abu, to dance, thirst, delight, brandish.
for battle, and delight in the onset.
aby it, stand the brunt of it, stand against; abi, against, in opposition to.
by, against (1 Cor. iv. 4).
act. akh, verb of action; t, participle terminal.
adragoul or addergoul (Irish), a place be- atr, river-measure, limit, region.
tween two river-prongs.
aft, stern, place of helm. apt, hold of a vessel, a corner or end; apt,
guide; aft, hinder part.
agog, on the jog, on the start. akhekh, fly, on the wing.
ahoy, sailor‘s cry of hailing. ahaui, cry of joy or salutation.
ainted, anointed. ant, anoint.
air. karh, air.
air, or aer, appearance. her, appearance.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
ait or oat. att, grain of some kind.
ait, island; ey, island. aa, isle.
allies. ali, companions.
am, them, both. am, together.
amain (Irish), infernal deep. amen, secret place, hidden region of the
Abyss.
amakly, in some conscientious way or fashion. amakh, mature, do justice to, fidelity.
ame, to guess, find out, tell. am, to find, discover.
amell, between, passage between. am, between, passage between.
amene, pleasing, consenting. am, pleasing, in, with.
ames, a plural noose, round a horse collar. aam, a noose.
an, of. n, of.
an, hair. anhu, eyebrow or bristle.
anaf (Gaelic), breath. nef, breath, spirit of the firmament.
anaks, provincial name for a fine kind of ankh, some kind of food.
oaten bread.
ane, beard of corn. an, horn or thorn.
ane, one. an, one cycle.
anede, united, made one, oned. un, t, an hour, the complete cycle, oned.
anker, clasp of a buckle; inkling, getting a ank, clasp.
partial hold or grasp of.
anne, to give, yield; annett, firstfruits. annt or anent, tributes of Nile.
“anon, sir.” han-han, command me, at your command;
an, coming.
anotta, yellow colour, a chemical used for ant, yellow colour.
adulterating milk.
anshum-scranchum, to scramble after food, ansh or unsh, the wolf.
in a wolfish manner.
anti, opposed to. anti, go back, turn back.
aog (Gaelic), death, ghost. akh, the dead, a spirit.
ap (Welsh), son of. ap, ancestor.
ape or yape, a monkey. kaf, ape.
appear, pour. per, to pour out, appear.
apple-terre, apple orchard. ter, garden; ter, a limit, the extent.
apt, to fit to, adapt. apt, guide, lead judgement.
arach (Gaelic), tie, bond, collar. ark, a noose, a tie, a binding.
ard, height. arr, t, staircase, height.
ardour, fiery fervour. artaur, flames of God.
are, plural of ―to be.‖ ar, to be (are).
are, to plough; ear, plough and sow seed. aur, enter, go between, beget.
arra, either. air, one another.
ars, science; arstable, an astrolobe. urshu, applied to astronomical observation.
Art (Irish), name for the Great Bear. ta-Urt, Typhonian, Great Bear; ta is ―the.‖
art or airt, quarter. urt, a quarter; amurt, western quarter.
art. ar-t, deed, form; rut, to retain the form,
renew, sculpture.
arte, to constrain, urge, compel; whence to art, milk.
milk.
arted (Chaucer), constrained. art, milk, neck-chain.
ask, applied to damp weather, a lizard or asakh, hurtful.
water-newt; ―Askes and other worms fell‖
(MS. Med. 14th century.)
asise, a term of chess. asb, chess.
ask or ash, stalk of corn. askh, stalk of corn.
askings, publication of marriage by banns. ask, delay, then.
assembly. sam, assemble.
ate, eat, to eat. aut, food of some kind.
ath (Irish), ford. khat, ford.
athel, noble. ati, a noble.
athene, to stretch out; athening, extension, aten, extending in a circle.
heightening.
athyt (Tusser.), condition of housing corn. aat, house, abode, hall; rekh, to speak,
announce, declare.
attach. tek, attach.
attack. atakh, trample.
attend. aten, to hear.
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ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
auch (Keltic), a field. uakh, a meadow.
au, all. au, being, was, is, and to be.
aud, old. au, elders.
audience, hearing (Chaucer) aten, to listen.
aught, property, possession, anything. akht, thing or things, substance; akat, claw.
“auh woot” direction to horses. ahi, denotes a forward movement.
auk, invert. akh, turn over.
aukard, backward. akar, the hindward region.
auld, first, best, great. urt, first, chief, great.
autour, ancestor. ata, father.
autum, slang term for hanging. ath, drag, draw; am, a noose.
autumn. atum, red autumnal sun of the west and the
lower world.
ave, to have. afa, to be filled and satisfied.
avit, weight. apt, measure, quantity.
awe. au, dignity, age, the old one, to chastise;
aut, the crook sign of divinity.
awen, the Druidic knowledge, science, gift, an or aun, priest, scribe, speech, decree,
genius, inspiration. show.
awn (Welsh), the Word. an, speech of, speech to; un, reveal.
awyr (Welsh), the sky or heaven, (Eng.) air. aaru or aar, the sky or heaven, Elysium.
ax, to question. akh, how, why, wherefore.
axe. aksu, an axe.
ay, yea, yes, also used for ―I have.‖ aia, I have; ia, yes, certainly.
aye, ever. heh, ever.
B.
baa, lamb. ba, ram or sheep.
babs (Scotch), loops in garters. beb, hole, circle, round, around.
back. pe’h and pekh, rump; akh, spine (p, the
article).
bad. bat, bad.
bad. but, abominable.
baffled, corn blown down by a gust. paif, gust of wind.
baggie (Scotch), belly. buk, belly.
baide (Scotch), did stay, i.e. be‘d. ba, to be; ba-t, made to bbe.
bait, of corn. bet, corn.
bait, refreshment, luncheon. ba-t, rations, food.
bait, food, luncheon. ppat, kind of food.
baith (Gaelic), grave. baut, hole of the tomb; baita, house.
ballow, cry of goal in a game. beru, cap, tip, goal.
balow, spirit. beru, force, fervour.
ban and fen, ―fen‖ such a thing. ben, no, not, under ban.
bane, poison. ben, pollute, no, not.
bane, destruction. ban, no, not, unclean.
baptism. âb (fab), pure, priest, wash, baptise.
bar, a horseway up a hill. baru, cap, tip, top.
barley. peru, some kind of grain (? barley).
barley-bygge, corn for beer or strong drink. beka, palm-wine.
barr (Gaelic), a height. bur, cap, top, roof.
bass, fish. bes, transfer, pass, determinative, ―bass-
fish.‖
basen, extended. besa, dilate.
bases, aprons, also an embroidered mantle basu, an apron or tunic.
which was worn from the waist to the
knee.
basin. bashu, glass enamel, porcelain.
ba-sket, woven. s’khet, to weave.
bast, a bastard. besh-t, revolt, hostile.
baudrons (Scotch), cat. pesht (Buto), cat-headed goddess.
bady. buta, infamy, abominable.
bauk, a cross-beam. puka, a plank or log.
bay. bau, a vase or container of water.
bay-salt, rock-salt. baa, earth, stone, rock, or salt.
bay-tree. ba, wood, leaves.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
bayete, procreate. ba-t, inspire, give breath, beget.
be. pa, beings; pu, to be.
beacon, hill. bekhn, tower, fort, magazine.
beano, born (Eng. Gipsy). benn, engender; bennu, sons.
bear. peru, to bear off.
beas, cows, cattle; bu, buw, buwch (Welsh), behs, calf.
cow.
beast. bes-t, skin of a beast.
beat. pet, strike, beat.
beck, to bend the knee. beka, to pray.
bed. pet, a crib.
bed, uterus. bu-t, belly or womb.
bede, bend to the right, command to horses. pet, bend.
bee. ba, a bee.
beer, brew. per, a liquid made from gain.
beggar, beggary, poverty, full of weeds. hekar, starve, famished (p, the article).
being. pu, it is; pu, to be.
bekenn, to give birth to. beka, to bring forth.
belle, to swell;brew, boil. ber or beru, boil.
ben, good, well. ban, enviable; bent, excellent.
ben, inner room. ben, place.
ben, a mountain. ben-ben, cap, tip-top, splendid, palm-branch.
ben, a figure set on the top of the last harvest
load, dressed in ribbons.
bend, a bond. baent, bind.
berry, a flood. peru, to pour out.
berry, an edible fruit, traced by Bopp to the perru, food, appear, grow, manifest.
Sanskrit “bhakjam,” i.e. bhag-s-ja-m.
bert, perspire, bright; berth, byrht, mani- pert, emanate, proceed; pert, put or pour
fest; purt, to pour out. out, manifest.
berewham, a horse-collar. peru, to surround, go round.
bese, to see, to behold. bes, exhibited, proclaimed.
besh, to sit (Eng. Gipsy). besh, to squat down.
besmear, harm, and besmear, in raiding. bes-mer, bind and carry off.
bewe, obey; beh, inclined. beha, incline.
bewe, drink liquor. ba, drink, water (? bua)
bewly, shining, lustrous. ba, to illumine, radiate, diffuse light.
bey, ox, bee, boy. beh, creature.
bib, drink, to bubble, to well forth. beb, well, exhale.
bib, which goes round a child‘s neck. beb, a collar.
bid, to command. pet, sceptre, sign of command.
big. pekh, extend; bekh, enfanter.
bight, the bend or loop of a folded rope. betau, called holes for rope.
bill, a promontory. ber, top, cap, roof.
bind. baent, to bind.
bird. urt, bird; p, the.
bit (Scotch), place. bet, place.
bite, feminine privities. bu-t, belly, womb.
boban, pride, vanity, boasting. bâ-bâ, boast.
bock (Scotch), to gush intermittently, to bakh, to bring forth, void.
vomit.
body. ba, soul; ti, abode; pauti, form, figure,
body.
boggams, certain masters of ceremonies who bak, hawk-sign of rule and lordship.
wore red jackets.
boging, evacuating; boke, to vomit. baka, to squat, bring forth.
boil. ber, boil.
bonnie, bears the palm. beni, the palm branch; ben, tip-top, splen-
did.
boot. bu, leg.
boon-master, a road-surveyor. benr, road, outside.
border. per, go round; ter, extreme limit.
bore or eagre of a tidal river. ber, well, boil up.
Boreland Hills, Scotland. beru, cap, tip, roof.
bosh (Eng. Gipsy), a fiddle. bes, god of dancing.
bosom, also besom. bes, dilate, pass to and fro.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
boss, a head or reservoir of water. bes, inundater, transfer.
bote, amends; to boot. baat, recompense.
bote, material to mend with. baaiuti, substance, material.
both. pehti, pauti, pet, both.
bottom. pet, foundation; am, belonging to.
bough. bu, a branch.
bout, a round. put, a round.
brag (Welsh), malt; brew (Eng.). per, corn; akh, spirit.
bramble. bram, the snatem wood or thorny acacia.
bread. prut, to appear, proceed, emanate form gain;
perrt, food of corn.
breath; burr, halo. per, to surround, appear, emanate, proceed
from.
breathe. prut, to void.
bright. per, to appear, shed; akt, light, fire,
splendour.
brittene, to divide into fragments. prt, show, appear; tna, separated.
broad. prut, manifest, proceed, spread out.
broo, the top of anything. buru, cap, tip, roof-top.
brose. pers, food.
bub, to throw out bubbles. beb, exhale.
bucket, a bent stick to stretch the legs of a pekht, a crooked stick, to stretch out.
slaughtered pig by which it is hung up.
Budd-Ner, British god of victory. pput, god; ner,victory.
bug or puck, a goblin; bagan, devil; pukha, infernal locality; ha, a dwelling.
buggy-bane, children‘s game, played in
the dark.
bury, a castle or great house. buru, the lofty roof.
bush. pesh, branch, flower, or fruit.
busk, inner support of stays. besk, viscera, heart, inner organ, mainstay of
life.
busy, spelt besy. besi, pass from one play to another.
but-shot, a bow shot. put, a bow.
butt, a measure; beat, a measure. baat, a measure.
butty-shop, where wages were paid in food. pati, feed, food.
bwrdd, a Welsh name for Arthur‘s table. perr-t, food, appear, store.
by, a place, bi, by, or bye, a town or bi, a place.
village.
bysyschyppe, activity. besi, pass, go, bear, form one place to another
skhep, transfer; skheb, goad on.
C.
caad, cold. khat, a corpse.
cabbage, applied to the horns of a dear, and kaba, horn.
to come to a head or horn.
cabin. kabin, vessel, ship.
cabobble, to puzzle. ka, say, talk, type, cultus; beb, go round
and round in a whirl.
cackle. kaka, to cackle; Kakur, the great cackler.
caft, intimidated. kaf, seize, hunt, make desolate.
cag-mag (Eng.), cag-magu (Welsh), a tough Kak-ur, the old Kak, a name of Seb, who
old goose. carries the goose.
cage. khekh, collar for prisoners; kak, a shrine, shut
place.
cagg, to make a vow, firmly carry out a reso- khaka, be obstinate, stupid, mad; kaks,
luation. bind.
caird (Scotch), carver of horn spoons. kart, sculptor, mason.
calf, first form of the cow. kherp, first form or formation.
call. khar, speech, speak, word, cry with the mouth.
cam, crooked. kam, a crook, to bend.
camel. kamaru, camel.
can. kan, service, cower, ability, courage, valour.
canal. khanru, a canal.
cannie, knowing. khennui, intelligence.
canoe. khenna, a boat; ma-khenna, the boat of the
dead.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
cant, a secret language. khent, inner, interior, concealed.
cant (Cor. Eng.), to contain. khent, to contain.
cantlet, a little corner. kan, hieroglyphic corner.
canty, festive, happy. khent, joy, delight, circumstance of a festival.
capes, ears of corn. khepu, crop of corn;khepi, harvest.
capon and capul, fowls. khepen, geese; khep, kind of duck.
capper, to coagulate. khepr, the transformer, to transform.
car, low-lying land. kar, under, nether, below.
carcern, a prison; carchar (W.), a prison. kar, a prison.
carcharu (Cor. Eng.), to confine, imprison. ker-ker, seize, hold, imprison.
care-cloth, marriage canopy. ker, circle, round, zone, sphere.
carp, speech. kher, word, to speak; p, the.
carry. kar, carry, support.
carse (Scotch), fertile flat. kars (Heb.), a vineyard or field that grew
the finest produce; kar (Egyp.), power,
property.
cart. kart, to carry.
carve, a ―carve of pasture.‖ kherp, sufficient supply.
carve. kherp or kherb, to form, figure, model.
case. kahs, habit, custom, state.
cat, to vomit. ka, to vomit.
cat, pudendum f. kat, womb.
caw, rot in sheep. khau, malady.
caw (Welsh), enclosure. kahu, enclosure, cover, or noose.
caw (Welsh), band, associates. kaui, a herd.
caward, backward. ka, tail, behind.
cayvar, some kind of ship. khepf, hold of a boat.
cennaigh (Irish), pedlar. khennu, to carry, convey, traffic.
cease. khes, to stop, turn back.
celi (Welsh), the mysterious or secret one. kherui, the Word, logos.
cell. ker, cell.
cent, one hundred. shent, orbit, circle, million.
cerdd (Welsh), utterance, word, songs of kher, voice, speech, word.
Keridwen.
ces, measure of compatibility. ses, the measure of compatibility.
chache (Scotch), blind man. kak, darkness, god of darkness.
chair. kar, under.
chapel. kep, a sanctuary.
chapel, a printing-house. khepui, types.
chaps, double, a pair of tongs. kab, double.
charm. kr, to lay hold of, seize, possess; am, charm-
ing, pleasing.
chase. shas, to follow; khakh, to chase.
chat, child. khat, child, race.
chates, gallows. kaiti, punisher.
Chatham, where the waters of the Medway khatam, a fortress shut and sealed; khat,
are landlocked. shut, seal, lock.
check, stone chest, kistvaen. kek, a sanctuary.
“chech-chech,” cry to pigs. khekh, whip, follow, chase.
chech, church. khekha, an altar; kak, name of a sanctuary.
check or choke. khekh, a neck-chain or collar for tying up with.
check, in reckoning. khekha, reckoning.
checked, caught. khekht, repulsed, collared, checked, caught.
cheens (Cor. Eng.), loins. kena, loins.
cheper, an exchanger, a seller. khepr, the changer.
cherry (Devon.), ruddy. tsheru, red or red-wood.
cherven, to writhe, twist, turn. ref, the snake and worm.
chest. khest, some part of the body.
chet, slang for a letter. khet, shut, seal.
chete, a ring. kat, to go round, be round; khet, a seal ring.
chew. khu-khu, beat, strike.
Child, one who bore arms; childing, bearing. kart, to bear, have, carry.
chimney. kam, black.
chin-chin (Gipsy), a carried child. khen, to carry; khen, child.
chirp, a first form of note. kherp, first form, formation.
chivy, to pursue. kfa, hunt, seize.
chop, to exchange, ―chop and change.‖ khep, transform, change.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
choppine, a quart measure. khepeni, a measure of liquids.
chout, a performance, an entertainment. khu, glorious actions, a ceremony, a represen-
tation.
chummy, a chimney sweep. kam, black.
chwed (Welsh), speech. kheft, called the living word.
ci (Welsh), a dog. khaui, dogs.
ciric-sceat, church tithe paid in corn. skhet, corn.
city. ketui, orbit, circle of abode.
clef, the initial mark for the key. kherp, the first figure.
cleith-ras, a covered temple. resh, a temple.
clowze (Cor.), tomb or enclosure. karas, place of embalmment, a tomb.
cnight, a hard boy. nakht, hard land.
cnight or knight, pubescent. nakht, phallic power.
cnuch (Welsh), to copulate. nak, fornicate.
coach-horse, the dragon-fly. khekh or akhekh, the dragon.
cock, the needle of a balance. khekh, a balance.
cock-brained, foolhardy. khekh, fool, obstinate, mad-headed.
cockroach. kaka, darkness, night, black.
cof or cove, an inner recess. kep, a sanctuary.
coff (Welsh), belly. kefau, the navel.
coff, to change. khep, to change.
coffau (Welsh), to gather. kaf, seize, claw hold with the hand.
coid (Welsh), wood. khaut, wood.
comb. kam, hair.
coney, beehive (cf.the cony). khennu, interior, cover.
cooch (Scotch), a dog-kennel. khakh, a collar.
coof (Scotch), an ape. kauf, an ape, monkey.
cooked, to make the balance fraudulently. khekh, a balance.
cooser (Scotch), stallion. ka, typical male; ser, chief.
corder, a troop of soldiers. kar, war; ter, people.
Corfe castle, once a royal residence. kherp, first, chief, consecrated, the sceptre.
cori (Eng. Gip.), mem. virile. karu, testes.
cote, a wood. kaut, wood.
cote, to coast khet, to navigate, ford, port.
count, a title. kannt, a title.
cover. kepher (Heb.), to cover.
cow. kaui, cow.
coward. urt, peaceable, mild, meek.
cows (Welsh), a wood. khaiu, a wood.
cradle. khart, child.
craibhdhigh (Irish), people who mortify the kherp, to consecrate.
flesh.
crape, for mourning. kherp, consecrated, to offer, pay homage to.
crawfish. krau, claw.
creed. kher-t, the word, speech.
crefydd (Welsh), religion. kherp, to consecrate.
cro (Irish), fold, hut, hovel. khru, cell.
croot, a puny, feeble child, also colt. khart, child.
crut, a dwarf; child (khart), by permuta- Harpocrates, the child.
tion.
crop, the top, produce, fulness, plenty, over- kherp, first, principle supply, produce, excel,
full. surpass.
crow, cry. kheru, voice, speech, word; karru, cackle.
cuckoo. ka-ka, to cackle.
cuddle, to clasp in the arms. khet, to enclose.
Cun, chief, sovereign personage. ken, titles, kan, able, victor.
cup. kab, libation, refresh, enjoy, liquid, quantity.
curr, to sit on the houghs or hams. kar, carry, bear under.
curve. kar, curve.
cut, a cut, a go. khet, to cut, go.
cut. kt, sign of a blade, to cut.
cut or kutte, pudendum f. khet, womb.
cutty, short; get (Scotch), a child, a little ket, little.
one; kitty wren.
cwch (Welsh), boat. kaka or kek, boat, caique.
cyphel, the houseleek. kefa, seize, lay hold, claw hold of.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
cypher, a joiner‘s term—to cypher off a square kab, to double.
edge; to make to edges in place of one.
cyve, a sieve. khi, a sieve.
D.
dad, a piece in the hand. tat, a handful.
daddle, the fist. tat, the hand.
daddy, father. tat, father.
daft, to be put off, set aside; daft, mentally. taft, desolate.
dag, day. takh, to see, to behold; t, the; akh, light.
daimen (Scotch), rare. tem, perfect; tameh, precious stone.
daive, to soothe. tef, fragrance, pay attention.
daker, corn. teka, corn.
dam, to stop up. tem, no, not..
dandy, one hand. tan-t, one half.
darfe, hard, cruel, stern. taru (tarf), to afflict, bruise, drive.
daubing, making a house of clay. teb, brick of clay.
daw (Welsh), a tie or bond. ta, knot, tie.
dawn, on the horizon, midway. tan, half, half-way.
day. tuai, time, morning, morrow.
deak or deke, a ditch. takh, a frontier.
dearly, extremely. ter, extremity.
death. tet, death, block, decapitate.
deem, judge. tem, judge.
deme, to judge, condemn. tma, make just, show, distribute justice.
den, evening, sundown. ten, the inverted half (as the moon).
dent, a cut; dunt, a hard blow. tent, cut in two.
dewskitch, a good pummelling. skhet, to beat, a blow, knead bread.
dibstones, huckle bones used for gambling taba, some kind of game; tep, to guess,
by guessing. divine, announce.
dicker of hides, 10, a quantity, a ―dicker of tekai, a measure; tekh, weight, supply.
wit,‖ Pembr. Arc.
dickey, all over, an end. tekai, a measure.
dickey-bird. tekai, bird.
diet, a body. tet, a body.
dight, to clean corn from chaff. tekat, has possibly the same meaning (see
Champn. N.D. 373).
digle, secret. tekau, to lie hidden.
dike, a boundary. tekh, a frontier.
dil, penis. ter, penis.
dim (Welsh), no, none. tem, no, not.
din (Welsh), hill. ten, the high seat.
dinner. tennu, ration; ten, reckon each, every;
naru, aliment.
disen, to bedizen. tes, ornament of dress.
dod, to cut or lop off. tet, to decapitate.
doit, to stupefy. tuha, to be drunk.
dole, to lay out, grief, mourning. ter, layer out, mourner.
dose, sleep awhile. tes, suspend, separate, leave, transport self.
dose, a given quantity; dossel, a bundle of tesh, so much land bounded in a district.
hay or straw.
doup (Scotch), backside. tep, keel of a boat, the bottom, hinder part.
dout, extinguish. tet, death.
dove, to thaw. tef, to drip and drop.
down, a company of hares. tun, to complete, fill up, unity, total.
draw or drew. teru, drawing.
drink. ter, libation; ankh, to sustain, life.
druid-heachd (Gael.), enchantment. hekt, charm, magic.
dry, a sorcerer, ―Try the spirits.‖ tri, invoke.
dub, to clothes, ornament, equip. teb, to clothe, equip, be clad.
duck; dig, a duck. tekh, the Ibis, a water-bird.
dude, the moon, (Eng. Gip.) Tet, moon god.
dule, goal, doole, a boundary, heap. ter, limit, extremity, frontier.
dumb-wife, a fortune-teller. tema, dumb, announce, tell.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
dwfr (Welsh), water. tef, drip, drop.
dwyfol (Welsh), divine. tef, divine father.
dyke, a wall or ditch. tek, a boundary.
E.
ea, water ai, ia and a, water and a stream.
earth. urt, car, that which bears; ta-urt, the bear-
ing mother.
east. ast, a period of time, light.
eaver, one quarter of the heavens. aft, quarter, four corners.
edan (Ir.), hill brow of the rampart. aten, taking a circular form.
efa. hef, viper, snake or worm; hefur, lizard.
egg (on), to overrule. hek or ak, rule.
eke, a final tumbler of toddy, a dominus. hek, drink, rule, ruler.
elf, to entangle in knots. arp, to tie up in a knot.
ell and elbow. al, a meausre of length
Emma, a woman‘s name. hema, the woman, wife, lady.
end. antu, division or limit of land; unn-t, hour,
end of a time.
enef (Cor. Eng.), the soul. nef, breath, spirit.
enough. henunfi, fulness, riches.
entity. enti, being, existence.
entire. ter, entire, complete, all.
eric (Irish), fine for homicide. rek, culpable, criminal.
eaking, the penthouse. uskh, plan of a hall.
ether, bindings for hedges. atr, limit, boundary.
eve, to become damp. aft, exudation.
ever. ap-ar, type of totality.
ayre, to go, move, haste, speed; Justices in ar, go along, make the circle.
eyre, on circuit.
F.
fad, fashioned. ât (fat), to build, form.
fade, decayed, dirty, disgusting. ât (fat), outcast, unclean, filthy.
faff, to blow, move violently. paif, a gust of wind.
fag, paunch. fekh, fulness.
fag, coarse, reedy grass, meadow. âkh (fakh), reed, meadow.
fag, to beat, thrash. âkh (fakh), to let fly, shoot.
fagot, tie up, bundle together. fakat, the gathered result.
fair, manifestly, evidently. per, manifested, apparently.
fambles, hands. âm (fam), fist.
famish. âm (fam), consume.
fan, found. funa, sure real.
fang, to catch, grasp, clasp, clench. ânkh (fankh), to clasp.
fantail, for reversing the sails of a mill. pena, to reverse, turn round.
far. âr (far), extremity.
fare, to resemble or act like another. ar, likeness, correspondence.
fare, game. âr, game.
fare, to go, cause to go. âr, to bear off, go along.
fap, tipsy, drunk. âp (fap), mount up, become tall, be elevated.
fang, to clasp, clench, bind, strangle. penka, to capture, squeeze, staunch.
fasguntide, ash-tide festival. âsha (fasha), applied to a festival.
fash, tops of turnips, fibres of roots. âsh (fash), seed pods.
fash, trouble, anxiety, be troublesome. âsh (fash), cry, plaint.
fat. âtu, fat, grease.
fat, abundance, plenty, piece over fat, a load.
fathom, a measure. fat, a measure; am, belonging to.
faud, a fold; fawd, a bundle. pant, a circle, a company.
faugh. âuau (fauau), reproach.
faukun, falcon. âkhem (fakhem), eagle.
faut, to find out. âtt, detect.
fauty, decayed. âut (faut), dead matter.
feather, to fly with. ppat, to fly.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
fee, property. fi, his.
fee, reward. fek, reward, plenty, fulness.
fek (Scotch), quantity, a number. fek, fulness, abundance.
fekh, poke and other variants. fekh, to capture, denude, despoil.
fet, fetched, borne, carried. fa or fe, to carry, bear, direction.
fetch, an apparition. fetk, to sink, disperse, exterminate (make a
ghost of).
fie, a term of disgust, to reproach. fi, to disgust, repel.
file, bard or interpreter. pra, to interpret, make manifest.
fine (Anc. Ir.), a tribal unit. fennu, an unit of number, a million.
fingermell, a finger‘s breadth. meru, limit.
fire. afr, fire, to burn.
fob, froth. ab (fab), to pour out.
fobble, quadruple. aft (faft), four.
fobedays, holy days. âb (fab), holy, pure.
fode, a youth. at, lad.
fœn, dirt. fennu, dirt.
fog and fogo. âkh (fakh), incense, censer.
fog, aftermath; feck, plenty, fulness; feck- fek, fulness.
less, negative of.
food. put, food.
foot. fut, separate, divided.
fote, a refrain. fut, a measure.
fou (Scotch), to be elevated with ardent fu, dilation, ardour, large, extended, elevated.
spirits.
fount. fent, sign of the inundation.
foust, fogo, foul, fouty, a fool, rootes in fu, fu, vice, fault, sullying; fu, dilation, large,
pu and bu. be extended.
fouth, plenty. fut, load, measure.
foutnart, foumart, a polecat. futi, impurity, ordure.
froth. pert, pour out, liquid, appear.
fuff (Scotch), to blow intermittently. paif, wind, breath, gust.
fuff or five, as in the hand. f, hand.
G.
gaf, a sort of hook for catching eels. kaf, hunt, seize.
gag, exaggeration. kaka, to boast.
gag, to hinder motion by tightness. khekh, a prisoner‘s collar having nine points.
gaggles, nine-pins.
gair (Welsh), words. kher, word, voice, speech.
gammer, the wife. khem, rectum, rectrix, domus mulierum.
gammon of bacon. kamh, a joint of meat.
gammon, to decieve, and many forms of pre- kamui, the lowly posture of the conquered,
tending in a lowly posture; kham, to crook soliciting, imploring, adulating, adoring,
or bend; gammy, to ―do the gammy‖ in bending.
begging.
gan (Irish), the little or young ones. han, the young one.
gan, gons, or cons (Cor. Eng.), f. puden- knau, f. pudendum.
dum.
gant, a village wake; gantly, frolicsome. khant, circumstance of a festival, joy, delight.
gaoth (Irish), wind. khet, to navigate, sail.
garden, enclosure. kerrt, zone, enclosure, en, to be.
garre, to chatter; garre, to chirp; gargate, kher, speech, to speak.
the throat; garry-ho, loose language; ho,
out of bounds.
garth, enclosure; garter, girdle, girth. karr-t, orbit; kar-t, in-dwelling.
gash, cut. kas or kasha, cut.
gash (Scotch), talkative. kasau, tongue.
gat, a goat. kah-t, a she goat.
gat, a narrow passage; gut. khet, to enclose, ford, port.
gate, road, difficult of ascent, cliff and coast katt, bad road.
roads.
gate, for shutting. khet, to shut.
gauve, to stare. khef, to look intently.
gavel, a sheaf of corn before it is tied up. khef or gef, corn.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
gavelet, a seizure of land. kafa, to sieze.
gay, joy. khaui, joy.
ge, ye. ke, thou, thee.
geasa (Irish), spells. khes, a religious rite.
geb, to turn up the eyes in derision. kef, some kind of a look.
geboned, polished. kabni, habni, ebony.
geck or gouk, a fool, April fool. khak, a fool; keh-keh, an old man.
ged, dead. khat, dead body.
geese, a horse‘s girth. kes, bind, tie.
gelt, deprived of testes. karut, testes.
gereve or greve, a governor. kherp, principal, chief; or kherf, his majesty.
gerse, grass. khersh, a truss.
get, to catch. khet, to net.
gib-fork, two-pronged harvest fork. kab, double.
gig, cock-boat. kaka, boat; kek, a boat.
gig, whipping-top. khekh, whip.
gig, ―the gig‘s up.‖ khikhi, to extend, enlarge, elongate.
gig, machine formerly used for winnowing corn. khekh, fan.
gipseys, eruptions of water which break out kep, the inundation; si, passing.
suddenly on the downs of the East Riding,
York, after great rains.
gis, an oath, ―by gis.‖ khes, a religious rite; kes, to bind, covenant.
gise, to recline. kes, to bend or lie down, be abject.
giss, the girth of a saddle. kes, to envelope with a band.
git, yet, still, time, when. khet, stop, when.
glamour. kra, to lay hold, take, seize, possess; mur,
love.
glebe, sacred land. kherp, consecrated.
globe, a sphere, model of the earth or skies, khreb, the first form modelled as a sphere, the
a symbol of imperial power. egg of Ptah; kerp, his majesty‘s sceptre.
gnar, as a dog. nar (Heb.), to roar.
gnat, fly, anything small, worthless. nat, small, enemy.
go, a measure. kha, measure.
go. khu, spirit, go, with whip sign.
goa, earth-goddess. ki, land, earth, inner region.
goal, end of the course; char, a course. kar, a course.
goat. kaht, she-goat.
goats, stepping-stones. khet, ford.
God, also god’s-good, yeast. khut, a spirit.
goge, throat. khekh, throat.
goigh, very merry. khak, to rejoice.
gome, a man; gomman, the father, game. khem, he who has potency, virile power per-
sonified.
good, a measure of length. khat, a dry measure.
gorsed (Welsh). kar, course, circle; keru, word, voice; set,
seat.
goud, the plant woad.. kata, young plants.
graf, first spadeful of earth. kherp, first.
grape. arpe, grape.
gruagach (Gaelic), Apollo. kheru, word, Logos; khekh, light.
guare or guary (Cor.), a spoken play. kher or kheru, to speak, utter a speech.
gue, quick to catch; cue. khau, to seize.
guess, applied to barren cows or ewes. khes, stop, stay.
guest, one who stops and stays.
guide. khet, navigate, steer, when, or when to stop.
gwes-par (Cornish), vespers. khes, a religious rite; per, manifestion, go
round.
gwiddion, British god; cad, a familiar kata, name of an Egyptian god; khut, spirit.
spirit; caddy, a ghost.
gwy (Welsh), sinuosity of shape. kai, shape, figure.
H.
haap (Devon.), go back. happ, to go backward.
haben, ebony. habn, ebony.
hack, place on which bricks are arranged to aka, dry up.
dry.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
had, rank, quality. haut, go first, precede.
hag, an enclosure. hak, a fillet.
hag, witch. hek, charm, magic.
ha-ha, of laughter in full tide of triumph. haa, rejoice; au, long-continued triumph;
haa, jubilation.
ha-ha, sign of rejoicing. haa, rejoice.
hain, to spare, preserve, save. han, for mercy‘s sake.
hak, serpent, snake. hauk, reptile.
halo, a round of light. haru, the circle of day, or round of light.
ham, a covering or enclosure; home. am, tent, house, enclosure; hem, seat,
place.
hammock. aam, noose or sling; akh, up.
hanap, the San Greal cup was first called han, a vessel; ap, liquid, essence.
Hanup.
hand, the member. hunt, the matrix or creative hand.
hand, a workman, performance. hanuti, labourers.
hang, a tie, to stick to. ankh, a tie, a noose, to clasp.
hang, a crop of fruit. hank, an offering of vegetables.
hange, the pluck, heart, liver and lights. ankh, symbol of life.
hank, knitted loop. ank, clasp, a loop.
hansel, the money first appearing. han or an, to appear; first sight of.
hap, to cover up. hap, to hide; hep-hep, hide, screen.
har, light ascending mist. hair, fly up.
hard. kart, stone; ert, the hard, that which retains
the form.
har-har, shout of pride and pleasure used at har, pride, pleasure.
witches‘ Sabbath (Henry More).
harp. uarp, to be joyful, charmed, delights.
harry, plunder. hura, plundered.
haste. as-t, hasten.
hasten. ustennu, stride.
hasty. hasheta, hasten.
hasty pudding. hastu, some kind of drink.
hat, futuere. hat, to espouse.
hat and ought, circles. at, circle.
hat, to take off the; “hat,” to salute. hatte, reverence, salute.
hathe, matted together. hut, bundle; hata, mat.
hau, to the left. hai, direction, go back.
have. haf, to seize, possess, have; afa, to be filled
and satisfied.
havel, slough of a snake; hoof, goes on the hef, snake; hefu, crawl; hef, crawl, squat,
ground; havil, a young crab; ivy or ale- go on the ground as a snake, viper or cater-
hoof; hafru (Welsh), sluggish; hafarch pillar.
(Welsh), listless, crawling along.
hawbuck, a country clown. hau, rustics; bak, labourer, servant.
hawid, hallowed. hatt, reverence, salute.
haws. hau, first-fruits.
hay, hail, stop. hai, hail, stand.
hayne, park, enclosure. hain, join, touch, near.
he. ui, he.
head. het, upper crown.
heaped. hept, heaped.
hearse. hurs, pillow or head-rest.
heart. artt, milk, has the heart-sign; aurt or heart,
some substance.
heat. Heht, goddess of fire; uat, mistress of heat;
ut, fire.
heat, one course. hut, hour or course.
heath, cover. hut, shrine, secret enclosure.
heave, wave. hefa, heave, crawl as the snake or caterpillar.
heaven, open. uben, sunrise, shine, light.
Hebber-man, fisherman on the Thames below heb, ibis, fishing, fisher.
London Bridge.
heeze, to raise. hehs, to raise.
hegar (Cor. Eng.), captive. hak, captive.
“heigh-ho,” sigh of longing. uhu-uha, desire, long for, sigh.
height. akht, height.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
height. hai-t, ceiling.
height, to right, driving horses; woot. ha-t, sudden; aut, go along.
heir, eldest son. ur or her, eldest child.
hell, a prison, Hades. kar, a prison, under, Hades.
hem. hem, border, frontier.
hemp. hema, hemp.
hen. an, hen.
henkam, henbane. ankham, some flower, bud.
her, she. er or ru, she.
heraude, herald. uarut, go, fly, carry on foot.
herb. kherp, a first, chief, principal thing.
here. her, here.
hero. ma-haru, the typical warrior, the true (ma)
hero.
her-out or erout, for without. her, with; ut, out.
Hertoga, an over-lord. her, over; teka, a fixed frontier.
hessen, coarse flat woof. ushen, net.
heste, a command. hes-t, order.
hete, to be named or called. het, to consecrate.
hetherims, rods twisted to keep the stakes of hetar, to compel; atr, limit.
a hedge together.
hewt, high. ati, hills.
hey, hail, stand. hai, hail, stand.
heyho, the green woodpecker, the long-tongued hu, tongue.
bird.
hey-lolli, a refrain. heloli, mad, frantic.
hie, in haste. hih, seek, search.
higre (Welsh), boar, pig. hekau, a pig, boar.
hingers, ears. aukh, ear.
hingy, said of beer when it begins to work. ankh, life, living, alive.
hip, hip, hurrah! hep, unite, join together.
hipping-stones, for crossing a brook. hepti, an ark or cabin for crossing the waters.
hips, seed of the wild rose. hebs, corn seed.
hit. hit, strike.
hithe, an enclosed haven. hut, shrine, secret enclosure.
hobby-horse, ridden in the old mythical re- hebi, to celebrate the triumph of return; heba,
presentations. joy, pastime.
hob-nob, together, touch glasses, sign of con- heb, a festival; nahp, conjunction; neb, all
junction. together.
hob-nob, a figure carried in the festival pro- neb, lord of.
cessions at Salisbury.
hocktide. hak, a festival.
hocus-pocus. huka puka, magic and conjuring.
hoddy, a net. aat, a net.
hoden, beaten. hutn, strike, beat, smite.
hoer, she. ur, she.
hoer (Cornish), sister. hari, the names of Isis and Nephthys as the
sisters.
hog. heka, sow.
hoit, to indulge in riotous mirth. Hathor, goddess of the dance and merry-
making.
hondey, Lancashire name for omnibus; hanti, the returner that goes to and fro.
handy-dandy, swinging to and fro on the
hands.
honour. hon, majesty, sanctity, royal; ar, being.
honour, obesance. han, to adore.
honor, a title, Norman fief noble called an anr, hail; anr, a title, door-opener.
―honor.‖
hoo, hunting cry; woo, how? hey? huh, to seek after.
hood, hut, hide. huth, table cover.
hood, the raised crust of a pie. hut, upper height, the upper crown.
hook. hek, hook.
hoop, to hide. hep, to hide; haup, spy, deserter.
hooro (Irish), cry. hru, to cry, call.
hop, plant. ap, mount, rise, fly on high, climb up, tall.
hope. ap or khepr, the beetle, sign of hope.
hoppe, dance. hep, festival.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
hoppo, almost anything relating to the custom hapu, laws.
house laws in Anglo-Chinese.
horse and arse. ur, principle; ur, to carry or bear; ar,
fundament; s, he, she, it.
hot. ut, glow; haut, fire.
hot, ordered; odd-fellows, an order. hut, order.
hot waters, spirits. hut, spirit, good demon.
hot. hut, onion; hti, consume.
hoy, a boat. hau, transport boat.
huath (Cor. Eng.), fresh, anew. uat, green, fresh, colour.
hucksy-bub, a name for the female breast. akh, sustenance; si, child; bub, well or
source.
hûd, mystery. hat, terrify, fear.
hud (Welsh), charm, spell. ut, magic.
huey, tramp‘s term for a town or village. hui, a limit, boundary.
hufen (Welsh), cream. hebnn, honey, conserves, &c.
huff, bully, hector, swagger, scold. ufa, grasp, chastise.
hukni, (Eng. Gip.) art of fortune-telling. heknu, supplicate, invoke, discourse, address.
hum. hem, locust.
humstrum, female emblem. hem, female emblem.
hunch of bread, lump. uns, of bread.
hunger. hun, food; kher, take, seize, claw, reach
after, claw hold of, fight for, have, have
food.
hurdle. kart, orbit, enclosure.
hurrah. hurahu, courage, prevail over.
hurricane, terrific wind. heru, terrific, terrifying; khen, blow, puff
away, typhoon.
hurry. uara, go, fly.
hurt, blue in heraldry. hert, above, heaven.
hush. usha, nightfall.
hush, to wash ore. ash, to wash.
hut, abode. hat, abode, habitation.
hymn, to hymn. ham, to invoke with religious clamour.
hyps, blue devils; hypo. habu, haunt; habau, infest.
I.
inch, an island; ing, a field, enclosure; ank, clasp, a tie.
ingan, onion (clasped round and round);
inkle, tie.
ink. nâ or nak, ink.
ior, circle of the sun (Welsh). har, day.
is. as, is, it is.
ith (Irish), corn; yd (Welsh). hit, corn.
ivin, north. kheb, north.
J.
jads or jouds, rags. uat, rags.
jock, to enjoy. hak, a festival.
jowser, diviner for water with a rod. user, a sceptre, the rod of authority.
joy. khaui, joy; ahaui, cries of joy.
K.
ka, say. ka, say.
kach, evacuated. ka, evacuate, foul.
kae or kye, cow. kaui, cow.
kaeawk (Welsh), Druidic wreath of beads. khakr, adorn; khakri, necklace.
keb, name for children‘s crying. kab, to be weak, feeble, wretched.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
keb, a villain (in the modern sense); khep- kheb, hypocrisy, deceit, disguise, violate,
pen, to hoodwink. change.
kecche, to catch; keck, to choke; keck- keks, to bind; khekh,collar, throat, gullet.
corn, wind-pipe.
Kêd, British goddess. Kit-mut, a goddess; Khept, goddess.
keen (Irish), to recite the virtues of the dead. khen, to tell, convey, be agitated, act of
offering.
kell, a welling water. karua, water welling.
kep, to lie in wait. kepu, to be hidden, lie in wait.
keeper, a clasp; kep, to catch; cap, a kep, to seize, catch.
shepherd‘s dog.
kemp, champion. khem, to prevail, be master of.
ken (Cor. Eng.), hollow. khen, interior, hollow.
ken, to know, to be acquainted with. ken, accompany.
kensh, to shut up close. kensh, snap, extort, hunt.
Kent, called the garden of England. khent, garden.
kep, to catch or enclose. kep, closed hand, fist; kep, to receive.
kepe, to meet.
ker, business, occasion. kar, business, to bear battle-harness; kar,
― An hundred knights good of ker, power, property.
Her better no man wepen ber.‖
Guy of Warwick, p. 68.
kesh (Irish), kind of causeway made of khus, found, lay foundation, construct,
wickerwork. pound, i.e. in road makking, with a man
pounding.
kex or kecksie, the dry stalk of withered kehkh, the old (man); si, pass away, corrupt,
hemlock. decay.
kecky, for kecksie. kah-k, reeds.
kest, a twist or knot; kish (Ir.), wicker- kes, to bend, to bind.
work.
ket, filth. shet, sin or crime of some kind.
ketter, to diminish in size. ket, little.
kevin, lower part of the round of beef. khept, thigh, hind quarter.
kewte, to kitten. khut, sign of maternity.
ki, quoth. ka, say.
kick, to sting. khekh, to sting.
kick the bucket. ―The pitcher broken at kek, to break.
the fountain.‖
kick; kick, rebound of a gun. khekh, repulse.
kick-up, sort of a balance used for weighing khekh, balance.
half-pence in the 18th century.
kid, of pease or beans. khet, enclosure, shut, sealed.
kiddier, a butcher. ket-t, a butcher.
kiddle, a weir in a river with a cut to catch khet, to net.
fish.
kill, to strike, to slay, to knock on the head. kher, an animal going to be killed; kar,to
strike.
kiln. kar, a furnace.
kime, a silly fellow. kemh, to stare.
king. ank, the king.
kisting, a funeral; kist-vaen. kes, embalmment, a funeral.
kitchen. khet, small; khet, building; khen, interior,
inner part.
kite, belly. khat, belly.
kith, knowledge, also a region. kaat, wisdom; khet, circuit, enclosure.
kitten, young of the cat. katen, image, likeness.
knap, to snap, to talk snappily, to browse. nehp, to seize.
ku-ku (Ir.), sacrifice. khu, ceremony, benefit, spirit; khuu, sin.
kuf (Cor. Eng.), wife. kef, hinder, feminine half.
kuf (Cor. Eng.), the wife; chavi (Eng. kefa, the genetrix.
Gyp.), girl, daughter.
ky or chy (Cornish), house. ki, an abode.
kye, cows. kaui, cows.
kyle, a vassal or serf. kheri, a bound victim.
kylle, to strike, strike off, or cole. kar, to do battle with, sign of striking.
kyphor, to copulate. khepr, to generate.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
L.
la, lah or lack, formula of exclamation, verily. râ, formula, verily.
ladder. rat, steps.
lage, to wash; also lye, to wash. rekh, to full, wash, purify.
lara, a round piece of wood turned by a rer, to turn round, be round.
turner; larabell, the sun-flower that turns
round.
latch, to invite, entreat. rtu, urge.
lathe, invite. reti, beseech, ask.
lawter, 13 eggs to set a hen. retar, entire, a total; ret, set.
leach-brine, purified brine. rekh, to wash and purify.
leash, three dogs or partridges. resh, written with three feathers.
leche, a physician, to heal. rekhi, mages, knowers, doctors.
lede, lude, lithe, leet, people. ret, race, mankind.
leek, onion. rekh, heat, to be hot.
leiths, joints in coal. retha, to quarry.
leits, footsteps. rat, feet, steps.
lesse, to teach, lesson; llais (Welsh), voice. res, tongue.
let, causation of any action. rta, cause to do.
letter. ret, engrave, figure, write; teruu, papyrus
roll.
liege, applied to a kind. rek, to rule.
linn (Keltic), a deep still pool. renn, virgin-pure.
liss, pleasure, joy. resh, joy.
llan (Welsh), an enclosure or circle. ren, an enclosing ring.
lloer (Welsh), moon. rer, to make the circuit, go round.
llyr (Welsh), sea beach. rer, go round, surround.
llyther (Welsh), letter. ruit, engrave, figure; rat, engrave, letter.
lly-thrau (Welsh), Druidic signs cut in wood. rui, scribe‘s palette with pen and ink; teruu,
a roll of papyrus.
loll, to fondle. rur, to dandle.
look. ukha, to seek.
loon, a boy. renn, a boy, nursling.
loop. arf or arp, to bind, tie round with noose.
lope, a dog-lope is a boundary between two rupu, either, or; takh, frontier.
houses and beloning to both.
lull, to dandle a child. rer, to nurse and dandle.
lum (Scotch), chimney. rem, the erect; ram, throat.
lycced tea, tea with spirits in it. rekhi, spirits.
M.
ma (Irish), mother. ma, mother.
mache, to match. mak, match.
macks, sorts; make,to mix; makke, a maku, mixed.
mixed dish.
make. mak, to control.
make. mâk, work, inlay, composition.
make, mate. makh, pair of scales, balance.
make, to rhyme. mak, regulate, think, balance, measure.
Makhir, the divinity of dreams. ma, true; khir, word, speech, revealing,
imaging, picturing.
mamma, the mother. mâmâ, to bear.
man, man-ful. men, to be resolute.
man, to man, the man. men, the fecundator.
man-cowe, baboon. kaf, a monkey.
mane. mennu, some form of hare.
Manx arms, three legs revolving, counter maank, a counterpoise.
poise.
marge, margin. meri, a border, a margin.
marish, marygold. maresh, yellow, being yellow.
married. mer-t, attach, attached.
marrow, mate. meru, beloved friend.
mart, cow-fair. mer, cow.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
mash, to steep mas-mas,to steep.
mason. ma, true; sen, brother, to fraternize, found,
build, establish.
mast, nut of the beech. mast, born, produced; mast, seed.
mat, for the feet. mat, soles of the feet.
mate. maht, to agree.
matere, womb; mid, middle. mat, mother; mat, middle; matr, centre,
to centre.
matins. mate, sing, praise.
matly, equal, true, like. matt, true, right, like, according to.
mattachin, ancient sword dance. matai, soldiers; ken, to dance.
matted. matet, unfold, unwind.
matter. matrut, soil, stain; matr, a marsh.
matty, equal, alike, corresponding, mate. mati, ankles or feet (a pair).
May, the month; you “may.” mâi, seed, germ, growth, renewal; mai,
come, invitation.
mayor. mer, prefect, governor.
maze. mes-mes, confusion.
mead. meh-t, some kind of libation.
mean, resolve, intend. men, resolute.
meare, a boundary; mur (Welsh), circle, mer, a boundary, a circle.
Stonehenge; mill, a round.
measure. maser, an unknown measure.
meat. mat, some kind of food, dead.
meer, a measure (Peak of Derbyshire). mahar, a quantity; mer, a limit.
mehaun, the devil, the old mehaun. mehaun, serpent.
mell, to wheel round. mer, circle, encircle.
mell, futuere. mer, to love, attach, kiss.
mell, a mallet, hammer. merh, club.
meni, stone monument. men, an obelisk.
mer (Eng. Gipsy), to die. mer, to die.
merkin, pudendum f. mer, circle; khen, inner.
meskins, is an exclamation, ―By the mass‖; meskin, place of new birth; mes, kind of
mass, wafer. cake, i.e. the mass-wafer or mass, the cake
of new birth or birth cake.
mich, to act by stealth, to steal. makhau, to kidnap.
miching, false show. maka, an artifice or artificial.
middle. mat, middle.
might. mat, granite; mata, backbone, phallus.
min (Cor. Eng.), brink, border or boundary. men, go round, that which goes round.
mine, to establish, to penetrate. men, to establish; min, plodding penetration.
ming, to mix, to knead; minginator, one menkh, to fabricate, form, work, create, make
who makes fretwork. a mallet.
minne, to remember. men, memorial.
minny, mother. mena, typical nurse or mother.
minnying, periodic memorizing. men, to go round, perambulate.
minster. mena, the dewad; ster, couch of the laid out
dead.
minute, sixty seconds. min, a measure; at, a second of time;
menat, a measure.
mirror. mher, mirror.
mist. mes or mest, product of a river, river-born.
mix. mak, mix.
moarg, to burn without flame, dead fire. merau, die.
moat, water enclosure; mota (Irish), earth- mehat, enclosure, sepulchre.
work enclosure.
mob, a slattern, a sloven; mobile, the mob. mhubi, humble.
mock-shadow, twilight. mak, mixed.
mog, to enjoy one‘s self. mak, to dance.
mohyn (Welsh), bull. men or min, bull.
moke, the mesh of a net. maka, a reel, some implement used with a
net.
mommy, all of a mass. mem, pitch, wax, mummy.
monument. men, to fix, monument.
moor, to void blood. mer, to die, end.
moor, farm-bailiff. mer, superintendant.
moray, coast-country. mera, land, limit; meri, bank, shore.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
mormaers, pictish governors. mer, prefect, superintendant, monk; mer,
circle, limit.
morrow. mera, region, limit, boundary.
mort (Gipsy), female mate, doxy. mer-t, beloved person, attached to; mar-t
a female relationship or office.
motion. mat, to go: maten, to go, move away, give
way to.
month. ment, a total of two halves, as a lunation;
men, to go round.
mue, to change, to mue the feathers. mu, to end, die.
mugget, a crispy ruffled shirt. maku, some linen object, (t, is a terminal).
mul-berry. mer, mulberry-tree.
mull, cow. mer, cow.
mum, silent. mum, dead.
mumm, to make up a character, transform. mum, mummy, an image of transformation.
munch. munka, to work, form, make.
munte, to measure out. mant, a corn-bin; men, a liquid measure.
mur (Welsh), precinct. mer, precinct, enclosure.
mush, anything mashed, as wetted meal. mussh, mud.
must, new wine. mustum, an intoxicating drink.
mute. mut, silent.
―Oh, my,” wonder, surprise. mahui, wonder, admiration.
my. maaui, in the power of.
N.
nabbed, caught. nabt, tie, plait, noose.
nac-an (A. S.), to slay. nakan, slaughter.
nadredd, Welsh Druids. nater, divine; at, father.
naf, pudendum. Nep, goddess of seed.
nake, to make naked, known. nakhem, know.
nape, to cut a hedge, for renewing or forming nahp, to form.
anew.
nart, a birth cake. naar (Heb.), a newborn child.
nase, drunken. nasp, delude, stupify, numb, i.e. drunk.
nash, firm, hard, gnash. nash, strong.
nasty. nah, foul; sti, stink, stench, smell, offend.
nasty, spiteful. nashti, plague, torment.
nat, a kind of mat. natt, shuttle.
nat or net (Ir.), little. nats and netiu, little.
Nature. Natr, goddess, time, season.
navel, first breathing place of the embroyo. nef, breath.
navigate, navy. nef, sailor, to sail.
neart, night. narutf (for anrutf), the sterile, infertile
region.
neat, cow. Neith, cow-headed goddess.
neb, to kiss. nahap, to kiss.
nedder, an adder. neter, a serpent symbol.
nedder, inferior. neter, servants of priests.
need, anciently note. neht, wish, request, vow; net, address, save,
help.
neigh or nicker. neka, provoke, incite, sign of male power.
neist, nearest, soonest. nas, near, close, after.
neit (Irish), god of war. netr, gods.
neme, care, to take care. nemm, to take.
neme, mate, associate, be near. nem, to join, accompany, engender.
nemly, quickly. nem, some kind of motion.
nen, an English river. nen, water, inundation.
nene, neither, none. nen, no, not, without.
nenet, will not. nen-t, no, not.
nesh, applied to strong cheese, ―choice of nash, strong.
change‖ (1585), too nesh.
ness, a height, jutting, or promontory. nas, a tongue, out of, pedestal, upper crown.
net, to make water. natra, makker; netur, water of the west.
net, total, profit. net, all, total, limit.
nettle, a rope‘s end. netur, to pull a rope; nnutt, a rope.
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neuf, blaze. nefer, heat, fire.
“neus the matter,‖ something near or like nas, near.
the thing.
nev (Welsh), heaven. nef, spirit of the firmament; nu or nupe,
heaven.
nevydd (Welsh), celestial lord. nef or neb, lord; it, heaven.
newed, changed, renewed. nnut, sweet, fresh.
nice. nas, proclaim.
nick, to deceive, cheat. neka, delude, be false.
nicka, a siren; nicka-nan (Cornish), night neka, delude, play false, provoke; nan, little
when boys play tricks on the unwary; boy, a ninny; nekhen, child; nakhem,
nickhem (Scotch), applied to a child. knowing.
nidde, to compel. nat, submission.
nide, of pheasants. net, a quantity, total, a collection.
nig or nig-nag, coitus. nak, coitus.
nigging or knocking shop. nak, fornicate.
niggle, dawdle, trifle. nikau, idle, lazy, dawdling.
night. akht, light; n, no, not.
nim, to snatch; nimming, stealing. naham, to take away; nam, forced.
ninny-watch, a vain hope. nen, no, not, negative.
ninted, perverse. nent, ignorant, fools.
nirt, cut, gelt. narutf, barren, sterile.
no. nu, no.
noble, nab, or nob, head: nub, a husband. neb, lord, consort.
nod. net, incline, bow, salute.
nog, strong ale; nogged, strong-limbed. nakh, force, strength; nakta, a giant.
nome, taken. nam, forced.
nominy, a public speech in ―rough musick- num, speech, utterance, tongue.
ing."
none, early form nen. nen, no, not, without.
noose or knot. nuut, a rope; nuuh, knot or to twist.
north. narutf, name of the north.
not. neti, no, not.
not, knot, naite, to deny natt, impediment.
not, a name for bandy, ―out of notch,” nnu, go hither and thither; natsh, tie, attach.
out of bounds (Eng. saying).
note, the time during which a cow is in milk. net, all, total; neith, the cow-headed Isis as
the nursing mother.
now (1 Corinth. xiii. 13). nnu, time appointed, this time, continually.
nowed, in heraldry for twisted or tied. nuut, rope, tied.
nowte, black cattle. neh, black; neit, goddess, the black Isis,
cow-headed.
nub, nape of neck; nur, head; nare, nos- nahb, neck; nar, head of the vulture; nrau,
trils of the hawk; norie,the nurse. nostrils of the vultures; nar,the vulture,
emblem of Mut, the nursing mother.
nuirt, an Irish amulet ring. nar, victory; ut, magic, inscription (with a
tie); nnuh, knot, twist; ret, engraved.
number. num, to see, perceive, repeat, again, twice.
nunt, to be obstinate or sullen. nent, ignorant, fools.
nurt, Scotch birth cake. nehar, some kind of bread.
nut, a small vase. nu, the vase or jar sign of water.
nyflo (Welsh), to snow. nef, breath.
nytte, to require. net, tribute, collection.
O.
ocub, cockchafter. khep, beetle.
oddy, the snail that drags its abode also athu, drag, draw, an abode.
called the oddy.
of. af, born of.
off, the line from which boys begin in playing af, born of.
a game of marbles.
ogha (Gaelic), prefix to names; Irish O or H. akhu, illustrious, honorable.
ogham, monuments. aukhem, indestructible.
oh! uoh,very much, increase, augment.
oil (by permutation) ur, oil.
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old (by permutation). urt, old, oldest.
oned. unnut, the double crown, twinned or oned;
unn-t, the two crowns in one.
oned, united, made one, one hour. unnt, one hour, marked by the circle.
oo, one. ua, one.
oont, want; oonty, empty. un, wanting, defect, open.
oose, mud. ush, mud.
ope, open. ap, opener; uben, sunrise, shine, light, the
opener.
orb. arf, to bind, bundle.
orchard. arr, fruit; karr-t, orbit or enclosure.
orp, cattle. rep, the beast.
ouche, a clasp. uskh, a collar.
ought, should. haut, ought, should.
ouris (Irish), management of cattle, flax, &c.; ursh, watch, rigid, observe, be attentive.
a gathering of girls at one house to card
wool or spin flax.
out, also ut. ut, put forth, out.
oven. kafn, an oven.
over. apheru or aper, the place of crossing over;
ap-her, up over.
P.
pabo (Welsh), producer of life; papa, father. pep, to engender; papa, to produce.
pad,to make a new path in walking. pet-pet, trample.
pad, foot, pettitoes. pet, foot, claw of animal.
page, one side of a left. pkhkha, divide and division.
page, a boy-servant. bak, servant, labourer.
paint. pant, ―all the colours of pan‖ (F.R. ch. 15).
pair-Keridwen (Welsh), Keridwen‘s vessel par, a pail (pair interchanges with pail).
or vase.
papa, pope, the father. apa, ancestor, head, God; p, the.
par, to enclose, as in a house or paryard, or par, to surround, enclose, as in a house.
with a parapet.
parish. par, to go round, surround; sh, space, or
measure of land.
parson. par, show, explain; sen, a brother.
pasgadwr (Welsh), the feeder; cater- pes, food; ketr, occasional.
cousin, one that is fed.
pass. bes, pass.
passe, extend. pesh, stretch, extent.
past. past, back, behind.
pat, a blow. pet, strike.
path. pat, a course, path of the sun.
patter, to talk, discourse, a judge‘s summing ptar, show, explain, a slip of papyrus; pth,
up, a broad sheet. open-mouthed; ar, to be.
patticake. pat, cake, kind of food.
patty. ppatie, cake, kind of food.
paup (Welsh), everybody, the whole race. pâ (pap), men, the race.
paw, tie; pah, a monitory exclamation. pa, an exclamation.
pay, satisfaction. peh, function, arrive, attain, reach.
pay, with pitch. peh, to follow up, penetrate.
peace. Pash or Pekh, is the bringer of peace.
peach, a cloven fruit. pesh, a fruit, cloven.
peck, victuals. beksu, something eaten.
peck, a mattock. pekh, to divide.
peck, food, victuals. pekha, kind of food.
peck, a measure. peka, peck-measure.
peg, a division, ―take down a peg,‖ clothes pekkha, divide, division, divided; peka,
peg. gap.
peg. uakha, peg; peka, to divide; p, mas. art.
pega (Cor. Eng.), to sting or bite. peshu, sting, bite; pesh permutes with peka.
pegma, bill of advertisement fixed up at p-ka-ma, the call to come, see.
ancient pageants.
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pegma, a moving pageant. peh, glory; khema, shrine.
pes. ―My Gammer set her down on her pest, back, pelvis.
pes‖ (Gam Gurton‘s needle, 2, 12).
pie. ppaui, a circular cake, or bread.
piece. pekh, a division.
pink. penkau, to bleed.
pit, pat, pot, patty. pet, a circle.
pobi (Welsh), to bake; pobs (Craven) pâ (paf), to bake; pefs, to bake.
poet. paut, type, image, figure, the Artist.
poop, let fly. pepe, fly.
por (Irish), seed. per, seed.
pore, cram with food, pour. per, food, pour out.
port, appearance, portment, porting the en- per or pert, to show, sight, see, explain,
sign. appear.
port, harbour, storehouses, warehouses. per-t, granary, storehouse, grain, proceed,
emanate, come forth.
posh (Eng. Gyp.), half; pease. pesh, to separate, halve, in two halves.
poss, a waterfall. pesh, water.
posse, a number of people, a following. pesut, followers, behind.
post, stay, support. pest, back, spine.
pour. per, to pour out.
power. ber-ber, fervour, ebullition.
precept. sept, precept.
pree (Scotch), to taste. pre, show, see, perceive, explain.
pref (Cor. Eng.), a worm. ref, a worm; with the article p, pref.
pren (Welsh), plant, tree; p is the Egpt. art. renpu, plant, branch.
puck, hobgoblin. puka, magic, infernal locality.
“pucker up.‖ puka, to divide.
puff or fuf, to blow. pef, breath.
puffs, light pastry. pefss, cook, light.
pup, to produce. pep, to engender; pa-pa, produce, deliver,
give birth.
put or puttoch, the frog. Put or Putha, the frog-headed god.
put-pin and push-pin, one and the same in put and pesh, both mean to stretch.
Eng.
Q.
quash, old form cass, to stop, make null. khes, stop, turn back.
quat, a diminutive person, a pimple or rising- kett, little; khut, the horizon of the resur-
up spot. rection, i.e. place of rising up.
queate, peace, quiet. kaut, rest; khat, corpse.
quede, evil, the devil. kheft, evil, the devil.
queek, to squeeze, pinch. keks, to bind, entreat.
quiche, to move, kick. khekh, whip, repulse.
quick, go fast. khi-khi, move with rapidity, be quick.
quick, living. chich (Heb.), life.
quim, a feminine name. kim, a female name.
quoy, enclosed land. ki, land enclosed.
R.
race. rekh, race of people.
raise. res, to raise up.
rake, to deviate from a straight line, also rukata, curve.
ruck up.
raking coal, to keep in the heat. rekh, brazier, heat.
ram, to lose by throwing out of reach; rame, remn, extent, as far as, up to, extending to.
to stretch.
ran, a noose or hank of cord. ren, an enclosing ring.
rate, ratified. rate, tie, bind, make fast.
rathelled, fixed, rooted. rat, rixed, rooted.
ray of sunlight; ra, roe-deer. ra, sun, also means go swiftly.
ray-grass or rye-grass, called ―ever.‖ ra, time.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
re, again, to be repeated. re, to, and to be.
rea (Gaelic), rapid. rua, rush, go swiftly.
reach, the extent, measure, reckoning. rekh, to reckon, know.
reap, a bundle, corn for binding. arp, bundle.
rear. rer, nurse a child.
rear, to expectorate. rir (Heb.), spittle.
reck, to calculate. rekh, know, reckon.
red, warn, advise, counsel. ret, urge, beseech vigorously.
red, stark, entirely. retr, entire.
reed, a water plant. ret, a plant.
reek, smoke. rekh, brazier, heat, emitting smoke.
reme, cry, moan. rem, to weep.
reme, to froth up. rem, to rise, surge up.
rene, to tie up, rein. ren, noose for an animal‘s foot.
rene, a water-course. ruan, a water-course, the gorge of a valley.
rene, to comfort. renn, nurse, fondle, dandle a child.
rere, egg boiled but not set. rir (Heb.), white of egg, spittle.
rere-mouse, the bat that flits round and round. rer, circuit, go round.
resh, fresh, recent. resh, joy, feathers.
rest, last. res, absolutely, entirely.
rest. urs, pillow or head rest; urst, is pillowed;
r-hest, in place, seat, or throne.
retain. tenn, hold.
rhiw (Welsh), a cliff. rru, steps, ascent.
ric, kingdom. rekh, people of a district, mankind.
ricky, masterly. rekkh, the wise man, the magi.
riddle, the ring to which the neckrope of ret, a tie with a string and stake for fastening
ananimal is made fast. animals.
rids, shoots or rays of sunshine. rat, germs, shoots.
rie, to sieve corn. rii, powder or dust with determinative of
corn.
rike, to govern, to rule. rek, to rule.
ring. ren, a ring for enclosing names.
ring, rink, round, rounded. ren, an enclosure or ring.
riot, a tumult, to be in a whirl. rruit, whirl.
riote, a company of men. rrut, those round.
rip, a lean animal. rep, a beast.
rivo, drinking shout, Bacchanalian exclama- ravah (hwr), Heb. made drunk, soaker or
tion, Marston‘s ―What you Will‖ (Act IV.). drunk, drunkenness, abundantly satisfied
(Is. xxxiv. 7: Prov. vii. 18); repi, of the
Nile inundation.
riw, set, both. rehiu, twin.
rixy, quarrelsome. rekai, rebellious, scornful, culpable.
road, route. rut, footstool, steps, feet, go out, gate.
road, at the mouth of a river. ruhaut, a river mouth.
roar. ruhar, superior mouth, authority.
roath (Cor. Eng.), form, figure. rut, engrave, figure, form.
roke or reac, to cleanse armour by rolling it rekh, to wash, purify, cleanse.
in a barrel of sand.
root. rat, plant, grow.
rote. rut, to repeat.
rote, wheel. rrut, whirl, wheel round.
rother, strong manure for forcing plants. rut, to renew.
rother, a sailor. rut, the Egyptians; urt, the water-horse.
rout, green or yard for strayed beasts. rut, tether of a beast whilst grazing.
routen, put to rout. ruten, attack.
rowth, plenty, lush. rut, prosper, vigorous.
ruck, to crouch out of sight. ruka, to hide.
run or rune, name of alphabet, means of ren, name; rennu, to name.
naming.
runt, an ox or cow given over breeding. renn, cattle.
rush, a merrymaking. resh, joy.
rut, dashing of waves. rut, repeated, several.
rut, tracks cut by wheels, also to cut those rut, to engrave; rut, carved stone, to retain
tracks. the form.
rutting stags. rut, to sow, germinate, renew, root.
Rye (Eng. Gip.), a lord. Ra, royal, Pharaoh.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
S.
sab (Irish Kelt.), counsellor of state. sab, a counsellor.
sabbed, saturated. sab, drink.
sabre. sapara (Ass.), sabre; khepsh (Eg.), scimatar.
sack. saka, sack, to sack a town.
sack, be discharged, get the sack. suakh, cease, stop.
sack, a drink. sakabi, a drink.
sad, heavy bread. sut, a kind of bread.
sad. saat, grief.
sage. skh or skha, a scribe.
sage, saghe, speech; sager, lawyer; sathe, saakh, scribe, write, letter, influence; illu-
reason; say, seghe, saw; segge, to say; minate, depict, symbolic eye.
sacrament, sacred.
sag-ledge, diagonal cross-bar of a gate. sah, a cross strap.
sain, to make the sign of the cross. senn, to found with the sign of the cross.
saint, a cincture or girdle. shent, a circular apron.
saite (Ir.), knowledge. sa, genius of wisdom, epithet of Taht; sai,
to know.
sam, to stand ―sam,‖ pay the reckoning. sam, to eat, drink, enjoy; sam,total.
samach (Ir.), happy. smakh, to bless, blessed, rejoice.
same, likeness. sem, emblem, similitude, imagge.
sand. shant-bu,sand of the desert; bu is the
place.
sandy, red; sang, blood (sang is it—true sen, blood, red.
it is, the probable origin of the oath
―bloody‖).
sane, sanation, curing, healing. san, physician,healer; san, to heal.
sanitary. sannut, bath, medicament, or healing.
sap (Eng. Gip.), snake or serpent. sep, the snake; sab, serpent.
sap. sefa, humidity.
sapy, tainted. sep, corrupt.
sard, futuere. sart, to sow seed.
sas (Eng. Gip.), a nest. sesh, nests.
sash. sesh, ring, roll, something twined around.
sasin, a reaping hook. shesh, harvest.
sasse, a river lock, a flood-gate. sesh, draw bolts, open, a gate, pass.
sawed. ust, sawed.
sax, a knife; sock, a ploughshare; sikis, a sekh, to incise, cut, cut out, divide, sever.
scythe; seghe, saw; sickle, for cutting;
seg, a castrated bull; saugh, a trench or
channel; sice, a gutter or drain.
say, the say of it, knowledge. sai, know.
say, saghe, speech. ska, write, order, letter, depict.
scabby. skabui, eject, weaken.
scam, to stain; scummer, to daub. skhmau, to paint.
scambler, a parasite. skam, to stay, pass a time, dwell, remain,
hang on.
scan, scrutinize. skhan, recognise.
scap, a snipe. skab, to double.
scar, cliff, precipice, inaccessible. skara, a fort.
scar, a piece or shred. skar, cut in pieces.
scare. s’har, scare.
scarifying, called ―sacrificing‖ (Brand, ii. skar, a sacrifice.
362).
sceat, a quantity or share. skhat, a quantity.
scent, a descent; scent. senti,to found; sent, incense; senta, to
smell the earth, i.e. make obeisance to.
school. skher, instruct, plan, design, counsel, pic-
ture.
scimminger, base money rubbed over with skhemau, to paint, to represent.
silver.
scion, a shoot. skennu, to multiply.
scochon, an escutcheon; scog, to brag. skhkha, to write; skhakr, to emblazon,
embellish.
scote, to plough up. ska, a plough.
scout, to field at cricket, a corner of a skhut, field, a region.
field.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
scrag, to hang. skarau, cut in pieces, destroy.
scrit, a writing, a deed, act or deed. skher, plan, design, counsel, picture, instruct;
skha,write, letter, scribe.
scrow, a writing (in Dives and Pauper, 1493); skheru, writing, picture, scheme, plan, idea,
scrowe, a scroll, a charm. doctrine, charm.
scut, a hare, also hare or rabbit‘s tail. skhât, hare.
scutch,whip, strike; scutcht, not killed. skhet, blow, wound, deprive, hinder.
scutlin, a small tart. sket, kind of cake.
scuts, sort of barge used in carrying bread to skat, tow, conduct; skhet, make bread.
London from the country.
Se, Druidic priestess. Su, a royal scribe; Sua, Egyptian priestess.
se, assembly of the Seon. sehem, an assembly.
seat. set, hinder part, seat; asebt, seat.
seed. set, corn, seed.
seek. seakh, pray, adore.
seem. sam, myths, representative likeness.
seethe. shet, effervescing wine.
sefhte, seventh. seft or sefkh, seven.
segd, a small ship. skhet, an ark or boat.
sel’, self; sole. ser, the chief one, private, reserved.
semen. s’men, the erecting, preparing, establishing.
sen, a name of Michaelmas. sen, division; shen, a festival, one of
two.
senage, fines and payments levied in the senhai, bind, conscribe, review, levy.
sene court.
senche, to offer, place before. sensh, open, unclose.
sene, ecclesiastical court for correcting the shent, ancient name of magistrates, papyrus
neglect or ommisions of the church reeves. roll containing the laws.
sent. sen, pass, traverse, extend.
sept, an enclosure by railing. sept, shore, lip, bank, margin.
septical, causing putrefaction; sepulchre. sep, corrupt, corruption.
ser, sure, safe. ser, the rock, a sanctuary.
serre, to join closely, pressed together. serr, dispose, arrange, organize, augment.
set, to plant with dibble. setem-t, dibble.
set, to settle, bind, ―set‖ a broken limb. sett, to catch, noose; suta, heal, make sound.
set, to plant or sow; sates, quickset. set, impregnate, sow.
set-sponge, cake it. set, cake.
seth (Cor. Eng.), an arrow. seti, an arrow.
seth or sethen, both names of set, since, sate, female set, called ―yesterday.‖
afterwards.
settle, for resting on. seter, rest.
seve, seven. sef (kh), seven.
sew. sa, Coptic so, to weave.
shaad, meadow. sha, field.
shab, abscond, slink. shap, hide, conceal.
shade, divided. shat, cut.
shade. shut, shade.
shadow, shut of day. shata, shade; shuit, shade.
shaft, handle. shep, hand.
shaft, anything created, creation. sheps, conceive, create, bring forth.
shamnel, a masculine woman. shem, woman.
shamrock. sam, a clover with triple sign.
shan, to turn out the toes; shins, two; shena, turn away; shen, two.
shoon, a pair of shoes; shandy-gaff, a
doubled drink; shandery-dan, a two-sided
car.
shanny, wild, half-idiotic, see Gaelic shannu, diviner.
―Shoney,‖ sea-deity. (Brand, i. 391.)
Shap, name of a place where there are Druidic shapt, solar disk, men belonging to religious
remains. houses.
shape. sap, form; sheb, shape.
shape, a dress of disguise. shep, hidden, unperceived.
shaped. shept, figured.
shaps, name of a prude. shepsa, conceal, hide.
shrap, scarped, parched, burnt up. serf or serb, fire, flame.
shaw, wood, small shady wood in a valley. shau, wood.
sheat, a young pig. sha-t, sow.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
shed, to spearate. shet, separate.
shed, for covering over. shet, a small shed, a shrine.
shed, applied to light. shut, illuminate.
shedar, female sheep. shtar, betrothed wife.
shedle, a channel of water. shet, a pool or ditch.
sheep, male. shef, a ram.
sheen, play of light and shade. shen, indicated by a storm cloud (shen, two-
fold).
sheen-net, a drag-net. shen, to encircle, and enclose, a crowd.
sheffe, 30 gads of steel. shâ, 30.
shende, ruin, spoil, destroy. shenti, rob, blaspheme.
shent, scolded, blamed, abused. shenti, abuse.
shere, an egg with no tread in it. sher, a junior, youth as non-pubescent.
shet, to join. shat, to join.
shet, running water, water-shed. shet, pool, ditch; shetu, water-skin.
sheth, a division of a field; sheading, divi- sheth, ditch.
sion, water-shed.
shield. shlt (Heb.), shield.
shift, part allotted. sheft, a section.
shin. shenb-t, leg.
shindy or shinny, a game—also called shenti, return, stop; shenti-ta, go along,
bandy and hockey. return; shena, twist, turn back; shenbtu,
bandy.
shingle, on the shore, round the sea; shen, circuit, go round.
shingles, an eruption round the body.
ship, an ancient piece of figured family sheps, figured; shebu, traditions.
plate.
shit. shat, noisome.
shittles, buns given to children. shatt, food, sacred.
shod, covered. shet, clothes.
shoe, for the feet. shu, feet.
shoon, pair of shoes. shen, two, a pair.
shoot, a. s’hut, transmit; shat, shoot.
shoot, an arrow. shat, an arrow.
shop, a place where goods are sold by measure. shep, an Egyptian measure.
shope, made, did shape. sheb, shef or shep, to fashion, figure forth.
shore. tser, to sit upon the waters, the rock.
shot, light and shade, shot-silk. shu-t, light and shade.
shot, a reckoning at an inn. sha, drink; shat, book.
shote, a young pig. shu, pig, swine.
shout, small flat-bottomed boat. shetu, a water-skin, straps used in a boat.
shout. shetu, shout.
show. sha, make naked, unveil, discover.
shrew, to curse. sriu, curse, insult.
shrove, to be merry. sheru, joy, to rejoice.
shun, to avoid. shen, avert, turn away.
shun, to save. san, to save.
shunt, turn off one line and back on another, shenti-ta, go along, return; shentt, return,
put off, delay. stop; shenti, turn down; shent, stop.
shuppare, the Creator. skheper, to make live, creator.
shut. shet, closed; khut, to shut.
shuttle-cock. shut, plumes.
shy, shady or shy. shui, shade.
Sib (A.S.), Goddess. Sef, a goddess.
sibrit, the banns of matrimony. sep, time, turn, verify; seb, priest; rut,
repeated several times.
sice, a sizing, college allowance of food or sekh, to cut, incise, liquid.
drink.
sich, a gutter. sekh, to cut, incise, liquid.
sieve. sef, determinative a sieve; sef, to purify,
refine.
sighed (Ir.), to weave. skhet, to weave.
sighi (Ir.), a noose, or a score, twenty tied sak, to bind.
up.
sight, a great quantity, a ―sight‖ of people. sekht, a quantity.
sign. sekhen, the sign of sustaining; sekh, to re-
present, signify.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
sign-tree, the support of the roof. sekhen, a prop, to sustain the heaven.
siker, sure, safe; sikere, to assure. skarh, to soothe; sakr, perfect.
sil, a bed of rock containing lead. ser, the rock.
sill, step, ascent, throne. ser, to extend, rise up.
sin, to stand, ―don‘t sin talking, but go to senn, a statue, also to found, establish, make
work,‖ i.e. don‘t stand like a statue (Nor- stand.
folk).
sin. san, evil; senn, to break open.
sineways, sundry ways. shent, crowd, many, various.
siney, bladder-nut tree. shenni, oak, acacia; shennu, tree, oak.
sin-grene, evergreen. san, preserve, keep long; shen, ever.
sinoper, ruddle. sen, blood.
sinter, cincture, circle. shen, enceinte, circle.
sis, the cast of six on the dice; suze, six. sas, six.
siss, a pet name for a girl. sest, she, her, the female.
sister. sest, she, her.
sizer, a servitor. shes, service or servitor.
sizing, yeast. ses, to breathe; sesh, movement in general.
skaith, harm, damage, injure. skhet, wound, blow, deprive.
skate, fish prepared by squeezing or crimping. skhet, to squeeze.
skeen, sword and dagger. scheen (Heb.), knife.
skeke, contest or harryings. skhekh, to destroy (Rosel. Mon. d. C. 72).
― With skekes and with fight,
The ways look well aplight.‖
—Arthour and Merlin.
sken, to squint. shen, bend, deflect, turn in, awry; shena,
turn away, twist awry.
sket, a part, a region. skhet, a field, a region.
sketch. skhet, to paint or draw a plan.
skew-bald, pied. skab, double.
skill, reason, to know, signify, understand. skher, counsel, instruction.
skink, to ladle out. skhenkt, a ladle.
skink, to drink, pour out, fill the glass. skann, imbibe, give liquor to, pour out.
skittle, to hack. skhet, wound, blow.
skute, small tow-boat. skat, to tow; skhet, a boat.
sky. skhi, image of heaven.
sky, to toss up. ski, to elevate.
slasher, name of the fighter. sersh, name of a military standard.
slew, to turn round, re-arrange. sru, to dispose at pleasure, place, arrange.
slewed, to be drunk sru, to drink.
slick or silk. serk or selk, smooth, polish.
slon, a name of the sloe. slon, a thorn, in Hebrew.
smack, sound of a kiss; smacker, to kiss. smakh-kh, rejoice.
smeeth, the rub with soot; smut, blacks. smat, to black the eyebrows with stibium.
smentini, (Eng. Gipsy) name of cream. smen, constitute, fix, make durable; tena,
divided, apart.
smeth, depilatory ointment. smeh, anoint.
smi, a fish, ―Apua, a smi, which if kept smi, name of Typhon the Apophis or ―Appu‖
long will turn to water.‖—Nomencla. of the waters.
snaich, thief in the candle. seniu, thieves, thievish.
snap, take quickly, hastily. snhap, take.
snash (Scotch), blackguardly, foul abuse. shanash, stink, foul, impure.
snatch, a hasp; snitch, to confine by tying. snett, to tie, tie up, to found by tying up.
sneeze, with the custom of invoking a bless- snes, to invoke, to reveal, or discover itself.
ing.
snib, to shut up, fasten. snab, wall, case, enclose.
snitchel, used in measuring oats. snith, measure.
snoo, noose. senhu, bind, prison.
snood, to bind the hair. sen, to tie, bind; aat, a net.
snout, an organ of breathing. ssnut, breath, with nose sign.
snow, snew, old spelling; sna (Scotch), ssnu, breath, images, or to image; sna,
snow; snift, to snuff up with the breath, breathe.
also a slight snow.
snuggle, hold close to the breast. snk, to suckle a child.
snuskin, a little delicacy. snus, nourish.
so, pregnant (Gloucester). saa, belly, set up.
soap. sef, to purge and purify.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
some, a quantity. sam, a flock.
some, (in blithesome). sam, image, like, similitude.
son. sun, to be made, to become.
soot, black. sut, stibium, black.
soothe. suta, to please.
sop, soup. sefa, make humid, moisten; sefi, dissolve.
sort, to sort. sert, arrange, distribute.
sough, wind. suh, wind.
sound. sunnt, to make a foundation, open the ground.
south. sut, south.
space. sheps, to be conceived, figured, born, spaced.
speed. spet, pace.
spere, to ask, inquire. sper-t, to ask, supplicate.
spew, a fourth swarming of bees. spâu, to make fly.
spit (a) and a stride, very short distance. spithams, span.
spit, to lay eggs, to dig; spittling, preparing spet, create, prepare; spet, a pole of staff
soil; spitter or spit, a staff for weeding; (use unknown).
spade.
spit, with lips. spt, lips.
spole, shoulder; sprit, to split; spur, of sper, one side.
bacon.
spot. spet or setp, to select, choose.
spouse. spes, wife.
spunk. spu, creator, preparer; ankh, life.
spur, to spur; sper, to prop up. sper, to conduct, lead, cause to approach;
spr, to come to the side.
ss-collar. ss-t, a collar.
ssrue, son, child. sheru, child, son, junior.
sta, state, stay. sta, entwine, reel thread.
stab, stop. staibu, stop the ears.
stair or story. st, to extend; arru, ascend upward by steps.
stake, to shut up, fasten. steka, hide, lie hid, inside.
stall or stool for casks. ster, couch, to lay out.
stan, to reckon; stone. sten, to reckon.
stathe, a wharf. sta, conduct, tow.
stave, break down. stafu, to melt down.
steek (Scotch), to shut, a ditch. stek, to lie hidden, crawl, escape notice.
steg-month, the month of a woman‘s confine- stk, to lie hid, escape notice of.
ment; stag, to watch, keep a look out.
stell, to fix. ster, lay out.
sten (Scotch), to rear up, rise suddenly. sten or stenh, turn back, fly.
step. step, walk, circulate.
stert, the point of anything. steru, pierce.
steven, appointed. step, chosen, appointed.
stew. stu, pickle.
stick it in. stekh, makke not to see, hide.
still. ster, to lie on the back, supine, stretched
out dead.
stithe, firmly fixed. stat, tied up, bound, noose, cord.
stool. stur, couch.
stooth, to lath and plaster. stut, to preserve. embalm.
stotaye, to stagger. stut, to tremble.
stow, hinder, stop. stuha, repel.
stoyte (Scotch), the walk of a drunken man. stet, tremble, flutter, fearful; stet, liquor.
straight, street. stert, laid out.
stry, spoil, waste, destroy. stri, laid out, killed, destroyed.
stutter, stotor, a settler, a fearful blow. steter, frighten; stet, flutter, tremble.
suck. sák, draw.
sucke, juice; sukken, moisture. skeh, liquid
sue, to follow. sui, behind.
sue, to entreat. sua, come along.
sue, to issue in small quantities. suh, the egg.
suet. sat, grease.
suirt, to smooth off the sharp edge of a sert, sculpture.
hewn stone.
suist, an egotist. su, the personal pronoun.
suit. suta, please.
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sum and some, a total. sem, total.
summit, highest point. smat, end of a time.
sur, over, beyond, supra. ser, to extend.
sus, a nest (Eng. Gip.). sesh, nests.
suskin, a very small coin; siss, a great fat suskh, enlarge, stretch out.
woman.
suss, an interjection of invitation signifying suskh, free to go.
free to go; applied to hogs, dogs, &c.
Sussex, divided into six rapes. sus, No. 6; skeh, enclose, divide.
suze (Lanc.), six. ses, six.
swack, a blow, to throw violently, a whack. suakh, molest, cut up, harm, destroy.
sweet. set, aroma.
Sywed, priests of Kêd. sha-t, men kept to enforce the sacred laws.
T.
ta, to take. ta, take.
ta, the one. tai, the.
tabby, pied, grey (―an old tabby‖). ab, pied; t, the; tabi, a bear.
tabn, a piece of bread and butter. tep, bread.
tabor, small drum. tupar, tambourine.
tabs (Cor. Eng.), twitch harrowed out of the teb, to purify by fire.
ground in cleaning it; to be burnt.
tabularia, Druidic amulet shaped like an egg. teb, circle, circumference, something round,
sacred, an ark.
tache, clasp, tie, fasten, tacked together. tekh, join, bind, unite, adhere.
tack (ship), crossing. tek, crossing.
tack, bad ale. tekh, supply with drink, wine, liquid.
tade, to take. tat, take.
taff, a Welsh cake shaped like a man riding tept, a cake; teb, a goat.
on a goat.
taffy, a Welshman (―Taffy was a thief‖). tefi, he, male; taûi (tafui), to steal.
tah, to drop, deposit excrement. ta, to drop, deposit excrement, earth.
taht, given. ta, to give; tat, take, assume, given.
take, lease. teka, tix, attach.
take-on, associate with. teken, to accompany, frequent.
takene, to declare, to show, token. tekhn, an obelisk, memorial.
tall. ter, extreme, extremity.
tally or tolly, male organ. ter, male organ.
tam, to cut or divide. tem, blade, cut to pieces.
tan, to pull, stretch out, beat out. tun, to estend, spread, lengthen out.
tane, the one. tan, this.
tanist, heir-apparent. tehan, heir-apparent; ast, geat, noble, ruler.
tanist-stone (Keltic), coronation stone. ten, seat, throne; ast, sign of rule.
tannin, a preserving substance. tahnen, a preserving substance.
tant, disproportionately tall. tent, pride, rise up.
tantivy, toifonn (Ir.), coursing with dogs. tanh, fly, flee away; tefi, send away, dance,
or, as we might say, ―go it.‖
tap, to call attention. taf, attention.
tap, of drum. tab, a drum.
tar, to urge on. tar, urge, require.
tarse, mentula. tar, mentula.
tart, a cake. tert, a cake.
tasker, the reaper. askh, mow; t, the.
tass or tassie, a wine cup or measure. tes, a pint.
tat (Ir.), first day of harvest. tat, beginning; tet, seed, fruit.
ta-ta, leave-taking. tat, take; ta, leave; tata, go.
tatel, to stammer. titi, to stammer.
tath (pres. t.), taketh. tat, take, assume.
tatting, crossing by knitting. tat, cross, to establish.
tautle, to toss the head; taunt. tun, rise up, revolt.
tavas (Cor. Eng.), a tongue, token. tep, a tongue, typhon.
taw, to stretch; tease, stretch out. tehs, stretch.
tay, to take. ta, to take.
Tay, chief river in Scotland. tai, chief, go in a boat, navigable.
tazzle, entangle; tissue. tes, tie, coil.
te (Gael.), a woman. t, feminine article and sign of gender.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
te, to go, draw, pull, tug. ta, to go, to go in a boat.
tea or tay. tua, some kind of liquid.
team. tum, altogether.
teata, too much, surpassing, continual; too- teta, eternal.
too, exceedingly.
teb, fundament. teph, the abyss, the lower heaven.
teche, teach. Tekh (Taht, Divine Word), the teacher.
tectly, secretly, covertly. teka, lie hid, escape notice, unseen.
tee-hee, laughter. tehhi, rejoice; tehhut, rejoiced.
teet of day, peep of day. tuaut, morning, dawn.
teme, race, progeny, to beget. tam, male, to make again, issue; tamu,
generation; tam, race.
teme, make empty; tame, to broach liquor. teham, visit, waste.
tempre, to rule; tame, to subdue. tam, sceptre.
ten, number in reckoning; a half-score. ten, reckon, amount; ten, highest, Egyptian
troy weight; tna, a half.
tench, ―the tench‘s mouth,‖ subanatomic tensh or kensh, snap at, extort, hunt, de-
term. light, determinative a fish, perhaps the tench.
tende, to stretch forth; tense. tens, stretcher.
tent. tenn-t, throne, cabinet.
tent, intent, design, ―tak tent,‖ take care tent, reckoning; tent, having charge of.
of, reckoning.
tep, a draught of liquor. tep, to taste.
term or turn, a time. ter, a time.
test, testing. tes, self, substance, verdict.
tet, cow-dung. teta, defile.
tether, bind. tethu, contain, imprison.
tetta, ―shall we?‖ tet, speak, tell, speech.
teyne, a thin plate of metal. tahen, tin.
the, the article; taa, one. ta or te, article the.
theat, firm, close, united. tut, to unite.
thede, a country. tata, the double land.
thedom, prosperity. tet, to establish, sign of being established.
thekt, thought. hek, thought, charm, magic (t, the article).
thepes, gooseberries. tep, kind of goose.
thief. taf (tâ), to steal.
thin. tun, extend, spread, lengthen out.
thou. tu, thou.
thought, to image mentally. tut, image, type; Taht, the god of thought,
is also named Tekh.
thought, rower‘s seat across a boat. tat, to cross.
thraw, a turn, a turn of time, to twist around. teru, a turn, a turn of time.
threp, torture. taru, afflict, bruise, rub.
through, thorough. teru, extreme limit.
throw, a space of time. tru, a space of time.
thunder. tun, to extend, spread, lengthen out; ter, the
extreme limit.
thunk, a lace of white leather. unkh, strap, sash, noose, support, dress; (t,
the).
tidings. tet, speak, tell.
tie. tá, not; determinative, tie of a book or roll.
tig, a game of crossing the frontier and taka, a frontier, to cross.
touching.
tight, quick, instantaneous. teka, a spark.
tight, fixed. teka, fixed; teka, adhere.
timarrany, two poor things. tem, a total of two.
time, to call. tema, announce.
tin, money. ten, account.
tine, bind a hedge, enclose. tenh, to bind, to hold.
tined, divided. tent, separated.
tinestocks, the two scythe-handles. tena, two halves; tenh, to hold.
ting, to split; tine, fork. tena, cut in two; tenh, divided.
tinse, to tinse, cover a ball with worsted tens, part of a net, a mesh.
work.
tint, gone, fled, lost. tenh, flee.
tint, half-bushel of corn. tent, half-measure.
tiny, a moth. tenhu, wings, fly.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
tip, the tip or forecast as to the winner of a tep, to guess.
race.
tip, head. tep, head.
tip-teerers, Christmas mummers. tef, dance; ter-rer, go round at certain
times or seasons; tep-ter, commencement
of a season.
tipe, globe; tips, faggots; tippet. teb, crown, a jug, jar, chaplet, a round, clothe,
clad.
tipped, headed; top, head. tep, head.
tiret, leather straps for hawks; thwart, strap teher, leather; tehert, leather buckler.
across.
tirr (Scotch), work. ter, work, fabricate.
tit for tat. tut, to give; tat, to take.
tit, a galloping goer; teite, quick. tat, go galloping.
tith, fiery. tet, fire, jet of flame.
titmose, pudendum, f., Rel. Ant. 2. 28. mes or mest, the place of birth, sexual part.
ti-top, name of a garland. ti, honour; teb, chaplet, a crown of flowers.
tizt, tied. test, tie.
toast. tes, hard, dense.
toddy, the two-one, as a drink; titty, ditto, teti, the two-one, as lunar deity.
as breast; ditto, doubled; teeth, double-
rowed.
toes, the five. tu, No. 5.
token (early, teken), to mark. tekhen, obelisk, monument.
token. tekhen, to wink.
ton, unity of weight. tennu, unity of weight.
tongs. ankh, a pair, and to clasp; t, article.
toot, to blow a horn for telling. tet, to tell.
top, a-top, head (the Irish ―top of the morn- tep, head, heaven; tep, the point of com-
ing to ye‖). mencement.
top, which spins round. tep, potter‘s clay, spun round.
torete, a ring; turret. taru, encircle, a cell, a college.
tosie (Scotch), ruddy with warmth. tesh, red.
tot, generative member. tut, generative member.
tot, a hill. tu-t, rock, mountain.
total. tot, the hand; totu, both hands; L (ru),
mark of division.
tot-hill, head of cross-ways. tata, head of roads; tat, pillar, landmark,
cross.
tou, snares for game. tuia, net, catch, return.
tourte, bread made of unbolted meal. tert, kind of food, a cake.
tow, tow a boat. tau, navigation.
toy, an ancient Scotch female head-dress. taui, a cap, kind of linen, linen object.
trape, the wing, said of the lover in wooing. trup, receive favourably.
tree. tru, a kind of tree; teru, roots, stems.
tremble. trem, cause to weep.
trip. tref, dance, sport, lively.
trip, new, soft cheese, made of milk; tripe. trep, food.
tro (Cor. Eng.), turn, circuit. tru, turn, time, season.
tropic, two circles parallel to the equator be- tro, time, a turn: pekh, division, dividing
tween which the sun‘s annual path is con- time.
tained.
true, the true. tru, time.
try, a sieve, to sieve. tar, a sieve; ter, to rub, drive away, ques-
tion.
tu, ―Where hast tu been‖ (Lancashire). tu, thou.
tu, work hard. tu, go.
tuadh (Ir.), North pole. tat, image of the Eternal.
tuagh (Gaelic), battle-axe. tu, slaughter, kill; aka, an axe.
tuar (Ir.), a bleaching green. tur, wash, purify, whiten.
tub, for washing in, an old ship. teb, box, jar, chest, or ark.
tuen, to go. tu, go along.
tuff, to spit like a cat. tef, to spit.
tuff, a tassel. “tufi,” papyrus reeds, which were tasselled.
tuir (Gael.), to mourn. tur-t, mourners.
tunic. unkh, dress; t, the.
tup, to bow to a person before drinking. teb-teb, humble, fall low.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
turret. ter, kind of crown; ret, steps up.
tut-sen (Cor. Eng.), healing-plant, supposed tut, type; san, to heal.
to be the French tout-saine.
tutsen (Cor. Eng.), sweet-leaf plant. tut-san, health-giving.
tuz, knot of wool or hair. tes, tie, coil, joint, a tied-up roll.
twat, pudendum. tuaut, strumpter, a receptacle.
twig, to perceive. tek, to seem hidden.
twist. tust, twist.
twitty, cross. tat, cross.
twy, two. ti, two.
“tyb of the buttery,‖ a goose; thep, a tep, a kind of goose.
gooseberry.
typh-wheat, corn like rye. tef, grain.
U.
ubbly bread, sacramental cakes. apru, consecrated.
ucaire (Ir.), a fuller. akh, white.
uchab (Welsh), supreme. kef, force, puisance, potency; khep, to create.
uchel (Welsh), lofty; ucht (Irish), hill. ukh, a column; akha, elevate.
ucht (Gael.), breast, bosom, lap, womb. kat, womb.
ugh! houge! ugge! ukha, night.
ughten-tide, morning.
uist, western isle, English west. uast, the Thebaid, West Thebes.
um, ―I see,‖ or ―let me see.‖ um, perceive.
un (Cor. Eng.), a while. un, a time, an hour.
up up. ap-ap, to mount swiftly
uppen, to disclose, open, heaven. uben-t, informant; ubn, sunrise, opening,
light.
ure, use, custom, practice. ur, that which is first, chief, oldest.
urf, a stunted elf-like child. erp, the Repa-child.
urne, to run. urn, a name of the inundation.
usere, a usurer. user, power, force, rule, sustain, possession,
prevail.
utensil. utensu, some utensil, a box.
utter, publish. utau, speak out, give out voice.
V.
vaga, to wander about idly, whence vagabond. uka, idle, idleness, rob.
vane, weathercock. pena, to reverse, return.
vat and faud, a fold. a-t, place, cabin, house, shrine, enclosure;
aut, shepherd‘s crook.
vese, to hurry up and down. as (fas), haste.
victor. fekh, to capture, take captives; teru, all,
wholly.
W.
wack, sufficient quantity of drink. uika, a week, a full measure of time.
wad or woad, colour for staining, also black- uat, colour for eyes, collyrium; uat, a blue
lead (see Pliny). cosmetic.
“wad,” a mark to guide men in ploughing. uat, order, transmit; uti, word; uah,
ploughman.
wad, word. uti, the word, Taht.
wahts, greens. uat, different kinds of green.
wain, carriage. khen, carriage.
wake or week. uaka, a festival and a week.
wakes, row of damp green grass; wax, to uakh, marsh, meadow.
grow, to thrive.
wane. annu, recoil, look back, turn back; un, show,
appear wanting, defective.
wap, futuere. khep, to generate.
waps, wasp. kheb, wasp.
warp. kherp, a first form, figure.
warre, wary, aware, war; harr, dog‘s snarl. uhar,dog.
wart. uart, a knob at the top of the Atef crown.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
was. uhas, lose, forget, neglect; uh, escape from;
as, depart.
wash. ash, wet, moisture; kash, wash.
wassail, call health, wish. uash, call.
waste. ust, waste, ruin, blot.
wat (Scotch), a man‘s upper dress, a wrap. uat, wraps.
watchet, blue. uat, a blue cosmetic, paint.
water. uat-ur, water.
wath, a ford. khet, a ford; uat, water.
wattle-jaw, a long jaw. uat, distance, length.
waught, a deep draught. uah, very mich; uat, transmit, liquid.
wawe, woe. uha, sack, lay waste, want, long for, desire.
way, modified from the harder form. uakh, road, way.
wb-wb (Ir.), cry of distress, weep. heb-heb, weep, wail.
weaky, moist. uakha, marsh, meadow.
wearied. urrut, peaceable, meek, figure squatting.
weave. ââ (faf), knit.
wed, a pledge. khet, a seal, to seal.
weem, Pict‘s house. khem, shrine, box, or small house.
weigh. khekh, balance.
weights, waite, to know; weight, means uts, try, examine, suspend, weigh, stillyard,
of; what? weet, wit. stand, weights of a balance.
Wessex. uas, western.
wet. uat, water.
weyd-month, June. uat, green, fresh plants, herbs, grass; Uat,
goddess of green things.
weye, to go; ye, to go. ui, go, go along.
wharf or warp, a shore, boundary, bank. arp, to bind or bound, a bundle.
wharre, crabs. kar, to claw, seize with claw.
whaten, what like. kheten, similitude.
whatten, what kind; wita-gemote, place uta, examine, question, verify, decide; khe-
of deciding. mat, for securing truth and justice.
wheam, womb. khem, shrine, feminine abode, snug, very
close.
whean, a worthless woman. khennu, concubine.
wheant, quainte. khent, feminine interior.
wheat, corn; ith (Ir.), corn; yd (Welsh), uahit, corn, wheat.
corn; had (Welsh), seed.
wheden, fool. khat, fool.
whee, a cow. kai, cow.
wheel (by permutation). urr, wheel.
wheen-cat, a female cat. khen, female.
whenny, make haste, be nimble. khena, fly.
whent, terrible. khen-t, typhonian, adverse, disaster, calamity.
wherry, a light rowing boat. kheru, an oar sign; urri, chariot.
whet, to cut. khet, to cut.
whiff, a glimpse. khef, a look.
whimling, childish, weakly; whim. khem, small, weak.
whip. uaf or auf, to chastise.
whip the cat, get drunk. kabh, libation.
whip-jack, a beggar who pretends to be a kheb, hypocrisy, deceit, be in disguise.
distressed sailor.
whipper, a lusty wencher. khepr, generate, beget.
white. hut, white.
“white it!” ―devil take it.‖ hut, demon.
why? uaui, meditate, discourse, to reason why.
wi, a man. ui, he, him.
wicca, magic, witchcraft. huka, magic.
wick, entrance, bay, inlet, narrow passage. uakh, entrance, road.
wicke, wickedness. khakh, obstinate, coward, mad, fool.
widdie (Scotch), a rope or binding made of huit, bundle up, bind up reeds.
withys or osiers; with, for binding; with-
bine.
widow. uta, solitary, separated, divorced.
wig or wicche, an idol or spirit. ukh, spirit.
wine, the wind. khen, to blow, impel a boat.
winnow. khena, to blow, puff away, avert.
ENGLISH. EGYPTIAN.
wish. uash, invoke, wish; usha, to aspire.
wish-rod, must be forked. uas, a sceptre, forked.
wisp, bundle of straw. usb, stack.
wit, withe, wite. ut,magic.
wit, to know. uta, to examine, verify.
witch. uit, magic; ka, person or function.
wite, to depart, go out. uti or utui, journey, expedition.
woh, to horses, be still, stop. uoh, abide, be quiet.
won, to dwell, inhabit. un, to dwell; uni, inhabitants.
woot, call to horses. aut, go along.
word. uart, indicated by foot, leg, go, fly, that is, to
carry word.
worth. her-t, superior, above.
worth, a nook of land. hert, a park, garden.
worth-ship. hert, superior, high above; shep, type of.
wrap. arp, to bind, bundle.
writ, a legal process. rut, the judge—Rutamenti, judge in amentes.
write. ruit, engrave, figure.
wysse, to direct, conduct, command. hess, to order, will, command.
X.
xenia, New Year‘s offering. khen, act of offering; kennu, plenty, abund-
ance, riches.
Y.
yacht. iti, a boat.
yanks, labourers‘ leggings. ankh, strap, dress.
yape, futuere. hap, unite, couple, marriage.
yat, heifer. Athor, heifer, Goddess; kat or hat, cow.
yaud, an old horse. aat, old, outcast.
yede, went. khet, to go, went.
yep-sintle, two handfuls. sen, two.
yeth-hounds, spirit hounds of clear shining hut, demon, spirit, light, white.
white.
yetholm, the Gipsy locality near Kelso. uat, a name of Lower Egypt.
yore. ur, old, oldest.
young, junior. hun, youth.
youth. uth, youth.
ysse, in thy seat. hess, seat or throne.
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NOTE—The compiler is, of course, aware that a few of these words may be
claimed to have been directly derived from the Latin or Greek, but they are printed
here on purpose to raise the question of an independent derivation from a common
source. Sane, for example, and sanitary, believed to come from the Latin, may be
directly derived from san (Eg.), to heal (p. 71); and he holds tha tin this and
numerous other instances the Egyptian underlies both.
SECTION III.
HIEROGLYPHICS IN BRITAIN.
IN his Treatise of the ―New Manneris and the Auld of Scottis,‖

the ancient chronicler Boece says the old inhabitants ―used the
rites and manners of the Egyptians, from whom they took their
first beginning. In all their secret business, they did not write with
common letters used among other people, but with cyphers and figures of
beasts made in manner of letters.‖
He is unable to tell how the secret of this crafty method or writing
was lost, but affirms that it existed and has perished. We know the
principle of Ideographic writing was extant in what are termed the
Tree-Alphabets, in which the sprigs of trees formed the signs.
Taliesin alludes to this kind of writing when he says, ―I know every
reed or twig in the cave of the chief Diviner,‖ and ―I love the tops
of trees with the points well connected;‖ these were the symbolical
sprigs used for divination and as ideographs before they were reduced
to phonetic value. The language of flowers is a form of the same
writing.
In the time of Beli the Great, say the Welsh traditions, there were
only sixteeb ―AWGRYMS‖ or letter-signs, and these were afterwards
increased to twenty and finally to twenty-four. One account states
that in the first period of the race of the Kymry the letters were called
―YSTORRYNAU.‖ Before the time of Beli-ap-Manogan there were ten
primary YSTORRYN or YSTORRYNAU, which had been a secret from
everlasting with the bards of the Isle of Britain. Beli called them
letters, and added six more to the earlier ten. The sixteen were
made public but the original ten YSTORRYNAU were left under the
seal of secrecy. It will be suggested hereafter that BeIi is the Sabean
Baal, the first son of the mother who in Egypt was Bar-Sutekh
(Sut-Anubis), the earliest form of Mercury, who became the British
Gwydion called the inventor of letters; that Gwyd is Khet or Sut,
and that the same original supplied the Greeks with their Kadmus,
who is also accredited with introducing the sixteen letters into Greece.
But at first there were only ten primary letters or YSTORRYNAU.
Now in Egyptian ―TERU‖ is a type name for drawing, writings,
papyrus rolls, stems, roots, literature, the ―rites‖ of Taht, the
divine scribe. Nau (Nu) denotes the divine or typical. Ys is
the well-known Welsh prefix which augments and intensifies.
There were ten of these branches on the first tree of knowledge.
Kat (Eg.) is the name of the tree of knowledge. That is our
British Kêd, who is the tree, and Kat or Ked reappears as the
Gwyd or wood of the Druids. The typical tree of Kêd or Ogyrven,
one of her two chief characters, was an apple-tree, on which the
mistletoe, the divine branch, is often found growing, and this gave
the type name to the tree eof knowledge with the British Barddas.
Taliesin says seven score Ogyrvens pertain to the British Muse.1 The
brindled ox of Hu had seven score knobs on his collar. The number
of stones in the complete temple of Stonehenge has been computed
at seven score. The ―Avallenau,‖ or apple-trees, were the wood of
the tree of knowledge, and these are represented as being 147
in number. From a poem written by Merddin we gater that there
was a garden or orchard containing 147 apple-trees or sprigs, which
could be carried about by him in all his wanderings. The bard
bemoans that the tree of knowledge and the shoots have now to be
concealed in the secresy of a Caledonian wood. The tree still
grows at ―the confluence of streams‖ the two waters, but has no
longer the ―raised circle‖ and the protective surroundings of old.
The Druids and their lore are being hunted to death by the Chris-
tians, the ―Men in black.‖ Merddin and a faithful few still guard the
tree of knowledge although their persecutors are now more numerous
than their disciples. This tree of knowledge has seven score and seven
shoots or sprigs, composing the whole book, and these may now be
claimed as ideographs and hieroglyphics which deposited their phonetic
values in the tree alphabets. Thus the tree of knowledge the KAT
(Eg.), the Welsh GWYD is the representative of the mother Ked, who
is identified by Taliesin with Ogyrven.2
Ogyrven has an earlier form in Gogyrven, and Khekr (Eg.) means
to adorn, a collar, or necklace, which in the lunar reckoning had ten
points or branches as is implied in the name of Menat. Afterwards
the collar worn by the mother Isis had nine points or beads according
to the solar reckoning. Ogyrven is one of two characters of Kêd
and Keridwen the other. When interpreted by the doctrine of the
Two Truths, these are identical with the divine sisters, Neith and
Nephthys. KHARIT (Eg.) means the widow. Keridwen is the widow
lady in the mystical sense. She was the one alone. Ogyrven is called
Amhat, she like Nephthys is the goddess of seed, or the seeded (Neft).
It is in keeping that Gogyrven (Ogyrven) means some kind of spirit.
1 Preiddeu Annwn. 5. 2 Skene, Four Ancient Books of Wales¸ ii. 154.
H IEROGLYPHICS IN B RITAIN . 85
Breath was the first spirit and this was the mother of breath, the other
of the water.
In the chapters on the Typology of Time and Number, it will be
shown how the tree of knowledge put forth its ten branches. It was
at a time when the number ten was reckoned on both hands. In
Egyptian Kabti is two arms. Khep is the hand and ti is two, thus
Khepti or Khep. which becomes Kat and Kêd, is equivalent to both
hands or ten digits. The Ogham alphabet is digital, and five of its
digits read QV (Welsh), that is Kher (Eg.) one hand. Two hands or
ten digits then represent the tree of Kêd, or Kat called knowledge.
And as the ten digits were a primary limit it may be conjectured
that the ten original YSTORRYNAU were represented by the ten first
signs of the Ogam alphabet, the ciphers spoken of by Boece.
A document on Bardism cited by Silvan Evans, 1 says the three
so-called ―beams‖ were the three elements of a letter. These
three consist or the right hand, left hand, and middle, and that from
these were formed the sixteen Ogyrvens or digits. If we reduce the
sixteen to the earlier ten we have the ten digits. And these mystical
strokes include a right-hand one and a left-hand one. They are a
figure of the Triad consisting of the one, who was the Great Mother,
with two manifestions, whether these two were the two sisters, the
twin brothers, or the dual IU, the young God. The Barddas assert
that the three strokes, beams, or ―shouts‖ rendered the name of the
deity as IAU the younger. These emanated from the hieroglyphic
Eye, to form the name that is one with the AU or IU of Egypt.
They represented the ―CYFRIU‖ name of the Trinity, or the thrice-
functioned HU, says Myfyr Morganwg.2 Khpr-iu as Egyptian would
denote the transformation of the one into the Duad,and this mean-
ing has been preserved in the ―Cyfriu‖ sign of the Druids. Also
Gafl in Welsh is the fork; GEVEL (Breton) is dual. The two hands,
the ten branches of the one tree of knowledge then, were a dual
symbol of KAT, KÊD, or KHEFT.
The number seven is the base of the seven-score and seven branches,
and in Egyptian the word Khefti or Hepti also means number seven.
Thus the seven and ten meet in one word; because the ti may be read
as two or as twice. Khep is the hand and Seb is five, thus Seb-ti—
five-two—is seven, and Kepti, or Khefti, is two hands, or number ten.
When this tree of knowledge is recovered it will be seen that the
Druids possessed it, root and branch.
TERUU (Eg.) denotes branches and stems, we may say, of the tree
of knowledge, and it is also the name of drawings and of papyrus
rolls. The first Ystorrynau were the branches of the hands, the ten
digits; then the branches of the tree were sprigs of trees. Now in the
old Egyptian stage of speech the words are isolated, and there is no
distinction between the root and stem. The word stands for the thing
1 Skene‘s Four Ancient Books of Wales, ii. 324. 2 Vide Letter.
rather than the thought because the thinkers were the THINGERS,
and they who used the word as bare root had to obtain their variants
by pointing to still other things. These variants were not repre-
sented by kindred words but by ideographic determinatives. It is
here we have to look for the cognates, the branches, so to say, of the
root. These were expressed in pictures, in gestures, and in tones,
before the verbal variants were evolved. So the Grebos of Africa
are still accustomed to indicate the persons and tenses of the verb by
gesture signs. The Druidic sprigs belong to this ideognphic stage.
They were both the typical and the literal branches of speech in
British hieroglyphics.
It is noticeable that the Damara tribes of Amca are subdivided
into a numher of EUNDAS (Clans or Ings) as the Sun-Children, Moon-
Children, Rain-Children, and other Totemic types, and each Eunda
has a sprig of some tree for its emblem. The Druidic sprigs, based on
the number seven and extending to seven-score seven, doubtless
originated in the same primary kind of heraldry, and their phonetic
deposits are, as said, the tree alphabets.
In connection with the British TORRYNAU, it may be remarked
en passant that, according to Eliphas Levi (nom de plume of the
Abbé Constant), in his History of Magic, there is it hieroglyphic
alphabet in the TAROT cards; these were distinguished from
cards by the license of the French dealer who sold ―Cartes et
TAROTS.‖ There is a Kabalist tradition that the TAROT was
invented by Taht the originator of types. These cards are still
preferred by fortune-tellers. The name, if Egyptian, connects them
with magic and divination. Ter or tri is to interrogate, invoke,
question. Ut is magic. TAR-UT therefore means magical evocation;
magic applied to ―TRYING the spirits‖ or evoking them. Also TERUT
signifies the teru (Eg.) or coloured drawings, with the determinative
of the hieroglyphist‘s pen and paints. The Tarot cards when inter-
preted by the Kabalist tradition were Terut or hieroglyphical drawings.
The Druids were in possession of the symbolic branch for the type
of the youthful Sun-god, who was annually reborn as the offshoot
from the tree. The mistletoe was their branch that symbolized the
new birth at the time of the winter solstice. All its meaning is
carefully wrapt up in its name. Mes (Eg.) is birth, born, child. Ter
is time, and a shoot, which was the sign of a time. Ta is a type, also
to register, the Mis-tel-toe is the branch typical of another birth of time
personified as the child, the prince, the branch; prince and branch
being identical, a form of the branch of the Panygeries on which Taht
the Registrar registered the new birth of the Renpu. The branch in
Welsh is PREN corresponding to RENPU (Eg.) the shoot sign of youth
and renewa1. The branch of mistletoe was called PREN PURAUR
the branch of pure gold, and PREN UCHELVAR. It had five names
derived from Uchel the Lofty. The word will yield more meaning.
The Lofty was the tree, the aak or oak, and Ai (Eg.) i.s the child
or son of; the mistletoe was at times born of the oak.
The hieroglyphic shoot is well preserved in the Mayers‘ song in
celebrating their form of the branch—
― It is but a sprout,
Yet it‘s well-budded out.‖1
The shoot or RENPU is carried in the hands of Taht, the god of

speech, of numbering and naming, who is the divine Word in person.
From the branch the Druids derived their Colbren, the wood of credi-
bility, the staves on which their runes were cut. BREN is a later
form of PREN. PREN is the REN, just as PREF, the snake, is the
REF. The R EN is the branch, and ren (Eg.) means to call by name.
Coel answers to Kher (Eg.) the word, to speak, utterance, speech, voice.
Thus the Colbren is the branch of the word, the wood of speech,
identical with the REN (renpu) of Taht, and the emblem of that
branch which was the word or Logos impersonated as the British
DOVYDD.
The palm is the typical tree of time and of letters, a form of
course of the tree or life and knowledge; it is the symbol of
reckoning time. In Egyptian it is named BUK or BEKA, the
original or BÔKA (Gothic), and the English BEECH. In Persian the
oak is named BÛK. The trees may be various, the name is one on
account of the type. The palm-shoot was the book of the scribe,
and the beech-tree is the book-tree, because its bark was used for
inscribing upon. The Buka or palm-branch on which time was
reckoned finally yields us the name of the book.
One of the types of Palm Sunday is the cross made of palm-
branches. In the northern counties Palm Sunday is a day of great
diversion, old and young amuse themselves in making crosses to be
stuck up or suspended in houses. In the latter part of the day the
young of both sexes sally forth and asssault all unprotected females
whom they meet with, seizing their shoes, which have to be redeemed
with money. On Monday it is the turn of the men who are treated
in the same manner.2
The palm cross primarily represents the Crossing, not the crucifixion,
and is the same symbol of the equinoctial year as it was in the hands
of Taht or An, as the sign of a time.
In the unavoidable quotation from Pliny we are told ―the Druids
(so they call the wise men) hold nothing in greater revcrence than
the MISTLETOE, and the tree on which it grows, so that it be an oak.
They choose forests of oaks, for the sake of the tree itself,
and perform no sacred rites without oak leaves, so that one might
fancy they had even been called for this reason, turning the word
1 Brand, May-Day Customs. 2 Dyer, 133.

into Greek, Druids. But whatever grows upon these trees, they hold
to have been sent from heaven, and to be a sign that the deity
himself had chosen the tree for his own. The thing, however, is very
rarely found, and when found is gathered with much ceremony; and
above all, on the sixth day of the moon, by which these men reckon
the beginnings of their month and years, and of their cycle of thirty
years (the Egyptian Sut-Heb), because the moon has then sufficient
power, yet has not reached half its size. Addressing it in their own
language by the epithet of all-healing, after duly preparing sacrifices
and banquet under the tree, they bring to the spot two White Bulls,
the horns of which are then for the first time garlanded. The priest,
clothed in a white dress, ascends the tree, and cuts the mistletoe with
a golden knife; it is caught in a white cloak. Thereupon they slay
the victims, with a prayer that the deity may prosper his own gift
to them, to whom he had given it. They fancy that by drinking it,
fertility is given to any barren animal, and that it is a remedy against
all poisons.‖1
He also says, ―Like to the Sabine herb is that called SELAGO. It
is gathered, without using a knife, with the right hand wrapped in a
tunic, the left being uncovered, as though the man were stealing it; the
gatherer being clothed in a white dress with bare feet washed
clean, after performing sacrifice before gathering it with bread and
wine. It is to be carried in a new napkin. According tothe tradition
of the Gaulish Druids, it is to be kept as a remedy against all evil, and
the smoke of it is good for diseases of the eyes. The same Druids
have given the name of SAMOLUS to a plant that grows in wet
places; and this they say must he gathered with the left hand by
one who is fasting, as a remedy for diseases of swine and cattle,
and that he who gathers it, must keep his head turned away, and
must not lay it down anywhere except in a channel through which
water runs, and there must bruise it for them who are to drink it.‖2
In this account the Branch is identined with that of time. The
number six is the measure of compatibility, and in the representation
of the coronation of Rameses II., at Medinet-Habu, the king is
offering to the god Amen-Khem, in presence of the god Sut and the
WHITE BULL, six ears of grain which he cuts with a golden sickle.3
The juice of SAMOLUS is the equivalent of the SAMA juice of the
Hindu ritual and the HOMA of the Avesta. SMA means to invoke,
and LUS (rus) denotes the rising or resurrection. Also SEMHI is
a flame for the left hand in Egyptian, SAMILI in Assyrian, Sema in
Fijian.
The reed in the hieroglyphics is the symbol of the scribe. RUI is
the Reed-Pen, whence RUIT to figure, engrave, our word write, and
the reed was the sign of writing. Taliesin boasts that he knows
1 Pliny, Hist. Nat. lib. 15, s. 95 2 Pliny, lib. 24, s. 62-3.
3 Wilkinson, Thebes, p. 62.

―every reed in the cave of the chief diviner,‖ a holy sanctuary there
is; the small reeds, with joined points, declare its praise. The
Egyptians made their pens and paper from the Papyrus reed, and the
reed is celebrated as composing the mystical characters of the Druidic
writings. The rush and reed may be hieroglyphically read.
The name of the Son Su is written with the reed shoot. The
shoot, whether of the reed or branch, is the emblem of renewal, the
symbol of the Solar Son who was rebom at the time of the Vernal
Equinox.
As late as the end of last century, at Tenby in Wales, young
people would meet together to ―make Christ's bed‖ on Good Friday.
They gathered a quantity of reed-leaves (the shoots of the stem)
from the river and wove them into the shape of a man; they then
laid the figure on a wooden cross and left it in some retired part of a
garden or field.1
The reed symbom was practically extant in our rush-bearings and
carrying of reeds at certain seasons, as the emblem of a time and
period such as the Feast of Dedication and various other festivals.
Armfuls of reeds were cut and tied up in bundles decorated with
ribbons and placed in churches.
In the hieroglyphics a bundle of reeds is the sign of a time (ter)
and indicator of a season. It also reads RET, to repeat, several.
At Weybridge, near Maldon, when the rushes were placed in the
church, small twigs were stuck in holes round the pews.2 The twig
is the other and chief hieroglyphic of a time, held in the hand of
Taht, the recorder of time. These tend to identify the symbolic
nature of the Man of Reeds stretched on a cross at the time of the
crossing.
The Man of Reeds was placed on the cross at Tenby. BI (Eg.)
is the place. Ten is the division, and the word means to extend and
spread, to fill up, terminate, and determine. TENNU are lunar eclipses,
which take place equinoctially. Tenby then is the place of the
crossing.
The leek or onion, the head-crest worn by the Welsh as a national
symbol, is one of the hieroglyphics. Leeks and onions were identi-
fied with the young sun-god Adon, at Byblos. They were exhibited
in pots, with other vegetables, called the Gardens of the Deity. The
Welsh wore the leek in honour of Hu, one of whose names was
Aeddon. The onion with its heat and its circles was a symbol of the
sun-god Hu, in Egypt. It was named after him the HUT. Hut the
onion is also Hut the Hat, and Hat the Mace. The hieroglyphic Mace
or Hat is onion-headed.
One sign of Hu in the hieroglyphics is the Tebhut or Winged
Disk, sign of the Great God, Lord of Heaven and Giver of Life. It
1 Mason‘s Tales and Traditions of Tenby, p. 19.
2 Notes and Queries, vol. i. p. 471.
is the solar disk spread out. The leek or sprouting onion (Hut) of
Taffy is equally a Tebhut and a type of the solar god and source
of life.
The adder-stone of the Druids, said by Pliny to have been pro-
duced by serpents, was called the GLAIN, the Welsh GLAINIAU
NADREDD. Glain appears to have been a primitive kind of glass,
not yet transparent but glassy. Some of the specimens are com-
posed of mere earth glazed over. But they were all polished and
reflected light. In the ANGAR CYVYNDAWD, the question is asked,
―What brings forth the clear GLAIN from the working of stones?‖
obviously referring to the polishing of the surface. From this polish
or glaze it had a mirror-like power. Hence the glain was a type
of renovation and the resurrection. Mielyr, a bard of the twelfth
century, sings of the holy island of the GLAIN, to which pertains a
splendid representation of ―re-exaltation,‖ or resurrection. My ob-
ject here, however, is only to point out that an Egyptian reviewer
says of a work, ―Thy piece of writing has too much GLANE in it,‖
meaning glitter, as if be had said it was like the glazed earth, not
like the transparent glass. The Egyptians of that time—Rameses II.
—were making literary GLANE. 1 A variant of the Glane is to be
found in CLOME, a Cornish name for a glazed earthenware cup.
Also Gloin, in Welsh, is a name of coal.
There can be nothing incredible in supposing that the Druids also
made pictographs, and drew the ―figures of beasts.‖ In fact
we know they did. Near Glamis there is, or was, a stone, on which
was engraved a man with the head of a crocodile. Sefekh the
Capturer was the crocodile-headed god of Egypt, who was depicted
as a man with the head of a crocodile. Now the name of Sefekh
also signifies No. 7, the crocodile identifies the figure with Sut,
and the Druids employed what they termed their seven-stone,
which was also called the SAID or SYTH-stone. Thus hieroglyphi-
cally Sefekh identifies the seven-stone with Sut, whose emblem was
especially the stone of the seven.
Plutarch, on the authorlty of Manetho, tells us that ―Smy‖ was
one of the names of Typhon the Ap, Appu, or Apophjs of the
Waters, the Dragon of the Deep. SMI, as we team from the monu-
ments, means the conspirator, the lurking, deceitful one of the waters.
SMI has given his name to a small kind of fish, ―APPUA, a SMIE‖
(Nomencl). ―In Essex is a fish called a SMIE, which, if he be long
kept, will turn to water.‖ (Elyot.) Here we have the AP and SMIE
in one, based on the treacherous transformation which was Typhonian.
SMUI (Eg.) also means to pass, traverse; and this enters into the name
of the rabbit‘s passage, the (A.S.) SMIE-gelat or coney-hole.
The hinder thigh, called the Khef, Khepsh, or Kheft, is an
ideograph of the Great Bear, and its goddess, the Good Typhon. In
1 Brugsch-Bey, History of Egypt¸vol. ii. p. 104. Eng. Tr.
Herefordshire, a particular part of the round of beef is the KEVIN,
that is the hinder thigh of the animal; and the joint constitutes one
of the hieroglyphics in England. Khep, the hinder part, is likewise
extant in the end or a fox‘s tail, called a CHAFE. Khef is the ges-
tator, the image of brooding life, and covey means to sit and brood
as a bird, hence a brood is the covey; and an Irish name for pregnancy
is Kobaille.
Other Typhonian relics might be coIlccted, but none more curious
than this. Sut was depicted as the ass-headed god. One of the
heads assigned to him as Sut-Nahsi is a black ass-headed bird, the
Neh, a foul night bird. This hieroglyphic in England would seem to
have been the bittern. And in the Arms of ―ASS-BITTER‖ there is
a bird called the ―ASS-BITTERN,‖ which is a Chimera with no likeness
in nature,1 but it is the very image of the ass-headed bird assigned
to Sut-Typhon.
The Cockatrice, a fabulous animal supposed to be hatched from the
eggs of a viper by a cock, is represented in heraldry as a cock with
the tail of a dragon. This is obviously a form of the Akhekh Dragon
of the hieroglyphics, a Chimera or griffin compounded of beast, bird,
and reptile. The Cockatrice is either the threefold Akhekh, or a
triple type of time.
Heraldry is as full of hieroglyphics as Derbyshire stone is of
fossils. The Unicorn of heraldry is identical with the type of Sut,
to be found in Champollion‘s Dictionaire.2 Also Suti, in the hard
form is Khuti, and the ass type of Sut is in Scotch the CUDDY.
The British Triads celebrate the great event of the bursting forth
of the Lake of Llion, caused by the AVANC, a monster that had to
be conquered and drawn to land by the three oxen of Hu-Gadern, so
that the lake should burst no more.3 The monster is identical with
the Egyptian Aphopbis or Akhekh, overcome by the Solar God,
depicted with sword-blades as the cutter, the destroyer of bounds,
and the analogue of the burster through the banks of the containing
lake. The Egyptian monster is called the Apap, Ap or Af, Hef,
Khef, Baba, in agreement with the Av-ank. Neka (Eg,) which also
reads N K, is an epithet of the Ap or Av, meaning the evil enemy,
the false, deluding, impious criminal one; the Crooked Serpent set
with blades. Therefore it is inferred that the Druidic AVANC is
none other than the APP-NK or Evil Aphophis that dwelt in the Pool
of Pantt the place of destruction and dissolution, in the bend of the
great void where the break might occur in the annual circle. The App
or Apap is also called Baba the Beast, and the animal identified with
the mythical Avanc is the BEAV-ER; this includes the name of
BABA and Apap.
In Dselana, an African dialect, the AFANK is a pig, an anima
1 Lower‘s Curiosities of Heraldry, p. 104. 2 No. 115.
3 Archæology of Wales, vol. ii. pp. 59-71.
that also represented the Apap in later Egypt, or was turned into
a type of the evil Typhon.
The pig, like the beaver, is, an animal that routs in the earth. In
Malay, Salayer, and Menudu, the pig has the Typhonian name of
Babi, and in Fulah, Babba is the Ass.
A form of the Aphophis monster or Akhekh dragon chained to
the bottom of the water, usually of a lake, is common to the legends
over all Ireland. The monster is supposed to rear its head aloft
once in seven years. The number here corresponds to that of its
heads in the Babyionian legends. The old Irish name of the dragon
is the ―BEIST,‖ and Typhon is called ―Baba the Beast.‖ St. Patrick
has now taken the place of Horus and St. George as the slayer or
conqueror of the dragon.
The title of this chapter however is used figuratively, although
the writer is not sure that even the phonetic hieroglyphics were
not once used in Britain. Among the stones at Macs How is
one that has some sort of inscription cut upon it. As no sense
could be made of the letters, the inscription was thrown aside,
a process never-ceasingly applied to our rude stone monuments.
The inscription is on the inner edge of the stone, and would be
hidden when the stone was in situ, therefore it was not for public
reading. It has the look of a mason‘s mark, which would direct the
workmen in placing it. So far as one can judge from the drawing
made by Farrer, and copied by Ferguson, it is quite possible the
inscription consists of four badly executed hieroglyphics. 1 The
y-shaped figure is a perfect likeness of the Prop sign, the ideograph
of SKHEN, to prop, and UTS, to sustain and support. The whole,
from right to left may be read ABTA UTS-TA or ABTA SKHEN-TA.
In either case it would intimate that the particular stone was intended
as one of the supports. Ab-ta will also read to be carried to the
front passage. But the Egyptian ABTA was the double holy house
of Anubis, the place of embalming, the abode of birth and re-birth;
the womb and tomb in one. The stone was discovered at Maes
How, the name of which may be found to have bearings on the
meaning of the word ―abta.‖ The hieroglyphic symbols however
are extant all over the world, in immemorial customs, in the mind‘s
chambers of imagery, and in every language. But nowhere do they
abound more than in our own land. Any number of these exist.
We use them constantly, without dreaming how intimately we are
acquainted with those strange-seeming hieroglyphics. We clothe our
minds and our bodies in them,and include them in every domain of
Art. The present writer has a very common bronze lamp for most
ordinary use, and of the cheapest kind. It is omamented by two
herons fishing. The heron, or Ibis, the fisher, was the type of
Taht (Tahuti), the Lunar God who carried the lamp of Ra through
1 Orkney inscriptions. Ferguson, Rude Stone Monuments.
the nocturnal heaven, and the lamp still carries the emblematic bird
of the reduplicator of light. That is the Lunar light; another is the
Solar. In this this lamp issues from the Lotus just as did the youthful
sun-god Horus in the symbolism of Egypt.
In the Neolithic Age the axe made of jade or nephrite was
most highly prized for its rarity, its hardness, and especially for its
beautiful deep-green hue. According to Mr. Dawkins, the only places
where nephrite is known to exist in the Old World are Turkestan
and China. 1 He therefore infers that it could only have been
brought into Britain from the East., along with all the superstitions
attending it.
This mineral stone is found also in New Zealand, where the
natives hold it in the same regard as do the Chinese, and as did the
Cave-dwellers of the Neolithic Age, who made charms and amulets of
it as well as axes. 2 It is possible that the name of JADE, or the
green stone, represents the Egyptian Uat, from an earlier KHUAT,
which is extant in an unexplained title. JOUDS or JADS, in Devon,
are RAGS, and UAT (Eg.) is the name of rags. To JOUDER is to
chatter or speak rudely, and UTA (Eg.) is to speak out, give out
voice. JUT and JET also render UT, to put forth. Uat, the name
of the Goddess of the North, likewise corresponds to that of KÊD.
Uat is the type-name for Green, and for the hard green stones, the
emerald, and the green felspar, and if so, the different UATU of Egypt
are tolerably certain to have included JADE among the green stones.
It will be important to ascertain whether Jade is or was a product
of Africa. The green felspar was, and that is so hard, a good knife
will scarcely scratch it. The Uat Stone was used for tablets, and
the word means to transmit. The green colour had all the signifi-
cance for the Egyptians that it had for the Aztecs, Chinese, and the
Neolithic men. The Uat (green) was a vestment used in certain
religious ceremonies. The Uat sceptre was carried by the goddess.
A variant of the word, Utu, (tablet) also signifies to wish, command,
direct, texts, inscriptions, and is a name for magic and embalmment.
The green stones were formed into amulets worn by the living and
buried with the dead. Moreover, it is manifest that the green axes
were often worn suspended as charms and ornaments, and not put to
common use. Now, although we cannot prove the axe of the hiero-
glyphic Nutr sign was of Green jade, or felspar, yet it is a stone axe
or adze of a most primitive type of the Kelt stone, and it is the ideo-
graph of the Divinity, God or Goddess. One meaning of the word
Nutr is to cut, work, plane, make. One Nutr is a carpenter, the
Kar-Nutr is a stone-mason, i.e., the stone-polisher. Thus to plane
wood and polish stone were once divine, and the stone-adze type of
1 Early Man in Britain, p. 281.
2 There is also an Assyrian cylinder, in the British Museum, made of jade,
inscribed with the word ―AKBIN.‖
working and making is the ideograph of the maker as the Divine
Creator, the Goddess and the God. The axe was buried as an amulet
in Egyptian tombs. When the the coffin of Queen Aahhept, the
ancestress of the 18th dynasty, was dug up not long since, an axe of
gold and others of bronze were found to have been buried with it.
In a paper read at the Anthropological Institute, May 25, 1880,
Professor J. Milne states that axes, generally of a GREENISH STONE
which appears to be a trachytic porphyry or andesite, have been
found in the mounds or middens of Japan, ascribed to the Ainos.
The axe in the British burial-place had the same symbolical
value, and its colour was like the evergreen, a type of the eternal.
UAT itself was of a bluish-green like the dual tint of water or the
holly-green with a bluish reflection. It was the colour of reproduc-
tion from the underworld. The Gods Num and Ptah were painted
with green flesh in this sense. The Egyptians made the symbolic
Eye with the Uat at colour, another figure of reproduction. The ring
of jade placed in the tomb was an ideograph of the resurrection as
much as the seal-ring (Khet) or the Eye in Egypt.
Mr. Renouf, the excellent grammarian, has lately made a special
study of all the passages in the texts in which the word NUTR
occurs, and his conclusion is that the one dominant sense of the
word is power, potency might. 1 But this endeavour to arrive at a
general sense in which the particlars are swallowed up, and to
attain the abstract of all that preceded the later stage of thought is
fatal to an understanding of the origines. We have to do with the
Thingers as the earlier thinkers, and must keep to their region of
things if we are to follow them instead of making them follow us.
We must abide by their ideographic types and variants, and find the
way to the origin of words by means of things.
The word Nutr has an earlier form in NUN-TER; Nu and Nun
are interechangeable, because both are written Nunu. Nun, like Nu,
means the type, image, figure 1ikeness, the portrait, and statue. Ter
is time, a whole, a repeating period of time. These are fundamental.
And Nutt or Nunter signifies a mode or means of portraying time,
i.e. duration and continuity. Hence the stone NUTR is an emblem
of duration, naturally an early type of time, a double type, because
it was permanent in time and sustaining in power. One form of the
Nutr was the eyeball, or pupil of the eye, the mirror in which an
image was reproduced. The eye, Ar, was synonymous with con-
ception, making the likeness, repeating, hence it was an ideograph of
the Child, and the Year as the Eye of Horus, and of the repeating
period as the Uta, the symbolic Eye of Taht which indicated resur-
rection and renewal, like that of the new moon, for which reason the
word UTA means salvation, going-out, to be whole for ever. The
serpent is a determinative of Nutr and that is a type of the
1 Hibbert Lectures, 1879, pp. 94-99.
renewing period. The gestator (with the corn measure) is a deter-
minative of Nutr, as the reproducer. The star is also a determinative
of Nutr, and that likewise is a type of repetition, in time. The
Phœnix and the Circle are both Nuteru. The root-idea found by the
present writer is that of renewal, reproduction and rebirth in time,
and continuity. TER is time, and NATR is time and of time;
NETR-TUAU is time, and which form of the period (or TER) must
be determined by the type (Nu or Nun). One Nun-ter is the time of
the inundation, as Nun is the inundation. Another is a day (tuaa
or the morrow), and the type is the star. A third is that of gestation
or of menstruation, hence the serpent type and the two goddesses.
The Nutr must convey the two truths which are not to be found
in the single notion of might, or power, or potency alone and unex-
plained. The bluish-green stone will tell us more than that. Green
was the colour of renewal; the earth is re-clothed in green and Ptah,
who re-embodies the soul, is himself depicted with green flesh. Blue
is the hue of heaven, hence the typical colour for the soul. The
Coptic equivalent for Nuter, Nomti, is based on the Egyptian NEM
to repeat, again, a second time, to renew. The blue and green
were both combined in the jade Netr, or axe, just as they were
in the Genitrix Uati, whose name indicates the dual one of the
Two Truths.
The bluish-green jade-axe in the burial-place was primarily a type
of the Two Truths, applied eschatologically. But it was a multiform
image, one of the things that represented various accumulated ideas.
As stone, it was a type of strength. As jade, the hardest stone,
it was of great strength and everlasting power. As blue-green
it mingled earth and heaven in its mirror. It was a sceptre
of the Genitrix Uati, a sign of the Twin Goddesses, who brooded
over the mummy and brought to rebirth, by which the deceased
arose from the green earth and reached blue heaven. Hence the Nutr
in the Demotic text of the tablet of Canopus is rendered by Khu,
another sign of power, protection, and reproduction for the Khu fan
signifies breathing, spirit, power. As an axe or adze the implement
of cutting, planing, polishing in the hands of the carpenter Natr, and
the stone-polisher or Kelt-maker called the Nutr-Kelt (Kart), it was
the artificial type of making, shaping, creating, hence of the maker,
creator, god, and goddess, and lastly the idea of protecting power was
added to the Nutr by its being a weapon of defence. To reduce all
this to the one notion of power is to whittle away the substance of
things to that fine vanishing-point at which the past of Egypt
becomes invisible.
Wheresoever the jade came from to make the axes and ring-
amulets, it would seem that our stone-men were able to cut and
polish it. The jade was the hardest stone known, and to this day
the stone-cutter in Gloucestershire is known by the name of a
JADEER or JADDER, jade being the typical and divine stone on
account of its hardness; the stone-cutter is thus designated as the
jade-cutter.
The seat Hes is a symbol of the Great Mother with which her
name is written, and the seat was an emblem of Kêd or Keridwen,
who was likewise represented by the Chair of the Bards. The prize
for poetry given to the minstrels or singers in the Eisteddfod was a
medal marked wtth the figure of a chair, the chair of ESEYE (a name
of Kêd) of the seat in the Great Stone Sanctuary. The Hes or As
seat identifies the Goddess called ESEYE with HES or ISIS.
The HESI in Egypt were the bards of the Gods attached to the
divine service, primarily of the Goddess Hes. Hes means to sing,
celebrate, applaud, hence the HESI. A hieroglyphic S, the seat, is
written as the child‘s first pothook, and the pothook of the chimney
is called the ES-hook, whilst the ―ESTER‖ is the back of the fireplace
where the Es-hook hangs. The HES (Hest) seat or throne was also
continued by name in the British war-chariots, called by Cæsar ESSEDA,
4,000 of which, belonging to a corps of observation, were left by
Cassivelaunus to watch the Roman movements after the landing.1
―HESS‖ is the name of the so-called Treaty-stone of Limerick.
The seat was a feminine symbol. The Coronation-stone of England
is still placed under the seat, and has the same significance as the
HESS of Limerick, and the HES of Egypt personified as the bear-
ing Great Mother. The HES seat and throne has yet an extant
but lowly form in the hassock. The use of it for kneeling in churches
is a reminder that Sukh (Eg.) is the shrine, and Sakh means to adore
and pray. When houses were built the dwelling takes the name
of the rude stone seat, and the Genitrix is represented by the House.
A pair of foot-soles are common hieroglyphic figures on the rock
sculptures of the North. They have been found in Ireland on a
stone which was sacredly considered to have been an inauguration
stone of the ancient Irish kings or chieftains.2
In Samoa the natives show the pair of footprints in the rock, con-
sisting of two hollows nearly six feet long. These they say are the
footprints of Tii-tii, marking the spot on which he stood when he
pushed up the heaven and divided it from the earth.3
This pair of footsoles appear In the Ritual where the astronomical
imagery becomes eschatological. In the chapter of the ―Hall of
Two Truth‖ (125), the Osirian who has crossed by the passage
from night to day says, ―I have crossed by the northern fields of the
palm-tree.‖ He is asked to explain what he has seen there. His
reply is, ―It is the FOOTSTEP and the SOLE.‖ A footstep and a sole of
the foot are equal to the pair of footsoles. The ―FOOT AND SOLE‖
are mentioned (Ch. 144) as the ―foot and the sole of the foot or the
1 Cæsar, Commentaries, lib. v. 15. 2 Simpson, Archaic Sculpturings, p. 183.
3 Turner, Nineteen Years in Polynesia, p. 245.

Lion Gods,‖ one of which is MA‘TET. ―Hail to ye, Feet!‖ (Ch. 130)
is addressed to them.
―The Chemmitæ,‖ observes Herodotus, ―affirm that Perseus has
frequently appeared to them on earth, within the Temple, and that a
sandal worn by him is sometimes found which is two cubits in length.‖1
Two cubits in Egyptian would be represented by Mati, the name of a
pair of feet, and therefore the sandal of Perseus is equivalent to the
―footstep and the sole.‖ The same writer mentions another foot-
print that of Hercules, upon a rock, near the river Tyras. This was
also two cubits (Mati) in length.2 Mat is the ancient name of An, the
boundary and division in the celestial birthplace, that of the two
truhs, and of the two footprints. This was the seat of Atum, who
is the original of both Adam and the mythical Thomas. Atum was
rendered Tomos by the Greeks. The so-called footstep on Adam‘s
Peak in Ceylon is assigned to Thomas, who also left his memorial
at Bahia, on the American continent, where the footsteps are exhibited
as proof of the ―Saint‘s‖ visit to that shore. The pair of soles then
are typical of the two truths, the basis of everything in Egyptian
thought. MATA, the two soles, has the HES THRONE for determinative,
which suggests that the inauguration stone with this dual emblem on
it was a primitive shape of the SEAT or THRONE of the Two Truths,
and the king seated on it would be assimilated to the great ―Lord of
Truth.‖
The stone also appears in the same passage of the Ritual as a
sceptre if not as a throne. The Osirian has found or made that
―Sceptre of Stone; its name is PLACER,‖ so rendered by Dr. Birch.
But in MATI, to give, to place, we further claim the two soles of the feet,
and in the stone of MATI the stone of the ―Footstep and the SoIe.‖
This duality of truth ca1led the Two Truths of Egypt is identified
with the two feet by tha English proverb, ―A lie stands on one leg,
but the truth upon two.‖
The HES is the stone seat, chair or throne, a type and namesake of
the great mother. This stone seat is also the Kat as in our Cat-stone;
the Kat is an abraded Khft, the primal seat or hinder part whose
image was the Typhonian seat of stone. Now it is the same stone
wherever found. The stone that was brought from Egypt by Scota,
the stone of destiny, the Lia Fail, the stone that sounded when the
true king sat on it, the stone that lies at last beneath the Coronation
chair in Westminster Abbey. That is, the typical stone is one; the
copies may be many. The literalists have been befooled by the
legends because they know nothing whatever of the ancient typology.
The stone can only be identified by what it represents. It is no
mere question of a bit of red sandstone, even if it were, the stone of
Scone had the true Typbonian complexion, and the colour of the
lower crown of Isis. It is !ound at Scone, and Sekhn (Eg.) is the
1 Book ii. 91. 2 Ibid. iv. 82.
seat; at Beregonium, and Kani (Eg.) is also the seat; at Tara, and
Ta (Eg.) is the seat. Even the tradition of the sounding stone may
be traced. HES is the stone-seat, and HES means to celebrate,
proclaim, sound forth. Another form of the HES is the vase symbol of
the genitrix, and the vase, or cauldron, the sacred Pair of Keridwen is
a famous symbol in the Druidic mysteries. It is often referred to in
the writings of the Barddas, and may be seen figured on the back
of the Mare on the ancient coins or talismans.1
The hieroglyphic vase (hes) has neither spout nor handle, and in
Devonshire they still use a beer-jug named a ―HESTER‖ which has
neither spout nor handle. In Egyptian this may be read HES, liquid,
TER, limit or measure. Through the HESTER we can recover a
lost link with the Goddess EOSTRE who was AS or HES in Egypt,
Ishtar in Babylon, Astarte in Phenicia, and Eseye at Stonehenge.
The Ankh sign is one of the hieroglyphics in Britain. Indeed,
we have several forms of the Ankh. It is extant in the great seals of
England, in a reversed position as the token of power and authority.
The Ankh is a circle and crossl and in Kent a ―WENC‖ is the centre
of cross roads. Our winch for winding up is a kind of Ankh. So is
the anchor. ―Ankh‖ is to pair, to clasp, a sign of covenant, and to
this corresponds our ―WINK‖ and to ―WENCH.‖ Another form of
the Ankh is a hank or noose. Putting a patient through a hesp or
hank of yarn, and then cutting the flax into nine portions as a means
of cure, was practised in Scotland. The pieces were buried in the
lands of three owners.2 Here the hank was like the Ankh, a symbol
of living. In the ―Hange‖ we have a threefold symbol of life. This
is the name of an animal‘s pluck, consisting of heart, liver, and lights,
three seats and organs of life. The Ankh emblem of life and sign of
Ankh, to pair, couple, a pair, is extant, minus the cross-piece, in the
English DIBBER, for planting seed. A connccting link between the
two is supplied by the Maori ―HANGO,‖ a dibber, for planting potatoes.
In this the emblem has kept its name. Teb, the Egyptian for Dib, is
movement in a circle. This is Dib-ling. Dib-ling is a form of doubling,
this the Ankh images. Doubling or dibling is seed-setting, repro-
ducing. So read, the Ankh makes the dibber, a sign of Deity and a
type of creation which commenced with ―movement in a circle.‖
The Ankh, as an Egyptian symbol of oath and covenant, is repre-
sented by our HANK, noose, or a knot. This may be at the root of
the superstition not yet extinet in England, that one man may law-
fully sell his wife to another provided he places a noose or halter round
her neck. This is not only a belief, it is yet a practice. The noose
in the hierogiyphics is a form of the Ankh, and on the wife‘s neck it is
the token of a covenant in the transaction. A much earlier ideograph
of marriage (by capture) than the gold ring round the finger! Also,
1 Gibson‘s Camden (Tab. one) and Davies‘ Mythology.
2 Perth, K. S., 22-26, May 1623.
as the halter is a Hank, and the Ankh is an ideograph of life as well
as of covenanting, this may explain the origin of the superstition
respecting the curative virtue of the hangman‘s noose when applied
to ailing and diseased persons.1
The French have a form of the Ankh-ring in the JONC, a wedding-
ring; in one shape this was a ring of rush. Those who were married
by compulsion at Ste. Marine were wedded with a ring of JONC or
rush. The custom prevailed at one time in England of marrying with
a rush ring as a sign of junction. The Jonc-ring is the most ancient
form of the Ankh, going back to the closest nearness to nature, and
the time when metals where not wrought into rings, or flax into
nooses. Marriage with the JONC, and divorce or re-marriage with the
halter, are correlated by means of the Ankh symbol of pairing, clasp-
ing, covenanting. The custom of strewing rushes was at one time
called JUNCARE in Gloucestershire. The practice was periodical. As
the rushes were also bound up in an Ankh image of life, like the
hieroglyphic doll, and dressed in the living likeness, we may look upon
the JUNCARE as the ceremony (arui, Eg.) of the JUNC, rushes, or
ANKH and the meaning of ANKH, to covenant, an oath, explains
the rest in relatIon to the rite repeated annually.
Ankh, Unkh, and Nak are interchangable. A ―curious kind of
figure,‖ described by Brand,2 used to be made of the ears of the last
corn harvested and brought home by the farmer when finished his
reaping; it was hung up over his table and sacredly preserved until
the next harvest. The image consisted of ears of corn twisted and
tied together, and it was called ―A KNACK.‖ This KNACK answers
to the Ankh. One form of the Egyptian Ankh is a nosegay, another
denotes ears, therefore the ankh may have been a handful of ears as
in England. The KNACK of corn is a knot of ears, and the Ankh
permutes with the hieroglyphic of Life, signified by tying up or binding
in a noose or bank. This tying up in a knot applies to the harvest, as
well as to the more recondite meaning of the Ankh ideograph.
Marriage, however, is still figured as tying the knot or Ankh. The
harvesters shout, ―A knack! a knack! Well cut! Well bound!
Well shocked,‖' of which tying and binding the Ankh is an ideograph.
Another form of the hieroglyphic Ankh, or image of life, is a doll
or baby, and the Harvest-Knack is also known as the doll or Kern
baby, the seed or child-symboI of future harvests. The nature of
the Knack may be determined by the shape of the Maiden in Perth-
shire, in which the handful of ears was tied up in the form of a cross,
and hung up in the same way as the Knack. The Ankh was the
Crux Ansata. In Herefordshire the knack is called a Mare. The
sign of this is a bunch of wheat from the last load. In Hertfordshire
there is a custom of harvest-home called ―Crying the Mare.‖ The
reapers tie up the last cars of corn that are cut, which is the Mare,
1 Brand, on Physical Charms. 2 On Harvest Home.
and standing at some distance, each throws his sickle at it, and he
who cuts the knot wins the prize. After the knot is cut and the
shout is raised ―I have her,‖ the others ask ―What have you?‖ The
answer is ―A Mare, a Mare, a Mare.‖ ―Whose is she?‖ The
owner‘s name is then announced, and it is asked ―Whither will you
send her?‖ To so and so, naming some one whose corn is not all cut.
The Mare, also found as the Mell, is the symbol of harvest-home, the
end of the harvest; the figure of the Mare is passed on in token
of the termination. Mer (Eg.) signifies limit, boundary, swathe or
tie up, with the noose determinative. This is the Mare of our
harvesters.
The Mell-Supper, at which the employers and employed feasted
together or pêle-mêle, is not derived from MEHL, farina, nor from
MÊLÉE, mixed, but from Mell, extant as a company. Men who
coöperate in heaving and hauling constitute a Mell, and this is the
Egyptian Mer, as a company or circle of people joined together and
co-attached, who are the Mer, i.e., Mer-t. The Mer, as circle, is
illustrated by the expression, when a horse is last in a race, ―he has
got the Mell.‖ He being last of the lot completes the Mer.
Also in English the mill is the round.
The ―MAIDEN‖ is another form of the ―KNACK,‖ ―BABY,‖ ―MARE‖ or
Harvest QUEEN. The last handful of corn reaped in the field was
named the Maiden. The Maiden Feast was given when the harvest
was finished. In Egyptian ―Meh‖ has the meaning of wreath,
crown, girth, and ten is to fill up, complete measure, terminate, and
determine. The word Maiden, as the girl arrived at the age of
puberty, may have the same derivation. The harvesters in Kent
form a figure of some of the best corn the field produces, and make
it as like the human shape as their art will admit. It is curiously
dressed by the women, and ornamented with paper trimmings cut
to resemble a cap, ruffles, handkerchief, and lace. It is then brought
home with the last load of com, and this is supposed to entitle them
to a supper at the farmer‘s expense.1 It was a form of the corn-symbol
variously designated the Maiden, the Mell, the Mare, Knack, the Corn-
doll, Corn-baby, and the Harvest Girl. In this instance it was called
the ―IVY Girl.‖
Ivy the plant is out of the question for any explanation. The
likelihood is that the word has been worn down. Our Goddess of
Corn is KÊD, the Egyptian Kheft or Khep. And KHEPI (Kheti) is
the name of harvest. The KHEFI Girl is the Harvest Girl. IVY
has earlier English forms in hove and hoofm and the Khefi Girl has
becolne our provincial ―IVY Girl.‖ Khepi (Eg.), for harvest, is also
represented in Cornish English by HAV for corn, and in English
Gipsy Giv for wheat.
The original meaning of the word THING was to thing, to make
1 Brand, Harvest Home.
terms. Chaucer‘s Serjeant of Law, as a good conveyancer, could well
endite and make a thing, that is a legal contract. Thingian or Thing-
ing was to make a covenant, hence the German Bedinging, contract,
terms of agreement, and the Norse Thing, a place where terms were
covenanted. This comes from the Egyptian Ankh, an oath or covenant
with the article T prefixd: T-ankh, the Ankh (T-ankh) was in the
Noose form the visible sign of binding on oath or thinging. The
Angnail is also thangnail in English, a very bad form of binding hard;
it being a bunion on the toe. Our Tank, as the encloser and container
of water, is a good illustration of the Ankh and Thing. This word
is as universal in its use as was the Ankh sign in Egypt, and just as
purely symbolic in its values. Where the sign of the Cross is made
at the end of an agreement in token of the covenant the Ankh
ideograph is visibly presented and used with its true typical
power. To negative this image of the Ankh is to express the
meaning ―No-thing.‖ This gave the power to the name of a
―NITHING,‖ one with whom no covenant was kept as he was not
within the social pact or bond figured by the Ankh; was no longer
one of the ―hank,‖ or ―Ing,‖ a body of poople confederated. We
have the word without the Egyptian article as Hank, to fasten, a
hold on anything, and hang, to tie, and stick to. Shaking hands over
a bargain is a form of making the sign of the Ankh, the Cross of
Covenant, as Ankh means to clasp as well as to covenant, and to
thank is a form of the ankh-ing. The Ankh (Hank) as symbol of
Thing crosses curiously in Welsh and Egyptian, one name of the
Hank and Noose emblem is TAMI, and in Welsh, DIM is etymolo-
gically the type-word for thing. Thus two things are two of the
hieroglyphics which have one and the same meaning as the Ankh.
The Ankh symbol of life appears in the form of Kankh in
the Cangen or branch carried by the divining bard. Cang-ent or
Ankh-un, is the repeater of life, i.e. the branch. Likewise in the
kink, or kneck, a coil, to twist, to entangle; curly hair is said to kink;
also a rope when it does not come out freely; kink is used in binding
a load of hay or corn. Our ―knack‖ then is finally the kink, and
whereas Ankh (Eg.) is life and living, kink, in the Eastern counties,
signifies to revive, and to be ANXious is to be very much alive.
An ancient British origin has been claimed for ―the Feathers‖ by
Randall Holmes. The Rev. H. Longueville asserts that the arms
of Roderick Mawe, prior to the division of Wales into principalities,
was thus blazoned, ―Argent, three Lions passant regardant with their
tails passing between thdr legs, and curling over their backs in a
feathery form.‖ 1 And in the parent-language MAU is the name
of the lion, and the variant of Shu for the feathers is MAU or MA.
The three tails of the three lions (Mau) curling in the form of
1 Brewer, Phrase and Fable¸p. 291.

feathers (MAU) in the Arms of Mawe is one of the most perfect of
the hieroglyphics in the Islands.
A leash of dogs or of partridges is a triad, three leashed together.
The three feathers of Wales are a leash attached by a band. The
three feathers of the hieroglyphics are likewise a leash, in
Egyptian, Resh. The three feathers are the determinative of Resh,
which means joy, also res, is absolutely, entirely. With the terminal
t we obtain the word rest, and the three feathers of the Prince,
the Repa denote the joy of fulfilment in the Prince of Peace to whom
the leash of phunes belongs. Very rarely we find a third feather
added to the two. Father, Mother and Child are the Three Truths
of the Trinity. And in the Solar Myth the Child was born as Horus
every spring-tide at a part of the zodiac where the Egyptians located
the Uskh Hall of the Two Truths, we might say of the two feathers.
But here at the birthplace of the Son, the Repa, who is the heir-
apparent and the prince—for these are his titles—we find the three
ostrich feathers. The three have been found as an ideograph of Egypt.1
They are probably very ancient though not common. It suffices
that they are extant, and that they add a third to the Two Truths,
as the sign of the Son, who is the Prince and heir-apparent. The
three feathers are placed over the Cross-sign of the completed
course at the crossing where the Solar Prince was born. Three is
the Egyptian plural because the Trinity had to blend with, and come
out of the duadic one who was female at first, then two females,
then the male-female, and lastly, father, mother, and son. The
mounting of three feathers shows the addition of the prince, the
heir-apparent, who was considered as much a part of the ruling
power as the Pharaoh. The three feathers are therefore the especial
symbol of the prince, the heir-apparent, Repa, Har-em-heb, or
Har-em-khebt. These are the three feathers of the Prince of
Wales. The earlier form of Wales was Gales, that is in Egyptian
Kars. The Repa, or Prince, was the completer of the solar course,
and in him the trinity of father, mother, and son was fulfilled.
The Prince of Gales, or the Kart, is independent of a land called
Wales, because the imagery belongs to mythology. The three
feathers are a sacred symbot in Egypt, and as such were brought
into this country, before the English Prince of Wales could be a
title. There is a coin of Cuno-Belinus in the British Museum which
has on it a horse galloping to the left, and the symbol of a diadem
with a plume of ostrich feathers.2 The first Prince of Wales, the Repa,
the heir-apparent was Prydhain, the Horus of the Bards, son of Aeddon,
or Hu. When the English Prince of Wales was in India, the Three
feathers of his insignia provoked much curiosity, for it was, as they
thought, an indigenous emblem. It is well-known to the Buddhists.3
1 Pierret, 754. 2 Poste, Celtic Inscriptions, p. 130.
3 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society¸v. 18, p. 391.

Both must have been independently derived from the same Egyptian
source, the one centre where all these things will be found to meet
at last by many winding ways.
Hor-Apollo says the Egyptians indicate the rising of the Nile
by depicting three waterpots, ―neither more nor less, because accord-
ing to them there is a triple cause of the inundation. They
depict one for the Egyptian soil as being of itself productive of
water, and another for the ocean, for at the period of the overflow,
water ascends up from it into Egypt; and the third to symbolize
the rains which prevail in the southern part of Æthiopia at the
time of the rising of the Nile.‖ 1 And in the poems of Taliesin,
Hor-Apollo‘s description of the three sources of water has a perfect
parallel. The Bard teaches that there are three primary fountains
in the Mountain of FUAWN; three fountains or Deivr Donwy, the
Giver of water. Tep is the Egyptian Source; Tephu is the gate,
valve, hole, abyss of Source, and Tennu is to bring tribute in the
form of water. The Three Waters are ―the increase of salt water,
where it mounts aloft to replenish the rain which innocently
descends, and the springs from the Veins of the Mountain. This
―odd sort of philosophy‖ about the origin of salt water rains and
springs is contained in an account of the Creation, and word for
word it is the same as Hor-Apollo‘s rendering of the water symboled
by the Three Vases. The three primary fountains in the mountain
of Fuawn correspond to the Triple Vase, one of the names of which
is the Fent or fount. The mystical rendering in either case does
not cancel the suggestion of origin in the Three Great Lakes at the
head of the Nile; a type has manifold applications.
NEF in Egyptian is breath or soul. The Welsh NWYF is a
subtle pervading element; NWYVRE, the divine source of motion.
ANAF is Gaelic for SPIRAVIT. ENEF in Cornish is the soul. To
NIFFLE in English is to sniff. Khnef (Eg.) is the breath or those
who are in the firmament. ―From NAVE are God and every living
Soul.‖2 NEVOEDD in Welsh is the Heavens. ―It‖ in Egyptian
is Heaven, and NEF is breath. NEF-IT would be Breath of Heaven.
NEVION is a Bardic name of God. N EF-UN (Eg.) is breathing being.
NEVYDD NAV NAVION, the Celestial Lord Navion of the Welsh,
is in Egyptian, the Breather in the firmament and life of all
breathing being.
The Egyptian NEB (another form of Nef) is the Lord. The Welsh
NAV is the Lord. NEB means the Supreme, the All. NAV was the
Supreme, the Lord of all. NEF is Lord of the Inundation; NAV
was the British Neptune, ruler of the seas. Neb, the all, is synony-
mous with enough. NEAPENS is English for both hands full: a
primitive measure of enough. Neb was Twin, both hands, right and
left, the whole of being. In the hieroglyphics NEF is breath, a wind,
1 B. i. 21. 2 Barddas, vol. i. p. 381, Williams.
fan, inflation of a sail, the name for sailing and of the sailor. NEF
also names an old goat. Khnef (Num) the sailor of the Argo was
personified with the head of an old Goat. The be-goat is the type
of the breath or soul, the Ba. Ba-t, a participial form of Ba, means to
inspire, give breath. This the Wind, NEF, did to the Sail, and the
Goddess Nef-t, and Ba-t as genitor, did to the child.
Now when Martin was in the Western Isles of Scotland he found
it was a most ancient custom for the sailors, when becalmed and
praying or whistling for a wind, to hang up a he-goat to the mast of
the vessel as the symbol of their beseeching.1 This symbolic custom
signifies the worship of Nef in these islands, or at least amongst the
sea-faring folk, whether the Divinity be personified in male or female
form. The Irish have a tradition that 600 years after the Deluge
NEVVY led a colony into Ireland. He came, say the Welsh Barddas,
in the ship of Nevydd Nav Nevion. This is the Egyptian NEF, the
Sailor.
One of the master works and great achievements of the Island
of Britain was building the ship of Nevydd Nav Nevion. It was the
vessel which safely carried the male and female of all species over the
waters of the Deluge. Stonehenge was a vast hieroglyphic of this
vessel, called, as it was, the ―Ship of the World.‖ The Stone-Ankh,
or Temple of Life, likewise designated a Ship, was the Ark of Nevydd
Nav Nevion. We shall find the use and meaning of all the old
Deluge paraphernaIia by and by; at present we are stating facts,
and swearing in our witnesses. This Ark of Life, or Ship of the
World, is known as the seat of NÖE and ESEYE, and is designated
the great stone fence of their common sanctuary. Nöe is a modified
form of Nef, and Nevydd is the Welsh form of the Egyptian Neft,
personified as the Goddess Nephthys. The first representative of the
Breather is feminine, and the Ark is likewise a type of the female.
This Ship of Nevydd has not been left without its witness in a
mocking world. These old roots of the past went deep into the soil,
and though treated as weeds wherever they cropped up, the roots
lived and held on below reach, and could not be eradicated. Stars
do not disappear, or seasons pause, though we may lose our
almanacs.
There is a small island named Inniskea, off the coast of Mayo,
whose few inhabitants are purely pagan. They have an image which
they call NEEVOUGEE, a long cylindrical stone that is kept wrapped
up in flannel in the charge of an old woman who acts as its priestess.
The name of NEEVOUGEE is still identifiable as the plural of a word
signifying a canoe.3 Waka in Maori is a canoe, and Oko in the Aku
language. But, far more to the point, the UKHA of the monumcnts is
the Sacred Solar Bark, an Ark of the Gods, and NEF-UKHA is the
1 Western Isles, p. 109. 2 The Gododin, Song 15.
3 Sir J. E. Tennant, Notes and Queries, 1852, vol. v. p. 121.

symbolic Bark or the ark of the Sailor. It is of especial interest
that, although the NEEVOUGEE is connected by name with the canoe,
it is not ship-shape itself, but a mere cylinder or type of the circle,
the arc round which the Divinities sailed in their Nef-ukha. Stone-
henge was not in the shape of a boat, yet it was an Ark, a circle, and
here is the UKHA of Nef represented by a round stone, the true
symbol in its simplest shape. The first Ark was uterine.
The Hamiltons quarter a ship on their shied, reputed to be that of
Nevydd. In the hieroglyphics the Hem or Ham is a paddle, a rudder,
to steer, and fish, which connects their name with the Bark or Ark of
Nevydd, the Divinity or Breath or Wind, and identifies them with the
Hemu as sailors and fishers, the people of the Hem or Water Frontier.
There was also an ancient stone-temple at Navestock in Essex, where
we still find a family of the name of N EAVES.
In Yorkshire the country folk call the night-flying white moths, souls.
Our moth is the Egyptian Mut or Mat. Mat is to pass; Mut to die;
Matt unfold, unwind, open, as the chrysalis entered the winged state
and passed. The winged thing was a symbol of the soul; it appears
in the hieroglyphics as the Moth or Butterfly. The Butterfly has
no direct relationship to Butter. In the one case Butter is probably
derived from PUT (Eg.), food; and TER (Eg.), made, fabricated. Our
PAT is Egyptian for the shape. The Butterfly may be the type PUT
(Eg.), TER, complete, perfect. Thus in death (Mut) the soul passed,
unfolded like the Moth, whose chrysalis, like that of the Beetle,
showed, and was the type of the process, whence the Butterfly.
Calling the moth a soul identifies the imagery as Egyptian. In
Cornwall departed souls, moths, and fairies are called ―PISKEYS.‖
Piskey is the same word as PSYCHE, and both are derived from the
Egyptian in which KHE is the Soul, and SU is She; hence the
femicine nature of the Greek P-SU-KHE. Without the article, SAKHU
is the understanding, the illuminator, the eye and soul of being, that
which inspires. So in Fijian, Sika means to appear as spirits.
It was said at the British Association meeting held in Newcastle,
1863, so great was the ignorance of natural history that a short
time ago, when a man in the North of EngIand was remonstrated
with for shooting a cuckoo, the defence was that it was well-
known the bird was a sparrow-hawk in disguise, as sparrow-hawks
turned into cuckoos in the summer.1 This confusion was the result
of symbolism. The sparrow-hawk in Egypt was the Bird of Horus
and of Ra the Sun-God, who ascended once more at the time of the
Spring Equinox to complete the circle of the year. This hovering,
circling bird was the type of the circle. The cuckoo, likewise the
typical bird of return, is the Bird of the cycle. In the emblematic
language the hawk and cuckoo were two symbols of one fact, the return
of spring, and the cuckoo had to suffer for it. On the other hand, we
1 Times, September 3, 1863.
have the reversal in the popular German belief that after midsummer
the cuckoo changes back again into a hawk.1 As hieroglyphics, they
were similar, only the cuckoo had retained something of its sacred
character after the hawk had become secularized, and had to suffer
for its synonymousness as a symbol. Also the feeling that prompted
the remonstrance against killing the cuckoo was a relic of the same
religion. Word for word Gec or Cuck(oo) and hawk are one.
The hawk is the bird of Breath or Soul, and the sail is an emblem of
soul, or breath. The hawk on the monuments carries the sail as the
sign of the Second Breath. With us the hawk‘s wings are denominated
sails, so that the two types meet again in one figure.
The Cherry Tree was a form of the Tree of Life in Britain.
Children in Yorkshire used to invoke the Cuckoo in this tree, singing
around it
― Cuckoo, cherry-tree
Come down and tell to me
How many years I have to live.‖
It is a popular saying that the Cuckoo never sings until he has eaten
thrice of cherries. The Cuckoo is a bird of the period, and is here
connected with the Cherry Tree as a teller of time among the modes
and appliances of popular reckoning. Telling leads to divination or
foretelling. Hence the appeal made to the time-teller to foretell.
Any Latinist would assert that the word N ARE for a nose and the
nostrils of a hawk was derived from the Latin NARIS, the nostril.
Yet it is not. The NARE for the nostrils of the hawk is not only the
Egyptian NAR or NARU, but the ideograph of the word is the head of
the vulture used for the value of its nostrils or keen scent of blood.
This head of the vulture, NAR, is in English NUR, the head. The
vulture‘s head was the sign of the bearing Mother in Egypt, both
royal and divine—that is the Nursing Mother in mythology; and our
NORIE is to nurture; and the nurturer is the Nurse, the NORU or
NORIE.
The Magpie is one of our sacred birds, a bird of omen and divi-
nation, like many others suffering for its symbolry; nine Magpies
together being reckoned equal to one Devil in an old Scotch rhyme.
If you see one Magpie alone you should turn round thrice to avert
sorrow, and for good luck‘s sake try to see two. Why two? ―One‘s
a funeral; two‘s a wedding,‖ says the proverb. Hor-Apollo tells
us that when the Egyptians would symboIize a man embracing
his wife they depicted two crows, for these birds cohabit in human
fashion.2 He also says they depict two crows as the ideograph
of a wedding,3 our ―Two‘s a wedding.‖ But why should turn-
ing round and making the figure of a circle obviate the disastrous
1 Grimm, D. M. 1222. 2 B. i. 40. 3 B. i. 9.

halfness of the single Magpie when you would have found fulfilment
had you seen two? The bird is obviously connected with duality
and with making a circle. His name of Pie signifies twinship.
The full and early name is MAGOTTY, or, in the West of England,
MAGATI-PIE.1
The fact is, the MAG-ATI-PIE, the black-and-white bird, was the
equivalent of the Ibis, whose black and white feathers were em-
blematic of the dual gibbousness of the Moon. But the clue to the
nature of its twofold character in colour or piedness being lost, the
twinship of completion is sought for in Magpie No. 2, or the dual
circle completed by the act of turning round.
TAHTI or AAHTI, the bi-une lunar deity, was imaged with the Ibis
head. Tet signifies to speak. Mag means to chatter. The Magpie
can be taught to talk. The Ibis cried ―AAH-AAH.‖ The Magpie
is therefore a dual form of the Word, as was Aah-ti. And in Mag-
ATI-pie we have this plural Word identified by the name of ―AATI,‖
the Lunar Deity or Biune Word. This is the reason why the
Mag-ati-pie was once a Sacred Bird and is now looked on as uncanny.
We might note that the PYE has other corroborative names in
PYNOT and PYNU. In Egyptian both NET and NU signify time;
also NET is a total; and the Moon, the Ibis, the PYNOT were each
the representative of plural time or the twin manifestation of Time,
whether signified by the two halves of a lunation or by other forms
of the Two Truths of Egypt.
The Lark, our Bird of Light and up-rising—we speak of rising
with the Lark—is a kind of Phœnix, the bird of re-arising or the
resurrection. The Egyptians called the Lark Akha-ter; AKHA is a
bird of light, a type of the spirit, and the word denotes spirit, light,
up-rising, lively; joyful; TER is a time. The AKHATER is a type of
rising-up time, which is, eschatologically considered, the resurrection.
Akhater is literally rising-up time, or time to rise. In a world
without clocks or watches the Lark was a voice of morning calling
out of heaven. So the Bennu (Eg.) Phœnix is a type of rising up,
Ben being the cap, tip, top, roof, highest point. Another form of the
Phœnix is the determinative of the word REKH, which means the
pure wise spirit, the spirit of intelligence. This is the Arabian Roc,
and our Lark as the Laverock is the Rekh of the Lift or Sky, the
soaring intelligent spirit; and either Laverock modifies into Lark or
the latter name is formed of Rekh with the l prefixed. The sole
point is to identify the bird as one of the Phœnix type.
The Phœnix was an image of the Sothic year. This constellation
came to the meridian at the time of the rising of Sothis. A star of
the first magnitude, Acharnar, belongs to it, and this name tells a
story. Akar (Eg.) is a name of the underworld; Nar signifies victory;
1 Brand, ―Magpie.‖ 2 Plutarch, ―of Isis and Osiris.‖

thus Akamar in Egyptian denotes the victory over Hades, symboled
by the Phœnix, the bird of resurrection.
In Hindu tradition the Crow or Rook personified the shadow of a
dead man, and food was given to these birds as if to the souls of the
dead. The Egyptian Rekh and English Rook having the same names
as the Spirit (Rekh) will enable us to understand the typology. The
Rekh was the emblem of the pure wise spirits of the dead, and the
living bird is as good an ideograph as one portrayed on papyrus
or stamped in stone.
Of the Great Bennu it is said that it caused the divisions of time
to arise. One form of the Phœnix of Egypt, called the Bennu, is a
Nycticorax. It was an announcer of time and period. The English
Nycticorax is an owl caned the Night-jar or Night-crow, which an-
nounces the time of sunset almost as truly as the almanac, as
the present writer has often proved. This peculiar bird, says
Gilbert White, can only be watched and observed during two
hours in the twenty-four, and then in dubious twilight—an hour after
sunset and an hour before sunrise. It is consequently a Phœnix.
The Night-Raven is one of its names; and the Phœnix is a deter-
minative of the REPA, a type of time; Seb (Kronus) being a true
Repa of the Gods. REP and RAV are interchangeable, and our Raven
is a Repa, and a Rook or Rekh of the night.
The word Jar represents the Egyptian Kher for Voice. The
Night-Jar is therefore the Voice of the Night, that announces at the
time of sunset. The Laek is a Phœnix of Dawn, the Night-jar of
Sundown. And the Night-Gale or Nightingale is likewise a Voice of
the night. Gale is a song, to cry, scream; garre is to chirp. The
root of all is KHER (Eg.), voice, utterance, and the Night-gale, like
the Night-Jar, is a voice of the Night.
The Robin is a Repa by name, and the FINCH is a form of
Phœnix by name.
The Cock is also a Phœnix, a bird of annunciation. He must
have been so in Egypt, where the later sensitiveness to his well-known
character caused him to be prohibited. The Cock was a type both
of Mercury and Apollo. Cock-crow is the first time marked after
midnight, and Cock-shut is a name of eve. The Cock is named
from the Egyptian Khekh, which denotes Light, the Horizon,
Equinox, cackling or crowing, also to turn and return. The Cock is
the same to the night that the Gec (cuckoo) is to the year—the
Phœnix of its cycle. As the Bird of Returning Light he was made
a Sun-Bird in relation to the Equinox, and a victim of theology in
the cock-throwing sports of Shrove Tuesday. As the Weather-Cock,
he is the emblem of turning and returning, or the Khekh.
The BEAN Goose is a northern form of the Bennu, the bird
of return that typified renewal and renovation. It is a bird of
passage which is one of the first to arrive on the English coast
about the end of August, and is known on the continent as the
Harvest Goose.
The Bennu In Egypt was the symbol of Osiris in Annu, the risen
god or soul of the deceased, and this eschatological character
has been conferred on the Bean-Geese. As they fly by night they
make a strange noise, and are called ―Gabriel‘s hounds.‖ The word
hounds is possibly a corruption of HAN-SA. HAN (Eg.) means to
return: SA is the goose. HANSA is the Sanskrit name of the goose.
Our word goose may be derived from KHES (Eg.), to return, come
back again. We have our Bennu too in English, as the BOON, an un-
distinguished fowl. Hor-Apollo tells us that when the Egyptians would
denote a son they delineate a CHENALOPEX, a species of goose,
because this bird is excessively fond of its offspring, and if it is
pursued and in danger of being taken with its young, both the father
and mother will voluntarily give themselves up to the pursuers so that
their offspring may be saved. For this reason the Egyptians conse-
crated the goose. 1 Now if this foolish fondness of the returning
(Han) goose (sa) be applied to the son, who is also SA (Eg.), we have
the German goose of a son called HANS. HANSA, besides being
the bird of passage, also reads the young (han) goose, (sa) Hansa, or
Hans. The early reverence for the goose changed into derision at its
simplicity, its SILLINESS in the later sense.
The B EAN was used in Egypt to throw upon graves. This signified
the resurrection. The rising again thus typified by the bean was also
symboled by the Ben or Phœnix. The Bean, which is synonymous
with the Ben, is obviously the same by name, and the various uses
to which it has been applied show its hieroglyphical nature in our
land, as a type of transformation and renewal. The ―Besat-feast‖
is especially celebrated by builders. The name has been erroneously
derived from the BEAN-goose. When the employer gives his men an
outing in the country it is called a ―Bean-feast.‖ But the true BEAN-
feast of the builders is the one commonly known as the Roofing.
When the building is reared and the roof is put on, the event is
celebrated if in ever so small a way. We often see a red cotton
handkerchief hung up as a symbol. The roof is the type that
identifies the BEAN. B EN, or ben-ben (Eg.), means the cap. tip, top,
supreme height, and is the name of the roof. The determinatives of
this height are the obelisk and pyramid, and in the parish of Mons-
wald, Dumfries, there were about twenty years since some large grey
stones called ―a BOON of shearers,‖ said to represent a company of
reapers, who were turned into stonEs on account of their kemping,
i.e. striving.2 The sole point here is the correspondence of the Boon
to the stone BEN of the hieroglyphics, the mountain (Ben) raised
in stone. The Bennu (Eg.) is a great stone or some kind. The
1 B. i. 53. 2 Brand, Harvest Home.

Boon wain was one that would carry the loftiest load, and ABOON
means above, overhead.
Nor shall we find a more satisfactory origin for the name and
signification of the BON-fire than this BEN, the roof, tip-top, the lofty
and splendid. In English, Bin is a heap; in Welsh, Ban is high, tall,
lofty; and the Bon-fire is a Ban-ffagl.
The Bonfire belongs properly to the time of the Midsummer
solstice, when the sun was at the summit and its light at the longest.
The fires were kindled at the top of the highest hills and the time of
lighting them was at midnight. Everything was symbolical of the
topmost, i.e., of BEN-BEN, the cap of the hill, the tip-top of time and
roof of the house of heaven.
There was a form of the ben-ben or pyramidion of the solar god
which was equinoctial in the worship of Atum; but the Bon-fire was
the Baal-fire, the fire of the Sabean, not Solar Baal; the fire con-
secrated to the reappearing Sothis, the star whose rising crowned
the summit of the year, as the star crowns the Pyramid in the hiero-
glyphic representations, when the Bennu came to meridian. The
Bon-fire typified the fire in which the Phœnix (Ben) was fabled to
transform.
No symbol in Egypt was more reverenced than the Beetle, in
whose likeness the god Khepr was fashioned, as the Former and
Transformer. He is represented as ruling the solar disk, and has
the title of Khepr-Ra. But transformer of time, of one cycle into
another, is the idea conveyed. Khepr was the type of transforma-
tion, the Egyptian mode of figuring immortality as continuity, and
the Beetle (or Beetles) was stationed where the Crab is now. This
point was the beginning and end of the solstitial year. Khepr clasped
the zodiacal circle of the sun with one hand to each half of the whole.
Here he receivcd the sun and passed it on in what was termed his
boat. The beetle was made the great symbol on Egyptian rings and
commemorative coins, as an image of Khepr, whose sign was the
fibula of the starry round, Khepr being, so to say, the keeper of
the solar wedding-ring.
Khepr was also identified with the sun itself, that went round for
ever and ringed the world with the safety of light continually renewed.
Khepr in his boat was the antithesis of the Deluge. Khepr-Ra is
literally the sun-beetle, and this symbol of continuity, transformation,
and resurrection was so profusely lavished in burial of the dead that
the ancient scarabæi are plentiful in Egypt to this day. All that
pertains to Khepr must have been as familiar to the British people
as to the Egyptians, and the beetle was regarded with a feeling as
religious as theirs. In English folk-lore, if you kill a beetle it will
be sure to rain. The reader will not see the full symbolic force
of that until we have mastered the Deluge myth. Khepr rolled
up his ball and built his Ark to save the seed against the coming
inundation. If you tread on the dark shimmering beetle called
the sunshiner, the sun will suffer eclipse; as it is expressed, the
―sun will go in.‖ That is, because it was a symbol of the sun, and
treading on its image was figuratively covering and eclipsing the
sun. The beetle was the sign of the summer solstice, and our
SCARABÆUS SOLSTITIALIS abounds at midsummer. PUTAH is a
beetle-headed god, and the BETE in Devon is a black-beetle. Thus
Put the opener and circle-maker keeps up his character as the Bete,
whence the Beetle. In the monuments one name of Ptah, the Scarab-
headed god, is Khepr-Ra or Sun-beetle, and Ptah was often painted
of a green complexion. One particular sun-beetle with us has a
head of gilded green, and is called a CHOVEE or CHOVY. Also we
have the name of Khepr in the CHAFER or Dor-beetle and CHAFTER-
DOR is a name doubly Egyptian, it shows that TER (now almost
given up) was also a name of Khepr. Shevdilla, an Irish name of
the beetle, also equates with the Dor-Chafer.
Our COOPER is by name and nature a form of Khepr; he
rings or hoops round the staves of the cask as Khepr clasped
the circle of the signs. In English keeper is a clasp, and to
kep, an earlier form of hoop, is to endow. From this comes the
keeper-ring of marriage that encloses the plain gold ring. Khepr
made the circle of Time as the Sun, and his image was plated at the
juncture where one cycle was transformed into another, and the year
renewed. In our childhood we were taught that if we found the
beetle lying on his back it was a good deed to turn him over and
set him on his way. This presented the image of pause and retarda-
tion, meaningless, except related to the creator of time and keeper
of continuity, but the act was still performed when the consciousness
was lost; the ideograph, no longer read, was interpreted by faith.
With the Norsemen, this aid to the beetle was supposed to expiate
seven sins. The beetle was called the Bug of Thor, Egyptian
Ter. On the introduction of Christianity, the Thorbug was chris-
tened the Thor-Devil, to be kicked out of the way rather than
helped upon it, yet the simple countryman, unthinking of Thor,
will stop and turn over the poor beetle, ―that we tread upon‖
who is a dark shadow on the earth of things heavenly. 1 These
superstftions do not need to be damned; they want to be explained;
and they were only damned for the purpose of foully discrediting
them as witnesses to the religious origines.
How ancient, for examples is the order of the Sacred Heart! The
thirtieth chapter of the Ritual was frequently inscribed on a scarabæus
of hard stone, and placed inside the heart of the deceased, and the
Rubric directs that these words are to be said over it with magic:
―My heart is my Mother, my heart is my transformation.‖ ―My
heart was my Mother—my heart was my Mother—my heart was my
1 Thorpe, North. Mythol. ii. 53.
being on earth placed within me, returned to me by the chief gods.‖
The transformation symboled by the beetle was the Egyptian ―change
of heart,‖ and renewal. The heart, mat or hat, as an abode of life, really
represented the hat or kat, the womb, hence the meaning of ―my
heart is my Mother,‖ and its relation to the re-birth by transformation.
The sacred denotes the secret heart, the sa me that became the type
of Cupid and the object of his shaft. The ―Sacred Heart‖ of
Rome is a flaming heart, and as may be seen by the Rosaries, it
represents the uterus of Mary.1 The Deceased, lying at rest, in the
thirty-second chapter of the Ritual points to his beetle, and other
potetnt talismans, and says, ―Back, Crocodile of the West, who livest
upon the Khemu who are at rest; what thou abhorrest is on me,‖
or it was placed within him in the tomb which, like the heart, imaged
the mother as the womb of re-birth.
Moufet2 says the beetle hath no female, but shapes its own from
itself. This did Joach. Camerarius elegantly express when he sent
to Pennius the shape of this insect out of the storehouse of natural
things of the Duke of Saxony with the lines:—
― A bee begat me not, nor yet did I proceed

From any female, but myself I breed.‖
For it dies once in a year, says Moufet, who thus enshrines Egyptian
mythology in a popular superstition, ―and from its own corruption,
like a phœnix, it lives again, as Moninus witnesseth, by the heat of the
sun.‖ According to P. Vaterianus, there was a notion that the scarab
only rolled its ball from sunrise to sunset. The Singhalese show great
anxiety to expel the beetle that may be found in the house after
sunset, though they do not kill it. 3 Moufet repeats Plutarch, who
asserted that the beetle was male only in sex. But this is to mistake
the symbol for the thing signified. It was depicted as rolling the sun
through the heavens, and that course ended visibly with sunset. It
made the annual circle, and was thus the symbol of a year, or Ter,
hence said to die and be renewed once a year. There is a more
remarkable misunderstanding connected with the beetle, concerning
the ―death-watch.‖ Sir Thomas Browne observed that the man who
could cure this superstition and ―eradicate this error from the minds
of the people, would save from many a cold sweat the meticulous
heads of nurses and grandmothers.‖ It is easily explained. The
beetle was the type of Time, and associated with the end or renewal
of a period. The Beetle was that celestial sign in which the solar
year ended and a new year began.
The ―death-watch‖ is a kind of beetle (Scarabæus galeatus
1 Inman, Ancient Faiths¸Figs. 47 and 48, v. ii.
2 Moufet, Theatrum Insectorum, p. 149.
3 Tennat, Nat. Hist. of Ceylon, p. 407.
pulsator). It is a helmeted beetle, and this identifies it with Khepr,
for Kheprsh is a helmet, and the word denotes the hom of Khepr.1
Melchior Adams records the story of a man who had a clock-watch
that had lain for years unused in a chest, which of itself struck eleven
in the hearing of many before the man died. This indicated the
nearness of the end of time, or twelve o‘clock. So the death-watch
denotes the end of time for some one belonging to the house, because
it is still a symbol of Khepr. When the sun entered the sign of the
Beetle, the clock of the year struck twelve: it was the end. This
superstition shows the beetle to have been as sacred in Britain as it
was in Egypt, about whose worship of insects and animals so many
shallow things have been written.
The ancient Britons not only buried the beetle with their dead, but
the same genus of it was chosen—the DERMESTES. In one of the
stone coffins exhumed from the Links of Skail, which barrows are
of the remotest antiquity, a bag of beetles was found, the bag having
been apparently made of rushes. 2 They belonged to the genus
DERMESTES, four species of which were found by Wilkinson in the
head of a mummy brought by him from Thebes. 3 Obviously the
beetle was buried in both instances, for one reason, it was the emblem
of Time, ever-renewing. whence came the Eternal. The name DER-
MESTES still tells the tale. ―TER‖ was Time, the beetle-headed
Khepr, MES is birth and to be born, TES ―in turn.‖ The scarab not
only represented the cirde of the sun, but the ever-turning time,
the renewing cycles of the soul.
The beetle was buried with the mummy of the dead. This in
Egyptian is the Mum image or type of the dead. And one name of
the beetle, the type enclosed with the dead, is in English ―MUM.‖
There is a reason why the beetie insect and the beetle as Maul
have the same name. The principle of this naming alike is to be
found in the two-fold nature of each. The beetle, in making the
circle, worked at both ends; so does the Maul, swung in a circle.
In the Maori the maul is called a ―TA,‖ which is an Egyptian name
of the beetle. TA, in the hieroglyphics, is the head of a mallet, the
wooden beetle, as well as the name of Khepr. So that this double
meaning of the beetle, applied to both mallet and scarab, was
Egyptian, as it is English. Another conjunctiun of this kind occurs
in the person of Thor (Ter) and his beetle or mallet. These are types
of the biune Khepr who made the two halves one. To Kep is
to close two into one, make the copula. This Khepr did. We have
the root meaning in cop and kyphor, whilst to kipper fish is a form
of making two into one by taking out the backbone.
We still call half-and-half hy the familiar name of Cooper, a drink
1 Ritual, ch. 93.
2 Gough‘s Sepul. Monts. vol. i. p. 12.
3 Anc. Egypt, ii. (2nd ser.) 261.
composed of two in one. In Ireland the Mountain Kippure, from
which the two rivers Liffey and Dodder run down to the Dublin
plain, is named on the same principle as the beetle of Egypt, the one
that was held to be biune, the one image of source in which the
two factors met, or from whence the two sources issued. The
Mountain Kippure was the starting-point of the two rivers.
HEPT (Eg.) is to unite by an embrace. So the staves of the
cask are united by the embrace of the rings, or as we say, it is
HOOPED, in Egyptian, ―HEPT.‖ A quart pot used to be called
a hoop; it was bound by hoops like a barrel. ―HOOP‖ also
denotes a measure of liquid. Generally there were three hoops
on the quart pot, so that three men drinking together took each
his hoop. Jack Cade proclaimed that when be was king the three-
hooped pot should have ten hoops, which would not have suited
at all unless the pot had been greatly enlarged. 1 Hoop is a
measure of corn as well. The word ―Ap‖ (Eg.) is a quantity of
liquid, to take account, reckon. ―Ap-t‖ is measure and judgment.
If we place the article first we get the Tap. The Tap was the
tavern or Tabern, sometimes called the Tabard. And ―Tebu‖
(Eg.) is to draw liquid, that is to tap. With us the place where
it is drawn is the Tap, the instrument it is drawn with being
a tap.
The soul of man, says Spenser, is of a circular form. That
is a hieroglyphic to be read by the hieroglyphics. The circle is
the symbol of a period, in this instance masculine. The same sign,
an Eaglet, says Hor-Apollo,2 symbolises the seed of man, and a
circular form. The soul was the seed of man, a determiner of time
and period in creation. BA is the soul, a circlet a metal ring, and
seed-corn. In Chaldee a circle is zero; our zero is still signified by a
circle, and zero, Egyptian Ser, is the seed, and Ser is the same as soul.
The minds of philologists have wandered the world round, always
excepting Egypt, in search of the word ―BODY." Every sense of the
word is found in Egyptian. ―PET‖ is foundation; ―PAUTI‖ is type,
form, image, to figure forth or embody. PAUT is a oompany, the
Paut the company of nine gods, the whole BODY of them. BA is to
be a soul, AAT house: BAAT adds the feminine terminal, whence
Beth, the abode of the Ba, or soul, that is the BA-T, BU-T, B ETH,
BOTHY, abode of soul or the BODY. Again, BA is the soul and TI
is a boat; in this combination the boat and body are identical, as are
the abode and body. With the Polynesians a body of men or gods
is a houseful or a BOAT-ful, a body, the boat, in Maori, being a POTI.
The Ba (Eg.) is the soul, and HAT the heart, and the heart was con-
sidered to be the shrine or body of the soul, so that BA-HAT, BA-TH,
BA-T, the abode of the soul, is the house, or place, so named in
Egyptian. But the word BODIG, Gaelic BODHAG, is an earlier form,
1 ii. Hen. vi. 4, 2. 2 ii. 2.
and it is suspected that the hieroglyphic TA had the force of TCH,
going back to the click, just as body was the earlier Bodig.
The typical circle PUT is another name for heaven. So that the
vulgar expression, ―gone to POT,‖ may not be so brutal as it sounds,
for, in Egyptian, gone to PUT would mean gone to glory, to
heaven; more literally, gone to join the divine circle of the nine
gods. And this is our POT, as a circular form both in the cooking
utensil or drinking measure, and as POT, the name of the circular
black pudding, made of blood and groats. Going a-puddening is
going round. PUT in Egyptian is to feed as well as food. Old
English ―POT days‖ were sacred to receiving and feeding of friends
thrice a week.
―PAUTI‖ is a name of Osiris as the dual Creator; the biune
Being. This is the full form of Put, and gives the plural of male and
female, the circle of two halves, Osiris and Isis conjoined. They are,
as we say in English, the two BUTTIES, or mates. TI is two, redupli-
cation, and a BUTTY is one of two mates who work together. The
company of nine gods called a Pauti are equivalent to nine Butties,
the number nine being the full Egyptian plural. A still more
striking instance of descent from the divine to the dunghill occurs
with this word PUT or PAUTI. In the hieroglyphics, as said,
PUTI or PAUTI is the cirde of heaven divided into two halves,
upper and lower, north and south. And this image, as the initiated
know, was sacredly perpetuated in the genuine English PETTY,
with its upper and lower, larger and lesser halves of the whole.
The PETTY-toes of the pig are likewise divided into upper and
lower, larger and lesser, as their form of two-foldness. The petty-
sessions again imply the same duality of being, as the lesser of two.
And just as puti becomes put in Egyptian, so does petty become pet,
hence the diminutive; also PUD is the hand or foot, one of two,
as is the paddle and puddock (frog); the pod being a whole formed
of two sides. PETI (Eg.), for two or both, is found in PAITA, Tariana;
PAIHETIA, Brierly Island (Australia); BIT, Chinese; BAT, Basque;
Botewa, Talamenca, and EngIish BOTH.
The CARE-CLOTH was a kind of canopy used at one time during
the marriage service. At Sarum when there was a marriage before
mass, the parties kneeled together and had a fine linen cloth, called
the care-cloth, laid over their heads during the time of the mass till
they received the benediction, and then were dismissed. In the
Hereford Missal it is directed that at a particular prayer the married
couple shall prostrate themselves while four clerks hold the four
cornered care-cloth over them. The care-cloth occupied the place of
the Jewish canopy. The word Kar (Eg.) means a circle, sphere,
zone, round, with the especial sense of being under and with. Kher
has the meaning of being under and with, and Kher is the name
of a shrine. Khar also means to enter, go between, beget. From
which we may gather the care-cloth was symbolical of the marriage
shrine, and all that is implied by marriage.
―SNATEM‖ (Eg.), rendered reposing, to be at rest, is applied to
the bearing mother. It literally means the mother tied up. The
GREAT mother is the mother great with child, and she was so re-
presented as TA-URT with the tie or SNAT in front of her. SNAT
or SENT means to found by tying. SNATH (Eg.) is a tie, and to tie.
This we have in English. A SNOTCH is a knot. SNITCH means to
confine by tying up. The SNOOD may be derived from SEN (Eg.), to
bind, AAT, a net. Our SNOOD is the net-fillet for confining, that is
SNOOD-ing up the hair; and the snooded maiden is our form of Mut
snatem, the tied up or snooded mother. Snooding the hair was one
of the various symbolical customs of tying up and knotting used at
marriage, having the same significance as the true love-knot, the
enfolding scarf, the garland, girdle, and the ring of gold, all of which
were typical of the tying up, of the female source by the male on
which procreation depended. The hair of the woman in Egypt was
not tied up or snooded until she was wedded. This, too, was a
custom in our islands either at marriage or betrothal. It is alluded
to in the song, ―He promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbon, To
tie up my bonny brown hair.‖ The ―top-knot‖ of the bride is
frequently mentioned. To ―tyne her snood‖ was a synonym for loss
of virginity; only because of being a mother but not a wife. She
was unsnooded or not snooded. Camden, in his Ancient and Modern
Manners of the Irish, says, they presented their lovers with bracelets
of women‘s hair,1 for which ornament the hair was cut off to form a
typical ring. This is the equivalent of tying up and snoooding the
maiden‘s hair; but the symbolism goes still farther in converting
the type of maidenhood into the tie of marriage.
The glove sent or thrown down with a challenge identifies it as a
symbol. Gloves were ensigns of a. bridal given away at weddings.
White paper cut in the shape of women‘s gloves was hung up at the
doors of houses at Wrexham in Flintshire as late as the year 1785,
when the surgeon and apothecary of the place was married.2
It was at one time the custom in Sheffield to hang up paper garlands
on the church pillars, enclosing gloves which bore the names and ages of
all unmarried girls who had died in the parish. Another custom renders
it imperative for the gentleman who may be caught sleeping and
kissed by a lady, to present her with a pair of gloves. In the North
of England white gloves used to be presented to the Judge at a
maiden assize when no prisoner had been capitally convicted. These
are still presented to the magistrate of the City of London when
there is ―case.‖ The glove is a hieroglyphic of the hand. The
hieroglyphic hand is TUT, and the word signifies to give, image,
typify, a type of honour, distinction, ceremonial.
1 Gough‘s Camden, iii. 658. 2 Brand, Gloves at Weddings.
One naturally turns to the hieroglyphic symbols to see what help
they will give in unriddling so universal a thing as the wearing of
horns assigned to the man who has a wife untrue to him. Horns are
generally taken to be symbolic of male potency. We forget that the
cow has horns as well as the bull, and that the horn is not limited
to sex.
The horn is a masculine symbol, but like many others, most
ancient, not solely male. Cornutus, to be horned, is the Egyptian
Kar-nat, the phallus placed in position as horns. Kar-nat is derived
from karu—support, bear, carry; and nat, the tool or instrument.
This applies to both sexes. The feminine Nat was the Goddess
Neith, the cow-headed bearer and bringer forth of Helios.
The fact is that horns on the head are chiefly a feminine symbol. The
cow and moon were the typical horn-wearers, and both were feminine
signs. Cow and moon carried the orb between their horns, as bearers
of the light. The cow in agriculture draws with its horns. The
emblematic value of horn was in its hardness. This made it an
image of sustaining power. Hence the horns sustained the solar
orb. The horns belonged to the beast of burden; the bearer was by
nature the female, thus the horned cow bore the burden and carried
the sun, the type of masculine source. A curious application of this
imagery is seen in the monuments. In the time of Tahtmes III. the
subject race of the Uauat send tribute to Egypt, and amongst other
tokens the horns and tufts of cattle are made use of to represent a
negro with arms raised as if in supplication, whilst others carry their
offerings between the horns. ―I passed over on her fair neck‖ says
the Solar God of Israel, speaking of the HEIFER of Ephraim. 1 She
was my beast of burden is the sense.,
The horns, then, are a symbol of bearing and sustaining. The
Great Mother, the bearer, was not only horned like the cow and the
moon, for Neith and Mut were also given the horn of male power.
In the hieroglyphics the cow and the victim are synonymous, as
the Kheri bound for the sacrifice. The horns of the Kheri, cow,
victim, were wreathed and gilded for the sacrifice. And the horns
figuratively applied to the cuckold have the same meaning; they
are the hieroglyphic of the man who patiently bears, and who is the
victim led to the sacrifice by his wife.
According to symbolism the husband of an adulterous woman is
not only the common butt, but he is the pitiful beast of burden,
willing to bear; willing to be the sacrificial victim, and as such he is
crowned with horns. This reading is sustained by the custom of
horn-fair, anciently held at Charlton, in Kent, on St. Luke‘s or Whip-
Dog Day,2 October 18th, to which it was the fashion for men to go in
women‘s apparel.
Hor-Apollo3 says a Cow‘s horn when depicted signifies punishment.
1 Hos. x. 11. 2 Brand. 3 ii. 18.
Doubtless the sign stood for a fact, and the custom of imposing
horns, whether figuratively or not, would be Egyptian. The
cow‘s horn, the horn of the victim of the sacrifice, the type of punish-
ment, proclaims this to be a cow of a man, not a bull; hence, a
coward.
To be cuckold might be derived from the habit of the cuckoo in
making use of another bird‘s nest for laying its eggs, but that would
make the term cuckooed, and cuckoo is not a primary. Gec is the
old name for the cuckoo, and this correlates with the Gouk as a fool.
Cuckold read as Egyptian is the peaceable meek worm or the old
man. KAK is a worm, KEH-KEH, the old man; URT is meek, feeble,
inactive, bearing. This is probably the terminal syllable of coward
—the one who is meek and peaceful of bearing as the cow. The
cuckold is the coward, hence the horns. There was a subsidiary
sense, which contains the postscript, the sting in the tail. The cow
is horned at the head, but that does not make it a bull. Greene1
says the cuckold was as soundly armed for the head as Capricorn.
The cow-horned man is a sort of fellow-figure to the woman who
wears the breeches; he takes her place as the BEARER!
The sacred origin of the bishop‘s apron can be illustrated hiero-
glyphically; it is an extant form of the figleaf or skin with which
the primal parent clothed herself, and of the loin-cloth of the naked
nations. The apron of the goose or the duck is the fat skinny
covering of the belly. The apron is a Base, a garment worn
from the loins to the knee in the mythical representations, in which
six Moors danced after the ancient Æthiopian manner, with their
upper parts naked; their nether, from the waist to the knee, covered
with bases of blue.2 Butler, in Hudibras, calls the butcher‘s apron a
Base. The BASU was worn by Egyptians as an apron or kind of
tunic. It is found on the rectangular sarcophagus in the British
Museum. The Basau is also a sash with ends behind. The name
relates the garment to the Genitrix Bast, and to the feminine period,.
BESH in Egyptian, PUSH-(pa) in Sanskrit, BOSH in Hebrew, PISH and
BISI in Assyrian, BAZIA in Arabic, and to Bes the beast. After its
first use the Basu became a type of the second feminine phase, the
covered condition of the gestator. Hence Bes to bear, dilate; Bes,
protection, the amulet (of the true voice), the candle (cf. AR, the
candle, and to conceive). The Basu was made of the skin of the
tiger or spotted hyena, the beast of blood. It was worn by the
sacrificer and the later butcher.
The one who hunted and slew the beast and wore the skin for his
Basu was an early hero. Hence it was worn in the form of an
embroidered tunic by the knights of chivalry. ―All heroic persons
are pictured in BASES.‖3 Bes (Eg.) means to transfer, and the Bes
1 Conceipt, p. 33 (1598). 2 Jasper Maine, Amorous Warre, iii. 2.
3 Gayton, Festivous Notes on Don Quixote, 1654, p. 218.

skin of the beast was transferred to the conqueror. This was typical
of another conquest, and of the Basu, whether as apron or tunic worn
by the male. To cover and to cure are synonymous. The Basu
as loin-cloth was emblematic of both. It was then transferred as a
trophy to the male, and was promoted from the domain of the
physical to that of the spiritual cure. The Egyptian king wore a
kind or apron in certain ceremonies, and it was a part of the rite for
him to furtively take and conceal some object beneath his apron.
This act was typical of ―MEN,‖ to conceal, which is an euphemism
for fecundating, used in the expression, ―O creator of his father, who
has concealed his mother‖—the literal meaning being, ―who has
fecundated his mother.‖ 1 The king‘s apron was a form of one
worn by Khem as the sower of seed. The seed in Egyptian is
NAPRA, and the English Apron is the NAPRON. If the wearers
of these relics of the primitive past did but know their typical nature,
they would hasten to deposit them in the nearest museum of anti-
quities, and never again wear them in the presence of men and
women. They belong to the ―Mysteries‖ that have not borne
explanation.
In the Semitic languages a skull-cap is named TAKIYYA.
In Chinese a helmet is THUKIU. In Cornish-English TOC is
a cap or hat. TAJ (Arabic and Persian) is a modified form,
meaning a skull-cap. TYU, in Zulu-Kaffir, is the cap or cover. The
cap or cover includes THEAK (Eng.), to thatch, and the bed-TICK,
TEKE (Maori), the pudendum muliebriæ; TAKARI (Sans.), a particular
part of the same; Degy (Cor. Eng.) to inclose and shut in. In
Egyptian the original form is worn down to TAAUI, a cap with a tie,
that is, close-fitting like the skull-cap or helmet. TEKA (Eg.) yields
the idea of all as to fix, fit close, cleave to, adhere. The Cornish
TAKKIA, to fix, TACHE (Eng.), to clasp and tie, TACK, to make fast,
whence TACKED is tight, and tight is tied close, TEKA (Eg.), close-
fitting, fixed. Once the root is run down and detected in Egypt,
it may be followed on the surface the world over.
In the Welsh writings we meet with three crowned princes, whether
mythical when called Mervin, Cadelh, and Anaraut,2 does not matter;
each one wore upon his bonnet or helmet a kind of coronet of gold or
head-dress made of lace and set with precious stones: this in Welsh
or the ancient Kymry, was called the TALAETH, the crown, diadem,
or band, a name given by nurses to the band or natural crown that
determined its being a hero. In relation to this it is common
amongst the English peasantry for the nurse to examine the child‘s
head for the double crown, and if it be there, the child, who of old
was to become a hero, is now to ―eat his bread in two countries.‖
The TALAETH is the tiara, but with the Egyptian terminal T.
1 Birch (ed.), Records of the Past, v. 10, p. 143, note.
2 Girald. Camb. Description. cap. ii.
The ―TARUTU‖ Is foun d on the monuments 1 as a band of lace or
net-work, with the determinative of hair. Taru is the name of the
hero. Tu is a tie, ribbon, or band, hence the TARUTU, the head-
band of the hero; is the TALAETH worn by the Welsh princes. Many
conjectures have been made respecting the origin and meaning of
the S-collar worn by our Lords, Chief Justices, the Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer, the Lord Mayor of London, the Heralds
and Sergeants-at-Arms. The collar consists of a blue and white
ribbon lettered with S‘s in gold. Gold, to begin with, signifies a
Lord (Neb) in the hieroglyphics, and the collar or tie is a syllabic
SA and phonetic S. Another symbolic SA is an ormament with
ten loops. These signs are ideographs of rank, kind of officer, virtue,
efficacy, protection, amulets, and of an order. The ten-looped SA is
also the determinative of a court, which may be royal, or a Court of
Justice. The SHABU is a collar of nine points, the name of which
appears to identify it as worn by judges, and this same collar is also
called the USKH. S is our representative of both Sa and Us. SA
or US then is the Tie, the sign of rank. SA for instance is the Genius
of Wisdom, and KH denotes the title, hence the USKH, S-KH, or, as
we say, the S-collar. We know the Egyptian Judges wore the USKH
or SA collar, with the amulet and sacred symbol of Ma, the Goddess
of Justice, attached; and the cause was not opened in the Civil Court
till the colar was put on.
The USKH collar was the Judge‘s collar, as the Uskh (Hall) was
the ―Hall of the double Justice.‖ The English S-collar, then, is a
form of the SA-collar or USKH. The S-collar read as Egyptian is
the SA-collar, a symbol of wisdom, the sign of an order, or rank, or
judgeship. USKH, the collar, also means broad, corresponding to
the broad riband.
In addition to the S-collar and the broad riband the USKH had a
third form in the ESCU, the knight‘s shield and sign of service.
From this comes the tide of esquire, one who was a shield-bearer,
and he who had carried the Escu had the right to be called esquire.
The shield ESCU, like the USKK collar, was the symbol of an order.
A piece of rag is a hieroglyphic which to some extent can be read.
It was a common practice for those who visited the Holy Wells, and
drank of their waters of healing and purifying, to leave upon the
tree or bushes near some shred of their clothing, or bit of rag. The
rag was apparently offered on the principle of ―gif-gaf.‖ It was
a token of exchange, the rag representing the disease deposited in
return for the healing. But the word RAG recovers an ideograph.
It is identical with REKH (Eg.), to full, wash, whiten, purify. And
when a well is found named RAG-Well, between Benton and
Jesmond, near Newcastle, and it is a famous well of healing, we may
suppose it was not named from the RAGS left there, but from REKH,
1 Select Pap. xlvi. 4.
to purify, make white, and heal. The rag becomes hieroglyphic as
the symbol of sores. The rag, as chalk, is named from its whiteness.
―He‘s off his CAKE‖ is a provincial phrase, explained as meaning
he‘s off his head. It signifies he‘s loose-witted, out of bounds, ―out
of all Ho.‖ Caker is to bind with iron, and this connects the cake
with a boundary. The hot cross-bun of Easter is a cake-symbol of
the equinoctial boundary. There can be no doubt about this hiero-
glyphic having the same value as it had in Egypt, where it was the
sign of boundary, orbit, and circumference, which the daft man is
out of who is off his cake.
One symbolical phrase for dying is to ―KICK the bucket.‖ Our
kick is the Egyptian KHEKH, to recoil, return, send back, return.
To KHEKH the bucket in that sense would be to return it empty; the
one of the two that returns for the water. It has, however, been
suggested that the image of kicking the bucket was drawn from the
mode of hanging up a dead pig by the hind legs; the crooked stick
which stretches the legs being called a bucket. This is the
PUCKHAT (Eg.), a stick (crooked) or rod, with the meaning also of
stretching out.
Chaucer in the ―Pardoners Tale‖ speaks of Dice as ―bicched
bones,‖ and offers a crux to the philologists, which the Egyptian
word ―PEK‖ solves in a moment. PEK is a gap, hole, shape. And
with the terminal T ―PEKT‖ is ―BICCHED;‖ that is, pitted with
gaps or holes. It is a variant of PECKED and POCKED. Pight is
pitched, placed. To peck is to make the gap or hole, and the instru-
ment is a pick-axe. The pig is the animal that routs or pokes.
Peckled is speckled, spotted with pecks. The cowslip is called a
paigle. The Egyptians had the ―PECK,‖ measure, and this, like the
pock in the dice, is a form of the pek or bicch. Next we have the
biggin. The PEKHA is an Egyptian rod, English PEG, and PKH-KHA
means divisions. Both peg and division met in one werd in the
custom of drinking from a tankard marked inside by pegs graduated
for the purpose of dividing the liquor into equal shares; whence the
phrase of taking one down a peg.
Plutarch informs us that the Egyptians called the loadstone ―the
Bone of Horus.‖ And Martin tells us 1 that in the little island of
Quedam, in front of the Rock of Quedam, there was a vein of ada-
mant, the loadstone: and some of the natives told him that the rock
on the east side of Harries had a vacuity near the front in which
was a stone called the Lunar Stone, and this advanced and
retired according to the increase and decrease of the moon. This
is the legend of the loadstone found in Quedam. The Bone of
Horus was found in Quedam, where there is a. place named Harries;
this may read the Temple of Har. Now the loadstone is adamant
(earlier kadamant), ergo, Quedem-ant, which is Egyptian for the
1 Western Isles, pp. 41-50.
stone of Quedam. This will enable us to recover the name of the
loadstone as Khetam (Eg.). Khetam means to be shut, sealed, a lock,
a fortress, all that we term adamantine. Khetam was the name of
a seal-ring, the sign of shutting, sealing, stopping, locking. And it
is now suggested that the Bone of Horus was Khatam-ant (Adamant)
the Stone of Khetam. Khet means to cut, to reverse and overcome;
am or ma is with. Khetem is a place named on the Monuments;
locality unknown. Possibly the mineral called Khetem may not
always have been gold, the Harris Papyrus mentions a mythical
monkey having an eye of Khetam. Why not of the loadstone, as a
type of attraction?
A Devonshire talisman in possession of a Miss Soaper, of Thur-
shelton, North Devon, a bluish-green kind of stone is called a KENNING-
Stone. This was not a knowing stone, but a charm against disease,
which it averted or sent away. It was held to be particularly potent
for sore eyes when they were rubbed with it. An operation for the
cure of the bite of a mad dog is called KINSING.1
The sense missing is found in KHENA (Eg.), to avert, blow away,
puff away, repel, carry off, with the determinative of Typhon the
Adversary.
The Lee-stone is a curious talisman belonging to the family of
Lee in Scotland. When tried by a lapidary it was found to be a stone,
but of what kind he could not determine. It is dark red in colour and
triangular in shape; and is used as a charm against disease and infection,
by dipping the stone in the water and giving the water to the cattle
for drink. In the case of a bite from a mad dog the wound is washed
with the water. It is said that Lady Baird, of Sauchton Hall, near
Edinburgh, was bitten by a mad dog, and that after she had shown
signs of hydrophobia, she was cured by drinking and bathing in water
which the Lee-stone had been dipped in.2
Now the earlier form of the name of Lee is Leigh, and this is the
Egyptian Lekh, or Rekh, a name of the Mage, the Wise Man, the
English leech, and healer. The Leighs were probably Lee-ches (or
Rekhi). Rekh also means to wash, whiten, and purify, and do that
which is attributed to the Lee-stone.
An or Un, in the hieroglyphic, is the name of an hour; English
one, Welsh, un. UNNT is oned. The sign is a five-rayed star which
also reads number five. Here the hour or period is denoted by a figure
of five, as with us it is signalled by the hour-hand and the number five.
The English hand answers to the Egyptian ANNT. We have the
AN for number five in AN-berry, or five fingers, the name of a water
on horses and a disease of turnips.
Shâ (Eg.) is number. It signifies the first and stands for thirty.
Thirty days, of course, made one month. Hence thirty (Shâ) made one
sheaf of days; our English sheaf is the first binding up of corn. But
1 Hall‘s Epigr. against Marston. 2 Brand, on the ―Lee-Penny.‖
we have the word signifying thirty. A SHAFFE is thirty gads of
steel. Our sheaf of corn is a measure, an armful. And SHA (Eg.) is
the arm and measure; ―F‖ signifies to carry; hence the armful carried
is a sheaf.
In English the ―CRIB‖ is both a manger and the bed of a child,
and in the hieroglyphics the PET (bed) is the same image as is the
APT or manger; PET and APT permute, and the crib and manger
are identical as in English.
A ―SPARE-RIB‖ of pork is usually explained as meaning a thin or
lean rib. But why does spare signify lean? The hieroglyphics answer
because it is the rib. SPER in Egyptian is the rib, and one side.
SPER also was a measure, which was called a side, as we have it in
English, a spur of bacon for one side. Sper as measure denotes the
thin lean part found in the ribs or side named a ―SPER.‖
Champollion gives a hieroglyphic BAKAN as some unknown kind
of altar. It is a framework with what may be four pieces of meat
suspended within it. 1 ―BA‖ is food, and ―KANN‖ is smoke. ―Kanf‖
is a baker. And the Indians of Brazil were found in 1557 to be in
possession of a kind of wooden grating set up on four forked posts on
which they prepared food with a slow fire beneath, for preserving it.
This in their language was called a BOUCAN.2 By aid of which we may
identify the altar as an instrument or framework for preparing or
smoking meat. Boucanning, the art of smoking meat to preserve it,
is found in Africa, the Pelew Islands, Kamkatka, the Eastern Archi-
pelago, and it gives us the name of our smoked pork or ―BACON‖ in
England.
―The honest miller has a golden thumb‖ is a proverbial phrase.
Chaucer says his miller ―had a thumb of gold pardie.‖ Brand sug-
gests that this typical thumb may have been the strickle with which
corn is made level and struck off in measuring. It was, but that
does not explain the origin. The thumb is a measure still,
and TUM (Eg.) is a total of measure; the word means to cut,
strike, announce. TEMA is to make both true and just. It also
means complete, perfect, perfected, to satisfy. The thumb of gold is
probably a symbol of measure, typical of truth and justice, the two-
fold truth of Egypt, therefore of Tumu or Tum, the Great Judge.
It may have relation to the Two Truths, that the bushel used to
consist of two strikes, and the strickle called the Thumb would be
the analogue of the TAM, sceptre and sign of just rule; the thumb
of gold would correspond to the TAM of gold, Tarn being the golden.
An ancient piece of family plate used to be set on the tables of the
old nobility, called the SHIP, although it was not always ship-shape.
SHIP is a name for a censer. However, the name SHIP is supposed
to denote its origin. But in Egyptian we meet with the SHIP, image,
1 Mon. iv. 322.
2 Levy, Hist. d’un Voy. 1600, p. 153, quoted by Tylor, Early hist. 261, 3rd ed. 262.
which is not the ship, vessel. SHEP is a clepsydra. SHEB is a
figure and to figure; SHABAU, a figure belonging to the heraldry of
death. And SHEBU is the name of traditions. Possibly this and
not merely a ship was the name that rendered the meaning of the
heirloom piece of plate. If so it was an image of descent, a type of
transference from generation to generation.
The BESOM is an emblem of passing and crossing. The besom or
broom is used by witches in passing to and fro. In Hamburg they
have a nautical tradition that if you have had an adverse wind at sea,
and you meet with another ship, if you throw a broom before it the
wind will change, and the bad luck pass to the other ship.1 Here the
broom is a symbol of passIng and crossing. So is it in the laying
a broom across the inner side of the threshold for the nurse to step
over, when the child is taken to be christened, and the making of a
besom during ―the twelve days‖ to lay on the thrcshold for the cattle
to step over when they are first driven out to pasture in the spring,
which was intended to protect them against witches. It is a belief in
England and Germany that no witch can step over a besom laid across
the threshold. She must push it aside if she would enter as she cannot
cross it. In both cases whether it be the broom which the witch does
stride or the besom that she cannot pass, it is a symbol of crossing,
and as a symbol has divers applications. The besom attached to the
mast-head in token that the ship was for sale was emblematic of this
passing by transfer from one owner to another. The burning of
besoms was a part of the sports in the fire-festivals at the summer
solstice. In the Harz the fires of St. John were accompanied with
burning besoms which were whirled round in the air. The Czechs of
Bohemia do the same thing, and all the old worn-out besoms that can
be begged or stolen are collected for weeks beforehand to make the
feu de joie on this occasion.3 In the churchwardens‘ accounts of St.
Martin Outwich (1524), we have ―Payde for byrche and BROMES at
Midsommr, ijd.‖ ―1525. Payde for byrch and BROMES at Mid-
somr iijd.‖4 These brooms doubtless ended as torches. The
burning broom was still the hieroglyphic of the passage, that of
the sun now culminating at the point of the solstice, the worn-out
broom being a symbol of the passed circle of the year, utilized in
feeding the fire which typified the renewal of another annual passage
through the he.vens.
In Egyptian the word ―BES‖ signifies to transfer, to pass from one
person, thing, or place, to another: am (Eg.) is belonging to. BES-
AM is our besom, an ideograph of transfer and passage. The BES
is also an amulet for protection. The bush as a sign of sale and
transfer used by vintners and also by horse-dealers in the shape of
green boughs worn by cattle, is a variant of the besom ideograph.
1 Kelly, Curiosities, p. 226. 2 Ib. 226-7.
3 Kelly, p. 228. 4 Brand, Midsummer Eve.
Bes (Eg.) also means to be exhibited and proclaimed, as was done
by means of the bush and broom.
The Skimmington was a kind of representative and burlesque
procession, employed, for one thing, to ridicule a man who suffered
himself to be beaten by his wife. In Dr. King‘s Miscellany Poems1 are
the following lines:—
― When the young people ride the Skimmington,
There is a general trembling in the Town,
Not only he for whom the person rides
Suffers, but they sweep other doors besides,
And by that hieroglyph does appear
That the good woman is the master here.‖
This shows that the besom, true to its name, from Bes, to transfer,
was an emblem of the transfer of power. SKHEMA (Eg.). to accuse,
drag forth, represent, figure, offers an explanation of the name of this
ideographic ceremony.
The Druidic speakers constantly talk in hieroglyphics, which may
be understood when we have collected and massed the original
matter. We meet with the horse or mare, CEIDIO, named CETHIN,
which has the horn of Avarn. It is also called KARN GAFFON, and
the hoof or foot was guarded at the end with a band or ring. It
is likewise described as being cut off at the haunches. The symbolic
mare of the Druids is representative of KÊD. In Egypt the water-
horse was her type, the Kheb or hippopotamus form of the genitrix,
who became the later Hippos of Italy, the Mare-Mother of Greece, and
the Dobbin of our nursery stories. KAT (Eg.) signifies to go round
in a circle; IU the two houses or halves of heaven. Keten (Eg.)
is an image or likeness of the goer-round. The hinder quarters
cut off form a hieroglyphic deterrminative of Kefa. Khefiu (Eg.)
means tethered, and Gaffon was tethered with a band or ring. This
tether is also a hieroglyphic, a cord or noose for an animal‘s foot
called the REN.2 Ka-ren (karn) is Egyptian for the type of tethering:
and Kam Gaffon was the horse tethered by the foot. The ―REN‖
tether was the sign of binding within a circle, an orbit, and the
symbolic horse of the Druids and the British coins was so bound.
The mare has the horn of AVREN. This may name the Typhonian
type of animal, the mythical unicorn sometimes represented by the
rhinoceros, and REM or REN. REN is an animal, Ap is a hieroglyphic
horn. Ap and Af are names of the old Genitrix, who is possibly
identified as AVARN. She was depicted as the pregnant water-horse.
Afa. (Eg.) means filled, satisfied, and AFA-REN would answer to
AVARN. The animal is called the hideous. KEFA was the hidoous.
Strabo mentions the CEPUS, sacred at Babylon, near Memphis, with
a face like a satyr, and the body a combination of Dog and Bear.
1 Works, 1776, vol. iii. p. 256.
2 Bunsen, Egypt’s Place, vol. i. p. 551, No. 149.
The Unicorn, an express symbol of Sut-Typhon, was deposited at
last in the anns of England as one of the supports of the crown;
that is Typhon as the beneficent. not the dark demon of later times.
The mare of Kêd and the conventionalised animal, sometimes called
an elephant on the Scottish stones, may be explicated in this way.
There being no hippopotamus in the country, the horse or cow of
the waters would be more naturally represented by those of the land,
and this would lead to enigmas of allusiveness in compounding the
symbolical type. Tef, for example, is the water-fowl, duck, or goose,
and this is identified by name with the goddess of the Great Bear.
Now if the sculptor wanted to indicate the animal of the waters he
would or might give it the head of a waterfowl. This was done.
The duck or swan is found as the head of the enigmatical animal on
the Scottish Stones. This identifies the old Genitrix Tef, Kheft, or
Kêd just as well as the hippopotamus. Another mode of denoting
the horse of the waters would be by giving it a boat-shaped body.
This too was done, as may be seen on the coins, where the Chimera
is found as a monstrous horse, having the body of a boat and the
head of a bird. Bird, ship, and mare are compounded in the portrait
of Kêd, or Keridwen, who carried the seed of life across the Deluge
waters, and the emblem is equivalent to the old genitrix, who
included the hippopotamus, crocodile, lioness, and kaf. The mare
cut off at the haunches corresponds to the lioness divided in two, the
hinder half of which represents the north or west, and is the type of
force and attainment. Possibly because in lower latitudes the hinder
part of the Great Bear, the Khepsh, dipped below the horizon in
crossing the quarter of the north!
The name of the water-horse Khep is found in the word CAPPLE,
a horse in provincial English and in Keltic. A proverb has it, ―Tis
time to yoke when the cart comes to the Capples.‖ Another proverb
says, ―The grey mare is the better horse,‖ and the typical grey mare
is the old DOBBIN of our nursery lore, who still retains the name of
TEB, like the star DUBHE in the Great Bear.
In the British Mythology we have the solar bull and the solar
birthplace identified with the sign of the Bull. The birthplace is
where the sun rises at the time of the vernal equinox, and this in the
Druidic cult is continually identified with the bull, which must have
been over four thousand years ago, as the equinox enters that sign
6190 years since (dating from the year 1880), and left it 4035
years ago.
In the Mysteries we find the priest exclaiming after the manner
of the Osirian in the Egyptian ritual, ―I am the cell, I am the
chasm, I am the bull, ‗BECR-LLED.‘ ‖ 1 The cell was the womb
of Kêd; the chasm, the equinoctial division. The title of the bull,
says Davies, has no meaning in the British language. It has in
1 Davies‘ Mythology, p. 137.
Egyptian. Lled is of course, people, the race, one with the Rut (Eg.).
Bekh (Eg.) means to fecundate, to engender, beget. The Bekh was
the birthplace or the sun in the mount of the horizon, or sign of the
equinox. Bekh-r (Eg.) is to be the begetter. The sense is purely
Egyptian like the words. ―I am the bull, Becr-Lled,‖ is ―I am the bull
of men, the fertiliser of the race; I am the procreator in the image
of the bull,‖ as was Khem, Mentu, and Mnevis.
The Ape as a sign of station was solstitial as Kafi (Shu) and
equinoctial as An. The ―mouth of the ape‖ and the ―mouth of the
star‖ are names applied to outlets of the Nile. The Druids also
had the symbo1ical ape called Eppa. ―Without Eppa or the cowstall
or the rampart, the protecting circle,‖ says the Bard, no time can be
kept. 1 The imagery can be read as Egyptian of the earliest time.
The egg also remains as an ideograph of the circle, as it has been
ever since it was shaped and named by Nun, or laid by the Goose.
You ought never to make eggs out of or into the house after sunset.
Why? because the cycle is completed of which the egg was an image.
For the same reason an egg was considered the luckiest gift for a
newborn child. For the same reason originally but now the symbol
remains and passes current without the sense as people keep on talking
after their reason has gone.
The Egyptian goddess Hathor or Athor is the feminine abode,
the habitation of Har the child. The abode Hat, earlier Kat, is the
womb, and in Cornish English the belly or womb is called ATHOR,
the goddess being thus reduced to her primitive condition.
The white cow was especially the symbol of Hathor, the Egyptian
Venus, whose title is the nurse of the child. She is depicted suckling
the child, and her type as the nurse is the white cow. ―Hat‖ is both
cow and white, ―Har‖ is the child. In Wiltshire the superstition is
still extant that the white cow gives the motherly milk. There is a
symbolical saying, ―A child that sucks a white cow will thrive better.‖2
Hathor, the divine nurse, still survives in the image and ideograph of
the white cow that nursed the divine child. The white cow
that rises from the lake is a familiar figure in the Irish legends.
In the time of Kufu there was a priest of the white bull and sacred
heifer of Athor. And it is to this sacred symbolry that the present
writer would look for the remote origin of the wild white cattle of
Great Britain. The Bulmer crest was a white bull! and the primeval
Bulmer may have been a priest of the white bull or cow, as Mer (Eg.)
is not only the cow but a form of Hathor, the goddess of the white
cow, and the English Mart was a cow fair. Bul-mer (or Bar-mer)
is the son or bull of the white cow.
The Ponsonby crest is a serpent issuing from a crown that is pierced
by three arrows.3 This heraldic device may be seen as mythological
1 Gwawd Llud y Mwar. 2 Choice Notes, p. 244.
3 Letter in Notes and Queries, October 20, 1871.

symbolry in the Antiquities of Egypt, the French work,1 where arrows
are entering and the serpent is issuing from the crown of the great
mother, who wears the feather of Ma. The arrow is a symbol of
Seti, the wearer of the white crown. The serpent represents, the
lower crown of Neith. The feather shows that the Two Truths were
signified. Sen or Shennu is the circle of the Two Truths; these
were imaged in the white and red double crown called the Shent.
SEN is also the Egyptian name of the templo of Esne, as the house
of the circle. Pen is an emphatic the, and PINU, a name of the double-
Crown; bi (or by) is the place. PEN-SEN-BI reads the place or circle
of the Two Truths. Thus the House of Ponsonby would seem to be
an English form of the mythical hall of the Two Truths, localised
in this instance at SEN in Egypt.
An oar is the ideograph of Kher. ―It‖ (Eg.) means to figure forth.
Khart is the child. The oar is the symbol of Makheru, the divine
child and true Word. The oar as a means of crossing the waters is
thus the synomyn of the solar child who crosses the waters. In the
constitution of the boat of the sun,2 the paddles, are said to be
―the fingers of the elder Horus.‖ The boat itself is primarily
the feminine abode. This boat is personified in Kêd, the great
mother of British mythology. One of her names is KERID-WEN.
Wen, like Ven, Ken, Gwen, is the lady, the queen, Oine, Venus.
She is represented as the sailing vessel, that is, as the boat of breath,
but the paddle is before the sail and the paddle is also her hierogly-
phic. Her name KERID might be read KHER-it, the figurer of the oar
or of the child. She is called the modeller or figurer of the young.
And the oar is her symbol. When Gwion the Little let his cauldron
boil over she seized the oar and struck the blind Morda on the head.3
Moma is called the demon of the sea. MERTA (Eg.) is both the
sea and the person attached to it. The action is equivalent to
crossing the water by means of the oar. This will suffice to show
the hieroglyphic Oar is the same in Britain as in Egypt.
An Oar is also a name of the Waterman. This is in the hieroglyphical
tongue. An oar is the sign of Har or Khar, the Sun of the Crossing,
whether as Horus or Makheru. Oar and Har are identical; the oar
or paddle being a type of crossing the waters in the passage through
the underworld. Horus or Har, as the oar of the Boat of Souls,4 is
the Waterman; the Child that crossed the Waters first of all in
Womb-world; secondly, in the Planisphere, and, lastly, in the
Eschatological ―Boat of Souls.‖
In Hudibras Butler says:—
―Tell me but what‘s the natural cause
Why on a sign no painter draws
The full moon ever, but the half?‖
1 Description de l‘Égypte (1809). 2 Rit. ch. 99.

3 Hanes Taliesin, ch. 2. 4 Rit. ch. 9.
The answer according to Egyptian symbolism is that the moon was
masculine up to the fifteenth day and then entered its secondary
phase. The half-moon was personated by Taht, the male lunar deity.
Taht signifies a sign, image, type, and the half-moon was the sign
outside of the house. The Inn itself was the feminine sign, the abode
invited to by the outside sign. The half-moon, as a sign in England,
is a synonym of Taht, the word, the tongue, the proclaimer and mani-
fester in Egypt. This may explain the origin of divination or fore-
casting by means of the ominous swinging of sign-boards mentioned
by Gay in Trivia. The board itself was a sign, a symbol, part of a
system of symbolism. Set in motion by the wind, a living voice was
given to this sign, which to the decaying sense of the symbolical uttered
portentous, but undefined meanings, to be shaped for the listeners
by their ignorance.
An ivy bush was at one time a vintner‘s sign an ivy bush is a
tod of ivy. Our tod is the Egyptian Tet, the type, image, mouth,
tongue and to speak, manifest, tell, proclaim, or make the sign.
Taht carried his TOD or branch of the panegyrics not in ivy but
as a shoot of palm. This branch has the meaning of showing,
explaining, as did the Tod or bush, hence the saying, ―Good wine
needs no bush.‖ Taht, however, was not outside only. The full
name of this deity, ―TAHUTI,‖, signifies the double one, the double
gibbousness of the moon or light. This duality of the Divinity
is sacredly preserved in the dual drink named TODDY.
Lluellin in his poems 1 wonders—
―By what hap
The fat harlot of the tappe
Writes at night and at noon,
For a tester half a moon,
And a great round O for a shilling.‖
There was no hap, as chance, in the matter. The tester was then
sixpence, or one-half of a whole, earlier it had been twelve pence. The
coinage was changed, but not the symbol of one-half of a total, that
lived on in the half-moon, the hieroglyphic of one-half or TNA, the
fortnight, as one-half of a month. Our vagabonds still call a month
a moon, and thus use the hieroglyphical mode of the Egyptians and
Red Indians, with whom a month was a moon, the fortnight a half-
moon. The word leg answers to the Egyptian REKH, to reckon,
keep account, and the LEG is yet used as a sign of reckoning, a leg
being one-half and tw.o legs the whole game.
Various of our public-house signs are of Egyptian origin, and can
only be read by the hieroglyphics. In a list of curious signs in the
British Apollo,2 there is the ―Leg and Seven Stars.‖ Now the
―Leg and Seven Stars‖ is not known to English astronomy as a
constellation. But it was to the Egyptians. The Seven Stars of ―Ursa
1 1679, p. 40. 2 London, 1710, vol. iii. No. 34.
Major‖ was a constellation of theirs called the Thigh of the Northern
Heaven. 1 The English ―leg and seven stars‖ answers to the thigh
and seven stars found in the Great Bear.
Drink and drinking were sa.cred customs long- before they wer.e
profaned. In Egyptian the ―KAB‖ libation, liquid, to refresh, enjoy,
is our Cup. And as Kaba is a horn it shows they also drank by the
horn. Our drinking-horn is a TOT—the name of Taht, againt who
represented the horned moon, and wore its crescent on his head.
Many pretended explanations of these signs are on a par with the
English sailor‘s rendering of the name of a French vessel called
Don Quichote as the ―donkey shot,‖ such as the ―Bull and Mouth,‖
rendered by Boulogne Mouth. In Egyptian the mouth and gate
are one in the ―Ru.‖ Our ―Bull and Mouth‖ alternates with the
―Bull and Gate.‖
Bull and mouth (or gate) are male and female signs; they represent
both sexes in one. The bull is personified as Khem; the mouth, as
Mut the mother. ―KAMUT,‖ a title of the bull and mother, is literally
our bull (Ka, Bull) and mouth. Bull and mouth is the sign of male
and mother, or the male as mother. An ancient picture of the bull
and mouth given by Hotten in his book on sign-boards places the
mouth under the belly of the bull which makes the bull an image of
the creative Khem in the drawings at Denderah.
As Khem is our bull, it is probable that Num is our ―green man.‖
Num was represented in the Egyptian portraits of him as the green
man, and his name signifies the winepress. The green man and
winepress is equivalent to our ―Green Man and Still.‖ Num wore
the ram or goat‘s horns on his head, and our green man also carries
the horn. If it be said that the horn was to blow, and this was mere
Robin Hood imagery, the answer is that such imagery is wholly
mythical.
Another of our old signs is the ―Axe and Bottle.‖ These are two
hieroglyphical types. The Egyptian axe is the Nuter, symbol of
divinity. The bottle Nu is just our common water-bottle. Out of
the NU the goddess of the water of life pours the divine drink of
immortality for thirsting souls. The Nu is the sign of drink and
within. The axe and bottle read as hieroglyphics proclaim to the
passer-by that there is divine drink inside: they also denote ―shelter
within.‖ It is certain that the axe had the hieroglyphic value of the
Nuter type in the British Isles, as in the tales of the Irish Gobawn
Saer, the goblin-builder, it is the same image of power and potency
as in Egypt. When, once upon a time, he came to a place where
the king‘s workmen bad finished building a lofty palace all except
the extreme part of the roof, the Gobawn completed the dangerous
task by cutting some wooden pegs with his axe and throwing them
1 Egyp. Rit. ch. 17.

up one by one into their places, and flinging the magic axe after them
with such unerring aim that each peg was driven home.1
An English sign not yet extinct is sometimes called the ―Good
Woman,‖ and in the neighbourhood of Rippenden, Yorkshire, there
is one named the ―Quiet Woman.‖ It shows a woman without a
head. The common notion is that it conveys a satire on woman‘s
tongue. The headless woman, however, was an Egyptian goddess,
Ma, who personified the truth itsclf. She is the original of the Greek
Themis or Justice, whose eyes were bandaged. Diodorus Siculus2
mentions a figure of Ma, the goddess of Truth and Justice, as being
without a head, standing in the lower regions at the ―gates of Truth,‖
and this headless woman was found by Wilkinson in the judgment
scenes attached to the funeral rituals on the Papyri of Thebes; the true
and just without eyes or even a head. In place of a head she has the
stone (T) and feather (Ma) T-ma; the true.3 Another figure of this
divinity may serve to explain why the headless woman is found on
the sign-board as the type of genuineness. She is seen issuing from
a mountain presenting to the deceased two emblems which repre-
sent water or the drink of heaven, the true drink of life. The
headless woman may be the cause of the expression, ―to put a
head on it.‖
In Scotland an ―ALE-WISP,‖ a bundle of straw on a pole, was a
public-house sign.4 This is very Egyptian. The straw was emblem-
atic of the grain thrashed out to produce the drink. So women who
have just produced are said to be in the straw. Our ―WISP‖ is the
Egyptian USB. US or USH is to mow, cut; ―USHM‖ is the corn, also
the essence, decoction, or brewing. ―USB‖ is to stack the corn.
―USF‖ is leisure. ―USHB‖ to consume. The USB, or Wisp of straw,
says in the ancient language the corn is cut, the malt is brewed; we
have leisure now, come and consume it. The wisp is a sign of call for
the house of call.
After all, these are but gleanings from a wide field of research. A
lifetime might be spent in gathering and re-publishing this book of
the hieroglyphics in Britain. We might have made a collection of
sayings, proverbs, blazons, and legends, which can be interpreted by
the ancient typology.
In Somersetshire it is a saying that a child born during CHIME-
TIME will see spirits, and in Egyptian one name for spirits is the
Khemu.
Drayton in his Poly-Olbion (song 3) records the Druidic prophecy,
that if the River Parret were to fail, they should be suppressed, the
end would have come. This of course, could not depend on the
drying up of one stream among so many, but must be connected with
1 Choice Notes, p. 107. 2 B. i. 96.

3 2nd series, vol. ii. p. 30, plate 49. 4 Dunbar‘s Poems.
its symbolic name. The Egyptian shows us how. The Parret was a
―BORIAL stream.‖ The word ―PERUT,‖ literally pour out, proceed,
emanate, is not limited to water alone. PERRUT is to run away, bear
off, carry away. PARRIT is food, grain, germinate, manifest, corn.
The ceasing of the Parret therefore included the non-production of
the com on which the Hut and Cruitnich-men laid such stress, and
the prophecy has a double meaning.
Again, it is said the Men of Kent are born with TAILS, and
―Long tails and liberty‖ is a Kentish blazon. This the hieroglyphics
will explain.
Khent is the hinder part, south; an Egyptian name of the south,
and for going back from the north. Khent is the south both in
Egypt and England. The south, as the quarter of the Summer sol-
stice, was the solar point of turning back and beginning of another
year. Khennu means to go back, and Khent is the place of turning
back in the circle. Sut-Typhon, with long tail erect, was an early type
of the Turner back in Khent, the South, where Sothis (Sut) rose to
announce the returning back of the Inundation at the turning-point
of the year. One type of Khent is the Cynocephalus with its long
tail irately stiffened, and another ideograph of Khen, therefore a
Khent, is so definite an image of this hindward part that it is a
decapitated animal; it is all tail and no head. Another sign is the
animal‘s skin with the tail attached. The long-tailed men of Khent
are imagcd in the likeness of the long-talled Kant or of Khent, the
Cynocephalus of the south with its long tail erect, denoting the
upward hinder part.
Khent, to go back, Khent, the place of going back, has another
illustration in Kent‘s Cave, Devon. A local legend assigns the origin
of its name to the circumstance that once upon a time a dog—in
another version a hawk—entered the cavern and emerged in the
county of Kent, which identifies the Egyptian meaning of the word.
The dog went back to the typical south.1 Khent means to go back,.
and na.mes the p1ace of going back as the south. Kent is not south
from Torbay, but Lower and Upper Egypt as north and south were
Khebt and Khent, and when the dogstar went down it descended
into the celestial Khebt or cave of the lower world, and when it rose
again it emerged in Khent.
This earliest mode of reckoning the year by the Great Bear and
Dogstar has also left its imagery in legends about the caves of the
Mendip Hills.
At Cheddar they still repeat the story of the dog that entered the
cave at that place and came out again shorn of all its hair at the
Wockey Hole. At the Wockey Hole it is said to enter the hill and
to issue forth at the Cheddar cave. This is identical with the dog
1 Pengelly, Kent’s Cavern: a Lecture, p. 5.

and the hawk entering the hole at Torbay and issuing forth in the
county of Kent. The Basque proverb says, in flying from the wolf
(or dog) he met the bear. The two constituted Sut-Typhon. The
Great Bear was the type of the North; the Dog of the South; the
one belonged to Khept (was Khept), the other to Khent (was a
Khent), the hinder part South, the place of the long-tailed Kant,
and thence of the long-tailed Kentish men.
Time was when the Great Bear below the Pole represented the
Great Mother in relation to water, hence the type of the Water-horse.
Above it she represented the element of heat. And a writer in
Notes and Queries1 was informed by a countryman that the cause of
continued drought was the Great Bear‘s being on this side the North
Pole; so long as it continued on this side the weather would keep
dry, and it had been there these three last summers. If it could
get to the other side, we should then have a wet one.
Lastly, in the Egyptian Mythology there are Seven Khnemu or
Pigmies, called the Seven Sons of Ptah, who stand by his side as
architects to help him. These are our seven goblin-builders. The
seven, whether the first boatmen (Kabiri) or builders, are representa-
tives of the Seven Stars first observed to bridge the void below the
horizon. Our name of goblin and of the Irish Gobawn Saer identi-
fies them with the name of Kheb, the Goddess of the Seven Stars.
Goblin, as Kheb-renn, is the Child of Kheb.
Kheb or Khept is our Kêd, and in the Lancashire Traditions2 the
Chapel of St. Chadde was erected on the height by the Goblin Builders.
The legend is that Gamel, the Saxon Thane, Lord of Rached, now
Rochdale, intended to build it on the bank of the Rache or Roach, in a
level spot, and the foundations were laid three times but on each
occasion the Goblin Builders removed the materials to the more
elevated situation, the high place, the Mount that is sacred to the
Great Mother, whether called Khept, Kêd, or Chadde.
The dove was also a type of the Genitrix, and bears her name of
Tef. The dove was sacred to Hathor, and there were seven Hathors.
Seven Doves in the Christian Iconography represent the Seven Gifts of
the Holy Ghost, or earlier, the Seven Stars of her who was termed
the ―Living Word,‖ at Ombos, and in some of the legends of the
Goblin Builders, the stones of the building intended to stand down in
the dale are carried away to the height by doves. So was it with the
church of Breedon, Leicestershire; the foundations were dug and the
work was begun, but all that was built by day was carried away by
doves in the night to the top of the hill where the church now
stands.3 Another type of the Great Bear and its Goddess was Rerit,
the sow, in Egypt, as in Britain it was Kêd, the sow, and in the case
1 April 8, 1871. 2 Roby, 1st series, vol. i. 23.
3 Choice Notes, p. 1.
of Winwick Church Lancashire, the pig was the cause of removal to
the height. It was seen to take up one of the stones in its mouth and
carry it to the spot said to be sanctified by the death of Oswald, and
during the night it removed all the rest. There is a figure of the
pig, or sow, sculptured on the tower just above the western entrance, in
witness of the transaction.1
1 Choice Notes, p. 2.
SECTION IV.
EGYPTIAN ORIGINES IN WORDS.
THE comparative vocabulary in the second section furnished evi-

dence of something or other not yet taken into account or even
dreamed of by the comparative philologist. But if it had stood
alone, unsupported by further evidence, one might have felt inclined
to suppress it for fear of Grimm‘s Levites. They have so worried us
into believing that verbal likeness is no sign whatever of relation-
ship. They have so incessantly insisted that, when we find a word
spelt the same in one language (Greek) as in another (Sanskrit), we
may be certain that it cannot be the same word. 1 Grimm‘s law
forbids. Which, from my point of view, is somewhat like saying that,
if two men have a strong family likeness, and bear the same sur-
name, they cannot be brothers. It is positively asserted that ― SOUND
etymology has NOTHING to do with sound.‖ Philologists, says on
Sanskritist, who bring in Chinese, New Zealand, and Finnic analogies
to explain Indo-European words, are thoroughly unsound. They
need to reform their science from the foundation. 2 ―To compare
words of different language together because they agree in sound is
to contravene all the principles of scientific philology: agreement of
sound is the best possible proof of their want of connection.‖ 3
Of course, no one would compare them if they did not retain the
same signification. Even then they are valueless for those with whom
language begins a very long way on this side of Babel, and who
assume that where was no unity of origin on the other. Grimm‘s
law forbids that origin should ever be proved by likeness because
it only shows difference. This has limited the comparative philo-
logist to the narrowest possible area, and their verdicts are often as
unsound as their generalisations are premature. It looks as if the
discovery of Sanskrit were doomed to be a fatal find for the com-
parative philologists of our generation.
No foundation in ancient language is perhaps so late as Sanskrit,
and dogmatism on the basis of Greek and Sanskrit is the most bankrupt
1 Max Müller, Introduction to the Science of Religion, p. 307.
2 Whitney, Oriental and Linguistic Studies, p. 213.
3 Sayce, Introduction to the Science of Language, vol. i. p. 347.
business in the world of words. We have to dig and descend mine
under mine beneath the surface scratched with complacent
twitterings over their findings by those who have taken absolute
possession of this field, and proceeded to fence it in for themselves
and put up a warning against everybody else as trespassers. We
get volume after volume on the ―science of language,‖ which only
makes us wonder when the ―science‖ is going to begin. At present
it is an OPERA that is all overture. The comparative philologists
have not gone deep enough, as yet, to see that there is a stage
where likeness may afford guidance, because there was a common
origin for the primordial stock of words. They assume that
Grimm‘s law goes all the way back. They cling to their limits as
the old Greek sailors hugged the shore, and continually insist upon
imposing these on all other voyagers, by telling terrible tales of the
unknown dangers beyond.
As the palimpset of language is held up to the light and looked
at more closely, it is found to be full of elder forms beneath the later
writing. Again and again has the most ancient speech conformed to
the new grammar until this becomes the merest surface test; it
supplies only the latest likeness. Our mountains and rivers still
talk in the primeval mother tongue, whilst the language of men is
re-moulded by every passing wave of change. The language of
mythology and typology is almost as permanent as the names of
the hills and the streams.
―Care must be taken,‖ says Professor Sayce, ―to compare together
only those myths which belong to the languages shown by comparative
philology to be children of a common mother. Where language
demonstrates identity of origin, there will be identity of myths; not
otherwise.‖1 But the identity of the myths and ideographic types is
demonstrable, and can be demonstrated among various races of the
world whose languages are supposed, by comparative philologists, to
have no relationship whatever. This is their root relationship.
In proportion as we get back towards a beginning it becomes more
and more apparent that Comparative Philology and Comparative My-
thology have to make way, in a double sense, for Comparative Typology¸
as this only can show the stage of language in which unity is yet
recoverable.
It is the especial province of present writer to identify the
myths and what he terms the Types, for in his view there is a typology
anterior to what is known as mythology, and if their identity shows
an identity of origin for language, we are surely on the way to the
abode of the common parent of all.
The chief evidence of this origin will have to be brought forward
in two volumes of Comparative Typology now ready for the press,
and intended to follow these.
1 Introduction to the Science of Language, vol. ii. p. 260.
EGYPTIAN O RIGINES IN W ORDS . 137
The founders of philological science have worked without the
most fundamental material of all, the Egyptian; this, they neglected
early and avoided late. From lack of the primaries to be found in
that language, a vast number of their conclusions are necessarily false,
and their theory of the Indo-European origin of languages and races
is, in the present writer‘s opinion, the most spurious product of the
century. This list of words at least will give no countenance to the
theory; they point to Egypt, and not to India, as the place to look for
the origines of the language that first came into the. British Isles.
These words are neither Keltic, Kymric, Gaelic, nor Anglo-Saxon
in the restricted sense; they belong chiefly to the provincial dialects
among which we find the débris of the oldest language dissolved by
the influence of time, and of which the Kymric, Gaelic, Manx, or others,
are but localised after-drifts and developments.
If two words found in Sanskrit and Greek, when spelt the same,
cannot be the same, what does comparative philology say to many
hundred words being the same, generally spelt the same and having the
same meanings, being found in Egyptian and English? Of course with
the difference that followed the evolution of sounds, as from t to d or k
to c which may disguise but will not determine the origin of any word.
Now, supposing this old starting-point in Egypt be the true one,
it is no longer necessary, for example, to derive HIMU (Sanskrit) from
a root ZBE, to invoke, when HAMA in Egyptia.n means to invoke with
religious clamour, and SEBA is to pray? Numbers of such equivalents
meet in Pahlavi and Sanskrit which are distinct words in Egyptian.
Again, it is assumed that the Zend ANHU, lifc, is derived from ASU
(Sans.), life. This, however, is unnecessary. ASH (Eg.) is life, the tree
of life, and ANKH is also life. ANHU derives from ANKHU, and ASU
represents ASH or AS. Asu denotes life as breath, and as-asni (Eg.)
means to breathe. Ash (Eg.), emanation, emission, applies to both
principles of life, the water and the breath.
Why should a Sanskrit root DA supply the Greek with the words
d…dwmi, daitrÒj, and did£skw, as Max Müller asserts? He affirms
that this DA, to give, supplies the Latin DO; Greek d…dwmi, Slavonic
DA-MI; Lithuanian DU-MI; and various others; it also means to cut,
and furnishes the Greek daitrÒj, a man who carves; and still another,
DA, identical with these two, means to teach and to know, preserved
in did£skw. Now, if we turn to the word TA (Eg.), we find it means
to give, and a gift, and that it is an abraded TAT. TAT has every
meaning of the Sanskrit DA; TAT is to give, to cut, the scribe, language,
discourse, tell, the mountain, fire, and others; also the modification of
TAT into TÂ is marked by the accented vowel as in Sanskrit. More-
over, the hieroglyphic Tat, the hand is the pictograph of the TAT-
ing or TA-ing, whether in giving, cutting, typing, or writing. In that
we have the ideograph in which all the meanings meet. Professor
Sayce affirms that ―By tracing the Greek dÁmoj to the root da, ‗to
divide.‘ ‖ (the philologist) ―can show that private property in Attica
originated in that allotment of land by the commune which still prevails
among the Slavs.‖1 But TEM (Eg.) means to cut, divide, make sepa-
rate, and relates to division of land; the Tem was also a district, a
village, a fort, a community, and a total, as in the English TEAM.
So the Greek TEMNO signifies to cut, and dÁmoj, for the people,
represents the Egyptian TEMU, the people, created persons, mankind.
Again, M. Lenormant is of opinion that the Akkadian word IT for
the hand and the Semite dy were not derived from each other, but
had an independent origin in Assyrian and Akkadian. They had,
according to the present hypothesis, a common origin in Egyptian,
which supplied this type-word for all the chief groups of languages.
The hand or fist is found as Khept and Kep, and Khept has a
worn down form in IT, to figure, paint, portray, with the hand
of the artist for determinative. This IT corresponds to the
Hebrew dy (Jad), the Akkadian IT, and the Assyrian IDU. Now
the Jad stands for No. 10, that is, for two hands, and Khept, the
fist, is the sign of the hand doubled, therefore, of two hands. Thus
Khept or Khepti is the Dual form or Kep, and Khept wears down
to Jad for number 10. Kabti (Eg.) is two arms or bands.
The following list of words contains the name of the hand ranging
from KHEPT to IT and the same process of modification from
the one to the other which took place in Egyptian may be seen in
universal language under all the changes of phonetic law:
KHEPT, Egyptian. HÂT, Acam. IT, Akkadian.
KEPITEN, Micmac. HAT, Ruinga. IT, Egyptian.
GAVAT, St. Matheo. HATO, Uriya. T, Egyptian.
GÓT, Vayu. HAT, Durahi. GAP, Akkadian.
KUTT, Chepang. HAT KÉLA, Pakhya. KAPH, Hebrew.
KUT, Kapwi. HAT-THO, Pali. KEP, Egyptian.
KHUT, Khoibu. JAD, Hebrew. CAB, Mexican.
CCUTA, Mokobi. JAD, Syriac. CHOPA, Movima.
KHUIT, Tshetsh. JAD, Arabic. GAUPEN, English, a double
KIT, Tsheremis. JAYATHIN, Thaksya. handful.
KET, Lap. JATHENG, Garo. KOPO, fingers, Lutuami.
KET, Ostiak. ATTH, Lughman. CHU, Tibetan, No. 10.
KAT, Assyrian. ATHA, Cashmir. TCAPAI, Pujuni.
KAT, Vogul. ATA, Singalese. NUCAPI, Isauna.
TA-KHAT, Tengsa. AITILA, Maldive. NUCABI, Barree.
TA-KHET, ATHENG, Borro. WACAVI, Toma.
AGGAIT, Labrador. OTUN, Chutia. ERIKIAPI, Uaenambeu.
CHETARA, Bororo. OTOHO, Gunungtellu. IN-KABE, Guinau.
KUTANGA (handful), Maori. YUTU, Tawgi. CHABEN, Koreng.
SECUT, Adaihe. UDE, Upper Obi. CIPAN, Kusund.
HUT, Maring. UTO, Tschulim. TSHOPRE, Coroato.
HATH, Shina. UDA, Baika. ISIP, Vilela.
HATHA, Bowri. UDA, Kryas. WOIPO, Mundrucu.
HATH, Gohuri UDA, Yurak. YOP, Mijhu.
HATH, Siraiki. UDE, Samoyed. IPOHA, S. Pedro.
HATH, Hindustani. EUTIJLE, Canichana. IPAP (hands), Walla-walla.
HATH, Gujerati. EED, Tigré. EPIP, Cayus, also fingers.
HATH, Kuswar. EED-gekind, Amharic. APKA, Shasti.
HATH, Kooch. IDA, Guato. IPSHUS (hands), Sahaptin.
HATH, Hindi. ID, Gindzhar. UBIJU, Angami.
HAT, Mahratta. IDU, Assyrian. AFA, Enganho.
1 Sayce, Introd. to the Science of Language¸vol. i. p. 161.
Other modifications might be followed, as in the Kamkatka, SYTHI;
Gafat, TSATAN; Chinese, SHEU; and Gyami SYU. KHEPT (Eg.),
the doubled band, permutes with KHEMT (Eg.), the number 10, and in
the Philippine and other languages we find both GAVAT and CAMAT
for the hand:
GAVAT, St. Matheo. CAMAY, Tagala. TSEMUT, fingers, Upper.
GUMUT, St. Miguel. CAMOT, Bissayan. Sacramento.
CUMOT, Bowri. CAMAT, Pampango. SHUMI, Zulu, 10.
KAMOT, Sulu. YAMUTTI, Maiongkong. QUIPU, Peruvian, knot of 10.
The Welsh LLYTHER and Latin LITERA have the same meaning, but
the one was not derived from the other. They had a common origin,
from which they were independently derived. The first lettering was
done in stone; hence RET (Eg.), to engrave, cut in stone, denotes the
earliest letter, the Akhamenian Ritu for writing. Ret means to figure
and retain the form first incised in stone or bone. Ru or Er signifies
the word, discourse, a chapter; ar is a type. Thus Ret-er would be
the word engraved, Ret-ar the retained type. The Rui (Eg.) is the
reed pen of the scribe, also the colour used for the hieroglyphics.
Teru (Eg.) is a roll of papyrus, and the word means drawing in
colours, or making hieroglyphics. Rui-teru is the equivalent of the
Latin Litera, a scroll, a writing, or a letter, and of the Welsh Llyther.
The engraved stone and hieroglyphic scroll were the letters. Hence
we have leather for letter (in Leland), i.e. the Rui-teru or scroll of the
scribe, the written parchment or leather; the Egyptians also used
leather as well as papyrus.
It is assumed that the words WEB, WEAVE, WOOF, Greek Ûfoj, are
derived from a Sanskrit root VABH, to spin, whence UNAVABHI, the
spider. And, of course, the V does pass into U, and VABH, VAP, and
WEB meet in one meaning. But VABH and WEB may be and indeed
have been derived on two distinct lines. The English WEB implies
an earlier KEB. KAB (Eg.) yields the principle or weaving with a
shuttle. KAB, to turn, double, turn corner, return, and redouble. The
KA are the weavers, those who KAB. It is not necessary for our W to
come from V. But V implies PH, F and B, and VAB has an equivalent
BAB. BAB (Eg.) is to turn, go round, circulate, revolve, a collar. The
bobbin is still used in BABBIN or weaving. There is also Â Â (Eg.), to
knit, and these accented A‘s (the arm sign) denote earlier F‘s. Thus to
knit was FAFA, or FABA, as in fabric, worn down to Â Â. UAB, to spin,
is an intermediate for both FAB and BAB. Now, if we drop both K and
B, we have AB (Eg.), to weave. Ab is also to net and tie; Abt is
linen, the woven. BAB is AB with the article P (B or F) prefixed,
whence VABH. And at the origin we have both KA, the weavers, and
AB, the weavers, that is, on the principle of word-building enforced
by Grimm‘s Levites. Any number, however, of words in Sanskrit,
considered to be roots, are but the worn down forms of words.
Further, KA becomes SA (with the signs of the tie and the crocodile‘s
tail, and we have the name of sewing and the sewers. following the
weavers from the same root-origin.
The Egyptian BAB signifies going and being round. BAB is a hole,
a whirlpool, a whirlwind, a circle, to circle, revolving circularly, any-
thing going in a round. Beads are known as BUBU. In English a
BOB is round; the plum-BOB, the shilling, or the BAUBEE, are round.
The Scotch BAB is the round, as a loop in a garter. The BIB is tucked
round. The BAP is a round cake. BABBART is a name of the hare
that doubles round. A BOBBIn is round, and in machinery it revolves.
The BOBBIN, faggot, is a round bundle of sticks. BEBLED is covered
all round. To BUBBLE is to bladder round. BOBY, a cheese, is made
round. BOB is the name of a ball. BOB is a round in ringing bells.
To BOB the hair is to twist it round. BUBBIES are round. The PIP
is a round spot or seed; the PEBBLE, a round stone. The PIPE, a
round tube or a cask; the POPE‘S eye, a round of fat in the leg of
mutton.
This original meaning of BIB is still applied to the Bible in the
practice of divining with a key placed in it, the result depending on
its turning or BIB-bing round.1 The Bible is the Book of revealing.
The first revelation was that of time and period, that is, of revolution,
and BEB is the name of both the revolution and revelation, also the
Book of Revelation. The planets in Babylonian astronomy were the
BIBBU, as the revolving stars, the revealers of time. The Seven Bobuns
are revolving spheres. BABA is a name of Typhon, whose starry
image was the Great Bear, with the seven turners round. Midnight
is considered a good time in Bibliomancy, that is, at the turn of the
night. Also—and this is very Typhonian when we bear in mind
that Ursa Major was the Thigh Constellation—the proper thing is
to bind a garter round the Bible, but it must be one that is by
woman worn. For this Typbonian Thigh was the hinder thigh,
that is, the feminine symbol, and in this image we may possibly see
why it is the sacred usage for woman to garter above the knee!
whereas the male wears the garter below; the male is foremost,
as in the hieroglyphics ―bah‖ means the male, and in front, whilst
the hinder thigh is feminine. The explanation of this is that both
Kabbing and Babbing are derived from turning round and crossing,
whereby the figure of a loop and a knot were made. One name for
this figuring is KAB, one is BAB. The stars turning round and cross-
ing over and under were, on one line, the first AB-ers, HAB-ers, or
KAB-ers, and on the other line, with the article prefixed, P-ab-ers,
BAB-ers, VABH-ers, UAB-ers, Wab-ers, Weavers. The two origins
passed separately into Sanskrit and English, and all that can be said
is that the words are now equivalents. But, to speak of derivation
implies knowledge of origin.
1 ―BIB.‖ The word Bible, Greek Biblos, for the Book, may be traced to the
Egyptian PAPU, for Papyrus. That meaning is not here in question.
Egyptian gives us a glimpse of language in an ideographic
stage. For example, the child and the seed are synonymous. SU is
the seed, the egg, the child. In an earlier form this is SIF. Now the
SIEVE is a sign of corn, by reason of sifting. SIF, the child, is also
SIF, to purge and purify, in the sense that Siva, the generator, is de-
signated the purifier. The name of the sieve is KHI, and this, as
shown by a form of the child, written with the KHI (sieve), must have
been an earlier KHIF, whence the modified SIF, the child and seed,
which further abrades into SU and SI. We have the KIPE, an
osier basket, as a sort of water-sieve, for catching ells, answering
perfectly to KIF for the sieve. The Kif, for sieve, is also found
in CYVE (Sieve). This retains the ideographic KHIF, worn
down in the hieroglyphics to a phonetic Khi, the child (Sif)
written with the sieve sign. The present point, however, is this. A
word like KHIF is a primate which yields KHI or SEF, SU and
FI. It is anterior to gender. SIF, the child, may mean the boy
or the girl, without distinction. But SIF splits into SU for THE,
HER, IT; and FU for HE, HIM, HIS, IT, when gender could be
phonetically distinguished. As the sign of U denotes the earlier
FU or KHU, according to its line of descent, the Egyptian UI is the
deposit of a consonant as is our Y. It occupies the place of the Y,
supplies its sound, as a participial terminal, and also means he or
him. This may serve to show how it is that the letter Y in English
comes to represent F and Z. In Scotch of the sixteenth century
YEAR is written ZEIR. Chaucer writes JOLLY as JOLIF, and GUILTY
as GUILTYF. DAY is the earlier DAG; YE, earlier GE; YES, earlier
GESE. Taking the G as equivalent to the KH (Eg.) we find the
scattered KHI, S, and F, which can be traced back to an ideo-
graphic khif, all meeting once more in the Y, and the Y we are taught
is Greek, the F is Old French, and the G is Anglo-Saxon. The
process of this dispersion of visible speech, so to say, into divers
variants of language is more or less extant in Egyptian, and the
whole matter has to be put together again before we know anything
of origin.
Language must have emanated from the centre in the ideographic
stage, and the primitive types are more or less extant to prove the unity
of origin. For instance, there is an ancient Roman tradition of twelve
vultures, or twelve ages, no clue to which bas ever been found. This
belongs to language in the ideographic stage. MU (Eg.) means a
year, cycle, or age. In Akkadian, MU is a year, and a memorial name.
In Chinese, the Mu are the eyes of the four quarters. The MU (Eg.)
ideograph is the vulture, a symbol of sight, and sign of the year. Thus
the keen-visioned Mu of Egypt denotes the eyes of the four quarters
in China, and Mu is the year in Egypt, China, and Akkad; the vulture
representing a year or age in Rome. Mu (Eg.) is also the mother, and
the vulture was the type of the virgin motherhood of Neith, who
came from herself, a type belonging to a time before paternity was
established. Origen defends the Immaculate Conception on the ground
that the vulture, as stated by Hor-Apollo (1. 11) procreated without
the male. The monuments show the MU with the male member,
which emblem was necessary to express the earliest ideas, when both
truths were given to her who was the VIRGIN Mother. This will
show that religious doctrines, founded on a typology misinterpreted,
may be in a perilous predicament.
Certain ideographs are compound types. The hippopotamus, for
instance, is KHEBMA, the earliest form of KAM. The goddess TA-URT
or KHEBt is compounded of the hippopotamus, crocodile, lioness, and
kaf. The tail of the crocodile is an ideograph of KAM, a syllabic KA,
later SA. So that the goddess is both KHAB and KAM, and mid-
way between the two we have KVM (Heb), for Kam, Kvm being a
reduced form of KHEFMA, further abraded in the final KAM. This
process deposits Khef (Kheb) and Kam as two distinct words, but the
ligature of their twinship is visible in KVM and in the after permuta-
tion of B and M, of Kheb and Kham, Khebt and Kamit for Egypt,
Neb and Num, Nebrod and Nimrod.
There is an ideographic TES (the bolt sign), that bifurcates and
supplies a phonetic T and S. Hence the permutation of T and S in
Hebrew and Chaldee.
Again the Basque type root for stone, and the stone-weapon, is AITZ,
with the variant AIZ. In Egyptian, the typical stone as the seat or
throne is found as the AS, AST-B, ASB, and HES. The Basque has
retained the ideographic TES in AITZ, and only the phonetic in AIZ.
This ideograph is represented by the phonetic in the Egyptian AS or
Hes. AITZ (Basque) is a stone; the AITZURRA is a pickaxe. In
Egyptian this is extant in another form of the TES. This Tes is a
weapon, and to cut, determined by the stone and a knife, therefore it
is a Stone knife. By permutation of TA and At, TES is Ats, the
equivalent of the Basque AITZ and the English ADZE, which in the
hieroglyphic NUTER is likewise of stone.
Words such as the English door, Greek qÚra, Mæso-Gothic DAUR,
Lithuanic DURRIS, German THÜRE, Sanskrit DVÂR, N. H. D. TOR,
Latin FORES, have never been traced to any root. Yet this will be
found in the hieroglyphic Ru, the door, gate, mouth, outlet. With
the feminine article TU (the) prefixed (or earlier TEF) the Ru (door)
becomes our door. The RU (Rue) in French is the street. And in
Egyptian the Ru is also the path, way, road, and going-place.
TERUAA is a doorway. In Chinese TAU and LU joined together
mean the road. TARU (Eg.) is to encircle, enclose, a cell, a college;
this is the Dravidian TORU, a a fold, and TRU, a vase; TRO, Cornish,
a circuit; Irish, TORA, boundary, border; Hebrew, rwd, a circle. And
the reason why the RU is a door, a circle, a passage, a street, a cell,
a fold, or a boundary, is revealed in the hieroglyphics by its being
the mystical mouth, the RUE DES FEMMES, the ideograph of Her or
She. From RU with the feminine terminal T comes RUT (Eg.)
progeny, the race, the route, road, rota, and all the rest. RUT
permutes with URT (Eg.), the chariot, in Latin the ROTA; the Great
Mother as URT or RUT being the chariot of the child, the bearer
and bringer forth by the RU.
Roots like RU are visible at last in hieroglyphics in which the idea
is figured to sight, and only in these can we see bottom or get to it;
they are the final determinatives of language, and no comparative
philologist has ever yet touched bottom anywhere, because the primi-
tive types have never been taken in to account. These offer particular
means of identification where we are otherwise left all at sea in
discussing language in general.
The word WHARF has been hunted all Europe through in search
of its origin. Philologists assure that it can have no relationship
to the word warp. But their science does not include a knowledge
of the things which are the foundation of word, still visible to some
extent in the hieroglyphic types. The wharf, to begin with, is not
merely the modern landing-stage, but the bank or shore of a river.
Shakespeare uses the word wharves for the banks.1 A wharf then
is a bank, a boundary, a binding-round or alongside or the water.
It is the Egyptian ARP, to bind found, engirdle, with the determi-
native of a skein of thread, a bundle, and of linen generally; that is of
WARP or ARP. ARP as wharf is that which binds or bounds the AR
(Eg.), river, and thus is identical with a RIPE, Latin RIPA, a bank.
But ARP and RIPE have their earlier form in KHERP (Eg.), a first
shape, a model figure of binding and boundary. It is here that we
reach footage. The WHARF or RIPE, as bank, is a boundary, a
primal form of binding in relation to water. The KERB, however, is
equally the WHARF of the street.
The WARP is also a first form in weaving, the boundary for the
woof. ARP, the bundle, to bind, is the same as our WRAP, to wrap
round, as do the KERB and the WHARF. A far earlier wharf is the
WARP, the deposit of the river Trent after a flood; this is a first
formation or KHERP. Also soil between the sea-bank and the sea
is caned a WARP; these preceded the artificial wharf. KHERP is the
Kar, a circle or bound, to put a bound to anything, encircle, go round,
contain. Kh or K denotes the type, which type is finally the hiero-
glyphic RU, a water-way, a water enclosure, the edge, border, round
about the water, a mark of division. Here we have a visible and
typical ―root‖ in the same RU, with many radiants.
At this stage we are midway in the genesis of words. Beyond
the hieroglyphic Ru lies the range of symbolism and the origin of
sounds and on this side the etymology of formation with the different
1 Ant. and Cleop. ii. 2.

prefixes, suffixes, and affixes. This belongs to a domain that philology
has not yet entered, and can only enter by means of Things.
There has been as great quackery, on the part of ―Scientific
Philology,‖ in the fortune-telling of words as in any kind that is
punishable by statute law, because the original data have been left
out of sight. On the assumption that the oyster is named from its
shell, and a root identical with OS for bone, we are told who ate the
first oysters. The oyster has a common name throughout Europe; in
the Welsh OESTREN, Latin OSTREA, Greek Ôstreon, Russian
USTERSII, Scandinavian OSTRA, Old French OISTRE, with which
agrees the Armenian OSDRI. The Sanskrit PUSHTIKA will not correlate
with the ―OS-TER,‖ and ―the only inference from this fact is that the
Western Aryans became familiar with the Caspian Sea, and therefore
with oysters, long before their Eastern brethern,who, not meeting
with them till they reached the shores of the Indian Ocean, hit upon
another name for them, derived from an entirely different root.‖1
There is, however, a possible origin for all, a root in which the
meanings meet. PUSH (Eg.) means to divide into two halves, and
therefore supplies a name for the bivalve. TEKA (or tika) has the
same significance as TER; it denotes boundary, frontier, margin, and
as the word PUSH is a form of FISH, the PUSH-TEKA is the fish of the
margin or shore, the one that could be first caught, and named from
the time when food was something ready to hand. TEKA (Eg.)
denotes that which adheres, is attached and fixed. TEKAI is the
adherer personified and PUSH-TEKAI is the bivalvular adherer. That
is what Egyptian says where Sanskrit is silent.
Push-tika was the fish that could not swim away. PUSH in Egyptian
modifies into USH. USH is to cut, to saw or divide in two. Both PUSH
and USH are applied to opening, dividing. The USH, OS, or OYS, then,
is the modified form of the earlier PUSH, and both PUSH-TIKA and
USHTER read the Bivalve of the Shore. Wh.t then is the inference?
That the PUSHTIKA was known on the shores of the Indian Ocean,
and named before the migration from Africa to India took place, and
that PUSH was worn down to USH before the migration into Europe
followed? That is the first look of the facts, and, in the Xosa-Kaffir,
IMBAZA, i.e. BAZA with the ―im‖ prefix, is the name for oysters;
but these wide deductions from a single word are often critical indeed,
especially where nothing is known of the origin. And this would not
do, as we have our word FISH, and ―FISSE‖ for the fist that is
formed of the closed hand; our PESH or PEASE are also named like
PUSH-TIKA from their dividing in two. It is curious that TER
and RET permute in Egyptian, and the Irish name for oyster
is OISRIDH. Ret (Eg.) also means the one made fast, or, both
hard and fast. Thus OIS-RET has the same name as the Ruti
race, and is literally the bivalvular RUTI. The Ruti species
1 Farrar, on Language.
first among fish as the Egyptians claim to be among the human
species.
TEKA in a hard form becomes the Hebrew type name for the fish,
as Dag (gd), and Egyptian will account for both on the ground that
the oyster was the first fish caught because it could not escape. Also
KHA (Eg.) is the fish and TE means to remain. TEKHA would be
the fish that remained fixed, attached to the shore. TIO, the Maori
name for the oyster, probably a modified TIKO, also means a land-
mark, and ice, a form of the WATER-FIXED like PUSHTIKA, whilst
Ika is the fish, and T the article The.
Kadmus, again, is said to mean the East and can mean nothing
else, and it has been argued that as Kadmus was the bringer of
the Greek Letters, and as his name signifies the East, the letters
must have been brought from the East. But Khetem or Khetmu
is the Egyptian name of the Seal-ring, the type of lettering, and
therefore of Letters. Khet means to cut, to stamp, or seal, and the
Khetem ring is the type. Ketu was an Egyptian God of Things or
Letters.1 Kadmus is the Greek form of Khetmu, to seal or to letter,
and the Divinity was extant in Khetu. Kadmus is the Phœnician name
of Taht as the inventor of letters or types. Khet implies an earlier
Khept, and Khepui (Eg.) is a plural equivalent, meaning Types.
And so it is with the names of mythical characters. Max Müller
says:—―If the first man were called in Sanskrit Adima, and in
Hebrew Adam, and if the two were really the same word, then
Hebrew and Sanskrit could not be members of two different families
of speech, or we should be driven to admit that Adam was borrowed
by the Jews from the Hindus, for it is in Sanskrit only that Adima
means the first, whereas in Hebrew it has no such meaning.‖2 In this
we have the two sides of an arch, impassable until the key-stone is
dropped in. Adima appears as the first man in India, as well as in
Jewry, because both are independently derived from the common
source in Egypt, where Atum is not only the first created, but self-
created. ―I am Atum, Maker of the Heavens, Creator of Beings
coming forth from the World, making all the generations of exist-
ences, Lord of life, supplying the Gods.‖3 Also ATI (Eg.) means
the King, the first, chief one. Adima has for consort an Eve in
India, as in the Genesis, because the original of both is the
Genitrix, the goddess of the Great Bear, and mother of flesh (Af),
as Aft in Egypt. We shall find two or three Eves in Africa.
As another illustration of comparative mythology, the Fijian
divinity KALOU-GATA, when juxtaposed with the Egyptian Har-
Makheru, will shed a light on his name and nature. Ma is truth
and true; Kheru is the word or voice. Plutarch tens us that when
Isis felt herself to be with child (i.e. when she quickened), on the 6th
1 Pierret, p. 452. 2 Max Müller, Science of Religion, p. 302.
3 Birch, Eg. Ritual, ch. 79.

day of the month Paophi, about the time of the autumn equinox,
nearly six months before the time of the vernal equinoox, she hung
an amulet or charm about her neck, which when interpreted signified
a TRUE VOICE. 1 At that moment the one Horus was transformed
into the other whose title is Makheru the True Voice. Now the
Fijian KALOU is the God who is as good as his word, and fulfils
what he promises. The first Horus was a dumb image of the Word,
the flcshAtype in embryo, the promise of life to come. The second
—after the quickening—was the True Word, the word of promise
made true, or as the Fijians have it, the God who fulfils what he
promises, and is the Justified.2
But we must keep to our words.
According to Wedgwood, the word WAKE is the old Norse VAKA,
Gothic WAKAN, Anglo-Saxon WACIAN, German WACHEN, to wake,
O. H. G. WACHAL, A.-S. WACOL, Lat. VIGIL, waking. From O. N.
WAKA, to wake, was formed VAKTA, to observe, watch, guard, tend.
The corresponding forms are O. H. G. WAHTEN, to watch or keep
awake, to keep guard; G. WACHE, watch, look-out guard; WACHT
the guard; Du. WAECKE, WACHTE, watching, guard and E. WATCH,
N. Fris. WACHTGEN, exspectare, and from Northern Fr. descended
E. WAIT and WAYTE, a spy, explorator.
These are all derived from the root represented in Egyptian by
UAK, a festival, and UKHA, to seck and search after. In the funeral
WAKE and the statute fair of that name, we have the festival. In
the Irish WAKE of the dead we find the seeking, searching, and
calling after. The Christmas Waits (or WAIKTS) are a form of the
seekers for the winter sun, as in the Egyptian search after Osiris
during seven days or nights, whose UAKA, or festival, is kept by us
at Christmas, as the end of our year.
The Egyptians held an annual Wake or feast of the dead, called
the Uak festival, on the 18th and 19th of the month Taht, the first
month of their year. And in Egyptian we find the primal KAKA, to
rejoice, eat, feast; KAKA (Choiak), a festival; KHAKH, to follow, seek
after, chase.
KAK (Eg.) is darkness, and all watching turns on that.
The stars were the earliest watchers on this account. The sun
that watched through the darkness, was named KAK or HAK. The
modified AKH is the name of the illustrious watchers, the stars,
and the Akkadian moon-god. The earliest WAKE is the KAK,
as in the Assyrian KAKK-KARRIT, an anniversary. The first
watching is KEKING, or KEEKING. KA-AKH (Eg.) denotes a calling
for the light, or for the dead, manes, spirits. And in a magic
papyrus at Berlin occurs this formula of KA-ing or KHA-AKH-ing,
―K HAAK H ! K HAK HAKH ! K HAR KHAR AK AK HA !‖ An invo-
cation that probably preserves the language of calling used by
1 Of Isis and Osiris. 2 Hazlewood, Fijian Dictionary.
the oldest watchers in the world, who besought the AKH by night
and rejoiced at certain recurring periods, and held their KAKA, and
uttered what the costermongers still designate a ―KIHIKE,‖ i.e. a kind
of hurrah, a cry in praise of, to call attention to. 1 The Hebrew
AKAK-AK (ja jja) means to cry out AK, or AH, as a mode of invo-
cation. KA-KA (Akkadian) is to confirm the word by repetition of
KA, to speak. The AKKADIAN Amen (AMANU), is ―KAK-AMA.‖
The word YES, we are told, is Anglo-Saxon, the same as the German
JA, and it conveys the historical information that the ―White masters
of the American slaves who crossed the Atlantic after the time of
Chaucer had crossed the Channel at an earlier period after leaving
the continental fatherland of the Angles and Saxons.‖2 But IA, the
equivalent of YEA, means Yea, Yes, Certainly in Egyptian, and may
have been in the island thousands of years before an Angle, Jute, or
Saxon came. It is questionable, too, whether Yea is not distinct from
Yes. Chaucer always distinguished between them, and in the original
tongue IA, the sign of assent and assuring, can be paralleled by HES,
to obey, be obedient, which goes still farther as KES, to bow, bend down,
be abject. Here are three degrees of IA, HES, and KES. IA with
a mere nod of assent, HES a bow of obedience, and KES to bend
down abjectly and entreat. The English Y like the J is not a primi-
tive, and was preceded by the G or K. YESTE is GEST, a history.
Yes was the earlier GESE. The YES is an earthworm, and this has its
prototype in KEK—later KES—(Eg.) a worm. YIFFE was GIVE; YESTE
was GEST in Anglo-Saxon. So that YES may have been GES or KES
(Eg.) meaning to bend down, bow; in fact to enact our Yes in gesture
speech. This has the emphasis of Chaucer‘s Yes. KES (Eg.) means
to lie down, and this we have as GISE, to recline. Our YES is also
GES or GIS, as an oath. ―By GIS, and by St. Charity‖ (Ham. iv. 5),
and GIS corresponds to KHES (Eg,), a religious rite. GIS has a variant
in GOSH.
When the word CURSEY is found in Cornish English signifying a
friendly chat in the house of a neighbour, it is forthwith assumed that
CURSEY is the French CAUSER. But KHER (Eg.) is speech, to speak
a word, and SI, to pass, has the sense of en passant. KHER-SI would
be a passing word. ―KAU‖ (or Ka) (Eg.), to call, and say, is a distinct
root, it exists in the Cornish COWS, to say, speak, tell, and ―Ser‖
(Eg.) means privatly. Perverted pronunciation is by no means such a
factor in the development of language as it is assumed to have been.
There is no need for going to the Sanskrit SVETA, white, for our
English wheat, when we have it extant as wheat in the Egyptian
UAHIT, corn, and HUT, the white corn. Wheat, we are told, means
the white corn. So it may, but not simply so. The Egyptian HUT
is white, also Hut is the white corn or wheat. But white is not
1 ―Chi-ike,‖ Slang Dictionary. Hotten.
2 Max Müller, Lectures, first series, p. 225.
the origin. Some of the most famous wheat in the world was the
oldest RED corn. We may get at the original signification in another
way. ―UAHIT‖ is the Egyptian word for corn, extant as our English
wheat. The terminal T is a suffix. Hu is corn, aliment, white, and
UAH, a name of corn. UAHIT without the IT (Hit) signifies to
cultivate and increase, it is likewise the name of the ploughman, the
cultivator. So that UAHIT, or wheat, is named as the cultivated corn.
Thus the name of wheat in Egyptian signals the nature of this corn
in contradistinction to the cereals that grew wild and uncultivated, and
the UAH, to increase and augment, shows the joy of producing the
HIT (Welsh Yd) by means of the Uah-Heb, the Ploughman. The
root of ―UAT,‖ water, green, green things, shows that ―UAHIT‖ was
also named in relation to the need of water in cultivating it. Green
rather than white is the colour primaIly associated with wheat. And
here one of many byeways opens, which the present writer must not
follow. The reader will perceive that the provincial pronundation of
the word ―Wheat‖ without the e, i.e. ―WAHIT,‖ preserves the sound
of UAHIT, and makes Egyptian still the spoken tongue.
One of the Irish names for wheat is CRUITH-NEACHT. In Egyptian,
arable-land and a field sown with corn is ―NAKHT;‖ ―KAR‖ is food,
―KHARU‖ is bread, therefore ―CRUITH-NEACHT‖ in Egyptian denotes
the bread-food of the ploughed land, and this is the Irish name for
wheat. Here again the name, like that of wheat, tells us that it was the
cultivated corn, therefore the corn first cultivated. The ancient Scotch
were called CRUITNICH, rendered corn-men. This is Egyptian, KAR-
UAHIT-NAKH, is the corn cultivators, which agrees with the tradition
of the Welsh that the God Hu, whose name signifies corn, taught the
first settlers in these islands the art of growing wheat, previous to their
emigration from the land of Hav, that is, in Cornish, the land of corn.
A kind of corn highly thought of and much grown in Sussex is called
CHIDHAM white; this in Egyptian, KHETAM-HUT, reads the golden
corn. The English BERE for barley and BEARD, an ear of corn, are
the Egyptian PAR and PERT for grain. Pliny says the oldest name for
corn in all Latium was FAR. This is a form of the word PAR. The
Maori PURU for seed, PAROA, flour and bread, and the Irish POR, seed,
for race, are from the same root. PAR was the name of the seed-
time in Egypt. Another type-name for grain is supplied by AB,
corn, earlier KA-AB, food-corn, whence the Zend and Sanskrit YAVA,
Lithuanian JAVAI, and English Gipsy GIV, for wheat. ZEA, also the
oldest known Greek name of barley, derives from the Eygptian Sif
(Su), corn, breadm seed, the boy as seed; earlier KHEGI, Harvest.
CREEING is a word used for steeping grain, whether rice for a
pudding or wheat for making furmety, by putting it into an oven
to become soft. CREED and CREEDED describe the process of oven-
ing without baking. In Egyptian KRA is the name or the oven or
furnace, and the form of the word for the thing CREED when done
would be KRAT. It must have been used for malting or distilling,
as the KARAU is the jar, a vessel form which steam is issuing.
And this gives us the Welsh word for strong ale, whilst KRA, the
furnace, with the Egyptian terminal T, yields the word GRATE.
Bopp works a long way round to derive the word BERRY from
the Sanskrit BHAKSJAM (BHAG-S-JA-M); it is the Egyptian PERRIE
or PERI, food appearing, with a branch sign of bearing; PERU, to
put forth, manifest. BERRY (Eng.) is a flood, and in Egyptian
PERU is to pour forth, flow out. PER (Eg.) also is grain, corn, PERRI
is a granary. In English to B ERRY is to thrash corn, and the
thrasher is a BERRIER, which, according to Egyptian, is the person
who makes food appear.
PEF (Eg.) is breath; PAIF a gust or puff of wind. In English
PUFF is a name of the breath. To PUFF is to blow with the
breath, to pant; to PEFF is to cough faintly. PEFS (Eg.) signifies to
cook, bake light or lightly. POBI (Welsh) means to bake. English
PUFFS are light tarts. From PEF, light food, we derive the word
BEAVER, a very light intermediate meal. Another name for BEAVER
is BAIT. BAAT in Egyptian is food, a kind of loaf called ―BOTHS‖;
BAAT is especially food distinguished from flesh, and this is the
character of our BAIT or beaver, which is a meal without meat.
In Egyptian USKH and SEKH are variants of one word. SEKH is a
liquid, the same as suck and sack in English. USKH gives us our
river-names of ESK and the Irish UISGE and SUCK (river), the ISCA
and WHISKEY. UISGE combined with BAKH (Eg.) for beverage,
forms the word USQUEBAGH. SHEKU (Eg.) is an intoxicating drink,
and SEKHT is the Goddess of drinking and of fire. USKH passes into
OX, as in Oxford, the waterford. But Egyptian shows that Oxford
may mean much more than this. The USKH is also the Hall, the
Temple, with the leash or feathers for determinative, and Oxford as
the place of the Halls of Learning is the YSKH-ford in the Hiero-
glyphic sense. The Hall, the Abode, is determined also by the
quadrangular sign. This likewise appears in the buildings and the
four-cornered cap of USKH-ford.
Again USKH (Eg.) means broard, wide, range, stretch out, extend,
and there is an old English cry used in hunting, ―ASYGGE,‖ ―ASYGGE,‖
in the sense of making a broad and extended cast round about.
―Ye shall say ‗ILLEOSQUE, ILLEOSQUE,‘ alway when they fynde
wele of hym, and then ye shul keste out ASSYGGE al abowte the feld
for to se where he be go out of the pasture, or ellis to his foorme,‖ 1
This ―ASSYGGE,‖ never yet explained, is the Egyptian USKH, to
stretch out. to extend, range out, and around. The instructions are
to cast out broadly and ring round on a large scale to ensure the run.
A collar is one type of the Uskh.
In Egyptian SEKTI is a bark; one name of the bark on which
1 Reliq. Antiq. i. 153.
the sun made its upward passage from the lower signs. The
divine bark of the Gods was the SEKTI or SEKT when contracted.
SKT may be read SKAT, and the SKATE survives with us as a
small boat or wherry. The Wherry, by the by, is the Egyptian
URRI, a form of carriage. The wherry carried passengers. The
SAKTU or mariners were the rowers of the boat, and in English to
SKUT is to stoop or crouch down, as the rowers do in pulling. SKAT is
Egyptian, for towing and conducting a boat. SKA is to cut, scrape,
play upon. SKA is the plough that cuts the earth. SKAT is to tow
or conduct a boat on the water. Our form of SKAT in scraping,
cutting, ploughing is applied to SKATING on the ice; like the original
SKAT it is still conducting on or over the water, whilst the SKATE
now represents the SKT or divine Bark of the Gods.
KHEN (Eg.) means to go by water, to navigate, impel, convey.
The sailors are the KHENT, a means of navigating as rowers. But
KHEN is also to impel, to blow, as a means of sailing, and in this case
the impeller, the KHENT, is the WIND. The word KHENT becomes the
English WIND. To winde is to go, to bring, and the wind was the means
of going and bringing by water, by which the boat WENT, and there-
fore was the WIND or KHENT, the impeller, the converer, the sailer
or cause of sailing and conveying. It was not named merely for its
going, but as the means of going by water, and the antithesis to water
which was at first the natural opposite of going. Answering to KHEN
(without the terminal), to blow, puff, impel, blow away, avert, we have
the form WINE (the wind) used in Somerset, and WINNY, to dry up.
KHENA (Eg.) also is to refuse, and WINNA (Scotch) signfies will
not. KHENA is to be agitated, fearful, and WINNY means to be
frightened. KHENA is to blow away, puff away, inspire, avert. This
process we call WINNOWING. KHENA is also to attain, alight, rest,
and WINNA (Eng.) is to attain, reach, gain, WIN. These prove the
equivalence of WIN and KHEN, WIND and KHENT.
The root of ANIMA, wind, breath, air, soul, has to be traced back to
Khn (Eg.), to blow, poff breathe, whence wind. in the form AN.
The spirit, or anima, founded on breath, is not so much the breath as
the breathing, the repetition of breath. The root ―AN‖ (Eg.) is
neither blowing nor breathing, but means to repeat, renew. It was the
repetition and not the vapour on which the observers founded the being.
AN is being and repeating in one. So with the word SPIRIT. This is
not derived from the breath, but from the breathing. SEP or SPI
(Eg.) is a time or turn, manifestation, spontaneous act. RET (Eg.)
means repeated. SPI-RET is the spontaneous manifestation repeated
in breathing. This is shown by the SPIRIT, for a short space of time
or a brief emission.
The Mum (Mummy) was the very self preserved, the self-sameness
kept in death. The Egyptian MUMU means also, or likewise.
It is extant in the French MÊME, for self, which signifies likewise
and also. The MUM type of the self-likeness yields the Zend MAM
for me; Lap, MON; Yakut, MIN; Mordvinian, MON; Akkadian,
MU; Finnic, MÂ; Esthonian, MA; Proto-Median, MI; Zyrianian,
ME; Etruscan, ME; Ostica, MA; Welsh and Irish, MI; English,
ME; and Latin, MEMET, for me, myself. MUM in English means be
silent, hold your tongue; MEM, in Quiché, to be mute; IMAMU,
Mpongwe, to be dumb; MAMU, Tahitian, to keep silence, and MUMU
in the Vei language, because MUM in Egyptian means death, dead,
silent, of which the Mummy is the ideograph. MEMN (Eg.) is a
memorial, and the MUM was the memorial figure of the dead, by
which they were kept in mind and memory, and re-MEM-bered. MUM
was the visible, not an abstract form of memory, and our mumming
was a similar mode of representation. Thus Memory, from MEM, the
mummy image of the dead, and REKH (Eg.), to know, or the Intelli-
gence, was named as the faculty of keeping the dead in mind, and being
abJe to reproduce their likeness, or figuratively make the mummy.
To keep the Mummy (Mum) constituted the first memory. The
later phase is to call up an image mentally. The MUM type was con-
tinued in the MOMENE, an idol, the MAMMET, a puppet, idol, the
dolly, the Mammy, a Swiss doll; and in the image of Memory.
The internal organs of the body, the type of which was the heart,
all that we call the viscera, the inner support and mainstay of life,
were designated the ―BESK‖ by the Egyptians, with the heart for
determinative, denoting inward substance, the seat of life. With us
the BESK survives as the BUSK, a piece of whalebone or steel, worn
inside of STAYS to give support and keep them straight. To BUSK
a lace is to put a stiff tag on the end called the busk point. The
BUSK in the stays still images the BESK of the body.
In Egyptian hemp is named HUMA and flax is HUMAMAUI, i.e.
hemp made bright or beautiful. In India the HUMA for hemp becomes
UMA for flax, and the Latin LINUM, for flax, adds the LIN of Linen
to the UM, ÛMA, HUMÂ, of flax and hemp. RENN (Lin) in Egyptian
signifies the unblemished, the pure, the virgin. If applied to blanch-
ing, this would be the bleached. RENN-HUMÂ would be the bleached
or whitened hemp. The full word is RENEN, the virgin, pure, un-
blemished, hence the white. N often interchanges with M, but the
Greek l…non, the Welsh LLIN, Irish LIN, old Norse LIN, German
LEIN, and English LINEN, only repeat the RENN or R ENEN as the
bleached, the virgin-white.
Flax is the prepared hemp. This we may derive from REKH, to
full, purify, make white. P-REKH (Eg.) or F-LEKH is the thing
whitened, purified, blanched, whence flax. Whilst the word bleached
is the REKHT (P-REKHT) the furled and whitened.
In Oid English cloth is TUCK, the TUCKER was the weaver. Tucker
Street, Bristol, was an abode of the weavers. TUCKING Mills are
extant in Cornish village names. The name has been derived from
that of the river Toucques in Normandy. But it goes back to the
origin of weaving as crossing. TUKA (Eg.) means crossing, to cross,
twist, unite, attach, as in weaving. The crossing is still visibly pre-
served in the texture of DUCK and the pattem of TICKING. Duck
was the especial wear of sailors, the crossers of the waters, a form of
the Ducks.
The HEARSE, we are assured, simply means a Harrow, because in
Frcnch the harrows used in Roman Cathotic churches for holding
candles are called ―HERSES.‖ 1 Our hearse is the Egyptian ―HURS,‖
a wooden head-rest, the Assyrian IRSA, a bed or couch. This
might be for the living or the dead, and it is supplemented by the
word ―HERSA,‖ signifying on it, and after. The ―HEARSE‖ has both
meanings. Hearses were set up in churches after death. Hearse
is also an English name for a hind in its second year, the year after
the term of its being a hind calf. The custom of following after the
hearse likewise illustrates this meaning. The same thing as the
Egyptian HURS, a head-rest, has been found in the crescent-shaped
objects discovered in the lake-dwellings conjectured to be head-rests.2
In English one form of REAM is to hold out the arm to receive. In
the hieroglyphics the ―REMN‖ is an arm, to touch an arm, shoulder;
a hieroglyphic action with the arm. REM also means to rise up,
surge up, weep. In English REM is to cry, moan, froth up, stretch
forth. R EM is cream, and to cream. This motion of surging up and
going forth is the act of yearning and grieving expressed by the word
ERME, used by Chaucer in the Pardoneres Prologue.
―I cannot speak in terme,

But well I wot thou dost my herte to erme.‖
ERME, to grieve, to lament, is one in English with REM, to moan,

cry, weep. And the Egyptian R EM, to weep, also reads ―erm,‖ ac-
cording to the placing of the vowels. Further, one hieroglyphic sign
of ERM or RMEN is the arm; that is ARM in English. To stretch
out the arm, to take, to desire to take, being a form of ERM-ing or
REAM-ing. Hence to stretch out the hand to take is synonymous
with grieving or weeping with desire, that is yearning. To ream in
English is also applied to stretching the legs. It is supposed that to
ERN or YEARN is a corruption of ERM. But the more we see of the
Egyptian origines, the more we shall doubt the breeding capacity of
corruption as a generator of language. It is true that ERN or RUN
has the same value as ERM or REAM.
Running is the contrary to standing still, whence the identity
of flowing and running. To RUN is equivalent to REAM-ing in
stretching the legs. REM, to weep, is the same as ERN, to RUN or
RENDER, to melt down. ERM and REAM, ERN and RUN, all meet in
1 Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 393.
2 Drawings by Dr. Keller.
this sense of flowing, and in that of a motion toward, as in yearning,
rising up, stretching forth. RENN in Egyptian signifies to dandle, a
nurseling, and may denote the mother yearning over her child; such
is the image. In the hieroglyphics the signs for m and n have at
times the same value, Ma and Na both read of, from, to, by. Nu and
Mu both denote water. The word REMN deposits a rem and a ren,
our erm and run, hence the interchange of the one with the other.
URM (Eg.) is a name of the inundation, the overflow. In English
URNE is to run. The URN is a synonym of RUN or to URNE.
The prototype of our tea-urn is an Egyptian vase with a spout, the
Kabh sign of refreshment and libation. Three or these joined
together constituted the symbol of the inundation or URN, that is,
with permutation of m and n, an URN. It may have a bearing on
the subject that an URN measure contains twenty-eight pints. The
URM or inundation, says Plutarch, at its highest rise (at Elephantine) is
twenty-eight cubits, which is the number of its several lights. The
Egyptians, he observes, consider the risings of the Nile to bear a
certain proportion to the variations of light in the moon. The number
twenty-eight is also a mystical measure of time.
The REM is one thirty-second of a measure of land; one Rem
is a span. The quantity may also be varied, as the word REMN
means the extent, extending to, up to, thus far. The Irish ROM
or ROME, from whence the ROME-feoh was a certain extent of land.
In a report on the state of Ireland made to Henry the Eighth we read,
―First of all, to make his Grace understand that there be more
than sixty countries, called Regions in Ireland, inhabited with the
King‘s Irish enemics; some regions as big as a shire, some more
some less unto a little; some as big as half a shire, and some a little
less; where reigneth more than sixty Chief Captains, whereof some
calleth themselves Kings, some King‘s Peers in their language, some
Princes, some Dukes, some Archdukes, that liveth only by the sword,
and obeyeth to no other temporal person, but only to himself that is
strong: and every of the said Captains maketh war and peace for
himself, and holdeth by sword, and hath imperial jurisdiction within
his ROME.‖ This is the ROM or ERM of Egypt, the measure
of land extending to, as far as, the border or limit determined, that
is, the RIM, margin, the space or ROOM.
The hieroglyphic RENN for cattle is a noose or cord for the foot of
the animal, to determine its Run or Remn when grazing. From this
lowly origin it rose to become the ring-enclosure of the royal names.
The English RIM for margin, edge, circuit, answers to REMN
(Eg.), extending to, so far as, up to. With the (Eg.) article prefixed,
we get BRIM, as the RIM. And here the RIM (Eg.), to rise and surge up,
has another correlate. The REM or BRIM, as sea-margin, is not only
the edge, but the sea, the flood, the surging-up itself. Another BRIM
or BARM is the uterus, the bosom; BARM also being a name of yeast.
REM (Eg.) the extent, boundary, at the place of. may be written
ERM, or ELM, the name of the elm-tree in English, and thinking of our
universal hedge-row Elms it seems likely that the Elm is named as the
tree of the boundary, the extent, at the place of, the edge or hedge,
the hedgerow elm. This tree of the terminus is also a sacred tree, used
for the coffin, at the end of life. The elm or Ailm of the Bethluisnion
Tree-Alphabet is A, which answers to the Runic A or ARM. In this
case the boundary is at the beginning. In Devon, the elm is
called ELEMEN, and in the Gaelic LEAMHAN or LEOMAN we have
the equivalent of the Egyptian REMEN. This ―REMEN,‖ the type of
boundary and extent, takes another form in the Gaelic RUIMNE, a
marsh land, as in Romney Marsh and Ramsey in the Fens. Marshes
were limits. And still another in the port of LYMNE, from which an
ancient road runs across the Kentish hills to Canterbury called the
Stone Street. ERMIN Street, which joined London and Lincoln, is
also a form of REMEN (Eg.), extending to, and has no relation to
Paupers. It is one of the four great roads ascribed to the Romans.
The names, however, will show that the Romans did but follow and
reface the track of our far earlier road-makers and boundary-namers.
In LAMBOURNE, Berks, the bourne repeats the REM as the LIMIT
and extent, and the REMN (Eg.) with the article the (P) prefixed
passes into PERIMETER for the circuit, the orbicular extent. The
RIM, Akkadian,is a mound. This REM (Eg.) at the place;
REMN, the extent, enters into Sanskrit as RAM, to stop, stay,
remain; the Gothic RIM-IS, Lithuanic RAMAS and REM-TI; Latin
REMANEO, to stay, continue (also REMANO, to turn, flow back)
and our English word remain, which is an equivalent of REMN
(Eg.) at the place, and REMNANT, for an end.
UAH, UAS and UAM are interchangeable words in Irish for
the top and summit, the supreme height. In the hieroglyphics
UAH is the crown, the word also means very much. The Uas is
a sceptre, the sign of supremacy, and the Uam-ti is a rampart,
a raised wall or height. Whilst the root UÂ signifies the one, the
one alone, solitary, isolated, equivalent to the top and summit.
In the North of England the word ―LEET‖ is used in the
sense of a meeting of cross-roads. In Essex the fuller form is RE-
LEET. A two-releet is the meeting of two roads; a four-releet a
meeting place of four roads. Our words road and leet both derive
from the Egyptian Ru, a road and pathway; the French Rue, a
street, with the terminal T suffixed gives RUT, our ROUTE and
ROAD. The point in releet is the meeting of the roads. This we get
from ru, road, division, and ret, several, repeated, bound up together.
We have the LEET as a meeting answering to RET, repeated, several,
and with RU or ret for the road, and a division, we get RU-RET
or RE-LEET the meeting of roads. The same word as RU-RET
(re-leet) is extant in the hieroglyphics, as ret-ru, with the meaning
of entire, answering to the totality of the RUT or road in RE-LEET.
There is an old word SART, applied to a piece of woodland, newly
stubbed up and turned into arable land, which the Egyptian SART
perfectly explains. SART means to sow seed and also to cut down,
prepare, to dig, plant, sow, grow, renew, and augment. A form of the
word exists in the Latin SARTURA, mending and weeding, but the
English keeps all the senses of the Egpytian. ―ASSART Rents‖ was
the term employed for the payment made by those who recovered
such lands; and SERETH was the earlier name for the territory of the
Barony of Tir-hugh called Tir-Aedha, in Donegal, in the sixth
century.
To grub or G RAFF land is to break up the surface for the first
time. And in Ireland the peasantry use a sort of double axe for
rooting in graffing the land, called a G RAFAN . This supplies a
type-name for lands such as Graffa, Graffee, Graffy, Graffage, meaning
the grubbed land. G RAFF is the Egyptian K HERP , the first culti-
vated land. A form of it is extant in the GLEBE land, sacred to
the Church, the name of which points to a primordial form of tenure
and cultivation. K HERF also signifies an offering of first-fruits,
a supply, a CROP, sufficiency; to pay homage, consecrat, which
meanings apply to the G LEBE land,
The C ELT -Stones are the K ART stones by permutation, and these
are the stones cut by the mason who is the K ART. Kar-Nater is
one name of the Mason. 1 N ATER means to cut. plane, work,
make smooth. Kar is the stone, and t the participial, so that
the K ART is the cut and smoothed or polished stone. One form
of the K AR stone is the teste, K AR - IU , and K ARTI , the two Kars
are the testes, the K ART is the cut stone, and in English this
cutting of the stone is to G ELD . Our Kelt stones then are named
in Egyptian as the K ART stones, cut and polished by the K ARTI
or K AR - NATER , and the K ELTÆ bear the same name as these cutters
of the K ELT stones who in Egypt are the K ARTI , the masons,
the stone-cutters and engravers on stone, the stone-polishers, in many
lands; the men of the Neolithic Age and Art. Every way we take
leads to Egypt, every word we hunt down runs to earth at last in the
land of the Rut and the Karti, or the Kafruti, who were in the Rut
of the primordial race.
The term W HIN is applied by miners to certain hard rocks.
―W HIN Sill‖ is a sheet of basalt, spread out beneath the carboniferous
limestone strata. Our W HIN is the Egyptian Han; and Hanna
is a quarry, to yield tribute. The Han-ser (whin-sill) is the rock
that pays for quarrying. Our whinstone is a basalt used for whet-
stones, This is the A N stone, also used by the Egyptians for whet-
stones,2 the A N that gave the name to their typical columns. Ba-salt
again is ba-sert (Eg.), gravingstone.
1 Denkmäler, ii. 134, a. - Rosellini, M. C. 33, 14.
―THREPE‖ is used for arguing, disputing, maintaining, saying,
and has a meaning of urging, nsistance in saying. The Egyptian
deity Taht is the scribe of the gods, lord of the divine words.
He is called S A , the clever, skilful. His name Taht denotes the word,
mouth, tonguc, speech, and his ―rites,‖ are called ―T ERP .‖ A rite
is a formal act, in this case of the utterer, Taht. T ERP may be
dissected, as P is the article. The word ter means interrogative, ques-
tion, who? what? This includes discussing, arguing, and maintaining,
that is THREPE or T ERP , the R ITES of Taht, the tongue or speech.
Burns speaks of ―some devilish C ANTRIP sleight.‖ Cantrip-time is
the season for secret magical wizardly practices. The Gaelic cantrip
is a charm, spell, incantation, evocation of spirits. T ERP (trp) signi-
fies certain rites or Taht, the revealer or interpreter of the gods, and
charmer of spirits. KHAn has the meaning of inward, interior, hidden,
and is related to the dead. KHENF is the food offered to the dead.
KHEN is a time. K EN - TERP would be the time for certain rites of
revalation, known as C ANTRIP -time.
The word Day is synonymous with the Egyptian TUAI , time, morn-
ing, the morrow, as we say, the morrow-day. TUAI also denotes two
halves, and the day is one of these, the light half; the lower hemisphere
is the TUAT as the other half. But day has an earlier form in D AG .
TEK (Eg.) is crossing over, and TAKH a frontier, whence a crossing over
from one side to the other is a DAG. This sense of day as boundary,
so much cut off, gives a name to the instrument for cutting off, as
the DAG, an axe, and the D AGGER . To D AG or D OCK is to cut off.
A Dagon is a slice cut off. And to DAKER is to work for hire after
the day or DAG is over, the boundary crossed. DUCKISH is twilight.
TAKH, a frontier or cut limit, becomes DEKE, a ditch. It is said
of a man whose life is cut off, ―it‘s all D ICKY with him.‖ The
D IG or D UCK is the crosser over the water. A D OG - LOPE is a
boundary between houses that belongs to both. D AG is boundary;
TAKH (Eg.) is frontier, and R UPU (lope) means either. When the
dog turns round before lying down, he is said to be making his D OKE,
his boundary. Time was cut or TICKED off by T EKHI , goddess of
the months. T EKH is a name of Taht, the moon-god in his secondary
character. This was represented by the dog-headed ape. TAG in
English is one who assists another at work, in a secondary character,
as the dog the shepherd; in the same way to dog is to follow
after. Here our dog of the man in the moon, Taht is TAG or T EKH
by name, as the secondary and following character. Tekh (Eg.) is
to fix, attach; the D AG was formerly the fixed day. and the dog is
the animal attached to man.
T EACH , we are told, comes from the Anglo-Saxon TACCAN , to show.
Taccan is a developed farm of TAC or TEACH no matter where it may
be found. D ICH (San.), to show, and the English TEACH are anterior
to taccan, and the Greek de…knumi. TEKH is Egyptian, the name of
Taht, who was the teacher, the illuminator, revealer, shower, personi-
fied. Nor does TACCAN , to show, go to the root meaning. We
only get to that when and where the various meanings meet, as in
T EKA , to illumine; T EKA , to see behold, fix, attach; and T EKH , the
divine teacher. The first teaching or TEKHING was by reckoning
the transits of days, moons, months, stars, as they crossed over, and
ticking them off on the digits by tens in the reckonings of time.
Hence Tekhi was Goddess of the Months, and Tekh, the lunar God,
the Teacher, as reckoner, calculator, measured the ticker-off or
periodic time.
The name of the duck answers to the Egyptian T EKH . T EKH or
T EKAI is the O TIS T ETRAX , also the ibis, and is not known as the
name of a duck. But it is known that the wild duck covers up her
eggs with moss or grass every time she leaves them, and this is a
form of ducking or T EKH -ing. T EKH (Eg.) is to hide, to escape
notice of, to duck. Either would supply the name, and both senses
meet in the one word TEKH , our duck. The Assyrian Tukhu
means the descending, or more literally, the ducking Bird. This is
the same word with the same meaning as Duck, although applied
to the Dove, doubtless from its motion.
U RT is the Egyptian word for Bird, and the B as representative
of the Article forms the word B URD . U RT the old first genitrix is
the Brooder or Breeder, our Bird being named as the typical U RT,
the brooder on the Nest. The Urt Crown, composed of the two
Serpents, was representative of both truths, of puberty and maternity,
showing that the wearer was the Bearer or Breeder, an image of
Ta-Urt, or with the other Article, B- URT, the Bird; Scottish B URD ,
as in ―B URD Ellen,‖ who was also the Brooder.
The word D ATE , the name of the palm-fruit, still preserves the
name of TAHT and of his reckonings or dates made upon the palm-
branch of the panygeries. TA is to write and register; Tat was the
registrar of dates, and his account was kept on a branch of the palm
that bore the D ATES as its first fruits, the numbers (DATES) as
its last.
The origin of the word TREE may be traced thus: REP (Eg.) means
to grow, bud, blosssom, shoot, take leaf. R EP and leaf are equiva-
lents. With the article the, we have TREP , the budding, leafing,
flowering, growing. This modifies into T ERU (Eg.) with the meaning
of roots and stems, by aid of which we get pretty near the tree.
The u passcs into e, and we have the word TREE. The family or
house-tree is the TREF , the TREV , TORP , and D ORP , and the word
contains the roof—T-ROOF —hence the ROOF -tree as the T REF .
The R EP , R EF , or E RP , Greek ERPE , is an Egyptian temple, the
sacred house, ROOF, or, with the prefix T REF , as in our TREVS and
TRES , which will be separately described.
But the meeting-point of Tree and Three may be here noted in
relation to the ERP, ARP, or REPA, who is the Branch, or Tree, and the
representative of the three—as the manifester of the father and mother
—he being the three in one, which is also typified by the leash of
feathers.
The name of TAHN is found applied to such various things in the
hieroglyphics as to be very perplexing. It is certainly applied
to tin and other metals. It is found in the form of crystal, hyaline,
rosin, and probably glass. Our English words TIN and THIN will
give us the determinating idea that correlates the whole of the
substances named. TIN and THIN are one word. Tin is that
which can be beaten out thin. An old form used by Chaucer, T EYNE,
is a thin plate of metal or tin; Latin, taenia, Greek, TAINIA . In
Egyptian TUN signifies to extend, spread, or lengthen out; TAN
(Zend) is the extent; and those substances which would do that or
become THIN are the TAHN of Egypt. Glass is TAHN , or thin
enough to let light through. This principle of thinning by spreading
out and TEN , to the fullest extent, explains how THINDER and
Y ONDER meet in one word that includes TINDER , as that which is
spread or thinned out. It likewise illustrates how THUNDER and
TINDER meet in the same word, with the same sense of spreading
to the farthest extent and uttermost ]imit, the one audibly, the other
visibly. TANNING by beating is a process of THINNING . In Numbers
ten is the extent of that division, as ten (Eg.) is the total amount.
It is said that the name of the ―Kit-Cat Club‖ was derived from
Christopher Kat, who supplied the members with mutton pies. But
K IT-C AT is the name of an ancient game played by boys. K IT or
K ITTY is little, small, as in kitty-wren; also a. quantity. K IT-K AT, a
small quantity, is the Egyptian Kit-K AT, a small number, a few.
This makes the name of the KIT-C AT club signify a. select few,
whether or not it was known to the members. And this, it would
seem, is the likelier origin of the K IT-K AT portrait, a three-quarter
length, or the litt1e picture.
The Druidic K OMOT, court or division, and later witanagemot is
Egyptian by name. The K OMOT was the department in which a
Druid was empowered to teach according to the grant and privilege of
the lord of the territory. 1 One form of the Egyptian K HEMUT was
a shrine, place, enclosure. U ITA (Eg.) means to examine, specify,
decide; UITAU, speak out, give out, yoke. The W ITA -G EMOT is
thus the court or parliament invested with power to debate, examine,
verify, and decide.
The Brehon Laws are probably named from H UN (Eg.), com-
mand, rule, to rule, flog, restrain, make to turn back, order; H UN ,
sanctity, majesty, royalty, divinity; and P RE, to show, manifest, ex-
plain. P RE- HON is to show, make manifest, explain the sacredness
of rule and govemment, as set forth in the laws. B RE also answers
1 Barddas, vol. ii. p. 31.
to the B AR (Eg. Par), B ARRA (Gael.), the high place, B ARRA (Gael.),
a. court of justice, the bar of justice, where the manifestation of
the H UN took place and the culprit was hung.
A UTUM is a slang term for an execution by hanging, supposed to
be connected with autumn by means of the drop or fall of the leaf.
In Egyptian A TH is to drag, to draw, and A AM is a noose. A TH - AAM
is to draw a noose, and hanging is a process of execution by means
of drawing the noose. The slang autum is a. derivative from Egyp-
tian. A TAM (Eg.) also means to enclose and exterminate, as hanging
does. This is related to Atum, the great judge, the avenger. T EMA
is a title of the justiciar, who executes justice. AU to chastise, punish;
T EM , a crimina1, offers another form of autum applied to the
punishment of a criminal by drawing a noose.
In the ―Babee‘s Book,‖ an old tract for teaching children courtesy,
entitled the ―Lytylle Children‘s Lytel Boke,‖ it is said of it,
―THIS B OKE IS CALLED EDYLLYS B E.‖ 1 ―E DYLLYS BE‖ has
baffled all investigators. Nor can it be read straight off by aid of
Egyptian. The root, ―I T,‖ is Egyptian for to paint, to figure forth.
This passes into the words idea, idyl, idol, and eidolon. An idea
is a mental image, an idol a figure shaped, an idyl a picture painted.
E DYL then might mean the portrait or portrayal. L YS or L OOS
is (A. N.) for honour. BE, as we know, is an abraded B EIGH , a
ring, an ornament, a sign of distinction, a jewel. In the hierogly-
phics P EH and P EKH are synonymous like our B E and B EIGH .
P EH is glory, glorious, glorified. This is our B E, a jewel, as the
ornament of courtesy, the glory of knightliness. Spelling, quilting,
husking and other B EES derive their name in the same sense as a
show, a mode of surpassing and excelling. But there is a still
better reading perhaps for E DYL . E TTLE is to intend, contrive,.
attempt, prepare, set forth, deal out sparingly, as in teaching a child:
that is our E DYL . L YS , or L ESE is to pick, select, gather, glean.
Thus, courtesy being the ornament of honour, ―E TTLE- LYS - BE ,‖ is
intended for the teaching and the learning of courtesy, as the
―B EIGH ‖ or jewel, an ornament desirable for the child. The
Babees‘ Book is the babees‘ in a peculiar sense. The B ABE is a
―Child‘s Maumet‖ (Gouldman). The baby in the North of England
is still used for a child‘s picture. A babby is both a baby and a
sheet, or small book of prints for children.
A C AR - WHICHET , or Carra-whichet, is a retort, repartee, a witty
word of quick return, or, used, as we say, in giving ―W HICKET for
W HACKET.‖ The English W H often represents the Egyptian kh as
What does the old Quhat. Thus, W HICHET is the equivalent of
K HEKT (Eg,), to follow, return, repulse. K HER (Eg.) is a word,
speech, to say. K HER -K HEKHT is the word that follows in return,
the retort that repulses. K HEKH is check, and this is the check-word
1 Furnival, p. 22, note 14.
of wit, or the C AR -W HICHET . The wicket in the game of cricket
is the place of repulse and return, or the K HEKH - T.
A story is synonymous with a lie, mildly described, but why
a story and lie should be identical, English does not show, and
Egyptian does. S TERI is to lay out, be stretched out in death,
to lie on the back. That is S TERI , to lie. To lie is to be stretched
out, a story is to stretch out, as in lying, ergo, a story, a stretcher,
is identical with a lie.
Mrs. Quickly‘s ―TIRRITS ‖—
―Here‘s a goodly tumult! I‘ll forswear keeping house, afore I‘ll be put in these
tirrits and frights.‖—Henry IV. Part II.—
can be explained by the Egyptian T ER and T ERT. T ER

or T ERU means an extreme Iimit, extremity, to be hemmed in,
bounded, hindered. The t (ti) makes the plural; so that Mrs.
Quickly means, by her TIRRITS , that she is driven to extremities.
Another form of the word TARUT (Eg.) signifies urgent require-
ments. In this sense she is not equal to the calls made upon her.
S TUM is a name of strong new wine, used to fortify old weak
wine, and to STUM the wine means to strcngthen it. The Egyptian
S TUM is used in both senses. To S TUM is to paint the eyes, to
beautify the eye-brows, darkening the lashes to heighten the appear-
ance of the eyes. The stibium, or kohl, employed for this purpose is
also called S TUM .
― If ever thou bist mine, Kate,
I get thee with scambling.‖
says Petruchio; and, again, Shakespeare speaks of the ―S CAMBLING
and ungenial time‖ (Henry V., i. 1). The Mondays and Saturdays
in Lent, when no regular meals were provided, were called
S CAMBLING days. The word has been derived from the Greek
S KAMBOS , indirect, oblique. But S KAM (Eg.) contains the ne-
cessary meaning. S KAM is hurry-skurry. Shakspeare uses it in
that sense. Scamp, in Lancelot, is to run in a hurry. To scamp
work is to do it too hastily. And in Egyptian, S KAM means to
stay or pause only for a short time, thence to he in a hurry, or
hurry-skurry.
The word ―TIT ‖ is a philological perplexity. It is applied to
a small horse, and to a strumpet (a light Tit). The Egyptian TAT
will explain why. This signifies to gallop in going. The TIT is
the opposite of the jog-trotter; it is the galloper or fast-goer. Hence
the allusion—
―This good mettle
Of a good stirring strain, too, and goes tith.‖
—Loyal Subject.
To go TIT is to gallop. ―Tit-up a tit-up‖ is the mode of describing
the sound of the gallop, and a TIT , horse or woman, is the one that
goes with a gallop, the galloping goer.
There is an old English dance in which the suitor for the lady
carries a cushion and presents it to her kneeling. It is called
the cushion dance. K ES (Eg.) means to dance, bend down low
and entreat abjectly. The cushion is a type of kneelibg down.
KES (Eg.) is to kneel and to adore. This root K ES enters into the
name of another dance and tune found in Chapell‘s popular music
of the olden time, called D ARGISON . It is said to be, like the
modern C AN -C AN , intended to provoke desire. D AIR (Gael.)
means to rut, sexual intercourse. Ter (Eg.), to engender, has the
same significance. G EASAN (Gael.) means to charm, enchant.
K ES (Eg.) is to dance, allure,. entreat; and A N is to show,
wanton, be wanton; TER - KES - AN denotes the wanton dancer as a
mode of charming, inviting, entreating to sexual union, and is in
perfect agreement with the asserted character ot D ARGISON . The
Fijian Women dance the B OKOLE dance; in this they expose their
private parts in token of invitation to the returning warriors.
One name of their dance is D ELE , that is identical with T ER and
D AIR .
Many words not found in Egyptian were formed as English
in the ancient mould. Light, for Instance, is A KHT (Eg.), and this
with the l prefix forms the word light. With the n, sign of no,
negative, prefixed, we have N AKHT , or night, as the negation of light.
The word S NOW ,or as the Scotch have it, S NA , is not applied to the
phenomenon. But S NA means breath, to breathe, and is a first type
of founding and shaping. S NA , then, is shapen breath. N YFIO in
Welsh means ―to snow,‖ and Nef in Egyptian is breath. U RS , again,
is the name of a pillow or head-rest. U RST would be the participial
form of '‖to pillow.‖ This is not known as Egyptian, but it forms
our word R EST. ―A RK ‖ in the hieroglyphics is the end of a time
or thing completed. P is the masculine article The. At the end
of its lifetime or completed period, the pig becomes P ORK , which
is, when read in Egyptian, the ended or completed pig. The period
is represented by a circle, the symbol of enclosure, or Arking round.
Thus Ark, with the article P, yields our word P ARK . A RK (Eg.) with
the Tie sign means the end of a period; 30th of the month; a binding,
to swear, make a covenant. When the land was divided, the cotters
were at one time bound to give the landlord a certain number of
days labour as rent. These were called D ARG days. Hence a
day‘s D ARG for a day‘s work. D ARG signified the amount covenanted
for; as Egyptian T-ARK is the covenant, the binding or bond, and end
of the period. The same formation supplies the word D ARK for the
end of the day. So likewise with the word N ARK . A Nark is a
common informer, the French N ARQUOIS is a thief. N ARACH (Gael.)
is shameful, disgraceful, as is the French N ARQUE. These, we may
derive from A RK , with the N prefixed denoting No, not, negative,
which makes N- ARK the un-bound, un-covenanted, an outlaw, one
who is forsworn; whence the epi het for the informer and the term of
shame and disgrace.
G LAM is a northern name of the moon, therefore it is argued the
word Glamour is derived from the moon. But the Glamourie of the
moon is altogether figurative and unreal, or rather typical. On the
lunar theory we can do nothing with G LAMS (Northumberland) for
the hands, and G LAM , to snatch, seize hold of. Now K ER (Claw) in
the Egyptian means to seize, lay hold of, embrace, and A M is be-
longing to. K ER - AM (Gl-am) is thus the hand. The seizure enters
into glamour. K RA is to seize, embrace, and M ER (Eg.) is love.
That is one form of glamourie. But K R , to lay hold of, seize, possess,
contain, and AM to be pleasing, charming; A M , grace, charm, is
more definite. K R - AM ,then forms both G LAM and C HARM . G LAM
as the lunar name, is derived from K R (or G L ) the course maker,
and some form of A M . A M (Eg.) means to wander, grace, favour,
charm, visible, light. To charm with the voice, and a charm of birds
may likewise be derived from K HAR , voice, utterance and A M , to be
pleasing, charming.
As M ER (Mel) is an Egyptian name for the cow and the genitrix
this yields the root of the word milk. As the act of milking is
named before the milk itself, and the word milk, Malg, Melgo, and
Milchu, implies the sense of milking, we may find the act of
milking the M EL (cow) expressed by K UA (Eg.) to compress, tighten,
squeeze, as in milking. Khu (variant of Akhu) is white and spirit,
and Mel Khu would be the white or spirit of the cow.
To bear is derived from the Egyptian P ER to show, see, appear,
appearing. The Egyptian has the t terminal in P ER - T, to void. That
is our B IRTH , or B EARED . And the n terminal of our past participle
born, is the Egyptian un, to be. Born is to be seen, to appear, as
the visible, B ORNE, or B ORN child. Our word C HILD is by per-
mutation the same as the Egyptian K HART , a child. We have the
same form with the k, r, and t sounds in ―C ROOT,‖ a puny,
feeble child. This corresponds to the maimed weakling child of the
mother, Isis, Har-pe-K HART, who was born deformed, and who
died prematurely.
The Egyptian B ES is warmth, rising flame, to dilate, pass to and
fro, transfer, and follow. A M , is pertaining to; A MU , to desire, urge.
Hence our word B OSOM . The old meaning of bosom is wish, desire.
The bosom is that which dilates, moves to and fro, and transfers the
breathing image of desire. B ES , to dilate, A M , desire, is the Bosom in
the oldest sense, and B ES - AM is the dilating organ. Also from B ES ,
to transfer, pass to and fro, from one place to another, and A M ,
belonging to, is derived the name of the besom.
The Cornish word for the wasp is S WAP , supposed to be an in-
verted word. But according to the laws of language, the word S WAP
reproduces the Egyptian name of the wasp, which is K HEB , the
symbol of Lower Egypt, or Kheb. W APS is a vulgar name for the
wasp, and the letter W often interchanges with the K. K HEP (Eg.) is
to transform, become winged; Wap (Eng.) is to flutter, as the wings.
W AP is the root, the s may be prefix or suffix, and W AP is the
equivalent of K HEB . Y S - WAP is the W AP or K HEB .
Puss and Pussy are world-wide names to the cat. Erse, ―P USAG ;‖
Saxon, ―PUS P US ;‖ Gaelic, ―P UIS ,‖ Irish, ―P US ;‖ Tamil, ―P USEI ;‖
Afghan, ―P USHA ;‖ Persian ―P USHAK ;‖ Brahui, ―P ISHI ;‖ Chhin-
tangya, ―P USU ;‖ Yakha, ―PUSUMA ;‖ Santali, ―P USI ;‖ North
American Indian, ―P WSH ;‖ Hidatsa, ―P UZIKE;‖ Mundala, ―P USI ;‖
Nali (African), ―M PUS ;‖ ―B OOSI ‖ (Tonga Islands); ―B ES ,‖ Arabic,
cat or lynx; and in Maori, which has no letter S, ―P OTI ‖ (P EHTI ).
The solution of this philological problem, as of a hundred others, is
that the source is Egyptian, and the same word went out on each line
of the radii from the common centre. The name of the cat-headed
goddess is P ASH , and P EKH . She who gives the names to our ―P ASCH ,‖
Pasag, or Easter festival. P ASHT was the Great Mother, the cat
said to have nine lives, the cat of the witches. An old black-letter
book, called ―Beware the Cat‖ (1584), says it was permitted to a
witch to take on the body of a cat nine times.
That the origin of P USSY , the cat‘s name, is Egyptian, is shown
by the fact that ―S HAU ‖ is the cat. 1 The article ―the‖ prefixed
makes this ―P SHAU ,‖ that is the cat. The cat-headed goddess is
the cat personified, or P- SHAU - T, which welds into ―P ASHT.‖ The
French form C HAT, for the cat, is S HAT without the Egyptian
article P, and with it it P‘S HAT is THE C HAT. The name ―S HAU ‖
was not limited to the cat, it also denotes the S OW and the B ITCH ,
two other feminine representatives. P ASHT was the she-lion as well
as cat, and She is S HA . This she-lion was also a cat and a
leopard (as mau) in short P ASHT is B EAST , a typical name which
various animals take. In Egyptian ―BES‖ is the spotted skin, and BESSA
was a form of Baba, the Beast. In the Chinook jargon cat and cougar
are both called Puss. The Cougar is great P USS . This is the exact
equivalent of Pasht, the Egyptian goddess, who is cat-headed, and as
the she-lion stands for the lion-leoparded of heraldry, that was in Egyp-
tian Mythology the shorn and maneless sun of the lower region. In
this way the divine Beast or Pasht gave her name to the Beast as cat,
Cougar, or other animals, symbolically named. In Malabar and
Tamil, P USSY , as ―P ASU ,‖ is the cow. The lion, panther, and cat,
have all one name in Egyptian, as Maui. And the Chikasaw Indians
called the panther the Cat of God, and this was their emblem for the
Lion, 2 which was then unknown to them. The Great Mother was
represented by various Beasts. Pasht implies an earlier form found in
P AKHT, and this is THE cat in sound. We have C AT, S HAT , and
1 ―SHAU,‖ not ―M AU:‖ Barker, Papyrus, 217.
2 Adair, History of the American Indians, p. 31.
C HAT. The blossoms of the hazel are called C AT-kins, and C HATS ;
gathering them is C HATTING . The French sound the Sh in C HAT,
but our C AT is the Egyptian K HAT. The cat was adopted into the
ancient symbolism that underlies Mythology and Language, as will
be hereafter explained, as the C ATCHER , the killer of the rat and
mouse that ate the malt in Jack‘s House—the cat that had nine
lives or a life of nine solar months during which no mouse or rat
dared stir. K HAT in Egyptian is the womb, to be shut and sealed.
To Khat is to net, and catch. There was a goddess named ―M UT-
K HAT,‖ the catching Mother, the one of the female triad who kept the
abode shut for nine months or during ten moons. Such is the nature
of ―P ASHT,‖ or ―P KHT,‖ the cat-headed divinity. ―Animal-worship,‖
as the foolish phrase runs, has no primary application to Egyptian
Typology. These trivial little words like P USS , are the oldest and
most precious in language, they possess the magic power of making the
hieroglyphic images live once more. And the eff'ect of these buried
dead and forgotten things being made alive again, will be like
revivifying a formation, all fossils, and causing it to move off with
all that has been built over it.
It may be that the name ―S HAU ,‖ in Egyptian, being both that of
cat and sow, is the origin of our ―buying a pig in a poke,‖ or making
a blind bargain, for the Welsh and Bretons have it a ―Cat in a
poke,‖ we also have ―Cat in a Bag.‖ The trick is supposed to
have been played by palming off a cat in a bag for a young pig,
which was no more a practice possible in the past than it is now. It
must have been a symbolical representation; a permutation of the
ideographs. Also S HAU the Cat is She, and there is an English
saying, ―S HE is the Cat‘s Mother.‖
The name of Pasht is connected with our Pasch and Past; the time
when the sun had passed the spring equinox in its yearly new-birth.
―P ESCH ‖ in Egyptian is the extent; ―P EST ‖ is sunset, the extent of
day; ―P ES ‖ is the stretch, range, extent, or period; P EST is the No.
9, the number of gestation, the extent in solar months. Our Eliza-
bethan dramatists denoted a certain extent of time as a ―P ESSING -
while.‖ A candle thrown in to make weight and turn the scale is
named a ―P ESSING -candle,‖ that is, reaching to the full extent. Here
the scales were a hieroglyphic of the equinox. P ASCH , Easter, is the
extent of the year and turn of the scale. P ESH passes into P ITCH ,
the height or extent; to P ITCH up is to fill up; a P ITCHIN -net extends
across the water. At a P ITCHED -market the corn is not sold by
sample but by the sack or full extent. This root P ESH gives us a
meeting-point in language for P EASE and V ETCHES , as they had a
point of departure in evolution. P EASE are also P ESH and P ESK .
P ESH permutes with P EK . P equates with F and V. Vetches in
Chaucher‘s time were called V EKKE. Pease and Pasche are identical
in name, and were associated in season at Easter-tide. Pease and
Vetches from one origin are an exact equivalent for Pash and Aft
(Fet) the still earlier beast-goddess, the hippopotamus-headed, who
in priority of origin is as vetches are to peas.
If we take three common names for a secret language, such as the
English C ANT, French A RGOT, and Italian G ERGO , Egyptian explains
them. K HENT denotes something interior, within, inward, secret,
secretly intimated, as is the meaning conveyed by the Cant lingo.
A RGOT and G ERGO are two forms of the same word which apparently
preserve the original between them. K HER (Eg.) is speech; K HR
abrades into Ar. K HUT is shut, sealed; K HER -K HUT would modify
into A RGOT in one tongue and G ERGOT in the other. London thieves
call their secret language A RGOT. G AR - GATE for the throat proves
that we have the Kher for speech: also G ARRE is to chirp and
chatter whilst ―G ARRY - HO ‖ is loose improper language, H O mean-
ing out of bound, the G ARRY then is the Egyptian K HERU , speech.
In the north tramps and beggars still talk ―the G AMMY ,‖ and
Khamui (Eg.) is to bend and beg, cringe and sue; G AMMY , the
beggars‘ language, is equivalent to K HAMUI .
The word ―N IX ‖ used in slang has come to be identified with
nothing, or do-nothing. But, ―N IX ‖ in the thieves‘ Argot means
more than that. N AKE is to strip, make naked, steal. And this
is the Egyptian N AK . N AKE means to steal, N AKA (Eg.) is to
cheat, play false, deceive. In English N ICK is to deceive, cheat.
N ICK also means to take a thing àpropos, that is the thieves‘ N IX ,
to steal at the right moment or in the nick of time. The do-
nothing sense is found in Nikau (Eg.) to be idle, lazy. This meaning,
together with the N ICK of time, is found in the schoolboys‘ ―N IX ,‖ a
signal to the lazy ―N IKAU ‖ when the master is coming.
There is a curious practice still kept up in schools. When a boy is
hard-presed in any game and his antagonist is gaining ground upon
him and he cries out ―N IC ‘ LAS ‖ he is entitled to a suspension of the
pursuit or play for a moment‘s grace. The cry of ―N IC ‘ LAS ‖ always
entitles him to this resting-space.1 This is taken to be an appeal to
St. Nicholas, and yet, absurd as it may look, N EK (Eg.) means to
compel, and las (res) is to suspend; N EKA LAS reads compulsory
suspension.
Amongst other origines given by Egypt to the world it would
seem as if all the words supposed to be purely interjectional, which
are commonly treated as spontaneous sounds rather than words,
might be identified as proper words in the hieroglyphics with the
meaning still more or less attached to them as it is found in other
languages. It has been asserted that these interjections show a
common tendency to utter the same sounds under the same circum-
stances as expressions of the same feelings. On this theory language
must have had divers origins, and could not have met in the end to
1 Brand, ―St. Nicholas‘ Day.‖
be interpreted by a common alphabet. Waiving this, however, for
the time being, it will suffice to show that this interjectional language
of ours is not the original and spontaneous utterance of unthought-
out meanings. The interjections are words extant in Egyptian, with
the visible signs and ideographic value given to every sound. To this
unity of origin we shall have to assign the common significance of
the same sounds uttered with similar meaning in various languages,
and not to spontaneous diversity or independent coincidence. An
independent origin of the same utterances by different and far-divided
people would not drift by any fortuitous concourse into oneness of
meaning all the world over. The oneness was assigned in the begin-
ning for us to find it in the end; this circle, like every other, had its
centre. Meantime it is useless to speculate and theorize upon the
origin of these exclamations, whether they were imitated from
without or ―divinely revea1ed‖ from within, until we have taken the
evidence of the hieroglyphics into account, and are better acquainted
with what they have to show us in their picture language concerning
the nature of these primitive words and sounds.
The universal sound of sighing, longing, wanting, desiring, ex-
pressed in many languages, which is embodied fully in our ―H EIGH -
HO for a husband,‖ has every meaning in the Egyptian ―U AH ‖ to
be soft-hearted; ―U HU ,‖ to long for, sigh; ―UAH ,‖ very much;
―U HA -U HA ,‖ desire, with ―U HA ‖ the voice of desire. This ―U AH ‖
is the nearest sound to the English ―O H .‖ In moments of intensest
feeling we can find no utterance so expressive, or inclusive of all we
mean as the ―O H ,‖ but it is not a mere instinctive interjection.
Every form of the ―O H ‖ used as the utterance of different emotions
and the mode of freighting sound with feeling is extant in Egyptian.
―Uah‖ is to be soft-hearted, whence the ―Oh‖ of sighing, longing,
yearning. ―U‖ means to adore, hence the O of the vocative case.
―Uh‖ is to increase, augment, intensify very much, hence the pro-
longed ―O H ‖ of poetry and prayer, the sign of magnifying. ―U A -
U A ,‖ to precipitate, cast oneself on, reduplicates the ―O H ‖ as an
increased expression of emotion. U— U — U has the force and signifi-
cance of No. 3 or thrice. All that we mean by the ―O H ‖ is explained
by Egyptian in which ―U AA ‖ signifies transmission. Another form
in ―H EH ‖ to seek, search after, wander in search of, gives us the
―H EY ‖ which with the Scotch still retains the place of the ―O H .‖
With the Maori ―O HA ‖ is called ―dying speech‖ where we should
probably say sighing, In the Wolof (African) dialect the sign is
written HHIHHE , the same as H IH (Eg.), to seek, and search after.
The O prefixed to Irish family names, as O‘Brien, was anciently the
H. This affords double hold for its Egyptian origin. The equivalent
for O ―UAU ,‖ or UA (Akkadian Ua, sole one), means the chief, the
one, one alone, unique, whilst H A is the leader, chief, duke, the one
who goes first or precedes. It is the same prefix with the same origin
as the Japanese O, the sign of distinction, and titular honour; the
double OO being a hieroglyphic of greatness or chiefness. The Maori
―O UOU ‖ signifies the few. The Egyptian ―U AU ‖ is likewise
the captain. The Gaelic form of this prefix is O GHA , which repre-
sents the Egyptian A KHA , the great, illustrious, honourable, pre-
eminent, noble, or the H IGH .
The O is a modified H O , and these imply an earlier form with the K
sound, as may be seen in the hieroglyphics. So in English the sounds
of sighing in H A and H EY imply the more vigorous utterance in
H EIGH , K A to call, and K YE to cry, and these also are Egyptian with
the same meaning. So the O and H of the Irish and Japanese point
to the K HU or A KH an Egyptian title of the ruler and governor, with
earlier forms in K HEKH the whip, and K AKA to be tall, high, and to
boast. Thus the earliest OH is K HEKH .
The oriental ―W AH - WAH ,‖ an utterance of open-mouthed wonder,
is just the Egyptian ―U AH ,‖ denoting great, very much; also the
North American Indian ―H WAH ,‖ and the Chinook ―H WA - WA ,‖ ex-
pressive of astonishment, is the Egyptian ―U AH ,‖ an indefinite very
much, increasing, pouring forth. The meaning of U AH is to augment
and increase the thing, as is done by the expression of wonder.
When the Camacan Indians want to convey the idea of many, or
much, they hold out their fingers and say ―H I ‖ which is supposed to
be a mere interjection1 requiring the gesture as an ideograph. The
full sound is ―H IE,‖ often repeated as ―H IE - HIE.‖ Now the two
hands make the circle or total of ten. Ten is Hyo in Nutka, H Y - YU
in Aht; that is, the circle or complete number. In the hieroglyphics,
―H IH ‖ is many days, an age, aion, a round number, or a cycle with
a circle as determinative. And when the Camacans hold out their
two arms and utter their ―H IE ,‖ the make the hieroglyphic of ten,
a typical sign of the total.
The Arab camel-driver urges on his camel with a ―Y AHH Y AHH ,‖
the Basutos their oxen with ―W AH , W AH !‖ and in Egyptian ―H AA ‖
means lift, carry away, go along; ―U AH ,‖ very much, go it, increase.
―H AI HAI ‖ makes them proceed with caution. ―H AI ‖ is a cry used by
the Lummi, and ―H OI ‖ by the Clallam Indians. A Y or O Y is a Quiché
call. These agree with the Egyptian ―H I , H I ,‖ to draw, drag, pull
along. H I also means to strike, and is therefore a modified K HI , to
strike with the Khi (a whip). The French drivers cautiously guide
their horses with a humouring ―H UE, H UE,‖ the North German
with a ―Y O .‖ This is probably the sailor‘s ―Y EO ‖ of the ―H EAVE -O.‖
In the hieroglyphics ―Hua‖ is denoted by a rudder and to bear (we
say bear a hand), therefore it means guidance. The Swiss driver slows
and stops his horses with a long-drawn ―HU — U —U —U .‖ This brings
us to our English ―W OH ‖ which is purdy Egyptian. ―W OH ‖ is
used not only for stopping, but signifies be quiet, be stilI. ―U OH ‖ in
1 Tylor, vol. i. p. 171.
the hieroglyphics means abide, be quiet. And as we have the U OH
in our W OH , we may infer that the ―Dust O‖ and ―Peas O‖ of our
street cries are Egyptian too. With this O the arrival is announced,
and U or U I means to arrive. In addition to this arrival the dust-
man‘s cry may include the Egyptian ―U AÂ ,‖ lift, carty away, kidnap,
as his sound is generally identified with ―Dust AWAY ,‖ and the
exact sound is ―Dust OO - WAY .‖ The form ―Geho,‖ Italian ―G IO ,‖
used by carters, is most likely the Egyptian ―K HU ,‖ to govern, to
whip; ―K HU -K HU ,‖ to beat with the whip. ―F AN ‘ EM ALONG ‖ is
said of driving horses, and it meas whip them along, the fan
and whip being identical. So in the hieroglyphics the whip and
fan are one in ―Khi,‖ a whip and to fan. This the labourer with
his whip (Khu) and his ―G EHO ‖ to the horses is a living repre-
sentative of the Egyptian god who governed with this ―K HU ,‖ whip
in hand, as Osiris, Khem, or Ptah. The horses of the sun at one
time required the ―G EHO ‖ or ―K HU ,‖ and seem to have taken
their cue from the whip.
In the Midrash Ekha rabba1 the sun is made to complain that
he win not go forth until he has been struck with sitxty whips and
received the command ―Go out and let thy light shine.‖ In an
Arabic poem the sun is described as refusing to rise until he is
whipped.2 The whip would seem to be the antithesis of the noose
sign.
A Galla orator is said to punctuate his speech with the aid of
a whip which he holds in his hand and marks the pauses from comma
to full stop, a flourish in the air denoting the sign of admiration.3
The action was symbolic, and the whip meant the same thing as in
the monuments, it was a hieroglyphic of rule, divine rule, the com-
manding orator. The click of his whip probably represents the click,
or ―kh‖ sound that is older than verbal Speech. The waggoner and
his whip-cord vie with each other in ―kh—kh,‖ or cluck-clucking to
the horses, and the sound means ―go, go.‖ The whip was the sign of
―G EHO ‖ and ―G O .‖ Lastly, the whip is the ―K HEKH ,‖ and in its
―K H ,‖ ―K H ,‖ answering to the ―cluck-cluck‖ of the clicks, we
bottom all these exclamations in O, Oh, Hey, Ah, Akh, Khi-Khi, and
the rest.
H UN (Eg.) is rule with the whip. And the Caribs descibed by
Rochefort applauded the discourse of their chief with an approving
―H UN - HUN .‖ Hunt (Eg.) denotes the rite or act of consecrating.
Hanu is to favour, nod, or cry; whilst H AN means to pay tribute,
and assent, or express pleasure. H AN - HAN is equivalent to E NCORE .
The German drivers use the cry of it H ÜF - HÜF .‖ In the Wester-
wald ―huf‖ is the call in backing the horse, and ―H AUFE‖ means
1 Introd., § 25.
2 Goldziher, Hebrew Mythology. Martineau, p. 341.
3 Sayce, Principles of Philology, p. 26, note.
go backward. The hauve (helve) of a thing in English is the
hindward part. ―Hüf‖ may be derived from the Egyptian ―Hefu‖
which is applied to squattitng down on the ground; that is a form
of going backward, hindward, backing. ―F‖ (or Hef) also denotes
direction in bearing and carrying. To H UFF in playing chess is to
remove, put back a man. H AAP in Devon means go back. H APP
(Eg.) is to go backward. The Egyptian U FA signifies to chastise,
whilst H UFF in English is to swagger, scold, hector; also A UF
intimates what it will be, it is a threat of U AF -ing or whipping;
O FA in the Galla language means to drive. This U AF (Eg.), to
chastise, give them a whipping, is the manifest root of the old German
W AFENÂ , or call ―to arms,‖ and the English W AP to beat.
With us to hiss is an expression of disapproval and contempt, but
there is plenty of proof that it was once a sign of applause. The
Japanese express a feeling of reverence by a hiss commanding
si1ence, identical with the English ―H USH .‖ The ―H USH - SH ‖ of
the Sioux Indians, described by Catlin, has the same signification.
With the Basutos, says Casalis, hisses are the most unequivocal marks
of applause, and are as much courted in the African parliaments as
they are dreaded by our candidates for popular favour.1 According
to Captain Cook the people of Mallicollo showed their admiration by
hissing. Egyptian will show that hiss and hush are no mere inter-
jectional sounds, but consciously compounded words. H ES (Eg.)
means to praise, applaud, celebrate, glorify. This answers to the
Basuto hiss of encouragement. ―H A - SA .‖ (Eg.), reads the salu-
tation or all-hail following; and H ES , to celebrate, to sing, is a
form of the after applause. H ES is also a word of command, to
will and order, which answers to the religious ―hush.‖ And in
―H ES ,‖ to repulse by a look, we find the meaning applied to the
sound in hissing as a sign of reprobation.
The exact form of the town-crier‘s announcement known to the
writer thirty or forty years since was ―H OI - YEA - YES ,‖ in some
cases ―O YEA , YES .‖ This formula is abbreviated in the Cornish
―H OYZ ,‖ which has every element of H OI - YEA - YES . The English
O H and A H are the Egyptian ―H AI ,‖ and Hai is to hail, address,
invoke, and means Oh, Hail! ―H EH ‖ signifies search, seek, go in
search of, wander about or look about and bring to light. H ES is
the order to be obedient; H ES , will, order, command. H AI -
HEH - HES then, is Egyptian for a command announced with the
Hail or O H , of the ―Ha,‖ who was the crier and proclaimer in
Egypt, to go and seek for and find something ―lost, stolen, or
strayed‖ according to the mode of ―crying‖ yet extant.
The Brazilians have an exclamation of wonder and reverence
written ―T EH -T EH .‖ It is the same as the Egyptian Tehu, to beseech.
1 Basutos, p. 234.
Tua is to adore, Tua God of the morning, or day. ―Tua‖ has the
ideograph of worship and adoration.
A group of interjections which Mr. Tylor affirms 1 has not been
proved to be in use outside the Aryan limits depends on the root
and sound ―S T,"'Latin ―St,‖ used by the French in stopping a
person; Russian ―S T,‖ Welsh ―U ST,‖ German ―P ST,‖ English
―H IST,‖ Irish ―W HIST,‖ Italian ―Z ITTO ‖ and many more, all
having the meaning of stop, stay, or stand.
In all the languages of the Indo-European familym says Curtius,
from the Ganges to the Atlantic, the same combination STA designates
the phenomenon of standing, while the conception of flowing is as
widely associated with the utterance ―Plu‖ or in forms slightly
modified. This, he observes, cannot be accidental. It is not. Nor
is it because there was any general outhreak at various places and
times of an universal consciousness which puts the one soul into the
same sound. All these have it because in the hieroglyphics ―S T‖
means to stand, sit or stay. One of the types of ―S ET‖ is the
rock, an image of fixity itself: the stone is ―S T.‖ ―S ETT ‖ has the
sign of stopping and staying. ―S IT‖ is the back of a chair; English
S EAT, and S ETTLE. ―S AT‖ is the floor for standing on. ―S ETT ‖ is
to catch, lay hold, stop. ―S TAIBU ‖ is to stop the ears. S UUT is to
stand. This sound is not the symbol of any abstract idea of ―to
stand,‖ that is a modern notion. It has for hieroglyphic the Phallus.
The meaning of this standing, staying, stopping was embodied in the
ancient Deity S UT, who was afterwards dethroned in Egypt on account
of his nearness to nature. The God Sut, Stander and Stayer was repre-
sented by the ass-headed Onocephalus, and this creature, according
to Hor-Apollo, was adopted to symbolize the man who stopped at
home and hugged his ignorance and had never been out of his own
country. This certainly agrees with the meaning of Sut. The word
S UT has still earlier forms in ―S HET,‖ true, real, and in K HET
to stop, KHET to shut, K HET to catch hold, K HET the seat, K AT, a
stone. The English ―S HUT‖ and French ―C HUT‖ are intermedi-
ates of S UT and K HET . Nor is the ―t‖ terminal necessary, for in
the hieroglyphics the various illustrations of staying, of ―S T‖-ing are
expressed by K HA or K A , a sound with no audible relation to either
S TA or S UT. Yet ―K A ‖ is to call, cry, stand, stay, rest or be
thrown to the earth. K A is the seat, throne, land, earth, stone, floor.
K A is the Phallus and the God. Where we call to ―S TA ‖ or ―S TAY ‖
any one, the early Egyptians cried ―Ka‖ and made the hieroglyphic
with two uplifted arms, and as Ka means to figure, this was the
figure of the full-stop, their earlier ―S T.‖
In the Maori, which has no sound of S, ―S TA ‖ is found in the same
sense written with its equivalent ―N G ,‖ N GATA , and gives the name to
the leech, slug, and snail as the stayers. What then becomes of the
1 Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 177. 2 B. I. 23.
―physiologic potency‖ of the sound ―S TA ‖ when its sense is ren-
dered by N GATA , and this takes us back to Egyptian where K T is the
earlier form of Sut? The same word with the one meaning is ―S T‖
in one language, ―P ST‖ in another, ―U ST ‖ in another, S UT, S HET,
H EST , K HAT and K A in Egyptian and N GATA in Maori.
With the Egyptian masculine article P prefixed to ―S T‖ we obtain
our words ―P OST‖ and ―P AST.‖ ―S ITH ‖ is time past or since. In
Irish S ITH is to leave off. The post stands. With the p added to
sith, we have the past, for time gone by. Sut in Egyptian is
denoted by a cake, with the p prefixed we get our ―P ASTE.‖ And
a ―P ESTLE‖-pie is a standing dish. ―P ASTE‖ is also hard preserves
of fruit for keeping.
The P LU above mentioned as the pluvial symbol in sound is the
Egyptian P RU to flow out, pour forth, emanate, run. There can be
no ―physiologic potency‖ in the sound of the L which was originally
expressed by R, nothing can be more diverse to the modern ear, than
the sounds or L and R, yet they are of equal value in language.
This shows the Pluvial idea was not born of the sound ―Plu.‖
Comparative philology without Egypt has been trying to stand on
one leg alone. But when the ―Aryan‖ limits are proved to include
Egypt, what will become of Aryan theories?
HEM is an exclamation or so-called interjection, having the effect
of stopping a person, or calling him back. H UM or H UMME in
Low German is a cry to stop a horse, as is H UMME or H UMMA in
Finnic and its kindred dialects. The Dutch H EM is explained
by Weiland as an exclamation to make a person stand still. We
call back or stop a person by crying ―H EM ‖ in a mystical
manner, especially when addressed from the male to the female. The
origin of this is traceable to the Egyptian H EM , the seat, abode,
place of stopping, and dwelling. The H EM or H AM , as stopping-
place, became the Hamlet, and other forms of the Ham. This is
provable. Still earlier is Kam (Eg.) the staying place, to stop, and
stay; Chinese, K IM , the hem and boundary; and with the causative
prefix, S KAM (Eg.), stop, stay, pass a time, dwell, remain a while.
These abrade into Sam. Thus we have SKAM , K AM and SAM , with
the same meaning: of stopping and staying. And because these;
together with H EM , denoted the place of stopping and staying, the
word H EM , became the sign of calling to stop, and the German
H EMMEN means to hinder, restrain, hold back, stay.
―We must not forget,‖ says Max Müller, ―that ‗H UM ,‘ ‗U GH ,‘
‗TUT,‘ ‗P OOH ,‘ are as little to be called words as the expressive ges-
tures which usually accompany these exclamations.‖1 Whereas these
our interjections are often the most secretly precious of ancient words
in the world, most mystical and matterful in their meaning. ―P OOH ‖
answers exactly to the Egyptian ―F U ,‖ which means to interrupt,
1 Lectures on Language, first series, p. 371.
and stop anyone; ―F U ,‖ vice, sully, fault. But the same signification
is still more strongly expressed by ―P AH ‖; and ―P A ‖ is an Egyptian
exclamation, the meaning of which we are left to recover in our English
PAH. ―F OW ‖ in English is foul, to cleanse out, ERUDERO , ALVUM ,
EXONERARE, it is used as a term of contempt. Some of these exclama-
tory words have too much meaning for full explanation. The
beginnings were very lowly. The Egyptian ―F I ‖ means to disgust,
be repulsive. Our English ―F I ‖ is a term of disgust at something
foul and repulsive. ―P SHAW ‖ is an expression of disgust and rejection.
It is applied likewise in repelling uttered foulness as an equivalent for
dirty. In Egyptian ―S HA - SHA ,‖ disgraceful, disgrace, renders it
well. ―S HANASH ‖ is stink, putrid, impurity, ―S HA ‖ being a sub-
stance, ―N ASH ,‖ nasty. ―S HA - TIRUTA ‖ is foulness and dirt,
―TIRUTA ‖ is our word dirt. This ―S HA ‖ is a word of mystic
meaning, degraded to the dirt. ―S HA ‖ is the substance born of, that
maternal source of which flesh is made. ―S HA ‖ is the feminine period
and the name given to Cat, Bitch, and Sow. All words found in the
mire were sacred words at first.
The interjectional ―S HUT,‖ or S HET, French ―C HUT,‖ twice or
thrice repeated implies an immediate shutting or hushing up. It is
used to children and grown-up babblers who talk what they should
not. It is a sign of mystic significance had recourse to when plainer
words do not sufficiently express the meaning, or may not be used.
Then it is we employ our Egyptian. ―S HET‖ in that language is the
name of mystery itself. ―S HET ‖ is secret, close, shut, be closed,
mystic, sacred, a sarcophagus, secret as death. In the form of K HET
it means shut and sealed.
―H UM ‖ is expressly made use of when we think ―Let me see.‖
In Egyptian, ―U M ‖ is to perceive. ―U M - H ‖ is to try, examine, or
see. ―H AM ‖ is to conceive. ―U GH ‖ is to feel a repugnance, to be
terrified. U KH (Eg.) is a spirit. U KKA , in the hieroglyphics, is the
night, once a time of terror in a fireless, lightless world. Its earlier
form is ―K UK ,‖ for darkness. That this time of night is the original
of our ―U GH ,‖ may be inferred from the fact that U GHTEN -tide is a
name for the morning. So far from ―TUT‖ not being a word, it was
in Egypt the Eternal Word itself, or Word of the Eternal. ―TUT-
TUT‖ we say, meaning don‘t tell me. ―TUTTLE‖ is to tattle, or
tell tales. In Egyptian TAT signifies to tell. T ETI is to stammer.
T ET is to decapitate. Our ― TUT- TUT‖ is to cut short, put an end
to. T ETHUT (Eg.) is to imprison; ―TUT- TUT‖ is intended to shut up.
―L A ‖ was at one time used as an emotional cry. ―L A L EOF ‖
was equivalent to O my Lord, or my very Liege; ―LA ‖ being a
formula of reverence and obeisance. Slender says,
―Truely, la.‖
Mistress Quickly,
―This is all indeed—la.‖
La was equal to verily, truly, indeed, and Shakspeare echoes this
sense. It is the Egyptian R A . R A was a formula, probably of
reverential address to the Râ; Râ (Eg.) likewise means V ERILY . Râ
has an earlier form in R EK , and La in L ACK .
We have a vulgar English exclamation in provincial use supposed
to be ―O M Y !‖ It is an expression of astonishment or wonder, and,
as all who ever heard it properly pronounced can testify, it is sounded
―O M AUHI !‖ and this as ―M AHUI ‖ is the Egyptian word for wonder,
and to be filled full of astonishment. Moreover, ―O M AUHI ‖ ex-
presses the same mixture of wonder and admiration as the word
―M AHUI .‖ U AH (Eg.) is very great.
The frog in German is supposed to say ―Q UAK ‖ and ―K IK ,‖ but
this is the hard form of the name of the frog, H EKA , in Egyptian.
The dog is credited with saying ―W AU ‖ ―W AU ‖ and this is the
Egyptian K HAU , or modified A U , the dog itself. Both ―Q UAK ‖
and ―P AK ‖ are supposed to be uttered by the Duck. Q UAK is the
Egyptian K AK . Seb who carries the Duck, or Goose, on his head, is
called the old K AK (Kakur); A K is a Duck or Goose, and K A
denotes the caller, whence K AK or QUACK , the A K that calls (or
the call of the Ak). With the article P (the) prefixed to Ak, we have
P AK , the Ak. Ak permutes with K A and K AKA (Eg.) means to cackle
or quack. In Chinese the wild-goose says ―K AO - KAO ,‖ synonymous
with the K AK of Seb, and the German ―Q ACK ‖ of the hen. The hen,
when laying eggs, says ―G LU ,‖ ―G LU ,‖ and that is the Egyptian
K HLU - KHLU (Khru), to utter, give word, notice, cry. The ―G LU -
GLU ‖ of the hen, the Mongolian ―D CHOR -D CHOR ‖ of the cock,
the German ―DECKEL - DECKEL ,‖ a call to sheep, and ―K LIFF -KLAFF ,‖
ascribed to the Dog, are all based on this K HLU (Kheru), which
includes many crying or calling forms of utterance; TEKHEL (Eg.)
would be a call to remain; T EK - KHEL , a call to affix or attach. The
Cock says ―K IKERIKI ,‖ in German. But K IKE is its name as the
COCK , K AK or crower, and R IKHI (Eg.) means the intelligent, wise,
knower. K AK - REKHI is the intelligent annoucer of time. A crow-
like bird in South America is named the C ARACARA , and in Languedoc
―C ARACARA ‖ is assigned to the crowing of the cock. In Polish the
crow is a K RUK , so in the north of England it is a Crouk. The Egyp-
tian K A - KA , to cackle, yields the various names of birds and their
cries found in K AH - KAH (British Columbia) a Crow; K AKA (Sanskrit)
Crow; K U - KUK , Malay, to crow; K UK - KO , Finnic, Sanskrit K UK -
KUTA , Ibo A KOKA , Zulu K UKU , Yoruba K OKLO , to crow, K OKO -
RATZ , Basque, clucking of a Hen, K HKUREKKATI (Illyrian) to crow.
Moreover, Egyptian shows the principle of naming the cackle and the
cry. K HEKH (Eg.) is the throat, the gullet, and the Q UACK , K AK ,
K AO -K AO , C ACKLE, K OKORATZ , and others are guttural sounds. On
the other hand the cry, crow, or K HERU , means to call with the
mouth (Ru), hence Kheru is the name of speech, to speak, voice, the
word, utterance with the mouth, distinguished from K UCKLING with
the gullet.
In Suffolk, according to Moof, crow keeping, or rather keeping
the corn from the crows, is cailed both ―W AHA - HOW ‖ and ―K A -
HA - HOO .‖ As our English word wheat is Egyptian it seems likely
these are Egyptian too. U AH is an agricultural labourer, and HU is
corn. Or K A denotes function, person, or type; H A is to stand and
shout; HU is corn. Both forms read by Egyptian will render the corn-
keeper, or preserver. Also ―H U ‖ (Eg.) is to drive. In English
―HOO ‖ is a cry used in pig-driving and in hunting. The Suffolk
people speak of a man who has no ―HO ‖ in him: go and ho permute.
In Egyptian we have the same modification of K HU into H U . K HU ,
the synonym of go, means spirit, with the whip sign of G O , and K HU
with the whip permutes with ―H U ‖ to make go; H U also is spirit.
Egyptian will show us how it is that ―W AHAHOW ‖ and ―K AHAHOO ‖
are two cries or names for the same thing.
The Spaniards drive away their cats with a ―Z APE- ZAPE,‖ hurry
away. This is the Egyptian S APA , to hurry away, to make fly away,
Arab Z‘APH , English Z WOP , to drive away with blow.
When a countryman sees a shepherd‘s dog astray without sheep or
shepherd he shouts ―S HIP - SHIP ,‖ to hurry it off. This is erroneously
supposed to be a reminder of the sheep. S HAB is an old English
word for abscnnding and slinking; the Egyptian S HAP is to hide,
conceal; the dog is treated as a truant. Also in the hard form S KHEB
(Eg.) means to goad and urge on. The Indians of Brazil call their
dogs with an interjectional ―A A .‖ In the hieroglyphics A U is a name
for the dog.
The Bohemians call to their dogs when at work ―P S - PS ,‖ P ES being
a name for the dog. Egyptian will tell us why in both cases. P ESH
means stretch out, extend, enclose, a shepherd would mean by it,
range round. And P ESHU (Eg.) is bite; so that two meanings of
the call as ―P S -P S ‖ are found to be Egyptian words for calling to the
dog at work.
The cry to the dog with the Portuguese is ―TO - TO ,‖ said to be short
for T OMA - TOMA , meaning Take, take. But in Egyptian TA - TA or
TU - TU would signify to offer the food which the dog was called upon
to eat, and at the same time say ―take the food.‖ It is probably the
same at root as the German cry to the chickens ―TIET- TIET.‖ The
Austrian ―P I - PI ‖ with which they call their chickens to be fed is
rendered by the Egyptian P I and P I - PI , signifying come quickly or
F LY - FLY . The word P I has wings for determinative, and one hiero-
glyphic P I is a fowl flying with mouth wide open, it may be to
be fed.
The Germans are accustomed to call chickens to be fed with the
cry of ―TIET- TIET ‖; and in the hieroglyphics TUT is a handful; TA
is corn and to take or offer. TAT or TIET , therefore, would be to
offer corn by the handful; so that we have the corn given, dropped
(ta-t) by the handful, (tut) expressed in sound (tet, tell, speech, dis-
course) by the ―TIET- TIET‖ of the caller, which says, as TA - TA
would in Egyptian, take corn by the handful.
The English ―C OOP - COOP ‖ instead of being an abbreviated ―Come
up,‖ is more likely to be the Egyptian K AP - KAP , for hidden, con-
cealed, as the fowls frequently are, hence the calling. For one reason
this K AP permutes with H AP , to lie conccaled, secret, screened, and
in the child‘s play of hide and seek it is a law of the game to signify
hidden by crying ―H OOP ‖ which has the same meaning as the
Egyptian H AP or H EP . K AHAB , however, means to excited incite,
toss, as is done in calling ―C OOP - COOP ‖ and throwing the seed.
The English cry for ducks and ducklings to come and be fed is
D ILL or D ILLY , dilly being the diminutive for the young ones. The
Bohemians call theirs with the same word, D LI - DLI . With the r
instead of l this is the Egyptian, T ERA . a young bird with the
duck for determinative. Terpu is the name of some kind of duck.
This suggests the American TERAPIN , a name that might read in
Egyptian as the duck that smells or is fragrant. One of the hiero-
glyphic ducks is the type of fragrance.
T ERA , the young one or little one, passes into our wods D ILL and
D ILLING . This is corroborated by TER (Eg.) for the male emblem.
Another meaning of the cry may be found in T ER (Eg.), all the
whole of the young brood.
In driving fowls from the door or out of the house our farmers‘
wives generally cry, ―S HU , S HU , B IDDY , S HU ,‖ to make them go.
S HEU is an interjection of disapproval, and this is one with S HA .
In Egyptian S HA is to make go out; S HU -ing and S HA -ing are
identical. B IDDY , moreover, has the most curious equivalent. The
English B IDDY is applied to a chicken: in Egyptian P ATI is a name
for all clean fowl, and ―P A - TI ‖ is fly, ―go along‖ with you!
Supposing the forbidden cat to be skulking in a bedroom, the
English housewife will hunt her out with the cry of ―S KHAT.‖
This is an Egyptian word signifying an order, to make, drag, deprive.
S KHAT is the order to come out, or be dragged out and deprived of
its hiding-place. S KAT (Eg.) is to lie hid and escape notice. The
English word of command expresses the Egyptian fact. The hare,
which we call P USSY , is S KHAT in Egyptian, the animal that hides
and is hunted. In English also the hare is named S CUT.
The words ―N AM N AM -N AM ‖ have become a sort of baby language
now, because they belong to the infancy of the race. The Chinese
child uses the word ―N AM ‖ for eating nice things. ―N AM ‖ in the
Negro languages is to eat. A negro proverb says ―Buckra‖ man,
―nam‖ crab, crab ―nam‖ ―buckra man.‖ In Soosoo ―NIMNIM ‖ is
to taste. In the Vei language ―N IMI ‖ is sweet, savoury, palatable.
―G NAMO ‖ in Bhutani Lhopa is sweet. ―N AM - NAM ‖ in Swedish
is a tit-bit. N AMMET in English is a luncheon. N AMBITA , Zulu, is
to smack the lips in eating, also in tasting something mentally pleasant.
N EIMH in Irish is heaven, heavenly. N AM , in Sanskrit, is to worship.
In YakaAna ―N EM - NO - SHA ‖ expresses the verb to love, as to make
―N - M - N .‖ 1 Again, there is one origin for all. Every value of the
word quoted was assigned to it as current coin of language in Egypt.
In the hieroglyphics N EM is sweet. N EM is delicious, delight.
N AHM to wish, vow; N AM , repeat, go again. N EM - NEM to en-
gender. N AHAM is joy, rejoicing, to enjoy. N UM is speech, word,
utterance. N EM is a religious festival. The hieroglyphics show that
some of these words are in their second childhood, and not their first.
N EM (Eg.), to be sweet and delicious, is N ETEM or nem, according
as the character is read as a syllabic Net or phonetic N. So with
NAM , earlier K HNAM ; and as the K HA becomes S A , it will account
for dialect differences, as in the Cantonese SAM for Nam, or vice versâ.
K HNAM may thus yield K AM , H AM , N AM , S AM in the process of
derivation from the ideographs.
The Zulu pitches his song with a ―HA ‖ HA .‖ ―H AYA ‖ means to
lead a song; ―H AYO ‖ a starting song, also a fee given to the singing-
leader for the H AYA . 2 This is the ―HA ‖ and the ―HAI ‖ of the
hieroglyphics. ―H AI ‖ is to stand and hail, invoke; and ―HA ‖ to go first,
precede, be the leader. It is identical with our English ―HEY ‖ which
leads off the refrain as in the hold ―HEY , Derry down.‖ The earliest
known form of this burden is ―HEY - DERI - DAN .‖ In Egyptian HAI is
to hail (it may be howl); TERIU , is twice, TAN to complete, fill up, and
finish. ―HAI - TERIU - TAN ‖ is what is meant by repeat in chorus: that
is our HEY - DERI - DAN , or HEY DERRY DOWN .
We find our ―HEY LOLY ‖ also to be Egyptian given as ―HELOLI ‖
to be mad, frantic. The full chorus is ―HEY LILLILU , AND A HOW
LO LAN ,‖ in the apparently meaningless ballad burden: HOW is whole,
or full, and LAN , the moon. This suggests the song and circular
dance when the moon was at full.
It was the same ―H A - LE - LU ‖ heard by Adair 3 which the ―Red
Hebrews,‖ as he called them, sang whilst encircling round the
holy fire, and identical with the ―ALLELU - JAH ‖ of the Jews, the
―ALALA ‖ of the Tibetans, the ―HALALA ‖ of the Zulu Kaffirs, and
the ―ALALA ‖ of the Greeks; the Polynesian ―LOLOLOA ,‖ meaning
drawn out very long, the English HULLA -baloo (the yule or howling
for Baal at the winter solstice); one with the ―hi-le-li-lah‖ used by
the medicine-man of the Dacotahs who danced and shook his rattle
and whirled himself round franticly in a state of nudity as a mode of
charming away disease.4 The same that Livingstone heard in Central
1 Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 186.
2 Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 171. Various other of these illustrations
are taken from the same chapter.
3 History of the American Indians, p. 97.
4 Schoolcraft Res. ii. 199.

Africa when the natives kept him awake with their wild ceaseless
―LULLILOOING ‖ through the night. There is one origin for all. The
root meaning is better rendered in Egyptian with the letter r instead
of l, where ―RU - RU ‖ means to go, circuit, wheel, and whirl round.
By aid of RERT or ERRT, the hippopotamus, we see the ―RU - RU - ING ‖
was once applied to the revolving stars of the great Bear in the Sabean
ceremonies. Egyptian shows us how these primary sounds of the
childhood of language were deposited as child-types. Thus R URU
denotes the nurseling and the nurse, also to dandle and lull the child.
L ILLU in Coptic, L ALA , in Polish is the child. The English Lullaby
is sung by the nurse in lulling the child. L ALLE in Danish is to
prattle. In Kymric L LOLIAW means to babble, prattle to a child.
L YULIATI in Servian is to rock the child, and in Russian U LIOLIOKAT
is to sing, rock, and lull the child to sleep. And the earliest nurse
is R ERIT , the Assyrian L ILIT and Hebrew L ILITH who in the hiero-
glyphics is the genitrix, as the sow or the hippopotamus, the old
Typhon of the beginning, who first reared the child in heaven.
In the third Sallier Papyrus there is a vivid description of a
battle in which the king Rameses II. is surrounded by the enemy.
He calls on the god Amon-Ra for help, and suddenly hears the
voice of Ra behind him shouting ―Ma!‖ ―HRU - HRU - HA - KA .‖ This
passage has perplexed Egyptologists. De Rouge renders it ―I come
quickly to thee.‖ To me the ―HRU - HRU ‖ is a war-cry to be under-
stood by its cognates. H URANU is a root of courage. H RUT means
―Arm for war,‖ and this ―H URU ‖ is the root of our ―HURRAH .‖ In
the Maori ―Aru-Aru‖ is a cry signifying ―pursue relentlessy.‖
―H IRI - HIRI ‖ is also to rush with relief, and energetically assist, as
does the god in the Egyptianpoem of Pentaur. It is the cry of a god
inspiring th ewarrior, and in Maori ―H IRI - HIRI ‖ is the word used in
repeating charms over a person with the view of imparting energy
and inspiring courage. Also ―H ORU ‖ is a yell used in the war-
dance. ―H ERU - HERU ‖ (Eg.) signifies extension, dilation with joy;
and this is the connecting link of language between the ultimate
―A LLELUJAH ‖ and ―H OORAY ,‖ or in the Irish form, ―H OOROO .‖
The universal cheer this may be called, for it is the wild Irish
―H UROO ‖ of battle; the Norman ―H ARO ,‖ the shout ―U R - RE‖
with which the Mahouts urge on their elephants, the Nepalese
―H ERO ,‖ Siamese ―A URA ,‖ Arabic ―A R - RA ,‖ the ―H URRAR ‖ of
the Norsemen, the Armenian ―H AURA ,‖ Æthiopic ―H URHUR ‖ (go
along!), the Maori cheer of the rowers ―H ARI - HARI ,‖ and the
French ―H ARER ‖ for setting on a dog. By aid of our ―Hip, hip,
H OORAY ‖ we nay perhaps reach the root of the matter. The Irish
form ―H OOROO ‖ answers to the Egyptian H URU , meaning additional,
another, one more. Our ―Hip, hip, hooray‖ is generally given three
or nine times, often followed by the ―one more‖ cheer.
The ―Hip, hip, hooray‖ may be a salutation of the rising sun.
Heru (Eg.) is another day, or one more round, and the R URU and
H ERU both meet in the ROUND . H URI - HURI , Maori, is to revolve,
whirl round. I RI - IRI , in Fijian, means to fan repeatedly. We
may infer that the Druids used to salute the rising sun with loud
rejoicings, for he is called, by Taliesin, the Lord or Leader of the din
or hubbub. The dawn was a festival of his return. And in Egyptian
the Triumph of Return is expressed by the word ―H EB .‖ Heb is the
Festival, the triumph, and the return. TheLeader of the Din is called
by Taliesin and Aneurin ―R HWYU TRYDAR ,‖ literally the Lord of the
Rhwyu. And the Fugleman on the H IP - HIP , is the leader of the
H OORAY . Hep (Eg.) however means unite, join together. H EP -
HEP - HURU (Eg.) is unite all together for one more round or cheer, no
matter what may be celebrated.
Our interjectional ―M ARRY ,‖ as in ―M ARRY , COME UP ,‖ in the com-
binations of ―M ARRY ON US ,‖ and ―M ARRY GIP ‖ would be well ex-
plained by M ERI (Eg.) a name for Heaven. M ERI come up, would
thus be an appeal in Heaven‘s name. ―M ERI KIP ‖ is Heaven receive
or keep, or clasp us. M ARRY - COME- UP , and MARRY - GO - DOWN are
allied to the Merry-go-round and the Merry-dancers of the Northern-
lights which dance in heaven. A see-saw is a M ERRY -totter, it goes
up and down. And this is the up-and-down image named M ERI .
With the prefix Ta it is Tameri, the double land of Egpyt,
Upper and Lowerm or if applied to M ERI , the Heaven, the Egyptian
Meri-come-up, and Merry-go-down, of the sunrise and sunset, and the
Meri-go-round of the Solar Bark. The Merry-go-rounds of our country
fairs go up and down and round and round, and are made of boats.
The Freemasons make use of a formula ―So MOTE is be,‖ instead
of So be it, or Amen. This mote is purely Egyptian, a rare form for
May it be. ―M ET‖ is to fix, establish. ―Met" is an ejaculation. Met
means to pronounce conservative forumas.1 ―So Mote it be,‖ is the
conservative formula of the Masons, as it was in Egypt of the Priests.
The present work is not intended to deal with the structure and
formation of the various languages of the British Isles, which languages
the writer looks upon as detritus and drift in new forms, of an older
language common to them all. But it may be pointed out that our
participial terminal ED or T is Egyptian.
TA is to cross; TA - T is the cross sign of crossed. TI Is two; TI - T
(Tat), crossed, tied, TWOED . TNA is to separate; TNA - T is sepa-
rated. TNA and TNAT are the same as our tine and tined, applied
to the fork. T EHU is to rejoice; T EHUT to be rejoiced.
In the genders the feminine is formed by adding a T. The
Egyptian explains the English. When we are assured that I
loved is I did love, that tells us nothing of I am loved, I am proved.
These latter did not originate in I love did, I prove did. They
indicate the present conditton. as much as I love, and yet it is the
1 Pierret, ―Met.‖
second of two. The hieroglyphic t as ti is a sign of reduplication
and not merely the determinative of the secondary condition, a sort
of figure of two which shows that beauty, ability, bounty, majesty
are the reduplication of beau, able, boun, majes, not merely the
secondary, but the doubled form, out of which comes the plural TI
(Eg.) and TY in English. The hieroglyphic T in Ti indicates that the
conditions are one of two in TA and TAT, love and loved, not limited
to the present and past, or to the genders, and the second is the con-
dition of being Twoed, a doubled condition or secondary stage of
being. The word ―DID ‖ itself is in that second and dual condition
as the past of ―DO ,‖ just as in the words loved and proved we have
the twoed condition of love and prove. In English ―TIDDE,‖ happened,
is the equivalent of ―DID .‖ Two of the hieroglyphic T‘s are a hand
and a half-sphere; in each case one of two. The T was made the
feminine article, as the secondary one of two. As specimens of this
Twoed condition we have the TOD of wool, two stones; the T OUT
for two gallons; TOUT, the posteriors; also TITTY , the young cat;
the TADPOLE; the Welsh TAD , our D AD , for the father, the second
of two because the Son was acknowledged first.
Our common termination ―EN ,‖ as in open, sweeten, ripen, craven,
withouten, leaven, appears to be the Egyptian UN or EN , to be, being,
condition of being. This ―UN ‖ being, is distinguished in English in
the adjective as well as participial termination, as in wooden, golden,
brazen, to be of wood, of gold, of brass. At this stage we see the
Egyptian ―UN ,‖ to be, modify into ―N,‖ of, and from; OF gold,
FROM gold, made OF gold, or golden, as the condition of its being
golden. Also the Egyptian ER (Ru) has the force of the English ER ,
in greater, sweeter, happier. Er (Eg.) means more, more than; the
repetition in ER - ER denotes very much.
The sole object of the present quest, however, was such matter as
retains the original likeness, and tends to prove identity in the be-
ginning. Grammatical structure of languages is not of primary im-
portancc; that belongs to the mode and means of dispersion and
diversifying the one into the thousand languages which enable philo-
logists to class them according to their later differences, and lose
sight of the original unity. This, it has to be remembered, is only
a Book of the Beginnings, hence the trivialties of the chapter
now ended.
SECTION V.
EGYPTIAN WATER-NAMES.
THE author of Rude Stone Monuments appears to me to darken

counsel merely and deepen the superficies of the subject only in his
search after a theory to account for them. He sees that the architec-
ture of Stonehenge is primeval, and that it ought, according to the
laws of evolution, to belong to a time and an Art antecedent to
that of the Great Temples of Egypt and India! Yet he does not
dare to apply the law of evolution to these structures, and has no doubt
that the rude erections are degenerate copies of the more perfect
originals.
This is parallel with saying that the poetry of Cædmon is a lowly imi-
tation of the work of Tennyson. There never was a crasser instance
of not only putting the cart before the horse and riding it backwards,
but of flogging the cart to make it go THAT way. He admits, however,
that the NAMES are everywhere the great difficulty. And as Max
Müller says of Cornwall, ―Where every village and field, every cottage
and hill bear names that are neither English, nor Norman, nor Latin,
it is difficult not to feel that the Keltic element has been something
real and permanent in the history of the British Isles.‖ 1 Gradually
these names will yield up the dead past to live again as Egyptian.
Left without likeness in the classical languages, our names of rivers,
for example, have been felt to be unfathomable.
The Egyptian name of Water as an element is UAT, the same as
that of the Goddess UATI. UAT is the English WET, and our word
Water is the Egyptian UAT-UR, which is also applied to the ocean, as
the Great UAT or Wet. Uat (Eg.) for Water shows the element in
a dual aspect, necesary to note; the word signifies blue-green, and
Water unites the two colours of earth and heaven in one, as blue-green.
We shall find however that all elementary naming from the Egyptian
origin is divine, that is, mystical, that is, finally, physiological.
1 Chips, vol. iii. p. 252.
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For example the Keltic UISGE is a type-name for water, and at
the same time it supplies a title for the spirit-water, the water of life,
as WHISKEY. This comes from a first origin. UAT means both heat
and wet, both elements being represented by the Genitrix UATI; they
are the Two Truths of the Water of Life from which the nature of
Whiskey is derived, in accordance with its spirituous nature. USKH or
SEKH (Eg.), the liquid, has a still earlier form in KHEKH, a fluid de-
termined in one aspect by the sign of bleeding. blood was the primal
suck, on which the child was nursed, the first water of life. Heat or
spirit was a secondary element. These are represented by KHEP,
UAT, and SEKHT. KHEKH has the meaning of blood and spirit, the
Two Truths of being imaged by the spirit-water of life.
The Egyptian HES and USESH mean evacuation. UKA is the
water of the inundation. We have the river ISE near Welling-
borough, ISIS at Oxford, the ASH in Hertfordshire, the IZ in
Bedfordshire, the USC in Buckinghamshire, GUASH in Rutland,
OUSE in Bedfordshire, various USKS and ESKS, the ESKY in Sligo,
the ESKLE in Herefordshire, ESTHWAITE and EASDALE waters;
these, together with the AXE, OX, UX, and EX, the ISCA, the Welsh
WYSG, a current, and Gaelic UISGE, for water, the WISK, the
WASH, and other variants, are all derived from this root. The Gaelic
and Erse UISGE, however, is a worn-down form of the Welsh
WYSG and this again has a prior existence in GWYSG, at leas the
GWY is an earlier spelling of WY for water. WYSG is also the name of a
current. This points to a prefix corresponding to KHI (Eg.), to extend,
expand, elongate, and run with great rapidity. KHI-SEKH (Eg.) would
denote the current, as in WYSG, and the W constantly represents a K.
KHI-KHI (Eg.) is the original of quick, and the KHI-SK, GWY-SG, or
WYSG is the rapid-running water.
The Welsh name of the river called ESK is the WYSG, and this points
to a rapid or spreading water as the primary type of the rivers
so named. The WYSG takes the English forms of GUASH (com-
pare ―gush‖) in Rutland, the WASHBURN in Yorkshire, and the
WASH. WASHES are outlets in the sea-shore, and in the fen-
country large spaces left at intervals between the river banks, for
floods to expand in, are named WASHES. WASH, GWASH, GWYSG
are represented in Egyptian by the word KASH, to water, spread,
be in flood, inundate.
The French rivers in the high Alps, the GY, the GUIL, the GUISAVE,
and the GUIERS, the GUER in Brittany, the GIRON and GERS are
probably named from their movement; they are the goers, as our
Go is a form of the KHU or KHI, to go, and make go, quick.
The GEYSER is named from the same root KHI (Eg.), to rise up,
elongate, spread with great rapidity. And as KHU or KHI is Spirit,
Whiskey is the KHI-SEKH or Spirit-water, the spirit in this case being
analogous to the motion and go of the rapid waters.
An old Irish Glossary says, ―B IOR and A N and D OBAR (are) the
three names of the Water of the World.‖ This shows their naming
goes back to the mystical one of water with two aspects found in the
Pool of Two Truths, and in the name of Uat(i). The Duad may be
expressed by B I - OR . An represents the Egyptian H AN or N EN , the
primordial water identified as the Bringer in the beginning. D OBAR ,
D OVAR , or D ÛR answers to Tef-er or Tep-er, as the water of the
commencement, the first water. TOBAR (Irish) is a Well, and the
Teph (Eg.) was the Well of Source. Also T EBU (Eg.) means to draw
water, and the Tobar water is drawn from the well.
A N (Han) was the celestial water and the well-water was below.
These were two aspects of the B I - OR or dual water, of the Pool of Two
Truths, the Water of Life that made flesh in one form and fermented
into spirit in the other. This will be illustrated in a chapter on the
Typology of the Two Truths, both of which were at first assigned
to the Motherhood.
In passing it may be noted that in two Egyptian names of water
we find synonyms of Yes and No. I A is water, to wash, purify,
whiten, and the word means Yes, and assuredly. I A is the positive
of water, and this agrees with the English EA , and Y EA . N U is
water, and the word means not, negative, negation, the English No.
Also I A , the white, agrees with milk, the white, and Na, the red,
with the blood. The Milk and Blood of the Mother were a primal
form of the Twin-Water. The Two Truths were represented by
White and Red, and both colours were combined in the ―spotted
cow‖ of Hathor.
The D EE springs from two fountains in the East of Merionethshire,
and is probably named as the dual water, the twin water of the
Egyptians. It was called D YVRDWY , the divine water of source in
a dual character. Another of its names, Peryddon, read as Perit-
ten (Eg.), yields the two-fold manifestation.
The river Deskie is formed of two streams, and in Egyptian Ti-
sekh would signify the double water. D-eskie is the dual Eskie.
I VEL is a twin river: ―Two rivers of one name,‖ says Drayton.
The I VEL was anciently called the Y OO , and the I U (Eg.) is two
or twin. The Y EO is the same, and our Y EO -math is the second
mowing.
The river N EATH has a double head, and N ET (Eg.) is a total, the
All, which was composed of two.
If the Egyptians named our waters and rivers, it is tolerably
certain those of Wales were the first-named, as the TAVES , T EFIS ,
D YVIS , D OVERS , and others. For this reason: A P or A F (Eg.)
means the first, as a liquid, an essence of life, or essential life. This
supplies another elemental water-name. With the article The pre-
fixed, this is Tepi or Tefi, the Welsh Dyvi, English Tavy, and Dove,
the first, primordial, ancestral source.
This Ap or Af, as first in the form of liquid, with the Egyptian T
prefixed, furnishes all the primaries of water found in TOBOR and
D OBAR , the well, the Kymric Dwr (Dfr), water, and the river names
T EF , TAV , D YVI , and their kindred, the T and D, retaining at times
the twofoldness of character. Thus, if, as will be maintained, the first
landing was in Wales, one of the rivers named the first would be
the D YVI , which flows into Cardigan Bay, and debouches through an
estuary that divides North and South Wales.
The TAY , formerly TAVUS , is a first river, on account of its size.
The name of the Thames shows an example of compounding
from Egyptian. If we take the ES for a reduced ESK , as it is found
in S ENAS , a name of the Shannon, the THAM may be accounted for
in this way.
In Drayton‘s Poly-olbion, 1 a dozen rivers make up the Thames.
The Oxfordshire Colne, the Charnet, Charwell, Leech, Windrush
Yenload,2 join the Isis; the Ock and Ouse join the Thame, and
these all unite with the Kennet, Loddon, Wey, and Hertfordshire
Coln to form the Thames.
In Egyptian T EM is a total; the completed and perfected whole.
T AM means to renew, make over again, the second time. It should
also be observed that TEMI (Eg.) is a title of the Inundation in
Egypt, and the Thames is a tidal river. Thus THAMES is the total
and tht tidal river. The same origin will account for the name of
the river Tamar (Devon), which ―sweeps along with such a lusty
train‖ of attendant streams and rills as ―fits so brave a flood two
counties that divides.‖3 Tamar takes in the Atre, Kensey, Enjan,
Lyner, Car, Lid, Thrushel, Toovy, and others. As Thames means
the collective or total water, so Tam-aru reads the collective river. In
each case, Tem (Eg.) is that which divides the land into districts, a
name of the Inundation, a total, and a created river.
We have another name for Thames, as the Tidal Water. Accord-
ing to Camden, this river was once known as the C OCKNEY , and
therefore a dweller on its banks is called a Cockney. The K HEKH -
N UI (Eg.) means the tidal water; the to-and-fro of the water
corresponding to the motion of the Khekh, as the Balance or Scales.
This namcl says Boileau, was likewise applied in Paris, where we
find the water is the S EINE , and in Egyptian S EN or S HENA is the
tidal-river of the Inundation.
Shuma (witich permutes with Shuna) is the Pool of the Two
Truths, in An; the water of the dual aspect here figured as the tidal
river.
Ancient Paris stood on the island which divided the Seine into two
halves, called the Isle of France. S HEN (Eg.) denotes the dual,
twin-water. The names of the S EINE and the Cockney rivers are
important. Shen is to complete an orbit, it is the circuit, extent,
1 Songs, 14 and 15. 2 Drayton‘s spelling. 3 Poly-olbion, Song 1.
perimeter; S HEN , to stop, bend, twist, turm away, turn back, turn
down. It is the Egyptian name for the measure of the Inundation, the
hieroglyphic of which is the S HENT. We have a form of the word
in S HUNT, to turn back on another line. The game of S HINDY , also
called S HINNY , is designated from its motion to and fro, like the ebb
and flow of a tide, as Egyptian shows. Now, if we apply this to the
name of the place on the rivet Thames called S HENE, we shall see
that it was so named as the spot to which the flow of the tide reached,
and where it ebbed again. That in Egyptian is S HEN .
This may supply a landmark for the geologist. Shandon on the
River Lea (Ireland), on the Clyde (Gairloch), and in other localities,
may be named on this princi pIe of identifying the place where the
tide once turned.
There is an old sacred place in the county of Durham called
C OCKEN Hall, round which the River Wear winds two ways, and
K HEKH - NU (Eg.) means the water that goes to and fro. In this
instance it is a tidal river, but the tide does not now ascend so far up;
the name, however, appears to show that it did so in the past, and the
Wear was a K HEKH - NUI , or tidal river.
The Cockney, as a person, is not named from the Thames. He is
a form of the April fool called the Gouk. In the north of England
April fools are April Gowks. The Gouk, Gowk, or Goke, is sent
on a foolish errand, repulsed, and sent back again, and Khekh (Eg.)
signifies to repulse, and send back. Hence the K HEKH , or G OUK .
The Cuckoo is the Gec, as the bird of return, that goes to and fro.
Thus we have the K HEKH , as a pair of scales, the tide, the cuckoo, and
the fool. Now in the hieroglyphics the word for water or inundation
is written nu, nnu (nenu) and nini (nni), and the same word is the
name of the little boy, the N INI (Nui), who is our N INNY . The
Ninny, or fool, who goes to and fro on fool‘s errands, is the analogue
of the Khekh, river, and, like it, is the K HEKH - NINI , K HEKH - NUI , or
Cockney. In relation to the First of April, Khekh (Eg.) is the
balance, equinoctial level. C OCKAIGNE, as place, was the mythical
land of promise and plenty, that is the solar country lying east-
ward, where the waters were crossed and the manifestation to light
had occurred, where the corn was seven cubits high, and the ears
three cubits long.1 This was attained at the time of the equinoctial
level, the Khekh. London, on the C OCKNEY river as the land of
Cockaigne, is connected with the mythological astronomy, as the
Gate of Belin likewise shows. Uka (Eg.) means a festival and to be
lazy. K HEKH - UKA - AN would answer to Cockaigne, the reputed
land of laziness and luxury, a form of An (Heliopolis), placed at
the Khekh, on the summit of the Equinox. At this point in the
planisphere was the Pool of Persea, now represented by the double
stream of the Waterman; the one water with two manifestations,
1 Ritual, ch. 109.
which may be the two aspects of a tidal river, the water above and
the water below, fresh and salt water, milk and blood, or, finally,
male and female source.
The ―Khekh‖ balance, the type of tidal motion, takes many forms
in English. The sea-cockles are left on the sand by the turning tide.
In Devon they are called cocks. Stairs that wind about are called
cockle-stairs. The pilgrim and palmer wore the cockle-shell as a
badge, not that they had been to sea, but because they were
wanderers to and fro like the bird of passage, or the tidal water,
or the cockle, a tidal shell-fish. They too were Gecs, Khekhs, or
Cocks. Dampier speaks of a ―cockling sea, as if it had been a
race where two tides meet;‖ the motion of contrary currents caused
the ―cockling.‖ Shag is another variant. Wicliff translates ―the
boat was SHAGGED with waves,‖ that was, in a cockling sea.
To cocker is to fondle, dandle, jog, or rock up and down. To
joggle is to move this way and that. To juggle is based on rapidity
of movement to and fro. One ―Khekh‖ hieroglyphic of this motion
to and fro, up and down, is the balance, as the figure of the equinoctial
level, and the up and down of the two heavens. Khekh passes into
our word Weigh, and in Bavarian Wag is the Balance; Wage in
Dutch; Waga, Russian; Vág, old Norse. To weigh is to balance,
and all turns on the wagging up and down. Goggle, joggle, waggle,
gaggles, quake, shiggle, gig, giggle, giglot, gigsy, and many other
words are variants, having the same fundamental meaning. G ICK -
GACK is a name of the clock in nursery language, from the motion of
the pendulum to and fro. A jigger in machinery goes to and fro. In
giggling the body shakes up and down. A giglet is always on the
go. The Gaelic gogach and English kickle denote a wavering and
unsteady motion. Goggle-eyes roll to and fro. Nine-pins are called
―gaggles,‖ and they are set up to be knocked down, and thus
illustrate the motion called Khekh-ing. In the children‘s game,
―C OCKLE-bread‖ is made by wabbling the body up and down and
to and fro,
―Up with my heels and down with my head,
And this is the way to make Cockledy-Bread.‖1
The goging or cucking-stool moved up and down in ducking the

culprit. The cock on the vane turns to and fro. Hocking at Hock-
tide is a custom of the male and female alternately lifting each other
up and down. The game of hocky consists in driving the ball to
and fro.
This derivation of the April fool from the K HEKH tends to prove
that the so-called ―All Fools‘ Day‖ is in reality the ―Old Fools‘
Day,‖ Scotch, ―Auld Fool‘s Day.‖ In an ancient Roman calendar,
quoted by Brand, there was a feast of O LD Fools. The Khak in
1 Brand, ―Cockle-Bread.‖
Egyptian is the old fool, coward, nincompoop. Kehkeh (Eg.), like
the Maori Koeke, and Kaffir X EGO , is the old man. Khekh-ing,
hocking, and hoaxing are all connected with the Equinox. The
Khekh represents the old ―Kak,‖ the god of darkness, who was
derided and made sport of when the young sun-god had arisen, in the
ascending scale or Khekh.
But to return. We might infer that a people coming from the land
of the Nile would be sure to confer the names of the Inundation on
our tidal rivers, and erect the tidal into a type-name. This we find
they have done. TEMI , as before mentioned, was one name of the
Nile inundation. A BHAIN is an Irish name for a river, and as A BH
is the river, the suffix probably characterises it. H AN (Eg.), or An,
is to bring, to come and go, turn and return. A B is the water, A B -
HAN is the periodic tidal water, named after the typical inundation of
the Ab, Hap, Kabh, or Nile.
The river D OVE, says Ray, is the Nile of Staffordshire when it
overflows its banks in April. There is an old distich,
―In April, Dove‘s flood
Is worth a king‘s good.‖
D OVE rendered by Egyptian is T EF or T EB . T EF signifies dripping,

flowing, and to evacuate. The TEPHT is the abyss of source, the Welsh
D YFFED . D OVE in the West of England is the name of a Thaw. In
Egyptian, T EP marks the point of commencement of thing, time,
and place. This meaning combines the beginning of the overflow, or
the Thaw, or the land, as in the names of Dyfved and Dover. The
name of Staffordshire, we might suppose, would be based on the River
D OVE or ―Tef‖ with the S prefixed, as this is the causative prefix
to Egyptian verbs. Accordingly we find that S TEF is an Egyptian
name of the Inundation of the Nile, and S TAFFORD is the ford of
the flooding river. Several of our river-names suggest this origin.
Nen is a name and a type of the Inundation which, according to
Hor-Apollo,1 signified to the Egyptians the New or or Renewer. N EN -
UT is fresh and sweet. We have the river NEN in Northamptonshire,
and one of its two sources springs near S TAVERTON , which looks as
if it also had been named from S TEF , the Inundation.
The name of the river S HANNON is still more to the point of
N EN being a name of the Inundation, for it is the Nile of Ireland
in its overflowing and shedding of alluvial soil. S HEN - NEN (Eg.)
reads the periodic type of renewal. N EN (han) also means the
bringer, and Shannon is the periodic bringer like the Nile. There
are large tracts of marsh-land along the banks of the Shannon
deposited when the river overflows its banks; these are called
―C AUCASSES ,‖ and are famous for their fertility.2 K AU , in Egyptian,
is earth, and K HUS means to found, lay the basis. S HEN also is
1 B. i. 21. 2 Enclyc. Brit. 8th edition, ―Limerick.‖
to turn away, and return; that is the tidal river; as Senas also,
it is the tidal or inundating water. L IMERICK appears to be named
from the Inundation or tidal river. R EM (Eg.) is to rise and
surge up. R EM likewise denotes the place of, R EMN means ex-
tending up to, so far, and R EKH is to wash and purify. Thus
Limerick may be the place to which the tide ascended. Remi-rekh
(Eg.) reads washed by the inundation or tidal water.
The S EVERN is a tidal river. Nennius (Ch. 68) calls it the
H ABREN . Hab (Eg.) means periodic, the type of return, tidal. The
naming of S EVERN as the tidal river is also denoted by the two
kindred divinities, S ABRINA , and S EFA , who is the goddess of the
tidal river in Egypt. The goddess of the Severn, and the inundation
of the Nile, are one and the same at root. U RNE and O RNE signify
to run. R ENE is a watercourse. Thus H AB - RENE would be the
tidal watercourse. This R ENE represents the R UAN (Eg.), the valley
gorge, and outlet of water. In which case the H AB - REN , is the tidal
river of the valley-gorge.
The H ABREN or Severn has a different origin to the H AFREN and
A VON . These are the crawling, sluggish waters. A VON is a Keltic
type-name of the river. In Welsh H AFRU signifies the slow and
sluggish. Hefu, Hef, and Af (Eg.), mean to squat, writhe, crawl
along the ground like the caterpillar or snake. Nu or N denotes
water. Thus Hef-n or Avon is the crawling or sluggish water, as
the Avons are; the crawling, winding, serpentine water. The
Gothic A HVA and Welsh A RAF , the gentle, include this meaning of
A F and H EFN (Eg.) to crawl along the ground.
The A FF is found in Brittany, the I VE in Cumberland. There are
a dozen A VONS in England, Wales, and Scotland. Besides Shak-
speare‘s AVON there is one in Hampshire, one in Gloucestershire,
one in Devon, in Lanark, Banff, Stirling, Monmouth, and other
counties. The Eveneny, in Forfarshire, is a diminutive of the Avon.
A VON abrades into the A ON in Manx, the A UNE in Devonshire,
also the A UNEY ; the A NEY in Meath, and I NNEY in Cornwall.
The L EVEN implies the al (or Ar) compounded with Avon. The
ear!iest form of L EVEN is A LAFON , which modifies into Alauna.
Leven also means the smooth, like A VON. So derived, these are
the slow, smooth, crawling A LUS (Aru, Eg. River), unless we take
Al to signify White.
But we hve to include another type in L EN , as R ENN (Eg.) is the
pure unblemished virgin water. This is extant in the Linn, a deep,
still pool. Drayton sings of the calm, dear Alen born of Cranborn
Chase. Len (Renn) may enter into the name of the E LLEN in
Cumberland, the A LLEN in Derbyshire and in Leitrim. Matthew
Paris calls Alcaster on the A LN , E LLEN -Caster, so that the A LN , the
L UNE, the ERYN in Sussex, L OIN in Banff, L INE in Cumberland,
L YON in Inverness, L EANE, Kerry; L ANE, Galloway; L AINE,
Cornwall, have to be distinguished according to their character,
whether they derive from E LLEN the pure, the virgin water, or
from the L EVEN , A LAFON , the slow, sluggish, crawling, serpentining
stream.
R UI (Eg.) is mud, muddy, red, or black-coloured. To this cor-
responds the R OY (the red) in Inverness-shire, and some of the other
rivers of similar name, which include the R YE in Yorkshire, Ayrshire,
and Kildare; R UE, Montgomery; R HEE , Cambridge; R OE, Derry;
R AY in Oxfordshire and Lancashire; R EY , Wilts.; R EA , Herts.,
Warwick, Shropshire. The Gaelic R EA , the rapid, Welsh R HE and
R AU (Eg.), the Swift, have to be taken into account. Still the rapid
and the red or the deep-coloured are oftem likely to meet in the
same stream. The Warwickshire R EA and Hertford L EA are not
the rapid bu: are the muddy (rui) rivers.
A UR , A RU , the Egyptian name of the river, has an earlier form of
the water-name in K ARUA , a lake, or some other water-source. These
include such names as the U RE, A RE, and A IRE, Yorkshire; A YR
in Ayrshire and Cardiganshire; A RU , Cornwall; A RRO , Warwick-
shire; Arrow, Herefordshire and Sligo; A RAY , in Argyllshire; A RA -
gadeen and A RA -glin in Cork; A RU , Monmouth; the Norfolk YARE,
the Y AIR and YARROW in Selkirkshire; the Y ARRO Lancashire, the
G ARRY in Perthshire.
The name of the N ILE had to be derived from ―A RU ,‖ the River
as it was called. The River watered the Two Lands, and the plural
definite article is N AI . From N AIRU or N AR comes the Nile.
In Ireland we find the River N URE is also THE O URE, that is by
dropping the Egyptian article The. The River N URE or THE O URE
is precisely the same as A RU and N ARU (Nile) in Egyptian. Boate,
in 1645, calls the Irish river ―N URE or THE O URE.‖ A N - FHEOIR is
the full Irish name. So the Egyptian A is an earlier F A in more
than one sign. The N URE, like N ILE is a dual river.
The hieroglyphic sign of the Inundation is a triple vase, with two
spouts, from which the water issues in two streams, one on each side
of the sign. One name of this symbol is K HENTI ; this abrades
into K HENT . Khenti means an image. Khen is the waters, liquid,
within. TI is two. Khenti is the plural of water, say as red and
blue Nile. Near Abury in Wiltshire a river rises in two heads, and
realizes the Egyptian image of source called the K HENIT or K HENT .
Our twin river there is the K ENNET. This identifies the two-foldness
of the ideographic K HENT. The hieroglyphic of the vases has been
variously read K HENT, S HENT , and F ENT. 1 Latterly ―F ENT‖
has been given up. Yet, the F ENT, as the nose sign, is one of its
determinatives. The English F OUNT makes it almost certain that
F ENT was one of its names. The nose, as F ENT, is a fount of life, the
dual organ of breath; and the F ENT imaged by the vases symboled
1 Birch, Dictionary, p. 548.
the water-fount of life. In English ―F END ‖ signifies livelihood,
means of living.
Diodorus says that when the Nilie overflowed most parts of Egypt,
and the waters were coming down full-sweep, the river for its
impetuosity and exceeding swiftness of its course, was then called
the EAGLE. As the Egyptians rendered l by r, the Eagle corresponds
to our E AGRE or A CKER , a peculiar vehemence of motion in the
tide of some rivers. It is still applied to a dangerous surge and
eddy in the river Trent called the ―RUME‖ (Eg. R EM , to rise and
surge up.)
― Well know they that the Reume yf it aryse,
An Aker is clept.‖1
The word A KER was explained by the early lexicographers by

the Latin impetus maris, which they said preceded the flood or
flow. In Egyptian the eagle as bird is Akhem or Akhmu,
which likewise means an extinguishing wave of water. Akh is
to rise up; mu, water. The eagle was of course a symbol of
swiftness and ascending power. The B ORE is the name of the
―R EUME‖ or ―A KER ‖ which occurs annually in the River Severn
at Gloucester about the time of the Spring Equinox. B ER (Eg.)
signifies to be ebullient, and boil up to the topmost height. B ERWI
(Welsh) is to boil and bubble. Periodic manifestation was one of the
first forms of phenomena observed and named, and the ―Bore‖ of
our rivers was an especial phenomenon. The Parret is a river with a
―bore,‖ and this apparently enters into its name. Per (Eg.) inter-
changes with Ber, to well up, be ebullient, manifest periodically;
ret (Eg.) means repeatedly. Thus Parret names the periodic high
tide. In the Hoogly, one of the mouths of the Ganges, the Bore is
known as the B ORA , and in the Amazon the Indians call it Poro-
roca. A reviewer in the Athenæum for July 3, 1880, remarks that
under ―Humber,‖ a Shropshire name for the cockchafer, Miss Jackson,
in her Shropshire word-book, gives additional currency to the old
notion that the river Humber took its name from the humming
noise made by its waters, and says ―This is certainly wrong. The
Humber does not hum more than other rivers, nor nearly so much
as the Parret, the Ouse, the Trent, and other rivers on which the high
tidal wave known as the bore or eagre manifests itself. The origin
of the name is at present an unsolved enigma.‖ In Egyptian H UM
means to return, to be tidal; it is a variant of Hun, to go and
fro. B ER (Eg.) is to boil up; B ER , the supreme height, cap, tip, top,
roof; this names the ―Bore,‖ and the Humber is doubly designated
from Egyptian, as the tidal and Borial River. H UMMIE is a Scotch
name of shindy or hockey, which has the tidal movement; and the
H AM -mock is the swing bed. This sense of ―H UM ‖ passes into
1 MS. Cott. Titus A, 23, f. 49.
―H UM -drum‖ and ―H UM -strum‖ applied to returning, and, in
―H UM ,‖ to incessant motion, whence the Cock- (Khekh) chafer is
also the H UM -her.
The Keltic D WR for water has earlier forms in D OVAR and D OBAR ,
which, as T ER - AR (Eg.) denotes a water from the point of commence-
ment, as the well of water, like Tobermory, that is, water from the
source. DURBECK in Nottinghamshire is thus the T EP - AR - BEKH , or
water from the beginning in the beck. The Beck is the Egyptian
B EKH , for the place of birth, the beginning, birth itself. It is a
delusion to look on this as a Teutonic addition to the D WR . The
D OWR -water in Yorkshire is also the water from the source. In this
case the water is the U AT- UR (Eg.), after the Dour from the source
has widened out. Many rivers were named fram this origin. We
have the D OUR , in Fife, Aberdeen, and Kent; D UIR in Lanark;
THUR in Norfolk; Dore in Hereford; D URRA in Cornwall; D ORO
in Queen‘s County; D URAR -water, Argyle. But not all the D URS
and TURS are to be derived from D OBAR or T EPAR . These have
been lumped together as D WRS , or waters, with no power of
distinguishing them by any principle of naming.
The chief type-name in Egypt for River is A RU , with the variants,
A UR , A R , or U R . But which A RU or A R in a given case is the
question. The T EP - ARU is the first A RU , from the source. But we
have TURS and D ERS , which are only branch-rivers. And Teru
(Eg.) means the branch of a river and a measure of land. This is
included among our Turs or Ders, perhaps as Derwent. The town
of Derby (or Deoraby) stands on a Derwent, which is an interior
Ter to the Trent. W ENT possibly represents the Khent (Eg.) either
as the inner or the dual water. Khent as the lake and interior water
is certainly retained in Derwentwater, and probably in Windermere.
Trent is absolutely a boundary water of the county, and as Trent is
the lower Derwent, and E NT (Eg.) is the lower of two, and means
―out of,‖ it looks as if Trent were the Ter-ent, the lower of the two
Ders or Drws. N T (Eg.) also means limit.
The T EPAR , TOBAR , or D RU , as water from the source, becomes
the TUR and D UR , as the name of a natural boundary, the land-
limit, the first lines drawn on the topographical chart. Many rivers
are TURS in this sense that are not named from the well-spring
or fountain-head. They are named from T ERU (Eg.), a measure of
land, the boundary and margin of a shire or other district. The
River Nidd in Yorkshire is still a land-limit and boundary for two
different Hunts, those of York and Ainsty and Bramham Moor.
A good example of river-naming in Egyptian occurs at D URUTHY
Cave, near Sorde, in the Western Pyrenees. The name of Duruthy
Cave actually describes its topographical situation in Egyptian. It
overlooks the junction of the two rivers G AVE—the Gave de Pau and
the Gave d‘Oléron—two tributaries of the Adour. The name of the
Gave corresponds to Kapu, the name of the Nile in the oldest form,
and there are two Gaves whose brancnes blend at Duruthy. TURU
(Eg.) is the branch of a river, and TI reduplicates. T ERU - TI would
indicate the double river-branch. They flow into the Adour, the
name of which, as Atur (Eg.) signifies the river, limit, measure, and
a region determined by the Propylon and house or temple. Duruthy
is the place of the famous Bone-cave.
The TUR , as river-branch and boundary, has its earlier form in
A TUR (Eg.), with the same meaning—the watet, the river that
constitutes a measure and limit of land. With this agree the
A DURS in Berwickshire, the A DUR in Sussex and Wiltshire, the
A DDAR in Mayo. This gives the name to several of our streams, as
the Cornish A TRE, the Welsh Atro, the E THEROW in Derbyshire,
the A DUR near Shoreham, which latter name echoes in modern
phrase, the shore, coast, land-limit, signified by A TR in Egyptian.
The same thing occurs in THETFORD , the ford of the River THET.
T ET (Eg.) is to ford, cross over, pass through; therefore the THET
was the fordable river in Egyptian; a thing of importance in early
times. A T adds a different type to the AR or water, which has in
each case to be distinguished before we know the nature of the
particular name. It may go back to K AT, so as to include the
C HEDDAR . In K AT or K HET we obtain the type of the navigable
river. A TH (Eg.) is a canal. K HET is to navigate. Here it may
be noted that Egyptian supplies a far better type-name for the
Spanish rivers, the G UADA , G UADIANA , G UADARAMA , G UADALETE,
G UADALIMAR and G UADALQUIVIR , that the Arabic WADI , the
channel of a stream. The present writer would derive these names
from K HATA (Eg.) to sail, go, navigate. These were first named
as the navigable rivers, that is, K HATA supplies the navigable as
its type.
But here again we find two types under one name, as K HAT also
means a ford; so G UADO in Italian is the ford. Thus the river
named from K HAT may be the fordable, i.e., the W ADE -able, or it
may be, the navigable water, for which the water itself must be
questioned. K HET , as the ford, is preserved in Q UAT, near Bridg-
north in Shropshire, where we not only find the Q UAT but Q UAT -ford,
and the ford repeats the Q UAT, as in Watford. Q UAT is an
earlier form of W ATH , a ford, therefore the K HAT.
Another good example of the primary nature of naming the rivers
and flowing waters as the self-cut boundary lines may be found in the
Irish S RUTH , for a stream, when interpreted by the Egyptian S RUT,
to cut, dig, plant, as a means of arranging, distributing, organising,
from Ser, to arrange, distribute, organize, make private and sacred.
Sruta is to cut out, engrave, as the stream did in its course, whence
its adoption as the distributor and divider of lands and the establisher
of frontiers and boundaries to be held sacred. The river formed the
first shire and the S HERH (Eg.) is a river, a source. Rivers were
the ready made lines on the map of the land. This principle of
naming them in Egyptian as water-boundaries of the district or
region of land is very apparent. If we take a few of the border
rivers and those found, or once extant, such as the river T EES in the
north and the T EISE in the south, on the margin of counties this will
be evident. T ESH is an Egyptian name of the N OMES into which
Egypt was divided; T ESH is a frontier, and the T EES is a frontier
river; T ESH is a district frontier, the Nome, made separate. T ES
is a liquid measure; so is the river Tees.
On the borders of Denbigh and Flint there are, or were in
Drayton‘s time, the rivers H ESPIN and R UTHIN . H ESP is likewise
an Egyptian name for a district, land measured off, from, or by water;
a square inclosed. R UT means to cut, engraved figure, girdle, tie,
fasten, retain the form, separate. Both names agree with these
meanings. This principle will account for the naming of our rivers
S TOUR . The O UR or A UR (Eg.) may be taken for the water-word
as it is in various other names, the River, for example. R U (Eg.) is
the path, channel, outlet, and with the f for ―it,‖ we have R UF or R IV ,
whence R IB and R IPE, the bank of the A R , or water, our river.
S AT is Egyptian for the N OME; A UR for the river. The Stours
were the boundaries of districts. S TER (Eg.), to lay out, agrees
with the S AT- OUR or N OME -river, and this root enters into the
name of scores of German streams, such as A LSTER and U LSTER ,
the S TREN and S TROO being akin to our S TOUR and S TREAM , the
water-boundary of the N OME, or district laid out.
In the west of England S TREAM means to draw out at length, to
pass along in a set course actively. S TER (Eg.) is to lay out
length-wise and together; and as A M (Eg.) is belonging to, it seems
likely that our word S TREAM is S AT- AUR - AM , the water-boundary
of the Nome, water and land being laid out together.
The ERIDANUS or I ARUTANA (Eg.) of the Planisphere is the
dividing river and the water that divides. The river P O is also
known as the Eridanus, and in Egyptian the equivalent P U means
to divide. T EN or TNA (Eg.) is to separate, divide in two, halve.
This name of rivers, as the boundaries that divide the lands, is
found in the D ONS of Brittany and other parts of France, and also
the D ANUBE, D NIEPER , the ancient TANAIS , D ONETZ , D NIESTER ,
D ANASPER , A DONIS , TANARO , and others. This gives a name to
our TYNES and D ONS ; D UN , Aryshire and Lincolnshire; D EAN ,
Forfar and Notts; Dane, Cheshire; Deen, Aberdeen; Tone in
Somerset; E DEN in Yorkshire, Kent, Fife, and Cumberland; T EANE,
Stafford; T EYN , Derbyshire; TIAN , Jura, whilst the TANOT in
Montgomeryshire, and TYNET in Banffshire, show the participial form
of T EN (Eg.) to divide, be TYNED or made separate. Some of these,
no doubt, are modifications of T EIGN , a Devonshire river. T EKH
(Eg.) is the hard form of T ESH , the Nome boundary, and denotes
a frontier, a crossing. The type of this would be the T EKHNU ;
and as nu is water; the T EIGN is the water-frontier, that which
divides and makes separate in the Tun. A rivulet near Ambrose
Hole, Hampshire, is called Danestream. Danesford also occurs
in Shropshire. But these have no relation to the Danes except
to show the perversion of the water-name. Tain (Gaelic), Don in
Armorican, and Tonu in Sclavonic are the Danes meant. They are
forms of the dividing stream. There is a river TOUCQUES in
Normandy. If we take the U ES (uskh) as the water, the TOUCQ
answers to t:he Egyptian T EK (Tuk), a frontier fixed, and the TOUCQ -
USKH is the river of a fixed frontier. The T AGUS agrees with the
TOUCQUES , as the river of the T EK , frontier and land-limit. T ESH
and TEKA permute within Egypt, and the names of the Tees,
T EISE, TAGUS , and TOUCQUES out of it. No better iilustration
could be given of the water being the first boundary than in the
name of boundary, as the B OURNE. This was then applied to the
B URN of water, and thus the B URN and B OURNE are one in the
water-boundary.
―Come o‘er the bourne, Bessy, to me.‖
King Lear, iii. 6.
alludes to the water-bourne. In Wiltshire we have the river B OURNE.

In Herts the B ULBOURNE. The Ishbourne, the A SHBOURNE and
O USEBOURNE are all of them Uskh-boundaries, not mere Scottish
―BURNS .‖
The Keltie U ISGE also contains the elements of U or U I (Eg)
the line, limit, edge, canton, territory, so often applied to the country
in Central Africa, as in U- GANDA , and Sekh is the liquid, the drink,
English suck, the name also of a tributary river, and with the U
prefix, U ISGE reads the Sekh of the limit, line, edge, direction;
the U SKH , as the extent, range, boundary, equal to the U SKH
collar, a type of binding round, therefore of boundary for the
land. In the earlier form of the U I we have K HI to govern, rule,
protect, dominate. The same word S EKH or U SKH means to cut out,
incise, engrave, memorize. Thus the S EKH or U SKH , as river, is the
dividing line of the S OKES , as in Essex, with its six rivers and six
sokes or divisions of the county. According to Drayton the river
T EAM , which divides Shropshire and Hereford on the Cambrian side,
is the furious.1 Again, the T EMA (Eg. temi) reproduces the name of
the Inundation. T EMA is also to swoop down, cut in two, announce,
ticket. R U (Eg.) is a mark of division, a chapter, fraction; R UA , to
separate. This, which becomes the French Rue, a street, gives a title
to several R US and L LHUS , in Britain, as rivers. We have the river
P ENKA , and this word in Egyptian means to disjoin, separate. The
1 Poly-Olb., Song 8.
Sput is a small river in Westmoreland, and Sput (Eg.) is a district
of country marked off, one form of this being the Sept inclosure
known by that name on the monuments.1
The river G YPPEN , now called the Orwell, the river on which
Ipswich, that was once Gyppes-wick, stands, repeats the Egyptian
K HEPENI , a measure of liquids, a brimming measure of beer; our
G YPPEN being a liquid-measure of land.
R U (Eg.) is the mouth, gate, way, gorge for water. A B (Eg.)
signifies the water. From these come our A BERS . A P - RU , or A B - RU
is the water-mouth, gorge, gate of passage for water, the outrance of
a river. Aberdeen is A B - RU - DEEN , the outlet, gate, or mouth of the
Deen-water.
From HI (Eg.), the water, stream, or more particularly the Canal,
we obtain the H ITHE as a landing-stage on the river, or seat on the
sea-shore, as in Hithe, Rotherhithe, Queenhithe, Greenhithe. There
arc several Hithes on the banks of the Thames. The name has
curious illustrations in Egyptian. H I (Eg.) is the water, the canal, or
stream; TA signifies bearing, carriage, seat. Whence H IT is a boat,
as a carriage on the water. The canal, as H IT, is determined by the
hippopotamus, the bearer of the waters, who (as Taurt) was the seat.
The H IT is also a seat, a station, a united place on the canal, our
Hithe. The Hithe, in the form of Hit or Hut, then existed as the
boat, the seat, the bearer of the water, and a water-region or inclosure.
Still earlier is the H AT, our Hatch, or Dam, by which the waters were
banked off and land created. This, the sign of Chaos and determina-
tive of precommencement, so to say, of creation, is the earliest form
of the Hithe as a landing-place, and its type is worn on the head of
the goddess Egypt, as the sign of land obtained from the water. So
ancient is the Hithe. In E RITH we have the A RU -H ITHE, the landing-
stage on the river. This will prove the origin and application
of the principle of naming to be Egyptian.
Othor names from the same source abound. At the beginning is
the B ECK , the infant stream. B EKH (Eg.), as before said, denotes
birthplace, and to enfanter. The B ECK is the water from the
place of birth, the river in embryo. In A VONSBECK the B ECK crawls
along like the child on all fours from the birthplace. The B URN
may be derived from Nu (N), water, and B UR , to well forth, or P ER ,
come out, appear, become a visible form or manifestation.
The M ELTA is one of the ―handmaids‖ of Neith. M ERTA (Eg.)
is a person attached to; also M ERTA , a water attached to. H EPSEY
is another affluent of Neith. H EB is the fountain of source; H EP ,
hidden; S I or S IF is a child.
The S MESTAL is a tributary of the S TOUR ; TAL being a permuted
form of T ER , the branch river, and S EMS (Eg.), the Minister; S EMS -
TAL becomes the ministering branch.
1 Leemans, Mon. Egpyt. 2, 11, 45.
Those who know the nature of the rivers, if they have not lost
their character since Drayton‘s time, will be able to identify the
principle of naming the A RT and W ERRY in Cardiganshire. Both
A RT and U RI are names of the Inundatoon. U ARU represents our
word hurry, and means to go swiftly, fly. But there is another form
as H URU , the tranquil; U RT is the gentle, peaceful, meek; and this
may be the I RT in Cumberland, the ―pearl-paved I RT,‖ which, though
the smallest of rivers, was, according to Drayton, the richest from
the pearls found in it. Urt (Eg.) also means the crown, crowning;
A RUT is spoil, and Art is Milk, the white.
There is the same difficulty or choice in the name of K ART and
its congeners. We have the K ART in Scotland and TA - GRATH in
Wales. In one case K ART (Eg.) is the dark and silent; in another,
K ART means a cataract. So the Gaelic C LITH , the equivalent of
K ART, the cataract means the strong, the typical Force, whence the
C LYDE and C LUDAN in Scotland, the G LIDE in Ireland, the C REDDY
in Devon, the C LWYD , C LOYD and C LYDACH in Wales.
A YSGARTH F ORCE, on the river Ure, in Wensleydale, has a
cataract when the Ure is in flood, which has been compared with
the Nile. Its grandeur depends on the stream being swollen to the
flood. One name of the flood in Egyptian is A ASH , 1 and K ART is
a cataract. A ASH -K ART, or Aysgarth, means the cataract of the
flood. U RI , a name of the Inundation of Nile, is repeated in the
name of the U RE.
The R OTHAY runs fast; R AUTI (Eg.) is swift. R AUU , is swift; TI ,
go along; R OTHAY is the swift-running water.
The C ALDER is in Keltic the winding water; in Egyptian K AR - TER
would indicate the extremely winding.
The river B RY that rises in Selwood runs or glides along in such a
winding course that in one part it almost encircles Glastonbury,
Arthur‘s Avalon. P RI (Eg.) signifies to manifest, appear by sliding,
slipping, and wrapping round, as does the river Bry. Our prying and
peering come from this root.
The river M EDWAY is peculiar from its long wandering windings,
covering some thirty square miles of the surface of the country with
its trunk and branches.. It is said to have been called the V AGA , on
account of its wanderings.2 The primitive of our word Way is the
Egyptian U AKH , a road, or way, and ―M ATT‖ means to unfold, to
unwind, round and round. M AT (Eg.) also denotes a surface of
water, and M ATR is a name of the marshes. At Tunbridge the river
is separated into five different channels, just above the town, which
join again into one below it. This names the town in Egyptian;
TNA or TUN , means to divide and turn away or separate.
The Pool of P ANT in the Ritual is the mythical Red Sea and lake
of primordial matter, which was the place of dissolution for those who
1 Lep. Denk. 3, 279, b. 2 Enclyc. Brit., ―Kent.‖
were resolved again into the elements. P ANTA was the ancient name
of the English river now called the Black Water; black and red
are permutable. P ANT is P AINT, and the N A (Eg.) paint is red
and black. Both are negative.
There is a river in the county of Limerick named the ―M ORNING
S TAR .‖ The old name of it was S AMHAIR or S AMER ; this in former
times was a woman‘s name. S HEM and S EM in Egyptian are
type-names for a woman, the woman who bears. S EM signifies breed-
ing. S AM - HER is the delightful because fertile woman, a sumer
of a woman, for it has the same meaning applied to woman as
to season. In Egyptian S HEM is summer, harvest; and the woman.
A R or A RU is the river. S HEM - AR is also the tributary river,
the fertilising or feeding river. The French and Belgic S AM - ARU , the
SOMME, is equivalent to the Egyptian SHEM-ARU, the fertile river.
The Persian name of a river, S AMAR , is the same. S HEM (Eg.), to
recede and retracet is likewise a.tidal name. But the S AM - ARU
is also known as the ―M ORNING S TAR .‖ Possibly in this way:
S AMHAIR is sounded S AVVIR . Now the Morning Star, as Venus,
was named Z IPPORAH and LUCIFER . This was the star of stars.
S EP or S IF (Eg.) is the star; it is both star and morning, therefore
the morning-star; the Lady of the Blush of Heaven, as the
Akkadians called Venus of the Morning. This meaning is re-
coverable in SAV -VAR , the river of SAV , S EF , or S EB , the star of the
gateway, the dawn, the one woman-star in heaven, as a planetary
type, and the sole one as the feminine Seb (Sebt or Sothis), the star
of S EFA , the Inundation, and therefore an equivalent of S HEM
(Sam), the woman of rivers. Possibly the title of the Morning Star
is not a mistake after all for a name of the Irish river S AM - HAIR .
The Great Mother, Teph or Typhon, gives the name to various
streams called TAFF , TAW , T EIFY , and T EVIOT. T EPHT (Eg.)
is the entrance, door, gate, valve, hole, cave of source, the mouth
of the abyss. This was personified as the Great Mother, of whom we
have an immense image in the Mendip Hills, famed of old for the
caves in which it rained or drizzled; a type of Teph. A cave
called by Drayton the W OCKEY - HOLE, is one of these. U AKH is
Egyptian for wet and marshy. U KA is water of the Inundation
(every name of the Inundation was reapplied in our Isles), and out of
the Mendip Hills, says this writer, springs the F ROME, that is, out of
the place of the rainy or weeping caves. R EM (Eg.) is to weep;
F represents the article or pronoun. The R EM (P REM , F ROME) is the
river that was wept. We have the R EM without the article in the
A RME in Devon, and again U RM is a name of the Inundation. The
F ROME is said to rise near EVERSHOT. This name read by Egyptian
U F - ER - SHET means to be shed secretly, squeezed out, expressed drop
by drop. Shet is a name of mystery; secret, sacred, mystical; a pool
of water; U F , drop, pressed out; R, to be. The name of M ENDIP is
apparently derived with the same signification. M ENA is the wet-
nurse, and to suckle. One of her names is T EF , and T EF (Eg.), the
equivalent of D IP , means to drip, drip. Tef enters into the name
of Tcfnut, a Goddess of Wet. M ONA was the nursing mother of
the British Druids. The oldest name of St. David‘s in Wales is
―H EN - MENEW ,‖ old mother; in Egyptian the divine wet-nurse,
Teft, whence the name of David. And Men-dip, the modern name
of the weeping cave, we take to be a personifiation of Mena-Tef,
Teb, Tep, or Typhon. In Mendip are the Cefn caves, or caves of
Khef, another name of the old bringer-forth.
The Yorkshire river Nidd is said to be designated from its course
being for a considerable way subterraneous. N ET, or E NT (Eg.),
means out of. Also N ET is the lower region, the underworld of the
goddess Neith. N IDD is thus a. form of N EATH . The Nidd enters
the Ouse at N UN -Monkton. N UN (Eg.) is the new water, a name
of the Inundation.
The ―D RIPPING W ELL ,‖ on the banks of the river Nidd, in
which a petrifying spring falls from above, is credited with being
the birthplace and abode of Mother S HIPTON . Is Mother Shipton
then a form of the primeval great mother, who personified source
itself, and poured forth the water of life as N UPE, K EFA , and
S EFA ? S EFA , the earlier K EFA , is a goddess of the Inundation
of Egypt. S EFA (Eg.) is to make humid, to dissolve and liquefy,
hence to drop, as in the dropping well of the river Nidd, and the
Mendip Cave.
S HEP (Eg.) means to exude, flow, evacuate periodically, like the
Inundation. S HEP is interchangeable with K HEP . S HEPT and
S HEPSH , the hinder-part, are one with K HEPT and K HEPSH . This
makes it probable that Mother S HIPTON , the prophetess, is a form of
K HEPT , the British K ÊD , as the Goddess of the North, the under-
world of Neith or Nidd, where the Well of Source was placed
or personified as the feminine emaner who wore the red crown,
or poured forth from the Tree of Life, or fed with the breasts
of the wet-nurse.
In A N , the place of commenceement, was the Well, the Pool of the
Two Truths. The well and the water are identified with our Easter
customs.
The Aldermen of Nottingham and their wives from time beyond
memory had, in 1751, been accustomed on Monday in Easter week,
after morning prayer, to march from the town to St. A NNE‘s Well,
with the town waits playing before them. 1 The well of A NNE
answers to the Pool of the Two Truths in A N . St. A NNE, as at
Jerusalem and other places, has been adopted as patron of the Pool
of A N . A NIT (Neit), the figurer in A N , who is represented with
the shuttle or knitter, is perpetuated in the name of Nottingham.
1 Dyer, p. 173.
A NIT was the weaver, and this became a great town of the weavers
or N ET-makers.
In the Keltic mythology the presiding Spirit of the waters, in what
is erroneously termed well-worship, was called N EITHE, 1 identical
with the Egyptian A NIT or N EITH . The place of the well was
that of the U SKH Hall of the Two Truths, stationed in A N , the last
of the three water signs.
At Whitby they had the formality of planting what was called the
P ENNY Hedge in the bed of the river Esk on Ascension Eve. ―Nine
stakes,‖ ―nine gedders,‖ and ―nine strout-stower,‖ were regularly
planted, and a blast was blown on a horn by the bailiff of the Lord
of the Manor, rendered, ―Out on you! out on you! out on you!‖2
Our number 9 corresponds to the nine non-water signs, and relates
the custom to the deluge imagery. P ENA (Eg.) means to reverse,
turn back, return. The symbolists were figuratively commanding
the waters to retire, and marking the boundary of the deluge.
The water of the Pool of the Two Truths was in one aspect the
water of life and death. The Strathdown Highlanders have the Pool
of Two Truths, although the ceremony of drawing from it has been
changed from the vernal equinox to the winter solstice. On New
Year‘s Eve they draw from the well called the ―dead and living ford,‖
from which a pitcherful is taken in profound silence, without the
vessel touching the ground, lest its virtue should be lost. Early on
New Year‘s morning the U SQUE- CASHRICHD or water from the ―dead
and living ford‖ is drunk as a potent charm that lasts until the next
New Year's Day.3
In Cornwall there is a well in the parish of Madern called M ADERN
Well, and this name reproduces that of the Two Truths, called Mat.
Mat-REN (Eg.) renders the name of Mat, and Mat was the more
ancient name of A N , the place of the Pool of the Two Truths. R EN
(Eg.) also denotes renewal and making young; and this was the
Well of Healing that flowed with the water of life.
In the Bay of Nigg (Co. Kincardine) there is a well called D OWNY
Well, and near it a hill called D OWNY Hill, a small green islet in
the sea. The passage to the isle is by a bridge, named the Bridge of
a Single Hair, which young people cross over to cut their lovers‘
names on the green sward. D OWNY at the crossing suggests TENNUI
(Eg.), the place of the crossing, hence the bridge; whilst N IGG is the
variant of A NKH (N KH ), the word for life and living. 4
Two Egyptian names of the well or abyss of source, are TES and
T EPH . Both recur in TISSINGTON and D OVEDALE, where the wells on
Holy Thursday are all decorated with flowers, and they have a
particular variety of the double daisy, known as the Tissington daisy,
1 Brand, Wells and Fountains. 2 Dyer, p. 209.
3 Steward, Superstitions of the Highlanders.
4 Brand, Wells and Fountains.
peculiar to the place.1 The Two Truths are still round there in one
flower in addition to the Pool.
Near Newcastle-upon-Tyne there are two sacred wells not far from
each other. One is named R AG -Well, and the other is at a place
called J ESMOND . The R AG -Well is the R EKH -Well, the well of
purifying; and in Egyptian H ESMEN is the natron, and the pool of
purging, as one of the two waters. HESMEN is also a name of the
menstrual purification. These two wells will be again referred to in
further elucidation of the subject.
K ARTI (Eg.) is a name of holes underground, therefore of wells.
T ERA (Eg.) means to invoke, rub, drive away, obliterate, and TERA -
K ARTI answers to the name of the Well of D RACHALPY in Scotland,
much sought in Pennant‘s time for its waters of healing.
Near Tideswell, in Derbyshire, there is an intermittent spring
called the ebbing and flowing well. The place is named B AR - MOOR .
In Egyptian BAR is to be ebuillient and boil up; M ER is water;
BAR - MER is the ebullient water. T IDESWELL is probably a form of
T EPHTS - WELL ; T ET (Eg.) is an abraded name of the T EPHT, the
well of source:, whence the word TIDE.
Near Great Berkhamstead (Herts) there is a D UDSWELL . TUT,
T EFT , T EB , and K EB , names of the old Typhonian Goddess, the
Suckler of Source, are all names of holy wells.
G UBB ‘ S W ELL , near Cleave, in Devon, is the name of a chalybeate
spring. K HEB was a name of the Sacred Nile; K AB is the water
and the place of libation; K ABH is pure or purifying water; K HERP ,
or K HERF (Cleave), signifies the consecrated, holy place.
The well at Oundle in D OB ‘ S Yard was reputed to drum against
any important events. This is stated in the Travels of T. Thumb2
who says, ―No one in the place could give a rational account
of their having heard it, though almost every one believes the
truth of the tradition.‖ Baxter, in the World of Spirits,3 says he
heard the well in Dob‘s Yard drum like any drum beating a
march. It lasted several days and nights. This was at the time of
the Scots coming into England. It drummed also at several other
changes of times. Such a natural phenomenon would arrest attention.
T EB is the Egyptian name for a drum. T UPAR is the tabor or tam-
bourine. D OB is the Egyptian T EB , Goddess of the North and of
the Tepht, the abyss or well of source here found in the yard at
Oundle. She passed into the later H ATHOR , to whom the drum or
tambourine was given. If the well ―drummed‖ periodically, and was
supplied by an intermittent spring, that probably furnished the name
of Oundle. U N (Eg.) is being periodical, and TUR means to wash,
dip, purify. U N - TUR is the periodic purification.
There is a R OUTING -well at Inveresk, Midlothian, which is said to
predict storms by the noise it makes. Rut or Ter (Eg.), with the
1 Dyer, p. 211. 2 P. 174. 3 P. 157.
same sign, means to indicate time, and repeat. The Well of St.
Ennys, in the parish of S ANCRED , according to Borlase,1 manifested
its most salutary influence upon the last day of the year. S AN (Eg.)
means to heal and save. S EN or S HEN also denotes the last day of
the year, as the completion of the circuit. K HRIT (Eg.) signifies the
victims, the fallen victims.
In the Isle of Lewis there is a well called St. Andrew‘s; it is in the
Village of S HADAR . It is used for healing and divination; the natives
made a test of it to know whether sick persons would die of their
ailments. They send one with a wooden dish to fctch some water;
the dish is laid gently on the surface of the water, and if it turns
round sunways, the patient will live; if whiddershins, he will die.2
In Egyptian, S HA is the pool, and TER signifies to question, inter-
rogate, invoke, as well as to rub and drive away. S HA - TER is the
divining pool or well.
We cannot here include the rivers of the world, but water is a
thing so initial and vital that its naming ought to afford a crucial test of
Egyptian nomenclature and of an unity of origin once for all. In the
mythologies, water is the first principle, factor, and type of existence.
All naming of water originates in the feminine water of life, poured
out by the genitrix; the water on which souls are nourished, and
over which the spirit broods in creation. And Egypt supplies the
words for water to all the chief groups of languages in the world.
(Egyptian.)
A, dew; AA, bedew; A, water; HEH, inundation; IA, wash, water,
whiten, purify.
A, Akkadian. HEIH, or H EUE, Chinese. I A , Otomaku.
A, Norse. A HU , Agaw. YEH , Bali.
A W , Kurd. YUI , Khoibu. JO, Namsang.
EA , A.-S. YEHO, Jakun. YI , Yurak.
A WE, Zaza. JUCU , Moxos. I, Kamskatkan.
A YA , Tshampa. I, Guarani. I, Tupi.
A WA , Bramhu. W AI , Maruwi. I AH, Dizzela.
OEE, Banjack Batta. A I , Sasak. H AHA , Yagua.
O WAI , Savu. EYAU , Catawba. W AHI , Shina.
W AIJ , Cocos Island. O I , Bima. H OH , Jura Samang.
A IYAH , Korinchi. W AI , Ende. W AHE , Deer.
W AI , Bugis. O WAI , Rotti. H E , Warrow.
W AI , Annatom. W AYA , Wokan. W A , Zyrianian.
W AI , Fiji. W AI , Mandhar. J A , Vogul.
E EIA , Masaya. W AI , Bauro. J A , Magyar.
O H , Santa Barbara. W I , Mare. Y A , Burmese.
A HA , Mohave. W AI , Malay or Polynesian. Y I , Mano African.
E AU , French. A YA , Chankali. Y A , Gbese African.
J E , Susu African. H OU , Manchu Tatar. Y A E , Myammaw.
J AH , Pessa African. W OIO , Mandingo. Y OWA , Lohorong.
H IH or H WI H , Chinese. A HA , Cuchan.
AB (Egyptian), water, pure water.
A B, Persian. A BH, Irish. OBU , Western Pushta.
A B, Cashmir. A B, Bokhara.
1 History of Cornwall, p. 31. 2 Martin, Western Islands, p. 7.
AK (Egyptian), the liquid mass of the celestial height. AKH, water.

A CH, Welsh. EKU , Ebe. YAKUP , Puelche.
W ACA , Mayoruna. EUAK , Guachi. UGH, Kashkari.
A QUA , Iquito. A GHO, Faslaha. A KE, Ceram.
C AQUA , Salivi. A CHO, Kaffa. OCUDU , Betoi.
A CHYE, Miri. EK , Takeli. A ECO , Ge.
KHA , Dieguno. A QUA , Latin. EGA , Gafat.
A UGR , Arnya. HONACA , Mayoruna. A CHO, Gonga.
OCK , Toba Batta. YGE , S. Pedro. A KKA , Yangoro.
A KI , Ternati. A K , Attakapa. OKO, Isoama.
OCO, Correguage. A ICHU , North Tankhul. OUGE, Albanian.
OICHE , Gaelic. A IGUE, French Romn.
I CK , Cornish. YACU , Quiché, Peru.
ANKH (Egyptian), liquid of life.
A NINGO, Mpongwe. TANAK , Unalaskha. ONGOU , Fertit.
N KE, Bamon. ENGI , Mumo. A ZANAK , Eslen.
N KI , Kanuri. A ING, Madura. N IOGODI , Mbaya.
N GOOKKO, Aiawong. N INHANGA , Jupuroco. A ING, Sumenap.
N GI , Kanem. TANAK , Kadiak. A MANGO, Nubian.
N KE, Balu. TANG, Kusunda. ONG, Lepcha.
N KI , Ngola. N LANGU , Nyombe. MINQU , Okuloma.
ENGI , Munio. P ANKHU , Sunwar. RIANG, Tablung.
N GONGI , Maori. N AK , Tonkin. UHUNG, Nizhni Uda.
I NKO, Tocantins. YING, Ostiak. KIANG, Chinese.
AP (Egyptian), liquid, first essence. HEFN, to crawl along.

A PH , Biluch. A FON or A VON , Keltic.
ASH (Egyptian), wet, emission. KASH, to water, inundate.

U ASH , Opatoro. W ASSER , German. E SK , Keltic.
G UASS , Guajiquiro. G UASH , Intibuca. U ISGE , Gaelic.
BAH (Egyptian), Inundation.

P AH, Chemuhuevi. B ALA , Welsh; effluence of a V EHI , Timur.
P EH, Aino of Kamkatka. river B ECK , English.
V EHI , Manatoto. P OH, Tesuque.
BAI (Egyptian), water, visit, limit. BA, water, drink.

V AI , Marquesas. B U , Koi. B AY , Mayorga.
V AI , Ticopia. P A , Wihinasht. B Ê, Tawgi.
B E, Batta. V AI , Kanaka of the Sand- B U , Motarian.
B I , Chanta and Baikha. wich Islands. P A , Shoshoni.
HES (Egyptian), a liquid.

ESI , Dofla. W ESI , Olonets. W ESI , Karelian.
W ESI , Estonian. EZI , Adampi.. W ESI , Vod.
W ESI , Fin. A SI , Abor. EZI , Mahi.
IUMA or IMA (Egyptian), sea.

A HMAH, Cherokee. I MMEK , Labrador Á MPO, Lutuami.
A ME, Sobo. HUMA , Aymara. EMAK , mouth of the Ana-
A ME, Egbele. A ME, Bini. dyr.
HAMA , Purus. A MU , Bode.
EM , Palaong. A M , Karehare.
KARUA (Egyptian), lake, pond.

KHARR (river), Bengali. KHAR (river), Uraon. GOUER (brook), Cornish.
C ORR , Irish. Ghurr (rivulet), Arabic. C OORA , Juri.
GOOR (salt water), Erroob. GOILA (fresh water), Redscar KELL, English, a well.
KALING, Wiradurei. Bay. W ERE , English, pond or
GARRA (river), Ho. GORO (river), Chepang. pool.
GUR (running water), Ak-
kadian.
KEP (Egyptian), inundation.

GAIPPE, Head of Bight. KEPE, King George‘s Sound. KAPI , Parnhalla.
KHEKH (Egyptian), fluid.

KIK , Talatui. W OKH, Baraki. HAACHE, Cocomaricopa.
KIHK , Tshokoyem. KÜK , San Raphael.
MENA (Egyptian), to suckle; MENAT, wet-nurse.

MEENEE, Yankton. MIN, Mbofia. MENYA , Kisama.
MEENEE, Minetari. MINEE , Dahcota. MANE , Begharmi.
MINI , Dor. MANT , Timmani.
MER (Egyptian), sea, basin, lake, water.

MARE, Latin. MEL, Bbolar. MALAR , Lobo.
MER , French. MALUM , New Ireland. MOLUM , Port Praslin.
MES (Egyptian), product or source of water.

MAZI , Msambara. MOSS, English, bog. MIZU , Japanese.
MIZI , Lúchú. MOAZ , Kanyika. MAZA , Kongo.
MU, MA, MUA, MEH, MERI (Egyptian), water.

MI , Hebrew. MAYO, Syriac. MA , Arabic.
MAY , Thounglhu. MOTE , Maori. MAU , Coptic.
MU , Korean. MU , the Tungús languages. MA , Vilela.
MI , Tigre. MEYA , Kasange. MERE, English.
MI , Hurur. Mi, Arkiko.
NAI, the; ARU, river: NAIRU or NILE (Egyptian).

Nira, Tanema. Nilatu, Rodiya. Nir, Kodugu.
Niru, Canarese. Nillu, Telugu. Nir, Tuda.
Nir, Tulu. Nual, Nalu. Nire, Kohatar.
Nir, Budugur. Nero, Greek.
NEM (Egyptian), water.

N AM , Siamese. N IMBU , Subtiabo. N YIAM , Guresa.
N AM , Laos. N YAM , Dzelana. N AMUN, Bago.
N YIMA , Gurma. N AMA (floor, torrent), Per-
N AMA , Greek. sian.
NU, NNU, NA, NNUI, EN (Egyptian), water.

N U ‘ OE, Cochin-china. N I , Kru. N U , Erromongo.
UNA , Quiché. N I , Gebb. N OO, Accrah.
N ÁN, Western Shân. N A , Yula. N I , Bassa.
UNE, Saraveca. N AINO, Timbora. N I , Grebo.
N YO, Ankaras. UNA , Naenambeu. N A , Kasm.
N IA , Antes. ONI , Guinau. N EE, Omaha.
N YU , Adampi. UNI , Omagua. N IHAH, Winebago.
N I , Dewoi. N YO, Wum. N EAH, Osage.
NUPE (Egyptian), goddess of the celestial drink.

N EEBI , Ojibwa. N IPI , Illinois. N IPPE, Massachusetts.
N EPEE , Knistinaux. N EPPEE , Shawni. N EPEH, Miami.
N EPEE , Skoffi. N IPISH, Ottawa. N EPPI , Sanki.
N IP, Narragansetts. N EPEEE , Sheshatapoosh.
PAN or PANT (Egyptian), pool, mystical Red Sea.

B ANUI , ordinary Javanese. P ANI , Bhatúi. P ANI , Bengali.
B ENI , Udso. P ANI , Gohuri. P ANNAE, Ruinga.
P ANI , Hindi. P UNAL, Tamul. P ĀNI , Uriya.
P ANE, Gadi. P ANI , Chentsu. P ANI , Taremuki.
P ANNI , Mahratta. P ANI , Tharu. P ANI , Bowri.
P ANI , Asam. P ANI , Pakhya. P ANI , Khurbat.
P ANNI , Banga S. P ANE, Punjabi. P ANI , Kuswar.
P ANI , Siraiki. P ĀNI , Gujeráti. P ANI , Urya.
REM (Egyptian), surge up, riseup as tears, to weep. URM, the

Inundation of Nile.
LAM , Legba. LEM , Kaure. RIME (hoar-frost), English.
LEM , Keamba.
RU (Egyptian), drop of water, pool, gate, door, outlet, mouth.

LE, Shiho. LE, Koama. LAU , Newar.
RE, Burmese. LEH, Danakil. LUA , Hawsa.
LAU , St. Matheo. RI , Rukheng.
SEKH (Egyptian), liquid.

SUX , Karagas. SUX , Soiony. SACK and SOAK , English.
SUCK , an Irish river. SUCK , English, juice, drink.
SHE or SHA (Egyptian), a pool.

SHOI , Canton. SIN, Camacan. SA , Mongoyo.s
SHIU , Gyami. SHUI , Mandarin. SIN, Minieng.
SU , Kumuk. SU , Turkish of Siberia.
SHIN, Akush. SU , Osmanli.
TEKH (Egyptian), liquid, drink, wine.

DECO, Coretu. TKHO, Umkwa. DAK , Ka.
TI -CHI , Gyarang.
TUA (Egyptian), kind of liquid.

TU , Kioway. TOUE , Chepewyan. TII , Tengsa.
TUI , Kapwi. TOAH, Apatsh. TA - DUI , Koreng.
TI , Chepang. TOYA , Basá Krama. TO, Kutshin.
TU ‘ I , Mrú. TO, San Luis Obispo. TU , Dog-rib.
DUI , Songpu. DI , Magar. TO, Pinalero.
TÚ , Slave. DOI , Bodo. TEI , Baladea.
TUR (Egyptian), libation, wash, distil. TERU, river-branch.

TARU (fresh water), Tobi. TELOHO , Gunungtellu. TARU , Luhuppa.
TARNAR , Boraiper. TAARI , Tarawan. DWR , Kymric.
T (article), the; NU, water (Egyptian).

TUNA , Wapisiana. TUNA , Waiyamera. TANNI , Keikadi.
TUNO, Caribisi. TUNI , Maiongkong. TANNU , Modern Tamil.
TUNA , Accaway. TUNA , Macusi. DANNU , Iloco.
TUNA , Arécuna. TUNA , Pianoghotto. TANNI , Yerukala.
TUNA , Tiverighotto. DANE, Irular. TANNNIR , Malabar.
TAN, Rotuma. TONA , Indians of Guiana. TEIGN, Coropo.
TAIN, Gaelic. DON, Armorican.
UAT (Egyptian), water, wet. UAT-UR (Egyptian), ocean, water.

Uatu, Botocudo. Wit, Kondin. Vat and Fad, Scotch (lake).
Ouata, Hottentot. Wit, Vogul. Wai, Maori.
Wut, Tsheremis. Wata, Mairassis. Ua (rain), Maori.
Üt or Öt, Narym. Woda, Sclavonic. Udor, Greek.
Wät, Mordvin. Udra, Sanskrit.
Watura, Singalese. Vatu, Norse.
UR (Egyptian), water, oil. AR, AUR, ARU (Egyptian), river.

A RI , Sanskrit. A R , Keikadi. YARU , Malabar.
A YER , Malayan. ER , Rutluk and Madi. A YER , Buton.
A RUS, Malyan, current of UL, Yeniseian Group. OUAR , Arago.
water. ENARAP , Abiponian. ERO , Taneamu,
URU , Otuké. JALA , Sanskrit. A EROMISSI , Guebé.
ER , Gundi. UR or ERRIO, Basque. JAL, Kooch.
I ERA , Baba. JERIE , Sumbawa. A RU , Tamil.
YEYER , Atshin. JOJAR , Poggi. A RA , Malayalam.
OIRA , Kissa. I RA , Mangarei. A RROIO, Portuguese.
W AR , Pauan. I R , Naikude.
W IRE, Vanikoro. A R , Hindustani.
It is not only that Egypt supplies the words for water; there might
be no particular meaning in her having several names for water, but
each of all these is a type, and most of them have a distinct ideo-
graph, which shows the different relationships to water. The first
stgn of water itself is the phonetic N or single zigzag line of running
water. M U is water with three lines, that is the plural of water,
the waterer, or the waters. H I , water, is a canal of water; M ER , a
limit of water, a reservoir, or an Inundation. A is water, as dew,
with the sign of figuring forth. I A (and these include forms of the
word spelt with K ) is water, and to wash. R EKH also is to wash and
whiten. The R EKH - T is a laundress. R UKH - T to wash, to full, has
the water sign. This supplies the Australian L UCKA (Carpentaria),
water, and the Murray Ney-LUCKA for water is in Egyptian, N UI -
RUKHA , water for purifying. Kab is liquid poured out as a libation.
K EP is a name of the Inundation. K HEN is water, a lake, an interior
water, water chiefly as a means of transit, the water-way. R U is
a single drop of water. A NKH only appears as a liquid life; Ankh
permutes with N AKH . TEKH is a supply of liquid; N AM is a jug
of water; N U , the water vase and receptacle; N U , the celestial water
that descends. U AT is water, written with the papyrus sceptre, an
especial sign of greenness, freshness, growth of plants; U AT is wet.
U AT - UR (Eng., water) means the greatest principal wet. B A is water,
as drink; A B , as the sign or purity; U BT is boiling water, H ES is
a mystical water of Iife, the feminine A NKH . H AN is tributary
water; also the water of youth. T ET denotes the water of the
abyss of death. TA is the water of a tear, a type. Tur is to distil
with water. S UR is drink. I UMA , for the sea, is the water (Ma) that
comes and brings (I U ); it is the tidal form of water. I UMA is the
earlier H UMA , whence H UMBER , the water that comes, and H UMID ,
the water becoming.
The common type-word for water, as A K , was almost worn out in
Egyptian. It does exist, for A KHAB is pure water, and A B is pure.
Also A K is the liquid mass of the celestial height. But it was worn
down to an A for water, as in Akkadian. The ideograph of the
Inundation has been read F ENT, to stop, the nose. So read, as type
of the waters, the feminine period, it means that water which is the
antithesis of breath, and to stop the nose is the antithesis of breath-
ing. F ENTI , for the Inundation, is supported by the Lithuanic name
for water, V ANDU . K AMA is a name for water not applied directly
in Egyptian. K A - MA is male water, and M A or M AI is the substance
of the male. K AMAI was a gum and a precious oil in Egypt; the
oil of Khem. This is one of the two waters of life when the life
principles are both imaged by waters, and given to the male and
female. A SH is wet; A SHR , a river. But A SH primally is a water of
life. The A SH , as tree, is the tree of life. A SH , wet, is blood, and
the variant S HAA is the substance born of, as K A - MAI is the substance
begotten of. M ENA , another type, appears as the name for the wet-
nurse of the gods. So N UPE is the water-source personified, as the
Lady of the Celestial Water. In the same way U AT (water) is
a goddess of wet, or the water in the north, and the U AT , sceptre,
the sign of the mystical water, is the special emblem of the
goddesses. There is no goddess of wet primally except in rela-
tion to the mystical water, the source of life, which is essentially
feminine, and most of the type-words may be traced to that
origin. The N A (water) is red; A SH and T ESH are the red source,
with the sign of bleeding. K HEKH (fluid) has the same deter-
minative. N AKHEKH is fluid, blood, essence of life, with the same
sign. M U (water) is likewise the mother. K HEN is the water
that carries or bears, as does the mother source. R EKH , to purify,
desribes the water of purification. B A , water, is a means of being a
soul. N DSAB for water in the Gabun dialects reads in Egyptian N ET,
invisible being, with the sign of blood, and S HAB is flesh and to form.
N ET- SHAB would denote the mother of flesh.
R U is a measure, a quantity, so much; M A and N A are water;
hence R EM or R EN , an inundation or a deluge; R EM , to rise
and surge up as a tide of tears. These supply the type-names of
R EM and R ANU . Water, as N A , N U , N, with the masculine article
prefixed, forms the type-word for water, as P ENA ; with the feminine
article, the type-word TUNA ; and with the plural article, N AI , pre-
fixed to A UR or A RU , the river, we obtain the N ILE, N IRU , N ORE,
N IR , as names or water.
Sekh (Eg.), liquid, the root of all our U SKS , E SKS , S EKS , I SCAS ,
O XES , U ISGES , is identical with S UCK , or drink, which is derived by
the suckling from the mother. Also the type-name A R , for water, is
found in A RT (Eg.), milk, meaning the liquid that is made, generated,
for the child or Ar (Eg.). The Ar (Art), as milk, furnishes the A LL
in Gaelic, meaning the white or wan water. The A L - AVONS may in
some cases be the white or milk-like waters.
The present contention is that Blood was named as the primordial
water of Nen, the Bringer, in relation to the source of life. The
Egyptian N UNTER or N UTER , our Natures, the word for a divinity
and type of periodic time, reappears as the name of blood in the
oldest languages of India, as N ETTAR in Tulu; N ETTURU in Telegu;
N ETTURU , Canarese; N ETRA , Konater; N ETRU , Budugur. The
relation of Nuter with blood and periodicity is visible enough in the
hieroglyphics.1 It is typified in the Nuter, axe.
The water of Ouranos is the Egyptian U RNAS , the mystical or
celestial water of life, that is, blood (from which sprang Aphrodite).
U R is the water or oil for anointing, really the blood.
The Assyrians called rain ―Z UNNU ,‖ that is the Egyptian S HENNU ,
which means periodic water, as was the Nile-Inundation, and the
mystic water of feminine source. This latter is S EN , blood; N U ,
water. S INI in Kandin; Z AINI , Haussa; and S ONA , Sanskrit, are
names of blood. S EN has a variant in ZEM , Mose; S OMA , Gurma;
Z EAM , Dselana; S EM - SEM (Eg.), the mystery, and the Well of Z EM -
ZEM . The chief of all type-names for water are also the names of
blood. This is most observable in the African languages. A few
names are, A I , Kbari-Naga; Y EI , Yala; Y E, Chinese; H I , Dumi;
A JI , Mithan Naga; E IJE , Ako; H A , Sanskrit; A RU , Boko; A RA ,
Kupa; ERAH , Javanese; H ARI , Nepaulese; K URI , Timbuktu;
C ROU , Cornish; K REW , Polish; C HORA , Malayalma; C HORE ,
Kurgi; G OR , Welsh; G ORE , English; W ERI , Fin; U LI , Kono;
Y ELO , Kabunga; Y ELLO , Mandingo; W UL , Soso; K IL , Dsarawa;
1 See p. 453, Birch, Dictionary.
K EAL , Koama; M OSU , Undaza; M AS , Ranyika; M AHE, Shienne;
M AHASI , Songo; M UAZI , Marawi; N OO , Netela; N AH , Savu;
N AMA , Gbese; N AMAI , Gbandi; N YIEM , Barba; N YIMO , Basa;
N YIYIEM , Fulah; N INYE, Bidsago; N ENYE, Wun; U S , Akkadian;
U SI , Sunwar; U SU , Chourasya; H USI , Bahingya; A ZU , Nowgong;
A SRA , Sanskrit; A SU , N. Tankhul; I SAGE, Dsekiri; S I , Ham;
S A , Gura.
The total list of names might have been lengthened indefinitely,
especially by adding all the rivers entituled from these types, but
that is unnecessary. The converse reading of the facts would imply
that Egypt had gathered all these names of water from all the groups
of languages in the world, including the river-names found in the
British Isles.
SECTION VI.
EGYPTIAN NAMES OF PERSONAGES.
IN Egyptian a double form may be traced for the title of KING,

German KÖNIG, Sanskrit GANAKA, Chinese WANG or ANG, Greek
ANAX. ANK, ANUK, or N AK (Eg.) mean the I, the King, the
living one. The types of this living one can be seen in the hiero-
glyphics. The word Ank may be, as in Chinese, abraded from Kank or
Ka-nak, the Sanskrit Ganaka, or we may take Ganaka, Kanak, King,
as a compound of Ka and Ank. Ank has a variant in Nakh, the
powerful, or Power personified. One type of this power is the Bull. KA
means the male image, and NAKH is power; the KA-NAKH, GANAKA,
KA-ANK, KÖNIG, KING, is simply the type of Power, the first form
being that of male potency, still extand by name in the English
―Kingo‖ (Mentula) used by nurses;1 then the male person, then the
father, and lastly the monarch. The theory that the king never dies is
obviously founded on the ANKH-title of the living, and the KA-ANKH
is the type of life, the living one. ANKH, the living or the life, is, in
the Maori, NGA the breath, and breathing one or the breather.
In this character the King represented the Bull, the Solar Divinity as
Lord of Life, the erector as Khepr-Ra or Khem-Horus on the horizon,
or Mentu, standing like the rock, in his type of the King or NEGI-
NGEI (Maori), that is stretching forth, with the primitive sceptre in
his hand, as the unhu or unkhu.
From the nature of the Allegory imported into the drama of
―Punch and Judy,‖ and its series of triumphs over all the ills of life,
among which is one of Death being beaten to death, and another of the
devil himself being outwitted, it looks as if Punch were a form of the
ANK or N UK (Eg.) the Egyptian ―I am,‖ the Living One, the King.
This, with the masculine article P is Punk, our Punch. In ―Phrase
and Fable‖2 it is stated that a statuette of Punch was discovered in
1727, with the long nose and goggle eyes, hunchback and paunch.
This is said to be the portrait of a Roman Mime named MACCUS, who
was the original of Punch. Now Maccus agrees with Hor-Machus,
i.e. Har-Makhu, the Sun of the double horizon or the Equinox.
1 Urquhart‘s Rabelais. 2 Brewer, p. 720.
EGYPTIAN N AMES OF PERSONAGES . 209
This was the God Tum, whose especial title in the Temple of
Pithom was that of the Ankh, the Living; he being the Sun
of the Resurrection; written in Egyptian, his title is P-ANKH,
PUNK, or Punch. We have him reduced to the status of Tom
Thumb, and here there may be a link with the Italian Polichinello
from Pollice, a thumb, the Tom-Thumb figure. The original type
of the Nak or Ank will explain the humour of the Punch.
Punch and Nuk have their correlatives in Hunch, Bunch, and Junk.
Punch means the short, fat, pudgy, thick-set fellow, whence the
puncheon. So in the Xosa and Zulu Kaffir dialects a short thick-
set pudge of a person is called isi-Tupana from tupa, the Thumb.
The ―hunch‖ of bread is a thick lump; the Junk is also a short
thick lump. Punch is typified by his HUNCH, and therefore he
personates what the hunch signifies. Buncus is a Donkey in Lin-
colnshire, and the mystical Bull of Hu, called the BANGU, ―Edewid
Bangu,‖1 will enable us to recover the Solar Bull, the Neka or P-neka,
as a form of Punch, of Makhu, of Hu, of Tum called P-ankh.
This might not be worth following but for the fact that the name
of the Ank or Punch as the I, the A, I, is the commonest form of
the personal pronoun in the world.
It is A NK in Egyptian; A NOCH , Coptic; A NOKHI , Hebrew;
A NAKU , Assyrian; A NAK , Kizh (Father); $na Phœnician; N GS ,
Æthiopic; N GA , Kassia; N GI , Tumali, and N GA in a large number
of African and especially the Negro dialects;2 N GA -N GA , West
Australian; N GAI , Port Lincoln; N GA -toa, N. S. Wales; N GAITYO ,
near Adelaide; N GATOA , Hunter‘s River; N GATOA , Wiradurei;
N GA -po, Murray; N GA -pe, Encounter Bay; N GAPE, Lower Murray;
N GAI , Parnkalla; N AIKA , Watlala; N GWANG , Kawi; N GO , Chinese;
I NK , Palouse; I NGA , Limbu; A NG , Rung-chenbung; A NKA ,
Kiranti; A NKA , Waling; U NG -gu, Chourasya; U NG , Khaling;
N GA , Bhramu; U NG , Dumi; A NG , Bodo; A NG , Garo; A NGKA ,
Dungmali; H ANG , Thara; H ANGA , the man of might, and I N -
KOSI , Zulu-Kaffir; N GO , Abor Miri; N GA , Burman; N GAI , Tonga
Naga; N GAI , Singpho; ONG, Laos; A ING , Kol; I NG , Ho-kol;
I NG , Bhumik; I NG , Kuri; I NG , Santali; I NG , Mundala; I NING ,
Cayus; N GAPPO , Aiawong; N GAI , Tarawan; A YUNG , Cherokee;
A HAN , Pima; N YAH , Dieguno; N AH , Teruque; I NAU , Guadal-
canar; I NAU , Mallicollo, U NNO , Choctaw; U NNEH , Creek; N E ,
Chepewyan; N I , Shoshone; N O , Netela; EN , Tamul; EN , Tulu;
E N , Rajmahli. To these may be added the Peruvian I NCA ; Maori
H EINGA , the typical ancestor; Eskimo U INGA , the husband; Irish
A ONACH , the prince; Arabic A UNK ; Malayan I NCHI , the master;
Gaelic I NICH , the strong; American H UNKEY , the lusty, and
Ako O NNUKU , the lively, active, equivalent to the Egyptian Ank.
The root is expressed by the sound of N K or N G . This is extant
1 Gwynvardd Brecheiniog, 12th century. 2 Lottner, Phil. Trans. 1859.
in some of the African dialects as a nasal sound followed by a
k-click, ―UN-KA;‖ a nasal click still living in the Maori ―NGA,‖
which means to breathe, whilst NGETENGETE is to click with the
tongue. This ―NG‖ apparently forumates the earliest endeavour to
utter by means of the nose and throat with breath and click the
compound sound which was afterwards distinguished as N and K.
And it was this with the ―Ka‖ prefixed that furnished the name of
the Ganaka, König, Kank, or King, and with the masculine article
P, the name of Punch.
Ankh (Eg.), the living, appears to supply the I NG terminal, as
in Ætheling. I NG denotes the son of. In the Saxon Chronicle
(A.D. 547), ―Ida wæs Eopping‖ means Ida was the son of Eoppa,
and the Ætheling was an old Saxon title for the Crown Prince, the
Heir-Apparent. ―The good true men of the land would have made
king the natural heir, the young Chyld, Edgar Atheling. Whoso
were next king by birthright, men call him Atheling: therefore men
called him so, for by birth he was next king.‖1
It is a theory that the king never dies; he being the Ank or living.
So was it in Egypt. And the son was the representative of the Ankh,
as the Repa or heir-apparent, the visible link of continuity. When
there was no natural heir, one was adopted, as the king could not die.
Thus the Son was also the A NK , type of the ever-living, hence the
―Ing,‖ denoting the son and the sonship. The first A NK , king or Male
―I,‖ is the Son of the Mother; the branch of the Tree of Life. The
royal son and prince in Egypt was the R EPA , the shoot or branch,
from rep, to grow, shoot, take leaf, sprout. Prince and branch are one
at root, because the Repa was the branch. The child, the nursling,
is the REN, and this with the suffix, which is both pronoun and article,
the Ren (child) is the R ENPA , the young shoot or branch. In
Welsh this suffix is the prefix, and we have Pren for the branch, and
P REN becomes in the English Branch andPrince. The Branch,
Prince, Child, or Ren, is the nursling of Rennut, the Gestator, child
of the mother, named after her, and this is the Repa, Prince and heir-
apparent. The Welsh have the Egyptian Repa in their P ERYF , for
the one who commands, especially used for the Pharoah. P REN is
THE ren; P REF is THE ref; and P ERYF is the Repa. Now we hear
of the Welsh Princes before we hear of kings, because their be-
ginning was with the mother and child, and the P REN as branch
became the later B RENIN or king in the Welsh language, which
title is extant, without the article prefixed, in the Breton R OEN for
the king.
Our word Young or Jung, German Jung; Basque Jaung, the
youthful god, our Jingo; Lithuanic Jaunas and Welsh Jeuanog, all
include the Egyptian Ank (the king, the living one), as the I U .
1 Robert of Gloucester, rendered by Earle in the Philology of the English
Tongue, p. 268.
I U means the coming one, and the Iu-ank, the coming life, is the
Young. This is another form of the Repa, Branch, Prince, or Heir-
Apparent to the throne. The Young God or the God Young (an
English proper name) is the oldest in the world.
The diminutive of dear in dear-ling, the little dear, is probably
derived from RENN (lenn), the Egyptian nursling. The Irish pro-
nunciation is DARLIN or DARLINT , which adds the feminine terminal
to the LIN . As Nursling the child is the R ENN (Lenn), and not the
diminutive of nurse, but the nursling (i.e. the renn), of the nurse.
As Ren (Eg.), with the article prefixed, yields the Welsh PREN , the
brnnch, Of' typical child, it is probable that this becomes the word
B AIRN for the child, the Beryne in M ORTE A RTHURE, and yields the
name of B RENNIUS , the Prince, who was brother to Belin.
It is also possible that the acorn is not named as either the corn or
the horn of the oak, but as the R ENN (Eg.), the child, the nursling,
the young. the type of renewal. R ENPU (Eg.) is to grow, renew,
be young, with the shoot for determinative. So read, the acorn is
the young, the child, the renewer of the oak, or aak.
There is a plural in the Egyptian renn or reni for cattle, and if this
does not supply the terminal syllable, in CHILDREN it may serve for the
plural in EN, as in Housen; but apparently the REN accounts for both.
According to Borlase,1 the Cornish people invoke the spirit Browny,
when the bees swarm, to prevent them from returning to the old hive,
and make them form a new colony. This connects the Browny with
young bees and a new hive. Again the Browny, in faeryology. always
disappears when old clothes are offered to him as a repayment. Now
the Brownie or Brunie is also represented as originating in the young
child that died unbaptized or un-NAMED . From this it may be in-
ferred that the name of Brownie is derived from Pren, as in the
branch, the young one, and from Rennu (Eg.), the nursling, with the
article prefixed and modified into B, and as REN (Rg.) means to
name, and RENNU is the nursling, and NU is No, it follows that the
rennu was the young one not yet named, and if he died in this nameless
condition as Prennu, the un-named, he became the Brownie; hence
the guardian spirit and guide of the Renpu, the young, in the shape of
the young bees, and hence the Brownie‘s aversion to old clothes.
Egyptian also supplies the terminal in ―RED ,‖ as in kindred,
gossipred, or Ethelred. Red or Ret is the race. Ethelred is of the race
of the Ethel; race is relationship, and one ―RED ‖ is used for relation-
ship or kindred, although not limited to the blood-tie in Gossipred,
a form of fosterage. R ET also furnishes the variants of RED . Thus
Ethel-red is the race of Ethel, and ret (Eg.) means to repeat, several:
he is the repeater of the race of Ethel. So in Hundred the red
(from ret, to repeat, several), denotes the repetition or enumeration
of the hand or cent in the Hund-red.
1 Antiq. of Cornwall, p. 168.
T EHANI was a title of the one who was nomina.ted the Repa,
the Egyptian heir-apparent to the throne, or of the Divine Father;
found also in the Kaffir D UNA . This too the Kelts had; their
heir-apparent was designated the TANIST . Also the coronation
stone, a monolith erected for the crowning of a king, was called a
TANIST , and the throne or elevated seat of the hieroglyphics is the
Tan. Ast means great, noble, a statue, sign of rule, an image of the
ruler seated. T EN - AST supplies the Latin D YNASTA , the prince, the
ruler. A form of the TANIST stone, the coronation seat, is extant in
the Lia-Fail, under the coronation chair, in Westminster Abbey.
The Egyptian Ank or Nakht signifying the I as chief one; I in
the highest form, the royal personal pronoun, wears down into the
Eng1ish ―N ICK -name.‖ The Nakh-name is the individual name,
and there are thousands of English working men with whom the
Nickname is the only onc they are known by, the sole title to
individuality among their mates, the family name being sunk alto-
gether in the sobriquet or nickname. The nickname, the royal name
in Egypt, points back to the first attempts to individualise from the
group (the Ing or Ankh) by means of a distinguishing epithet per-
sonally applied, just as some special characteristic or feature is still
the source of the nickname.
From being a necessary cognomen, the nickname became degraded
when applied in derision. This sense too is found in the word N EKHI
(Eg.), meaning to deride, which expresses the existing status of the
nickname.
It has been doubted whether the Sanskrit Rāj, to reign and rule,
be a sovereign, exercise rule and sovereignty, could be derived from
the Egyptian Râ. Nor would it if Râ were the primary form of the
word. But it is not. The accented vowel reprents a consonant
found in Ka. Prior to the Râ, a title of the sun, the sun-god, and the
Pharaoh, is R EK , to rule, a name of time and cycle. The sun, as a
ruler or Rex, was a law-giver of time, but not the first. The stars
were the earliest time-rulers. The root Rek entcrs into the name of
the Seven Rikshas (Rishis), and these were the first of all the rulers
of time.
The celestial ruler, as Regulus or lawgiver, was also represented by
the Constellation Kepheus in the north, and the Star Regulus (C OR
L EONIS ) in the Lion. These were types of reign and rule ages
before the Rek became the solar Râ. This Rek (Eg.) for Rule, how-
ever, is the original of the Sanskrit Rāj, to rule, reign, exercise sove-
reignty; the Vedic Rag, a. king; Javanese R ACHA ; a divine image
or type; Gothic Reiks; German Reich; Darahi Rak-uk, to rule or
put down; Latin Rex and Rego; Gaelic Righ; Irish Rigan, a
Queen. The word was worn down in Maori and Mangaian, as in
Egyptian, to Rā, a name of the sun and day. The Rex or Regulus
takes various forms. In English Gipsy he is the Rye, the Lord, or
Swell. In Akkadian, the Rak is the lady, and Racham in Hebrew
is the womb.
The term LIEGE, French LIGE , Latin ligius, is but another form of
Rek (Eg.) for rule. The liege lord in feudal law was the ruler over
the tenant, entitled to claim his faithful service. The nature of the
duty enforced was as absolute as the suit and service of the subject
to any other form of the Rex or the Râ.
The Rukai (Eg.) are rebels, the culprits, rulers in the wrong. These
are the Ruga of Ugogo, Central Africa, who are robbers and rascals,
our English ROGUE in the singular.
A far earlier Rex than the Solarite King founded on Râ is the
Rekh (Eg.), the reckoner, time-keeper, Mage, wise man, the knower,
the architect, the washer, purifier, and WHITENER of men, i.e. the
priest or Rook. The primus is the Egyptian name for rule in relation
to time and period.
The same root rekh, to reckon or rule, is the only origin for the
Logos as for the seaman‘s L OG . Instead of the Logos that was in the
beginning, the Caribs have their L OGUO , the first man, who created
the earth and then returned to heaven. Loguo and Rek, Rekh, Righ,
Rex, Rāj, Rajah, and Râ are all founded on reckoning and on time
and rule. That which first completed a circle of time was the first
lawgiver, and she was the genitrix, was L EGIFERA , a title of Keres.
D RIGHT is an early name for the Lord or chief. This, like the rex
and regulus, is primally the Egyptian Rek, to reign and rule; rekt,
the pure, wise, the Magus, knower, intelligent one, with the Egyptian
article T prefixed. TREKHT is the R EKHT , with the later sound
D RIGHT; he is simply the right one for leader because pure and wise.
The D RIGHT is the director. Ta (Eg.) signifies direction, to go;
hence the D RIGHT is the right-goer, leader, director. The people as
D RIGHTEN are the directed, the followers of the D RIGHT. Breeching-
time used to be a festival in a boy‘s life; and in the north a boy‘s
breeches are termed D RIGHT -ups.
R EK for time and rule is applied with the article in the word DRAG ,
and celebrated on the evening of a fair day, when the lads pull the
lasses about; this is called DRAGGING (T-rek-ing) time, the time of
their rule.
As the king is an image of the male power personified, the Q UEEN
is the feminine abode; the K EN or house in English; the K HEN or
inner place (Eg.); K ONA , Maori; C ON in French; K UNA , old Norse;
C HÁAN , Favorlang; K NAI , Dayak; K UNLEN , Votiak; C HINA , Quiché;
K UNS , Mandan; C UNHA , Lingoa Geral; G ONI , Sanskrit, also Y ONI ;
G UNË, Greek; G WEN , Welsh; C UNHA , S. Pedro; C ONIAH , Cayowa;
C UNHA , Tupi; K ENTO , Musentando; K ENTO , Basunde. The
Swedish Q VENNA retains the oldest form, as in the Hebrew C HIVAN ,
the Queen of Heaven, and this as K EP - NU , the typical or divine
K EF , identifies the queen with the abode of birth. The Kef (Eg.)
is a cave, a sanctuary, a place of concealment, and this we shall find
in the Cefen Caves of Britain, first named by the Troglodytes, who
dwelt in the Kef or Cefan of the Mother-earth.
Hathor is a queen of heaven, and she is the habitation of the child.
Kheft or Aft is the feminine abode. The Khef is yet represented
by the Cornish Coff (womb) and Chy, a house. There was but one
human image for the heaven or the queen of heaven, who was mother
of the gods. The King is the masculine potent, the Queen the female
habibation, the house of life.
The English Empress of India was proclaimed to the natives as the
―K AISER - I -H IND ,‖ and in the discussions we were told that K AISER
was primally Persian. But the original of the Persian KAISER ,
German K AISER , Russian TZAR , and Roman C ÆSAR is Egyptian.
The hieroglyphics will show us what the title means.
―S ER ‖ is a most ancient and universal root, the Hebrew TZER is
a divine name, the ―Rock‖ of Israel. S ER is the Egyptian word for
the rock. Whether a divine or human title, ―S ER ‖ or Sire, it is the
chief, arranger, placer, disposer at pleasure. The title of the king
of the Kheta was S IR ; Assyrian S AR ; S IRE, was an old French
title used by itself for the king only. The Quiché S CYRI was Lord
over all. The Seren and Serene (Highness) are diminutives of Sir or
Ser.
K HI is to rule, protect, govern, wield a whip. It was an Egyptian
title. One form of the K HISER then is the wielder of the whip;
another Ser is the arm of the Lord; another is the Overseer. This
is shown hieroglyphically by the camelopard sign of S ER , the chief or
high one. K HI signifies to rise up, elongate. The camelopard is the
extended long-necked overseer, and a type of the S ER or K HISER .
S ER is an epicine or neuter root, and the K HISER may therefore be
either male, female, or neither, as S ER is the ram, sheep, or eunuch.
The K HI or whip emblem itself is, however, distinctly male in the
monuments, as the sign of K HEM , P THA , and O SIRIS . Still there
are female camelopards; and women have wielded the whip.
The latest living exemplar of the primeval K AISER is the TZAR ,
who still wields the knout (or did so lately) as the sign (Khi) of the
S ER . But the Tsar, the ruler with the whip, is a divine personage in
the realm of the dead. In the Ritual (Ch. 126) we read of
―All the created just spirits who serve the TSAR.‖
The camelopard is the more appropriate sign of rule for the

―K AISER - I - HIND ,‖ the tall overseer, and it is perfect; K HI meaning
to extend, elongate, rise up, be high, rule, govern, protect; and
―S ER ‖ is the name of the animal thus described by ―K HI .‖ The
camelopard would ndy symbolise the wide outlook of the British
―K AISER - I -H IND .‖
The Ser is doubt a worn-down form of the Kheser or Seser. The
Egyptian type of the Kaiser or Cæsar is the ideographic User, earlier
Seser, and therefore still earlier Kheser, which furnished the Assyrian
K ASAR , the Arabic W AZIR , and Malayan W EZER . The sign consists
of a head and vertebra, a backbone and brain, with the meaning of
ruling and sustaining and maintaining power. Also the Ka sign is
the determinative of Ses, the back and shoulders, the image of the
Seser or Kaiser. With Kheser modtficd into Seser we have the
Cæsar, in the Egyptian Sesertoses, the Seser himself, or typical
Cæsar, who became the Sesostris of the Greek writers on Egypt.
Herodotus describes a pillar of Sesostris, which he says was engraved
across the breast with words in the sacred Egyptian characters, signi-
fying, ―I acquired this region by my own shoulders.‖ In those same
sacred charncters ―Ses‖ means the shoulders and back, and has for
determinative the shoulders with uplifted arms; ―tesas‖ signifies the
very self. Consequently some one must have very nearly read the
hieroglyphics of the Sesertosis.1
The Egyptian Cæsar or Seser appears on the monuments as early
as Seser-en-Ra, in the Third Dynasty, and there is a female Seser
by name—one only—in Ta-Seser, the wife of Siptah, at the end
of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
The L ORD is usually taken to be the Hlafford, as Saxou for loaf-
author or bread-giver. And in Egyptian the R EPA or Erp is the
Lord. The E RP , the hereditary highness, has the earlier name of
K HERP or K HERF , his Majesty or Lordship. The Saxon H LAF is
the equivalent of the K HERF , the chief, first, consecrated, sceptred.
H LAF for loaf is paralleled by K HERF , a supply, a sufficiency, to
suffice, our C ROP . Kherp abrades into Erp or Repa. The feminine
Repa is the wife of Nile and Goddess of Harvest. Harvest is
Kherp or Kherf, the supply or crop. This was turnished by the
Repit, the lady who as breeder was the primal bread or loaf-maker.
The Hlafford, then, points to the Kherp for origin, not to the loaf, which
became a later sign. But is it so certain that our word ―L ORD ‖ is
only the A.S. Hlafford worn down? The Etruscan L ARTH is the
Lord, and that can scarcely be derived from the H LAFFORD .
The equivalent RURT (Eg.) identifies the meaning with going round,
and the circle-maker. The circle-maker is a R URT as Ursa Major.
R URT, the round, is a pill. The husband encircles the bride‘s finger
with a ring in token of lordship. L ORT-Monday, a name of Plough-
Monday, is a day of going round. The L ORD -size is the Judge of
Assize who goes on circuit. The L ARTH or Lord was the chief of a
circle, not merely the loaf-giver. This signification is pointed to in
the mummeries of the L ORD of Misrule in the Inn-Temple on St.
Stephen‘s Day, when the Constable-Marshal went round and round
and shouted ―A L ORD ! a L ORD !‖2 Is the title of Lord, then,
limited to the Hlafford?
1 B. 2, 106. 2 Brand, ―The Lord of Misrule.‖
The Egyptian R EPA as Lord and Governor was our R EVE by name,
who as R EVE of the shire becamc the Sheriff, and the REPA as a
division became our RAPE. Sussex was divided into six Rapes with
six Rivers, six Castles, six Forests, six R EPA -ships or lordships.
The R EPA may perhaps lead us to the origin of the law of primo-
geniture and entail of property. In Egypt the Repa was hereditary
lord and heir-apparent. He inherited the land with the throne, as
representative of the Divine Ra. Also the Repa might be male or
female; it was a name of Virgo, and with us the R EEVE is the female
of the R UFF (bird).
The flower is before the fruit, and the Lady R EPA , who became
the bearer of fruit and goddess of harvest or the leaf, has an earlier
character in relation to the flower or flowers. The female R EPA
represents the Nile in one form and the harvest in another, as the
Lady of the mystical Two Truths, the flowing and fixed, or flower
and fruit. R EP (Eg.) means to grow, bud, flower, and R EPT or
R EPTI is the other or two forms of the word; Rep denotes
the one that buds and flowers; R EPIT , the one that fructifies and
bears the fruit. This accounts for the number of ladies among
the flowers, as the lady‘s finger; lady‘s slipper, lady‘s smock, lady‘s
glove, and others.
The King‘s THEGNS, as the Thanes were called, were companions of
the king. The term THEGN answers to the word Gesith, a companion.
And in Egyptian TEKN is to accompany; tekh, to join together;
teka, attach; whence T EKN , to be joined, and THEGN , one of a
companionship or order of men who performed some personal service
to the king. The THEGN , as one of the companions (Comites) of the
king or chief in battle is illustrated by TEKEN , to accompany, be near,
and stand fast. As Tekh further means to supply wine or serve with
drink, and TEKHEN is to play on the harp, the office of royal cup-bearer
and minstrel were no doubt early forms of THEGN ‘s service. To
play on the harp is to accompany, and Tekh, to serve with wine, shows
the T EKHEN or Thane as the server implied by the title of THEGN .
In the Saxon period there was a royal official who from handing
the dish bore the title of Disc-Thegn.
The HERTOGA was an army-leader in war. HAR (Eg.) is the superior,
the one set over, the over-lord. TEK (Eg.) has the meaning of attack
and overthrow. In this sense the Hertoga is the leader and director
of the attack, and lord of the army. In the Old English Chronicles
(449) the first conquerors, Hengist and Horsa, are termed H ERE -
TOGAN . This was whilst their rule was limited to certain districts
and lesser boundaries of land, and the word TEKA also means a
fixed frontier. Thus rendered, the H ER - TEKA is a border lord, or
king of a county, the keeper of the boundary, whence the Hertoga
and Hertogan.
In the same Chronicles (519) Cerdic and Cynric are called
E ALDORMEN . But this title is by no means derived from the Jarl of
Earl, both of which are modified forms of the Karl, Ceorl, or Churl.
In Lazamon‘s Brut we read: ―Belin in Euerewic, huld corlene
husting.‖1 That is, Belin in York held a husting of Earls or Ceorls.
The EAL in Ealderman is one with the WEAL in Wealhcyn. Wales
is the earlier Gales, still earlier Kars, which became the shires. The
Kar is the circle, orbit, inclosure; Ter (or der) is all people who
dwell in the Kar. The Welkin is the circle round. A Weal is a
wicker basket for inclosing fish. The EALDER is just the equivalent
to garter, and Kilder in Kilderkin, and the Ealderman is the man of
the whole Kar or inclosure. As ter is the frontier and extreme limit,
the Ealderman may have been the boundary-keeper of the Kar, Gale,
Weal, as representative of the ter (Eg.), that is, the whole, as land or
community. Kar modifies into Har, as in Hertoga, and Al, as in
Ealdorman. The Alderman still represents the ward and Ward
is philologically one with guard and with weald. Ward also means
good keeping. The Ward was the little world that needed the
warden. The Weald as forest land had its warden, and the Ealdor-
man is the warden or warderman who represents the ward and weal,
and is chosen for that purpose. Weal means to choose, and the
Weal-derman, Ealdorman, is the man still chosen to represent the
whole, entire, the Ter or commonweal.
The Earl, Ceorl, Churl, or Jarl, is derived from the Kar inclosure,
and, primarily, the name denotes one who belongs to that circle or
inclosure before it was given to him to whom the circle belonged.
Our word R UNE denotes a mystery, something secret, and this is
connected with ROUNE, to whisper, and the runes which were mystical
in character. To roun or whisper, face to face and ―mouth to ear,‖
and ―the word at low breath‖ is a Masonic commandment. To
R OWNE in English is to name in a whisper; in Egyptian to REN is to
call by name. The R OUND were officers appointed to inspect the
watches, and called ―Gentlemen of the Round.‖ In relieving guard
the soldiers still ROUNE or whisper the password, and the Gentlemen
of the Round are related to this secret RENNING . The R EN inclo-
sure or the royal name became the English Round. The Egyptian
N A - RUNA and N A - AA - RUNA who are officers of name and of great
note, but of an unknown office, are possibly the same as our Gentlemen
of the Round.
Han (Eg.) is honour, sanctity, royalty, majesty, and rule. Har or
Her is the lord, chief, superior. R AN (Eg.) also denotes territory, a
field; the HANUTI are labourers. H AN (Eg.), moreover, means
tribute, and to conduct as tribute. These include all our ―Honours;‖
the ―H ONOURS ‖ of cards as the majesties, royalties, highnesses;
the honour or sanctity of character, considered in points, affairs, and
debts of honour belonging to the unwritten law, and the Honour as a
1 MS. Cott. Calig. A. 9, lines 4765—6.
superior seignory under which other manors or divisions of land were
held by the performance of service.
The M ARMOR was a style of high nobility among the Gael; he was
a great officer of justice. Mor, great; M AOR (Gael.), officer of justice.
The M ERE is the Mayor, and there is an English M ER , who is a bailiff
or superintendent. This is the Egyptian M ER , a superintendent,
prefect, overseer, or governor. An official called the M ER governed
the people of the quarries at Turuau, the mountain-quarry in Egypt.
The M ER was not only an overseer and superintendent, but an
architect. The architects of the Egyptian Pharaohs, who were the
royal sons and grandsons, were called the M ER -ket. And we are told
by the Barddas that ―MORION‖ lifted the stone of the Kettai.‖
M ORION is said to have been the architect of Stonehenge, Gwath
Emrys, or the M UR Ior. M UR (Eg.) means the circle, as does the
K ETUI . K ET (Eg.) denotes the builder, and the Kettai are the
builders. M ORIEN was chief of the K ETTAI . Now, as a negro is
still known as a M ORIEN in English, may not this indicate that
M ORIEN belonged to the black race, the Kushite builders? The
name of the M ARMOR himself appears in the Travels of an Egyptian,
where the question is asked, ―Didst thou not meet the M ARMAR ?‖1
M ERU (Eg.) is a cow, a goddess, and a form of Hathor, the cow-
headed genitrix. With the feminine terminal the Mer is M ER - T, and
the M ART is still a Gaelic name for the cow. The M ERT (Eg.)
is a female attached; M AR - T denotes feminine relationship and
office. M ER (Eg.) is love, and the M ER - T are persons attached, the
lovers. This, in English, is married; but in Egyptian the female
M ER (mer-t) was the person attached as consort in the divine (or the
pre-monogamous) marriage. The great goddess Pasht is designated
M ER -Ptah, Ptah‘s beloved; she was literally his M ORT. And the
poor vagabond‘s ―M ORT ‖ that trails after him, dog-like, on tramp
as a female attached, has the same name and is the living repre-
sentative of the goddess, the divine M ER - T. She is also called his
Doxy. In Egyptian T EK means to attach, and Tekai is a name for
the adherer or person attached. Tekhi (the Doxy) was a goddess
of the months. This is sadly typical of the old divinities, when we
find them in modern dress, and the divine names in current usage.
The M ER has become the M ORT and M ERETRIX , and with a change of
terminal the M ARQUE of the French Argot; the FILLE, the
FEMME PUBLIQUE , the M ARCA , M ARQUIDA , M ARCONA of slang
phraseology.
The M ERT has got bemired, and the M UT, the divine mother,
has had a like descent into the mud. Her living representative is the
English ―M OT,‖ the harlot. These names of the creative mother-
hood and consort of the creative power surely ought to plead for a
littte more pity and charity for those who bear them now!
1 Section 4, line 9, Records, vol. ii. p. 107.
M ER also means to die, hence the M ERTI are the dead. And in
the British mythology, the dog of Pluto is called Dor-M ARTH , the
gate of sorrow. It was the door of Hades, the entrance for the dead
or the M ERTI . Maarau (Eg.), to grieve, corresponds to the word
MARTH , for sorrow. The dog‘s mouth was the door of Hades. So
Kerberus in Egyptian reads Kherb-ru, a first or model form of the
mouth, gate or door. This dog of Gwyn ap Nudd and the Greek
Kerberus is a figure in the Ritual. Just where the M ERTI entered
the underworld at the western corner, the angle of the pool of
fire, sat the dog having ―the eyebrows of men‖ ―Eater of Millions
is his name,‖ as the door-keeper and watcher who devours the fallen
at the angle of the west.
The mouth of the dog was not the only form of hell-door;
the Bull was another type; the Crocodile of the west was de-
picted as swallowing the Akhemu Ureta, or setting stars, hence
the expression in the Ritual, ―Back, Crocodile of the West, who
livest upon the Akhemu who are at rest; what thou abhorrest is
upon me.‖ 1 Here the passing souls are identified with the
setting stars, and the crocodile of the planisphere does duty in
spirit-world.
The root in Kan, our Cant sometimes assigned for the name of
king, is extant in Egyptian as Kan, to be able, courageous, valiant,
a victor; Khun-su is thus the brave child, the victor-son. This title
is the British Cun, a chief. There is also another sense of the
canning or cunning man, only found in Egyptian. The cunning
man, as wizard, is not only the knower and diviner, he is likewise the
averter of evil and of bad luck. K HENA (Eg.) signifies to blow
away, breathe, puff away, repel and avert evil. K HENN also means
to rest and believe. The Khennu, in the modified form of Shennu,
is a diviner. The Khennu then is the one who is able to divine, the
averter of evil and bad luck, hence the K ENNING -stone and the
cunning man or woman.
Tum was the judge of the dead in the hall of dual justice. He
was the god of the darkness; his was the all-seeing eye. Tema (Eg.)
means to make justice and truth visible, to announce. Tum, the
name of the god, also signifies to spy out. Now in Ireland the wise
man, the diviner, the seer in the dark, and discoverer of lost property,
is a Taman. ―I know,‖ says Vallancy,2 ―a farmer‘s wife in the
county of Waterford that lost a parcel of linen. She travelled three
days‘ journey to a TAMAN , in the county of Tipperary: he consulted
his black book, and assured her that she would recover the goods.
The robbery was proclaimed at the chapel, a reward offered, and
the linen was recovered. It was not the money, but the TAMAN that
recovercd it.‖
TUMAU (Eg.) also means to restore. The TAMAN is founded on
1 Ch. 32. 2 Col. de Reb. Hib. No. 13, 10.
the type of Tum as seer in the dark, maker of truth and justice
visible, and the restorer of that which was lost or concealed.
The English ―D UMB -wife,‖ a name of the feminine fortune-teller, is
a kind of Taman, and the Irish spelling will recover the original
form of Dumb in Tum (Eg.), to announce, reveal, or make the hidden
truth visible. In Egyptian Tum means dumb, mouthless; hence
dumb means tum in relation to the dumb-wife who announces and
makes known. Conjurors are proverbially born dumb. Tum, as
representative of the tower sun, as Hak (Kak), is a form of Harpo-
crates, the dumb child, or mystic word, who points to his mouth, and
is the antithesis of Makheru, the true voice. The ―Dumb‖ cake used
for purposes of divination is the Tum cake that reveals, announces,
and makes known the secrets of futurity.
The thumb, the lower member of the band is named after the god
of the lower world. This too was a type of Tum, the diviner in the
dark. Hence the allusion of the witches:
― By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes.‖
The thumb foretold.

In another bit of gesture language the thumb was bitten at a
person to convey a meaning without words. The type of Tum
made the truth visible.
In Egyptian the Mage, the wise man, the illustrious and revered
man of learning, is the A KH . The A KHEN is a recluse. A KHENNU
denotes those who praise, salute, glorify. The variants K HEN and
K HENNU signify belief, intelligence, news, and seclusion in the sanc-
tuary. The Akhen lived on in the Irish A IGHNE, for prophet.
In English A KENN means to reconnoitre, make observations, to
discover, and one of the Irish names of the Round Tower is the
Turagan. The tower we may take to mean the ―Tur,‖ which in
Egyptian, denotes the building on a frontier, a limit, to hinder,
a wall, fortress, of prison. A GAN may signify the recluse, the men
who dwelt apart in seclusion, the Magi, who watched the heavens and
reflected the light of their knowledge round the land from the sanc-
tuary of Druidic lore, the Turagan or Round Tower. The Persian
Magi, said Pliny, might have been taught by the British Druids.
Tir in Welsh and Irish is territory, and the Tiragan may have
denoted the land of the Akennu or the Khen, the sacred soil
of the dead that was protected by the Tower. We have the Doole
or dule, a kind of Tel (Arabic, mound), as a conical heap of earth
which marked the limits of parishes or farms upon the downs,
probably the Cairn of the dead before towers were erected. So
Tillie-Beltanc is the little hill or eminence of the Baal-fire.
The Lich-gate at the entrance of the churchyard, as the place where
the corpse is set down first, serves to connect the Lich, gothic L EIK ,
English L IC , with the sense of L IGGING , or lying at rest, as in L IGAN ,
Gothic, to lie; Frisian L IGA , to lie; old Norse L IGGIA , to lie; Latin
L EGERE , to lay; Russian L OJLT, to lay; Servian L OJATI , to lay;
Greek lšgein, to lay, lay to sleep. The Lich, as the dead (corpses),
are those that lig or lie at rest. But in the hieroglyphics the Rekh
(Lech) are the dead in another sense; they are the pure wise spirits
with the Phœnix emblem of renewed life rather than the bodies that
moulder in the ground. But the name was applied to these that
ligged or lay there. The dead are those who know; they are the
supreme knowers. The wise spirits, as the Magi, arc a!so the Rekh.
And on this ground it is claimed that the Lichtun for the churchyard
is not merely the Tun (place) of the dead. Just outside the city walls
of Chichester, on the east, are what the common people call the
―LITTEN ‖ schools. The name is abraded from LICHTEN , but not
necessarily limited in meaning to their standing on the LICH -field.
The Rekh, the knowers, as priests, were the dwellers with the dead,
and they taught in the sanctuary, but the Rekhten or Lichten school
originates with the living Rekh. The same word has various
applications.
L ECHTEN is identical with L EIGHTON (Buzzard), the TEN (Eg.)
land, region, seat of the R EKH , the learned, the Magi. Sart (Eg.)
signifies to sow seed, in this case, the seed of knowledge; the Sert is
a keeper. The Buau (Eg.) are the chiefs, heads, archons. The
Buau-Sart of Leighton are thus the chief men of learning, who dwelt
in the Tun of the Rekh, not of the dead only, but of the Magi.
The R OOK , a name of the parson, identifies him with the Egyptian
R EKH , the wise man, the knower, the Mage. In the Breton language
a priest is called B ELECH , agreeing with Prekh (Eg,) as the Rekh
unless we read it Bel-akh, the Mage of Baal. The Rekh supplies the
Leech. According to Strabo, the British Druidesses or wise women
were also styled ―B RIG of the Judgments,‖ i.e. with the article pre-
fixed, the R EKH , and as they dressed in black, they too were R OOKS .
In Akkadian the woman is the Rak.
The ancient professors of witchcraft and raisers of the dead were
called W ICCA and S CIN - LÆCA . The S CIN - LÆCA was also a species
of phantom or apparition, and the name was used for the person who
had the power of producing the Manes. S CIN - LÆCA is said to mean
the shining dead. But S CIN - LÆCA , as the evoker of the dead, does
not mean shining. It is the Egyptian S KHEN , to cause to alight, be
manifested, give breath or being to; modified S AN , to charm by
magic. The original of W ICCHE, as in Wiccraft (Witchcraft) is HEK
or HUKA (Eg.) magic, to charm, evoke the spirits of the dead.
The ―Ur-H EKA ‖ is found on the monuments as the Great Charmer
to the King, and Master of Magic. U KH is the name of a spirit, as is
the A KH the Spirit, or Manes, and their invokers the Mages, are
also named Akh, earlier Hek. So the dead called L ÆCA , Egyptian
R EKHI , are one with the spirits and the Magi, from R EKHI , pure
spirits, Mages or Magicians. Our Wiccacraft was their H UKA -craft.
In the Saxon period the Mage, Magician, or Sorcerer was known
as the D RY , and his craft of magical evocation was called Dry-craft.
Yet the name is unknown to any of the cognate dialects. It was
therefore a word, like so many more, adopted from the British, and
out of this the Saxons formed a verb be-drian, to bewitch or en-
chant; but they found the Dry already extant. It is yet to be found
in the Gaelic Draoi as the Magician.
In Irish, D RAOI -A CHT is the name for Druidic law, or the law of
the Druids. Draoi represents the Egyptian ―TRI ‖ which signifies
the invocation, evocation, and questioning of spirits. Tri is to invoke,
adore, question, with the determinative of a person making the
Invocation. As the full form of the word is TRIU , and ―It‖ is
Heaven, a passable Druid (Triu-it) might be derived as the Tri or
Dry, who was the Invoker of Heaven. But the name ―Druid,‖ whilst
retaining the Draoi or Tri meaning, as well as that of teruu (Eg.),
stems, roots; which associated the Druids, in the mind of Pliny, with
the Greek name of the Tree, is more probably compounded from Tru
or Triu, the Two Times related to the Two Truths of Egypt, the root
of all knowledge. Teriu (Eg.) denotes the twin-total, the whole, the
All. An Irish name for Druidism is M AITHIS , and that includes the
Egyptian dual Truth called Mati, which, applied to time, is the Teriu
or Two Times at the base of all reckoning.
Another meaning of ―It‖ (Eg.) is to figure forth, and portray, as
the artist. In this sense a Teru-it might be the hieroglyphist who
drew in colours. The Tru-It would also be the teacher of time and
period, and the fulfilment or the cycles. This is the explanation of
the Roman report of the Druidic proficiency in the science of astro-
nomy, which was the science of celestial chronology, or circle-craft;
a ―TRU - IT‖- IC (Druidic) science.
The Egyptian priest called a ―K ARHEB ,‖ the Reciter or
the Festivals. answers somewhat to the meaning of the Druid.
The Kar-Heb as explained by de Rougé is the chief of the
―U TISTS ‖ or conductor of the sacred rites. The full form of the
name Ut is ―Hut,‖ with the star determinative of time and fate.
Ut (Hut) also denotes magic. TRU is time, and the Tru-Ut or TRU -
H UT, as an order of time and destiny, corresponds to the astrologers,
magicians, or Druids of Egypt. It is therefore likely that the Druidic
name is a modified form of Tru-Hut, especially as the Welsh Hud
associated with them signified their mystery.
This HUT or HAT supplied an important formative in compounding
words such as Priest-HOOD , Man-HOOD , Mother-HOOD , Boy-HOOD ,
Widow- HOOD , Maiden-HOOD . In Brotherhood, Sisterhood, and
Priesthood, applied to religious bodies, it is the original HUT, an
order. H UT- ER (Eg.) is to join together. In the form of HAD the
word denoted faculty, function, office, quality. In the Saxon Chronicle1
the function bestowed on the candidate when consecrated was termed
Biscop-HAD . The bishop‘s power of consecration was called H ADIAN
and in ordaining for Holy Orders he was represented as conferring
―HAD ‖ which made the initiate one of the holy order, or HUT, i.e.
H OOD . This quality or B ISCOPHAD is Egyptian as well as the
order of Hood. For ―HUT‖ also signifies to consecrate by touch, as
the bishop bestows the HAD ; and H TI -an is purely Egyptian for
being consecrated. It has no relation to an Anglo-Saxon speech
independently of that which the Angles and Saxons found in Britain.
The Bishop too is Egyptian. There was an order of the S HEP
(Shept)2 found also as S EP , persons belonging to religious houses.
The B UA or B UI is the head, the Archon. The B UI - SEP , B UI - SHEP
or B UI - SKHEP is the archon of the S KHEP , SHEP or SEP , the learned,
teachers, enlighteners. The S KHEP are images of the other life,
and these denote the religious nature of the order. S KHEP signifies
to transfer and transform. The Bishop, in ordaining, claims this power
of consecrating by touch when he bestows the ―HAD .‖
K HEPR is a name for the Creator, as the Transformer, imaged by
the beetle, so that the bishop is an archon of the H UT order, of the
S HEP , S KEP or S KHEPR (Khepr), the Scarab-God of Egypt.
Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, proclaimed Christ to be the Good
Scarabæus, and it is in keeping that the Bishop should be the priest
of Khe-pr.
―Shap‖ is our word shape. It means to figure, image forth;
and this the bishop does in antique fashion, with his hand in blessing.
He still holds up two fingers without knowing what they stand for.
The symbolic value of those two fingers will be betrer understood
when we have treated of the Biune Being and the Two Truths.
The two fingers have the same meaning as the S HEBTI image, the
S HAPTI plumes of the solar disk, or any other symbol of the two-fold
truth. The duality came to be applied to the life here and hereafter.
But the apron is a relic of a more primitive significance.3
The Welsh bards call the Druids N ADREDD , rendered Adders.
And the word is the name of the serpent in Welsh, but the Nadredd
were not merely adders; the adder or serpent was a hieroglyphic
symbol of the divine, and the word for divine is ―N UTER ,‖ of which
the serpent is a determinative, therefore the serpent in Egyptian was
Nuter. N ET signifies serpent. N EDDER is an English name of the
adder, and N A is an Egyptian article, the. But N UTERUT is a temple,
the Divine House. A T or A TA is a father, a priest; and another,
N UTERAT, is a kind or priest, a holy father, a prophet or a prophetess.
1 E. 1048. 2 Denk, ii. 143, B.
3 APRON.—In the paragraphs on the ―Basu‖ (p. 118) it should have been pointed
out that one form of the B ES-skin is still worn by the soldier as the bear-skin
B USBY .
And it is here claimed that the Druidic N ADREDD were identical
with the N UTERAT of Egypt, the priests and priestesses, prophets
and holy fathers who served in the Nuterat or Divine Houses.
There is in Scotland both a castle and a parish of K IN - NEDDAR .
Khen in Egyptian is a sanctuary of rest and faith, and Nuter is
divine. K IN - NEDDAR is thus a divine sanctuary, a N UTER - AT.
The A SC is a Gaelic name of the Druid or adder. A SC permutes
with Sekh in Egyptian. S EKH (Eg.) is the scribe, to write, and
writing. S AKH is to adore, pray, understand, and the name of the
shrine; S AAKH , is the intelligence or intelligent spirit; S AKH the
illuminator, inspirer, and informant in person. This is the A SC as
Druid; he is the informant, hence the verb to ask or seek to be
informed.
This S AKH is possibly the original of the name of the Saccæ
and Saxons. We shall find the later typical names were religious
before they became ethnical. S KEH - SEN (Eg.) would read the
fraternity of the learned men or priests. The name of hate used
by the Irish for the Saxon invaders is S ASENACH , and it may
include the Egyptian Sesen, to fight, distract, torment, whence
the Sesen-akh would be the great distractors and disturbers, as
fighters.
The Egyptians had an order of priests, the name of which is
written with the jackal, S HU . Lepsius 1 has read it ―S A ‖; ―S A ‖
is to recognise or perceive, English see, and these would thus be the
seers. Still the jackal, the seer in the dark, is ―S HU ,‖ the Hebrew
―S HUAL ‖ (the fox); and the Welsh bards call their diviners, an order
of priests, the ―S YW ,‖2 a word signifying that which is circling.
They were also designated S OWS . In Egyptian Sow is S HAAU
or S HU , and ―S HAUNU ‖ is a diviner; these were the S HAAUS or
S YWS , the diviners. Some divining faculty was ascribed to the sow;
it is yet said that pigs see the wind.
The S UES or S UAS was a well-known name of the Kabiri. The
Egyptian S UA is a priestess and singer. The S UAT (plural, like the
Welsh S YWED) also appear in the male form; as choristers or glorifiers.
The British Keres, Keridwen, assumed the character of the H WCH ,
a sow, the multimammalian mother. H WCH is Hog, independently
of sex, hence the boar. In the hieroglyphics the H EKU is also the
hog, and HEK is the Ruleress, as was Keridwen the H WCH . Hek
also means charm, magic. The H WCH was a magician, like the
Greek Hecate.
Here is a good test, as it seems, of Egyptian origin. The name of
the British Merlin permutes with Merddin. So, in Egyptian, MER
and MERT are identical. Both signify the circle. R EN (Eg.), is to
name. M ER - REN means the circle-namer. Merlin is reputed to have
made the Round Table for Uther Pendragon, which descended to
1 D. 117. 2 Cyvoesi i.; Davies Mythol. 467.
Arthur when he married Guinever. The Round Table was the
name-circle of the twelve signs, and later of the twelve Knights.
T EN (Eg.), is to complete, fill up, terminate and determine. The
T ENNU are lunar eclipses; TENNU , is to go round. M ERT - TEN , the
equivalent of M ERDDIN , is the reckoner and determiner of circles
and cycles. A type-name of the same value as TRU - IT (Druid), for
one who is learned in circle-craft, the old English name of Astro-
nomy. This will serve to show how Merlin and Merddin may be
interchangeable names.
The scribe is already named in Egyptian by S KHA or S AAK , writing,
to write, and the writer. But the first writing was cut or scratched,
hence Sekha means to cut, incise. Crafa (Welsh) is to scratch; Breton,
Krava; and this agrees with Kherf (Eg.) a first form or mode of
figuring and modelling. With the Welsh prefix Ys we obtain Yscrafa
to scrape, also the words scrape, sculp and scribe. Thus our first
scribe is the scraper of bone and the sculptor of stone.
Kherp (Eg.) to figure with the causative prefix becomes Skherp or
the Scarab type of Khepr, the Skherper, scraper or figurer, the former
who preceded the writer, as figuring was earliest. Khepr as Skherp,
the Kherp, was the Scribe before writing was invented, and his type
is the Skarab, Engiish Scarbot. Hens are said to S CRAB a garden.
SCRAB to ―claw hold,‖ is identical with the Scarab or figurer. In Devon
S CRAPT signifies slightly frozen, that is, beginning to form or be
Kherpt, figured. Scrap, English, is a plan, a design, from Skher (Eg.)
to plan, design, picture; the Egyptian terminal p turns Skher into
Scrap. A curious relic of Skherping, figuring, inscribing, is extant in
the Devon word S CURRIFUNG . Khepr the figurer is the Creator, the
former as Generator. Khepr and Kherp are variants of the figurer.
Skurrfung, to couple, lash tightly together, signifies FUTUERE. Ankh
(Eg.), means to pair, couple, clasp together, and corresponds to ―ung.‖
Scurrif is a form of Skherp, Kherping, crafa-ing, carving, and SCURRI-
FUNG is creating in the sense of figuring the Child. Wilkinson found
a picture of Khepr (Ptah) engaged in making a drawing of the Child
as Horus; this was the Creator as the figurer forth, in the character
of the Kherp or Scribe, who was the earlier skherper or sculptor.
The word S KEPTIC is derived by etymologists from the Greek,
S KEPTIKOS , an examiner, and inquirer, from S KEPTOMAI , I look, I
examine. Then we are assured that in Greek the root SPEK was
changed into SKEP and accounts for it. S PEK is to be found in the
Sanskrit SPA′SA a spy; in SPASHTA , clear, manifest, and in the Vedic
SPA′S, a guardian.1 In the hieroglyphics S KEB (Eg.), means to reflect.
S KHEP is to clear up, enlighten, illumine, render brilliant. S AP also
means to examine and to verify; S APH , to examine and reckon up.
Thus we have S AP , S APH , and S KHEP all meeting in the same
meaning. Further, the S EPS is an ancient form of the A S , the
1 Max Müller, Lectures, first series, p. 258.
great, noble, the ruler, protector, or overseer, the original S PAS , as
guardian, or overlooker. S EP is to judge, and the S HEPS was a sort
of judge. There is no need, therefore, of converting S PEK into S KEP
in Greek to account for their being there, or to derive S PEK frem the
Sanskrit S PAS . The Sceptic or Skepticos is derived from S KEP , to
examine, verify, and elucidate, and TEK (Eg.) that which was hidden
and had escaped previous notice.
The name of the Bride is as old as the ceremony of capture in
marriage. P RIOD in Welsh means appropriated, and owned. P RIOD
takes the form of Bride in English; Braut in German. The B UARTH
(Kym) is a cattle fold; B UARTHO is to fold cattle; they are thus,
as it were, B YRE- D . The Bride is also B YRED , folded, owned, captured
with the noose or tie of marriage round her. Here alone is the origin,
P RI (Eg.) is a girdle or tie, to slip, wrap round with the tie sign of
binding, and the terminal t makes the past participle in Prit, Priod,
or Bride.
The designation of ―H USSY ‖ is assumed to be an abbreviation of
housewife. Yet in some countries it means simply a girl, and is never
applied to the housewife or a married woman, but to the girl in anti-
thesis to the house-wife. H US is the H ES (Eg.), House or feminine
abode personified in Isis (Hes). S I (Eg.) is a child, either male or
female. Hes being feminine identifies the child, and H ESSI (Hussy),
is a girl. S I is an abraded Sif (a Child), so H USSY has the form of
H USSIF , which is not the House-wife, but the house-child (Sif) the
Girl, as we find it. Wife is derived from Khef (Eg.) the Cornish K UF ,
a Wife. House-Kuf is House-Wire, and House-Sif the House-Child.
What is the meaning of the title in S TEP -Mother? No satisfactory
explanation has ever been offered. She certainly steps in and stops
a gap. But the step-son or step-daughter do not. In each case,
however, there is an adoption. And the Egyptian S TEP (or setp)
signifies to choose, select, try, be chosen, adopted, be active, attentive,
assiduous. The despised title of S TEP was royal and divine in Egypt;
the Pharaoh was crowned as Step-en-Ra, the chosen, adopted, approved
of the God Ra, and he was the S TEP -God. The S TEP -Mother is the
adopted one, and so in each relationship the S TEP means adopted.
The Egyptian Genesis of the word is S ET with the p suffixed. Set
means to transmit, to extend, and the S ETP is the transmitter. The
S TEP or adopted relation was to ensure transmission. This was the
Setp of Egypt, the adopted for transmission and continuity. We have
an application of the word in the ―S TAB ,‖ a hole adopted or selected
by the rabbit for securing the transmission of her litter. There is
also an occult significance in the S TEP -Mother; she is one of the
feminine Triad, and one of the two divine sisters, the wet-nurse.
S TEP (Eg.) means to menstruate; S UTB to nurse and feed with the
sign of divine.1 The mystical origin must have been known when
1 Lep. Denk. iv. 63 C.
the flower of the violet was first called the S TEP -Mother, as it still
is in England. The primitive S TEP -Mother nursed the child before
birth. And to this occult origin may be attributed a considerable
share of the odium attached to the name of the S TEP -Mother, who
has suffered for her symbolical character.
The word ―Widow‖ is one that has caused much speculation as to
its origin, but all the light which is thrown on the early family life of
the Aryans by deriving Widow from the Sanskrit V I - DHAVA , man-
less, or without man, which would have applied equally to all un-
married women; whilst the Widower would likewise have to be a
form of the man-less, vanishes in presence of the Egyptian ―U TA ,‖
to be solitary, separated, divorced, as a woman. This reaches
from the centre to the circumference of the meaning. In this sense
the Widow is far older than Marriage, and a first form of her is U ATI ,
mother of source, the wet-nurse. The second widow was the woman
put out and set apart, divorced from the herd or camp for seven
days. The third Widow is a woman who has lost her husband.
Names like these originate in prinaries, not in the tertiary stage
of application.
U TA , to be separate, divorced, set apart is synonymous with W ITE
to go out, and with the word out. The W ITE -law is the outlaw.
U Â (Eg.) signifies the one, alone, solitary, isolated. The t is the
feminine terminal; also ta is typical. U TA is the heron or crane,
as the widow, the solitary, isolated one, distinct from the gregarious
birds. The goddess U AT or U ATI is the divine widow, in the form of
the genitrix, who was the one alone in the beginning, the one who
brings forth the gods; she who was mateless, the Virgin Mother of
Mythology.
U TA (Eg.) has an earlier form in F UTA , to be separate, divided,
set apart for certain reasons, as the word shows. F UT and AFT are
variants, and A FT is the mother of flesh and blood, the Widow of
Mythology, whom we shall find at the head of all the divine dynasties,
as sole genitrix of gods and men. Fut is found jn the Irish Fedb,
Bavarian Fud, for the widow; Gothic Viduvo; Latin Vidua. In the
Welsh Gweddw, the single, solitary, widow, or widower we have the
gutteral prefix to the Uta (Eg.). Thus the widow is the Uta, Fut,
and Khut, each of which has its still earlier point of departure in
the name Kheft (Eg.), the ancient mother which deposits the Gweddw
on one line, and the Fedb on the other, and shows how the Egyptian
precedes both. This old genitrix, the Typhonian Great Mother, as
Kef, survives in our English Wife.
In Gipsy language, the female, as wife, girl, daughter, is named
C HAVI . K UF in Cornish English is the wife. The letter W comes
to represent the K G or Q in many ancient words, hence K EF (older
Kuf) is the Wife. K EF is the wife who was the earlier widow, before
her son had become her consort. One of her titles is the Great
Mother of him who is married to his mother; the great one who
bore the gods; this was when she was separate, or a widow, the one
alone.
The mother of Romulus was the Virgin Mother, Rhea Silvia the
Vestal; but he was also said to have been reared by Acca, who was
designated the Harlot of Laurentum. The Virgin and the Harlot
are two names of the same character in Mythology; the mother
of the gods, who bore without the male, and was the prototype of
the Widow.
All that belonged to the first formation of thought was afterwards
decried, denounced, and derided. Its types were condemned to serve
as images of evil, evil being chiefly discovered in the superseded
conditions, out of which the advance had been made. The Ass was
one of these living types that have suffered ever since. Woman has
been degraded in various characters for her early supremacy in
typology, one of these being that of the stepmother, another that of
the widow. Her type in mythology is pre-monogamous. Her other
name, as in the Book of Revelation, is the Great Harlot, because
she had been the Great Mother, who produced without the proper,
that is, later fatherhood. In her sacred aspect she was the Virgin
Mother, in her degraded one the Whore. The synonym of K HARAT
(Eg.), the widow, in the Gaelic C ALAT, means the prostitute. For
this the widow suffers, and the opprobrium descends to her children.
The Russian proverb, ―Do not marry a widow‘s daughter,‖ the
meaning of which the Russians do not profess to understand, remains
as a relic of this bad character inherited by the widow from the most
ancient type of the genitrix. In this way we shall gradually learn
that mythology is a mirror which still reflects the primitive sociology.
All profane words were considered sacred at first. Things now
held to be vulgar and unclean were the divine verities of an earlier
time. They were the gods and goddesses of mythology, and the
mysteries, who are now but the cast-off rags and refuse, the dross of
refined humanity. Who that hears the profane term of ―B EAK ‖
applied to a dignitary of the Bench by any vagrant offender would
imagine that the title is a divine sign of rule? Yet ―B AK ,‖ in
Egyptian, denoted a god. The B AK is the Divine Hawk of Har
(cf. beak of a bird), and a sign of the sun-god; with the whip attached
it was a symbol of the highest authority. Becc, a constable, is
the earliest form in English.
The oldest known Egyptian statue, one that was found by Mariette
in the newly discovered temple of the Sphinx,1 wears a wig which may
have been the type of one worn by a PUISNE judge. The wearer sits
for the portrait of one. Is the P UISNE judge named in Egyptian?
The P UISNE judges are the four inferior judges of the Court of
Queen‘s Bench, who are compelled to go on circuit. S HEN or S HENI
1 Portrait, Journal of the Anthropological Society, June 1874.
(Eg.) is the circuit. P UI is the article, the P UI -S HENI is the circuit.
S HENI likewise means the common crowd, the multitude, to avert,
turn away, abuse. P UI further signifies to be; PUI , to go. If the
Egyptians had P UISNE judges who went on circuit to redress
wrongs, PUI - SHENI (later seni) would express the character of our
Puisne judges, when itinerating in a circle, or on circuit. The
dropping of the S in pronunciation is no proof that the title is from
the French puis né, subsequently used.
We have a P UISNE Court under the name of S ENE an ecclesias-
tical, therefore most ancient, foundation, in which the abuses of the
church Reeves were corrected. It was a court of appeal.
S ENAGE is the name of fines and payments levied in the S ENE
Court. S ENHAI (Eg.) signifies to bind, conscribe, review, levy.
H AI - T is a court. S EN - HAIT would be a court of appeal with
power to review, to loose or bind, an early form of the Senate. Sen
being second, the S EN - HAIT is the second court of two. Sen (Eg.)
means second, and Puisne is also a second brother, and a secondary
form of a judgeship. So that we have Puisne (Pui-Sen) (Eg.) for the
circuit, also Pui-Sen, the second; the Sen-hait is the second court
of two, as it still is in the second house of legislature, our Commons.
H A (Eg.) is the chief, ruler, governor. H AT denotes various forms
and symbols of the ruler, as the mace, the upper crown, or throne. The
Egyptian H AT or H UT is the highest of the two crowns. The H AT
sign of the ruler is extant along with the mace in the English House
of Commons, and is in the last resort the same emblem of authority.
The Speaker puts on his hat as the extremest sign of his ruling and
governing power, in the lower of the two houses, answering to the
neter-kar (or hell) or the two heavens; the double house of the
sun. He is typified by his Hat, and is thereby a Hat in person.
Great Hat is likewise a sacred title among the Jews. The Hat is
put on to compel, and H AT (Eg.) means to terrify and compel. Hat
signifies to be called or ordered in English, and in Egyptian it means
order. The cry of to ―Order, order,‖ is thus ―Hat, hat,‖ and in
extreme instances the Hat is forthcoming. Hatt (Eg.) is a salute, and
in saluting we take off or touch the hat.
The college ―G YP ,‖ we are informed, derives his name from the
Greek vulture because be preys like a vulture. The G YP waits on
gentlemen as a porter. G YP , as in Gipsy, is K HEB in Egyptian, and
Kheb is a name for one who is in a lowly position, the title of an
inferior. K HEB has an earlier form in Nakhab, Akkadian N EKAB , or
the Khab, as we say, the Gyp. This title is not identified in the
hieroglyphics, but in the cuneiform Negab is the porter, as is the
college gyp. There must be many Egyptian words connected with
these old college foundations of Cam and Isis. The name of the
C ANTAB is said to be abbreviated from Cantabrigiæ. But the term
C ANTAB may also be derived from some form of a religious service,
as in the hieroglyphics K AN - TEB is a servitor or dependent. The
word implies religious service. The determinative denotes a hall, a
foundation. K AN is service; TEB to pray, prayer. K ANTEB may
also mean a member of a family, house, hall, or temple.
The fagging in our public schools is an extant form of slavery or
compulsory service explicated by the Egyptian word FEKH , capture,
captives, to be a captive. The same word means reward, and this
points to the service of the FAG being the captor‘s reward. The
captive FEKH is now represented by the under-schoolboy, who drudges
for the upper one‘s reward. Five heads of ―FEKH ‖ or captives were
given to Aahmes as his share of the spoil. 1
Nor do we derive the name of the Page as a servant from the
Greek pa…dion.2 The Page in East Anglia is a boy servant, especially
an underling to a shepherd. This is the Egyptian B AK , a servant
who is a labourer. The P AGE likewise is the bricklayer‘s boy, and the
B AK also works in stone. There is no form extant in P AK , but there is
in Fekh, the captive, the bound one, as the PAGE was bound, and word
for word the F EKH and B AK are our F AG and P AGE. The glorified
form of the page in livery is found in the B AK , a type of Horus, the
prince, the BOY, the youthful Sun God, and finally BOY is the modified
form of both page and bak. We might say at first sight that page or
boy and the page of a book had no relationship, but the fact is there
is nothing unrelated at root. The page of the book we may derive
from Pakha (Eg,), to divide, a division, one of two, and this may also
be the meaning of the name of the boy as one of the two sexes.
Khe (Eg.) is the child, and P is the masculine article, the. P- KHE
yields the male child—Bekh also denotes the male—and with the
feminine terminal T we have the name of the goddess, the lion
and cat, as Pekht, a form of the biune being.
One meaning of our word HIND is to be in an abject, evil, enslaved,
or accursed condition. The earlier forms H INE , H EYNE, H EAN ,
French H AINE and H ONI , relate to the condition of the person;
this may be abject, poor, evil, or other shapes or humiliation.
All the meanings of H INE are extant in Egyptian. H AN is evil,
envy, malice, hate; A N , to be afflicted, sad, oppressed; H ANNU , to
rule and flog; H ANRU , to stint and starve; U N is to be bad, to
want, be defective. These sufficiently denote the evil condition
which may vary indefinitely. The U NT (Eg.) is a person whose
condition as the H IND is a washerwoman. The ―U NNU ‖ appear
as persons of an unknown condition, but apparently dark.
U N , A N , H AN , and H ANNU , then, are Egyptian for conditions of
misery, poverty, want, wretchedness, and serfdom. Hence the word
in English includes the evil condition of HAINE or HONI , and the
condition of serfdom in the Hind. But the word HIND also signifies
1 Inscription of Aahmes, lines 20, 21.
2 Sayce, Science of Language, vol. i. 342.
periodicity. H AN , A N , or U N , mean a cycle of time. U N or U NT is
the goddess of periodicity. The periodic type is also round in the
HIND -calf or one-year old. Thus the labourer bound annually is
the H IND .
The primal illustration of the bad and evil condition of the hind as
revealed by the hieroglyphic is that of the feminine period named
―U N ‖ or ―A N ,‖ the period, defect, deficient, open, bald, afflicted,
murmuring, waiting; the period of purifying, from which comes the
name of the washerwoman. This was a first form of periodic evil,
and the lady who represents this is extant as the lady of HANE,
rendered hate, the Lady of darkness, the M ATER D OLOROSA , the
negative of two characters assigned to the Great Mother. An infertile
feckless female is still a H EN -wife.
In the hieroglyphics ―Kat‖ means to go round, circulate, travel
round and be round, and to work. So the C ADIES , a body of
messengers and porters extant in the last century at Edinburgh,
were men who went round in doing their work. The Scotch market
C ADIE and milk C ADIE still go their rounds. To CADDLE or CUDDLE
is to clasp round. A C ADAR placed over a scythe in mowing sur-
rounds the swathe of corn. A C ADE is a cask, also round. To
Cadge is to bind round; the C ADGE is a circular piece of wood.
A K ID , faggot, is bound round. The C ADGER plies his round. The
K ID or C OD incloses round.
In Scotland both gipsies and tinkers are called C AIRDS . In the
hieroglyphics K ARRT is a furnace and an orbit so that the C AIRD
may be named as the Brazier from carrying his furnace, and the
gipsy from his going and coming round, the one being the tinker by
trade, the other the nomad. K ARTI is the plural form of K ART, and
it means ―HOLES ‖; these are stopped by the Caird as tinker. T EN
in Egyptian is to fill up and stop; K AR is a circle or hole, so that the
tinker is the hole-stopper. The commoner form of the tinker in Scotch
is TINKLER . This is likewise found in the name of the furnace or
brazier as ―K RER .‖ ―Tin-K RER ‖ with the jet of flame determinative
obviously denotes the mender by means of fire, our Tinkler.
Kar (Eg.) is a course, the sun‘s course or daily round. This is our
word C HAR applied to the C HAR -woman who works by the day, the
course or char. Her orbit, like the sun‘s, is completed in a day.
C HARRED is completed, as in the saying ―that Char is charred.‖
Daily C HARES or C HORES are duties done as the day comes round.
The same root gives us our quartets of wheat; there is no statute
measure in which four of these make a whole; five quarters are
one load. The Q UAR -ter (ter Eg., all) is the total that is K ARRED
as in the Quart.
The Scoundrel may be derived from the Gaelic Sgonn, the vile, bad,
worthless, and Sgonn from Skhennu (Eg.), a plague, a torment, to treat
with violence. This word has Typhon, the devil, for determinative.
But the droll or drel is the knave, the worthless one, and equivalent
to Sgonn, as if it only reduplicated the Sgonn in Scoundrel, which
suggests another derivation from Skhennu, to treat with violence,
torment, and torture, apparently connected with the cucking-stool.
This was used at one time as a sort of choking stool called the Goging
Stool, the Gog being a bog or quagmire. Criminals were choked in
quagmires. In Germany, cowards, sluggards, prostitutes, and droils
in general, were suffocated or nearly so in bogs, and the cucking
stool is a remnant of this kind of punishment employed in Britain.
In the P ROMPTORUM P ARVULORUM , 1 Esgn or Cukkyn is rendered
by S TECORISO . E SGN is a form of Skhen, to treat with violence;
hence it seems probable that the Scoundroil was the droil, the knave,
and rascal, who was placed on the goging-stool to be choked, whence
the term would be applied to one who deserved that treatment.
The Fiend, we are told by the lndo-Germanic philologers, is a
participle from a root, FIAN , to hate; in Gothic FIJAN ; and it comes
from the Sanskrit root PIY to hate, to destroy/ That is, F is derived
from P, and FIJAN from FI . Nothing of the sort. The sound of
the F or FU was possibly uttered thousands of years before the
human lips were sufficiently close together to pronounce the P.
The true root of the word meaning to destroy is F EKH (Eg.), to
capture, ravish, burst open, denude, destroy, whence the Sanskrit Piy.
But the Fiend is not derived from Fekh. The Fiend existed in Egypt
as F ENT, a worm, as B ENT, the ape, as the Pennut or ―abominable
Rat of the Sun,‖ and as Typhon, the Devil. Typhon is equivalent to
F EN - T with the article reversed. F ENT is the nose, and the Fiend
is proverbially of a bad smell. F ENNU (Eg.) is dirt, and this is con-
nected with the bad smell and the F ENT, as nose-symbol. F AINICH
in Gaelic is to smell; P ENCHIUMAN , Malayan, is sense of smell.
F ENKA (Eg.) is to evacuate. This is the English FUNK , to cause a
bad smell, a stinking vapour; Irish F ANC for dung; Maori PIHONGA ,
putrid, stinking; Sanskrit P ANKA , mud, impurity, slough, with which
we may parallel V ANCH (Sans.), to move slyly, secretly, stealthily,
and go crookedly, to decieve, delude, cheat.
It is the Chinese F UNG - YUE, considered by Morrison to be too in-
delicate to translate except by calling it Breath and Moon. P ENKA
(Eg.), to bleed, disjoin, make separate; F ENKA , evacuate, show the
menstrual nature of the Fiend. The F IEND and F ONT are here
identical. Thus F EN denotes dirt, filth, and the F IEND is a personi-
fication. P EN (Eg.) is to reverse. F ANE (Eng.) are foes and enemies,
the Fiend is the adversary. B AN (Eg.) is evil, and the Fiend the evil
one. Lastly, we have the Egyptian F ENTI in our ―Old Bendy,‖ an
English name of the Devil. Fenti is a god of the nose; but the real
fiend was female, T being the feminine terminal of Fen or Ban, the
evil. Nothing can be more misleading than words when divorced
1 MSS. Harl. 221, British Museum.
from things, and the nature of the eschatological or modernised
F IEND will not determine the origin of the name.
The Greek form of Typhon in never been found on the monu-
ments. But we can see why. The F ENT of the calf‘s head was worn
down to Fet. Fent, the nose, was also worn down to Fet. That is, an
ideographic Fen became a phonetic F. Thus Tef would read Tefen or
Typhon, and Fen-t as the calf‘s head is T-fen. With the snake F, read
Fen, Fet, the worm, is the Fent as in Coptic, and Fet to menstruate, is
Fent. The calf‘s head, Fent or Fet, is the sign of periodicity, the first
of the two feminine periods or truths. There is a goddess Ahti, with
a calf‘s head and the body of a hippopotamus. That is a form of
Fenti or Typhon. Ahti means the double house, as the place of birth.
Typhon or Fent became our Fiend, partly in relation to a certain
physiological fact, whence the ill-odour of the Fiend and the red com-
plexion of Typhon. Hence the Irish fin or fion means that colour, as
red; and fana in Arabic is the name of a doctrine of annihilation identi-
cal with the dissolution into primordial matter (blood) that takes place
in the Egyptian pool of Pant (Fent), where Typhon was at last located
as the Devilor Fiend in the Fens of the Ritual.
The name of Old N ICK has never been satisfactorily accounted for.
It is said to have been borrowed from the Danes, who had an evil
genius in the shape of a sea-monster. The Swedish N EKAN is an
evil spirit of the waters that plays deluding strains of music. No
matter how it got into Europe, the N ICK or N ECKEN is Egyptian.
N EKA signifies to delude, provoke, be false, criminal, evil, and N AKEN
has the same meaning. The Neka personified is the monster of the
deep, the dragon of the waters, the Apophis serpent, the eternal
enemy of the sun and capturer of souls. Typhon (a form of the
Apophis) was red. He dwelt in the mythical Red Sea or Pant. His
companions are described as being red in the face. The Osirian
asserts (Ch. 42) that the redness of their faces is unknown to him;
and Wormius say the redness in the faces of drowned persons
was ascribed to the Neka (or Old Nick) having sucked the blood out
of their nostrils.1 A modified form of the false deluder of the waters
exists as the English Nicker, a syren. The Yula (African) N EKIRU
is the devil. The same meaning as N EKA (Eg.), to delude, play false,
provoke, deride, be impious, is found in the Cornish N ICKA - NAN
N IGHT, that night before Shrove Tuesday, when boys were permitted
to play all sorts of impish tricks upon the unwary. Nun or Nunu
(Eg.) is the little boy, the ninny, whose night was that of Nicka-nan.
The name of M AN is said to be derived from a root meaning to
think, so that man was originally distinguished from the animals as
the thinker. If so the child is indeed the father to the man in
naming, for thinking, in the modern sense, is altogether a late appli-
cation of the word man or men which means, in Egyptian, to fix,
1 Mon. Dan. p. 17.
memorise, or memorialise, i.e., to mind, in the Scottish sense of
remembering. Man was first named from his physical attributes
rather than his mind. The hieroglyphic type of the man par excellence
is the bull, the potent male. This is the M AN or M EN , for the
earlier dative M EN , now confined to the plural, had the Egyptian
form. M EN means the fecundator, the male, the bull. It is the
title of Amen-generator or Khem. The name may be derived
from Ma, the true, the firm-standing. One phonetic M is the male
emblem; N U means the type or likeness. Also M A or M AI is
the seminal substance, that which has and gives standing and
stability. Men also means to erect a stone monument. And here
we have the connection between the name of Man and that of Stone.
The man and stone are often synonymous. The stone is Men (Eg.),
a true type of stability. The stone is the ideograph of erecting, and
the man is named from his virile power. Men permutes with Khem as
a male prefix, the bolt sign being read both ways. Khem, the erector,
the bull, the physical male, signifies the potent, powerful prevailer,
as the man. Khem, rectum (Chem in Chinese) and erector, is the
M A - NU or true type. Now as Khem is Men, it seems likely that the
Latin homo is it modified form of K HEMU , the master. Khemu, to
prevail, be master, have potency and authority, answers to the Latin
H OMO , to be stout and brave. The worn-down H EMU (Eg.) means
the woman, the typical seat, abode, place, which has, however, an
earlier form in K HEMU , the shrine, the habitation of the child, the
womb. The flame of the Amenti (Eg.), the earlier Menti, is based
on Men, the Man as the physical founder; and the Menti, the region of
the dead, is literally the ―re-foundry,‖ where the pictures show the
regenerator in the likeness of the generator, Men-Amen.
To be Khemt (Eg.) is to become the H OMME FAIT, and that
identifies the H OMME with Khem. In the monuments, Khem, Men-
Amen, and Mentu are three deified farms of ―Man,‖ as the generator
and their names are found in the following specimen lists of languages,
for that of Man.
KHEM. MEN and MENTU.
KOM , Vogul. MAN, English.
C OMAI , Oregones. MANU , Banga, S.
N GOME, Mare MANA , Kirata.
KAMI , Burmese. MANUS, Kambojia.
GOM , English. MANAS, Darahi.
GUMA , Gothic. MUNS, Bhatúi,
C HAMAI , Koreng. UMAN, Kasia.
KAIMEER , Erroob. MANHAI , Thara.
HOM , French Romance. A MUNU , Mangarei.
HOMO, Latin. MANUSHA , Sanskrit.
A MHA , Irish. MINYAN, Namsang.
A MME, Sibsagar-Miri. MANUT , Pali.
A MI , Khari-Naga. MUNTU , Wakamba.
It appears to me that the name of C OUSIN may bavoe been derived

by a shorter way than from consororbrinus to consobrinus, and thence
to cossobrinus, cos‘rinus, cosinus, and finally to cousin. In Egyptian
K HU is a title, apparently of relationship; SEN is blood; Khu-sen
would be a blood title, a title of blood-relationship; SEN , as second,
would indicate the status of second in blood or the cousin. A certain
―country cousin‖ will sustain this derivation. Khu found as a title
has the mcaning of birth, to be born, as in Khab. Khab-sen or
Khu-sen then, signifies to be sister-born, as Sen is the sister in an
important mythological relationship. The Great Mother takes the
form of the two divine sisters or the dual goddess as Isis and
Nephthys, or Keridwen and Ogyrven,and the dual type is found in
Urti, Pehti, Merti, and Senti, as the twin-sisters. We shall find in
these two sister-goddesses the two women whom the Kamilaroi tribes
claim to descend from. When this type was applied sociologically
the children born of the Sen (sisters) were the first cousins. Sen
(Eg.) is the name of the Two Truths as Blood and Breath, whence
the two sisters personified from Pubescence and Gestation as the
Senti.
Here language tells its tales. The Sen is the sister, but the earlier
Khen is a concubine. Also the Khen denoted the uterus itself im-
personated by the naked and outcast goddess Kên, Kefn, or Katesh.
The English cousin has its earlier form in the Italian C UGINO which
goes back to the Khen and the concubine in the premonogamous
stage, but still showing the uterine relationship. This gino or Khen
is th e Con in consobrinus.
The duality of Sen is preserved in the Latin Con, as shown in
Consort, Congress, and other forms of being TOGETHER ; and the
Egyptian Khen proves the feminine type; also Khen, the Concubine,
is equal to Sen, the Sisters, and K HENEM is to unite, join together.
The Cousin in Spanish is S OBRINO , without the Con. The equiva-
lent S IF (Eg.) is the Child, and R EN (Eg,) means the name, or to
name. Thus Sif-ren or Sobrino is the child-name. K HEN - SIF - REN
is the uterine child-name, as it denotes the name given to the child
on account of uterine and blood-relationship on the sister‘s side,
which is perfectly recoverable in Sen-sif-ren, the child named from
the two sisters, or from the earlier Khen-sif-ren, from the two
concubines. Egyptian here shows the roots from which different
words have been compounded to express the same meaning, and
these have been in this, as in so many more instances. compounded
independently of one another, instead of having been derived from
each other, as philologists have hitherto assumed.
Parent is said to come from the Latin P ARENS , a father or
mother, breeder or nourisher. Both, doubtless derive from one
root, the Egyptian R EN or R ENN , which will tell us more about the
meaning. R ENN is the nurse, to nurse, and the nursling. If we
take P A for the male, as begetter, then PA- RENN is the father. Ren,
however, signifies to name, to call by name, and to rear. T in
Egyptian is the participial or feminine terminal, and R EN - T, although
not found on the monuments, except as the name of Rennut, the
Gestator, is the named, or the namer, wherever found, and shows
the formation of P ARENT from P A - REN - T. P A , then, is the producer,
R EN means to name, nurse, rear up. The P ARENT is not the mere be-
getter, but the namer and bringer up of the child. In Welsh ERN is a
pledge, and the R EN (name) was conferred as a pledge of fatherhood.
It is difficult to realise the ancient mystery of the name and
naming. The natives of the Aru Islands only asked to have the
real name of the traveller‘s country, and then they would have the
means of talking about him when he was gone.1 Such was once the
paucity of speech and economy of words! This reminds us of the
story told by Dr. Lieber, who was looking at a negro feeding some
young birds by hand, and asked if they would eat worms. ―Surely
not,‖ replied the negro; ―they are too young; they would not know
wha t to call them.‖
The name was a representative likeness. The name (S EM ) in
Hebrew is in Egyptian a representative sign. There is a point at
which the child and the name are one, as they are in the Egyptian
R ENN , the child and the name. It is the same with the Word and
the child. K HAR (Eg.) is both child and Word. Both are uttered;
both are issue. The name with the Hebrews is one with the god, and
the S EM or divine name of the Chaldeans was a person.
With the Egyptians the personal name was sometimes synony-
mous with the K A , a spiritual image or double of the self. The
child of the parent was likewise an image of her or him. The name
(R EN ) is identical with the son as the representative sign of the
parent. Oaths were sworn by the name and by the son, and the
name and son are equivalent as types of continuity.
The Hebrew Metatron is the Angel of the Name. He is called
by that title, say the Rabbis, because he is a messenger. This is
best explained by the Egyptian M ETAT , to unfold, hence to reveal;
and R EN , the name. Metat-Ren is the revealer or manifestor of
or as the Name.
―The Angcel Metatron,‖ says one Rabbi, ―is the King of Angels.‖2
As the angel he represents the N AME, ―for my name (is) in him.‖3
He is called Metatron, according to the Rabbis, because that name
has two significations. These meet in Egyptian as the nursling and
the name. ―Blessed be the name, the honour of his kingdom for
ever and ever.‖4 ―He shook the urn and brought up two lots—one
was written for the N AME, and the other was written for Azazel, the
goat that departs, the devil.‖5 The mystery of the Metatron was
caused by the sonship, which belonged at first to the motherhood.
1 Wallace, Malay Archipelago, ch. 31. 2 Zohar, f. 137, c. 4.
3 Ex. xxiii. 21. 4 Mishna, treat. 5, chap. iv.
5 Mishna, treat 5, ch. iv.
In the Egyptian Ritual ―knowing the name‖ and uttering its
―open sesame‖ are the means of passing through the door of the
dead on the way to the land of life. ―I will not let you go,‖ says
every part of the door and entrance, ―unless you tell me my name;‖
and a knowledge of all the names is equivalent to salvation. The
souls in the dark valley claim the aid of the god on account of their
knowing the name whereby they invoke his help.
The same superstitious regard for the name survived as a Christian
doctrine. The name is still as much the word of magic power as it
was in the parental religion of Egypt, and precisely on the same
ground. Here is the original doctrine. The seventy-five forms and
manifestations of the Sun-god R A are synonymous with his N AMES .
In certain glosses on the Ritual R A is described as ―creating his
N AME as lord of all the gods,‖ or as producing his limbs, which
become the gods who are in his company. The son Renn is the
typical name, and the ―Name as lord of all‖ is identical with the
son. So the formula of invocation, ―for thy name‘s sake,‖ signifies
for thy son‘s sake, the son and the name being equivalent and
synonymous, as in the Egyptian R ENN .
In John‘s Gospel the son and name are identical, and the Son of
God is the name of God.
―Father, glorify Thy Name. Then came a voice from Heaven
(saying) I have both glorified (it) and will glorify (it) again,‖ in the
person of the Christ. 1 ―O Father, glorify Thou me . . . . I have
manifested Thy Name.‖2 So in Revelation the Son is one with the
Name.
These things are alluded to in passing because it has to be shown
that the primitive typology is yet extant in the eschatological stage,
and we have to go back to the first phase of religious doctrines and
superstitions before we can possibly understand them. But here was
the later difficulty. The issue, whether as Word, Name, or Child,
proceeded from the mouth. The mouth was feminine; it was the
mother; it was R ENNUT, the emaner of the R ENN . The child was
her representative sign. And when the male became the parent,
human or divine, here was a mystery connected with naming, ready
made. Hence the Jews would not mention the names of either
Jehovah or Baal, for reasons, as will be shown, connected with the
motherhood and the early sonship.
In the ancient British system ten or a dozen Britons had their wives
in common, particularly among brothers and fathers and sons, but the
children were held to belong to him who had taken the V IRGIN to
wife. The Virgin is R ENEN (Eg.), a form of Rennut, and through
her and the first husband we find the parentage passing from the
motherhood to the individualised fatherhood not yet sufficiently
ascertained.3
1 Chap. xii. 28. 2 Chap. xvii. 6. 3 Cæsar, book v. chap. 14.
In Sumatra the father is distinguished by the name of his first
child, and is proud to sink his own personal name in that of his
son. Even the women, who do not change their first names, are
sometimes honoured by being called the Mother of the Eldest Child,
as a matter of courtesy. 1 They retain the status of Rennut, the
Virgin Mother, with their first names.
With the Kutshin India.ns the father‘s name is formed by the
addition of the word T EE to the end of his son‘s name; thus if
Que-ech-et has a son wbom he names Sah-nen, the father calls
himself Sah-nen-tee, and his previous name, as that of a son, is then
forgotten.2 The son was first, the fatherhood was secondary, because
the first naming was from the mother, and here the sonship still
dominates the naming. The Welsh Tad for the father‘s name implies
this seoondary or TWOED status of the male parent.
The Kaffir custom of H LONIPA is related to this mystery of naming
and to the descent of the child from the mother. The Kaffir women and
their children avoid mentioning their own father‘s name. They also
refuse to pronounce or make use of words which have for their chief
syllable any part of the name of the father, father-in-law, or para-
mount chief, and H LONIPA is the designation given to the custom of
avoiding the name of the male. 3 H LONI means maiden modesty,
bashfulness} sense of shame. The present writer sees in H LONI the
Egyptian R ENN , the Virgin, which answers to the sense of modesty,
bashfulness, and shame; to the name of the Nursling and to R EN ,
to call by name, or rather to R ENNU , which contains the elements of
R EN , name, and N U , not, no, without. P A , Kaffir, means to give, and
H LONIPA is not to give the name. It looks as if the male was still
treated as the R ENNU or yet unnamed child of the Virgin, the son
of the mother who, in Mythology, became her consort.
The first parent then was female; she is personified in the goddess
Rennut, the primordial producer, as goddess of the eighth month,
and of harvest. P A - RENNU reads the abode of the nursling, and
Pa-R ENNUT is the parent, as the abode of the child. She was the
first namer (P A - RENT ), and was portrayed as the Serpent-Woman,
and the serpent that encircles round as the type of gestation. This
serpent-ring was the first shape of the R EN , a cartouche that inclosed
the royal name, as Rannut had enfolded the Renn, her nursling.
Then, with P A for a masculine prefix, we have the male R EN - T
(Rennut) as the namer of the child, and, with the s terminal, P ARENS .
When we call to mind the solemnity of the ancient rite of naming
amongst what are considered the uncivilized peoples, this original
significance of the word Pa-ren-t is of great sociologial interest. The
Pater might beget, but the male parent assumed the position of the
1 Marsden‘s History of Sumatra, p. 286.
2 Smithsonian Report, p. 326, 1866.
3 Davis, Kaffir Dictionary, Ulonipa.
family-man and husband. The child that was R ENNED by him took
R AN -k, as in old English a knight was a ―R ENK .‖ He was R AN - KED
by a name. To be renowned is to be rccognised by name. A Runt,
Ronyon, randy, rannet, ranter, each imp]y conspicuous naming.
The word Name itself is probably derived from ―Ken-nam‖ as
Num is from Khnum. Ken (Eg.) signifies a title, and Am means
belonging to; the name being a title belonging to. Am (Eg.) also
denotes letters-patent. Thus the Ken-am would be not only the title
belonging to, but the patented title, the name by lawful right.
Still earlier ma or am is the Mother, and Ken-am or Ken-ma would
be the mother-title. In hieroglyphics the word may be Khnem or
Nem, according as the sign be read Khen or N, syllabic or phonetic.
The Khnem, like the Renn, is the nurse, the educator or bringer-up.
Khenems denotes a title, name, function, relationship, tutor. And as
Khenem also means to smell, to perceive, to select and choose, it is
apparent that the animal‘s knowing its young by smell was a recog-
nised form of Khnem-ing of naming.
This word Khnem for a title, and parental function will answer
for the Greek Ônoma, Sanskrit N ÂMÂ , Gothic N AMO , Finnic N IMI ,
Lap N AMM , Ostiak N IM , Votiak N AM , Mermian N AMID , Vogul N EMA ,
Samoyed N IM , Latin N OMEN and A GNOMEN , Persian N AM , Switz
N AM , Maltese N OM , Jukkao N IM , Gaelic N IM , Malay N AMA , Avanish
N AMA , Guzerati N AMA , Malabar N AMAN , Birmese N AMADO , Tamul
N AMITTIN , Telugu N AMADHYAN , Wohaks N IMUD , Hoch Indian
N AMADHEIAN , and many more; and as nam and nef interchange it
will include the Magyar N EV , old Norse N EF , Welsh ENW , Ostiak
N IPTA , and Mahratta N AWE. Also as the syllabic ken deposits both
K and N as phonetics, K NAM will include the Kaffir G AMA for the
name. And with the modification of K A into S HA and S A , which
occurs in Egyptian, we have the S HEM or S EM as the Semitic
type-name.
K ENAM or Nam, to repeat and renew, may indicate something
of the mystical identity between the name and the child. N IM in
Toda is the plural pronoun of the second person. N EMA in Sanskrit
means ―the other.‖ N AM is the personal pronoun in Akkadian; it
also denotes state and status, and N AM -ad signifies paternity, A D
being the father, an equivalent of the English N AMED .
If ―name‖ be identical with ―Nam‖ (Eg.) it has a bearing on the
universal practice of not mentioning the dead by name. Nam (Eg.)
means to repeat, a second time, a second condition, seconding, and to
renew. This was the status of the child named by the parent. In
Shetland no dead person must be mentioned by name, because the
ghost was supposed to come in response; and this seems to have
been the general reason for the custom. To repeat the name was
synonymous with a renewal of the person. The Dyaks will not
repeat the name of small-pox lest repeating and reproducing should
be synonymous. We have a survival in the popular ―talk of the
devil he‘s sure to appear,‖ employed on meeting with anyone who
has just been named.
It is commonly assumed and asserted that the names of P ATER ,
V ATER , F ATHER , are derived from a root P Â , to protect, support,
nourish. In Egyptian P Â came to mean the male, the men. But the
accent has to be accounted for. It represents a missing f or p. When
restored we have the word PAF, which means breath, the English PUFF.
P AIF (Eg.) is breath, wind, or gust; the earliest form of ghost or soul.
It is the universal testimony of language that Being and Breathing
are synonymous; to breathe is to be, and to be is to breathe. B HU
(Sansk.), B A , Zulu; B O , Vei; B U , Zend; B A , Egyptian; B ASU , As-
syrian, signify to be. And to be, in Egyptian and Sanskrit to B A , is
to be a soul, the earliest soul being the breath. Ba, be, bo, bhu,
however, do not reach the root of being, they had a prior form ending
in f, p, or b. In the hieroglyphics F U is ardour, dilating cause, dilata-
tion, to became large, vast, expanded; FÂ is to bear, to carry the
corn measure, a symbol of pregnancy. FUF , P UF , and B AF are not
developed forms of F U , PU , and B A ; on the contrary the latter are the
reduced forms, and what have been taken for original roots are not
primaries at all.
This root of Being and Breathing is found in Bhava (Sans.) for
being, state of being, existence, origin, production, and it is related to
breath, wind, winnowing, purifying and making bright (light, fire, soul
and breath are synonymous)—in P AVANA ; in the Malayan P UPU
for generation; in the Swahili B EBA to carry the child. Also, the
series of senses in which B HAVA is used relating to being are to be
found in the Hebrew B AVA (aWB) to go, come, coming, arriving,
appearing, coming to pass, fulfilling, to live. Here the fundamental
sense is based on the swelling and puffing in pregnancy, hence BAVAM
(\WB) to be bellied; B AVEK (lWB) to bub, to sprout and bring
forth. P EVA (aWp) means to breathe and blow. Galla, B UBE, wind or
breath. Maori P UPU , to rise, as breath or mist. This is the Egyptian
P AF , breath, a gust of wind; P AF or V AP our. P AF is determined
by the sail puffed out with wind, and before sails were woven the sign
of PAF was the pregnant woman. Hence the P EP lum, or sacred chemise
of Athena, was suspended as a symbol on her vessel, in the manner
of a sail; hence also the word sail is the same as soul, and the sail is
a symbol of the soul. The true root of P URUSHA , according to the
primitive thought, is extant in Sanskrit as P ERU , swelling, causing to
ferment; that mystery of life called S HETH and K EP by the Egyptians.
The root of being then is puffing, and this is the original significance
of P APA (Eg.), P EVA , Hebrew, and Sanskrit B HAVA ; Gaelic F OF ,
to swell, and English F UF , to puff. Bab (Eg.), to exhale, describes
the process as one in which the water passes into breath, whence
came the doctrine of the Spirit brooding and breathing over the
waters, the B AEV which in Sanchoniathon is one of the two principles
of life; Môt being the other: the Beba, Swahili, spirit; B WBACH ,
Welsh, a spirit; P UPA , Spanish, a spirit.
In the hieroglyphics the root B ABA , P APA , F AVA was generally
worn down to BA, PA, and FA, with an accented vowel, and sometimes
the accented vowel is all that is left. Thus P ÂTI for two handfuls
shows there was a hand called P AF and this is found as FA and A for
the hand. P APAKA (Maori), the crab, is word for word the same as
ÂPSH (Eg.), the tortoise, the hard-shelled breather in the waters and
preserves the earliest forms in P AP for Â P and K A for S HA . This
necessitates a good deal of restoration.
Fortunately the younger languages often preserve the older forms.
Take the word people, or as we have it in English pepul. In Egyp-
tian mankind, the human race or species are the Pâ, that is the Paf,
P AP , B ABES , or people. The P AF are the breathers and offspring of
breath. To P EPE (Eg.), is to engender, and the word came to be
applied to the male parent, the P APA , but can be proved to have had
no primary application to him.
The Bigenitrix was the Mother of Breath and of blood. As Mother
of Breath (paf), she inspired her soul into the child and PUFFED
and swelled in hearing it. This can be seen by the word A HTI ,
which is the name of the Genitrix, of the womb, and of a pair of bellows.
The female was the first P AF - ER , or breather; P AF is breath, gust,
ghost, road, way, we still say the family-way; P ABA , in the Ritual, 1
the soul, and P APA or P AFA to breed and bring forth is the
primordial word for being extant in the Sanskrit B HAVA , Hebrew
B AVA , Mangaian PAPA , the Great Mother; Chinese F UPA (Genitrix),
Ashanti B ABESIA the woman as bearer; Swahili B EBA , Russian B ABA ,
for the Grand-Mother; Japanese B ABA San, ―O B ABA San,‖ the old
woman; Greek B AUBO ; Meang B ABI the Mother; Chilian P APA ,
Mother; English Gipsy, B EBU , the Aunt; Hindustani B UBU , the
favourite concubine; the B APHOMET of the Templars; Amoy P O ,
the old Mother; the Zula B EBA , the mystery called B OBO in Irish
Keltic; the Welsh Pobo, producer of life; the Egyptian P ABA for
the soul, also the ―baba‖ (Eg.), a collar with the nine ―bubu,‖ or
beads denoting gestation. The dual character of the Genitrix perso-
nified as B HAVANI , or P APA , F UPA or B ABA is expressed in the
hieroglyphics by P Â -PÂ , i.e. P AF - PAF , and it means to produce or
engender, and to bring forth; in other equivalents to P UFF and P UP ,
with the determinative of the female bringing forth. She was the
dual P AP or P Â , the primary P APA .
The present writer holds that f is an earlier sound than p and b
and that the primitive pa-pa is extant in the Tobi V AIVI , for woman;
the F AKAOFO F AFine, woman; and the Ticopia F EF inetapu, woman.
This F AF is modified in the bush man T‘ AIFI , for woman. In
1 Ch. 165.
Saparua woman is called P IP inawa; B IB ini in Sumenap and B AB ini
in Ceram, all forms of the feminine P APA the producer. A FFA in
Danakil is the mouth and A FFAN in the Galla dialect. Avi in
Tamil is spirit, literally as breath and then as life. Af (Eg.)
means born of; and in Af or Eve was impersonated the maternal
breath of life. This is a deposit of Kaf on the one side or Faf on
the other; the meeting point of both. Faf as the Egyptian Fâ (faf)
denotes the seed-bearer, the swelling gestator. And Faf-faf is the
oldest form of paf-paf; pâ-pâ, papa, pa, and ba.1
The Scottish Gaels have the birthplace by name in the ―Isle of
P AB aidh.‖
―There came a woman of peace (a fairy) the way of the house of
a man in the island of Pabaidh, and she had the hunger of mother-
hood on her. He gave her food, and that went well with her. She
staid that night. When she went away, she said to him, ‗I am
making a desire that none of the people of this island may go (die)
in childbed after this.‘ None of these people, and none others that
would make their dwelling in the island ever departed in childbed
from that time.‖2
P AF - PAF had to be reduced to P APA before the name could be
applied to the father. When the male was discovered to be or was
imaged as the breather of soul and his type was set up as the
P AF -er or breather and author of being one-half of the name of
the bigenitrix the P AF - PAF , P A - PA is assigned to him as the P A .
Thus the root of the name father, vater or pater is not P A but P AF
and the Pafter is the engenderer of breath (paf) as primary being.
Baf (Eg.) to inspire, give breath, and Bat, for the father as the
inspirer are later forms of paft. Ar is the child, and to image
or make the likeness. Pafter modifies through pâter into pater.
But the mother was the first breath or bread-maker. For bread is
synonymous with breath. The cake and bread are written P ÂT and
P PAT, the latter being the same as our word puffed; the cake or
bread is dependent on breathing and puffing, and the name like that
of the human specics, P AF or B AB , is derived from the nature of
breath and breathing.
The Greek F UO (fÚw) to be, renders the Egyptian F UI or F Â (faf)
to bear or carry, with the ideograph of the bearing mother, who F U‘s,
or fufs, that is, dilates with new life, just like bread. In the texts3 the
Infinite God is characterized as F U - NUN -TERI , or dilation without
limit, as an image of the Divine Being, and in others the divine
substance is described as bread, in one4 the circle of the gods are a
1 F Â-P Â. Certain words, such as ―KHA-KHA,‖ ―N U-NU,‖ ―R ER-RER,‖ ―N KA,‖
and ―F Â-FÂ,‖ have been thus dwelt upon for a purpose beyond the present, as, in
them, the present writer considers, we are approaching the origines of speech to be
illustrated hereafter in the ―TYPOLOGY OF SOUNDS.‖
2 Campbell‘s Popular Tales of the West Highlands, vol. ii. p. 25.
3 Harris, Magic Papyrus, 3. 4 Stele naoph of Turin.
vast loaf of bread, a sort of infinite puff, or Bap, as the food of souls.
The Kosa and Zulu Kaffir P EFUMLO is the breath and the soul of
man, and P APA , the English puff, is a kind of fungus, a type of
lightness like the puff tart, or cake.
The symbolical bread-maker was the inspirer of soul; the Bâ (Eg.)
(earlier Baf) is both bread and soul, and PAF is breath. Thus bread
was named from breath or soul, and P AF as the P UFF , supplied
the name of light pastry. B Â or Baf found in P- PAU (Eg.) for bread
and a cake, is the Scottish B AP . F Â (faf) with the genitrix carry-
ing the corn-measure is yet earlier. Earliest of all was the great
mother fuffing, puffing, pup-ing as the producer of being, the
breather of the waters imaged by the fish, the frog, duck, or preg-
nant hippopotamus long long ages before bread was baked. We
shall find that she was the first baker who produced thirteen to the
dozen, and the only baker who ever had the owl (hieroglyphic Ma)
for a daughter.
The Hebrew Bra to create like the word create implies the circle
as the type of all beginning. Pra and per (Eg.) mean to wrap
round, surround, go round, and be round. B ER the eye is an image
of the circle and circle-making. But before the circle was drawn by
the human hand, came the watching of the figure made by nature.
First there was the R U , the female emblem, the uterus. Next the
swelling in pregnancy, the bellying and rounding forth in creation.
This being the result of paf and puffing it is natural to find that
the word Bra, Pra, or Per has an earlier form in B VR , (Heb. rWb), the
same as Bar for the hollow, pit, mystically the womb, the bubbing,
puffing, or breathing place, hence B VL (lWb), to bubble, to swell, to
bring forth, that is, when modified, to bell, belle, belly. Bealing like
bearing is to be big with child. This was the earliest creation.
In a later stage the male was considered the Breather. Bat (Eg.),
to inspire breath thus denotes the Begetter. In the Mexican picture
writing, the breath passing from the mouth, is typified by the male
image of the breather, the Bahu (Eg.), as symbol of the inspirer
of breath. This sense is extant in English, ―Thinkst thou to
BREATH me upon trust,‖ says a female character in Heywood‘s
Royal King (1637), breathing and begetting being synonymous.
When the male was the Breather the female became the Breathed.
The name of the Genitrix who carries the seed-basket as Neft,
means the Breathed, the Seeded.
P AUTI (Eg.) is the name for the divinity who recovers the lost
character in the primary spelling P AFTI . P AF is breath and
TI reduplicates; P AFTI is the reduplicator of breath. This proves
the appropriateness of the first Pafti being figured as the female, the
inspirer of breath into the embryo. She alone is represented by P AF -
P AF (pâ-pâ) the one who puffs and pups, or who produces and brings
forth. When the male was recognized as the spirit-giver he is the
B Â - T, that is B AFT, the Breather or soul-inspirer, and the member,
the bahu is B AFHU , the breather, literally the puffer of spirit or
aliment of life.
From this it follows that PUTHU or Ptah is primarily Pafthu who, as
father, is personified in the breather or inspirer of spirit, and named
as the masculine Aft, of the four corners, who took the place of
Aft the Genitrix, at the head of Egypt‘s deities. The name is
extant in Hebrew as Pevth (tWp), to be puffed, extended, said of the
female, and of that which is made manifest and revealed by swelling.
Puth (Eg.), i.e. P UFTHU is to open the mouth wide, to pant as the
lioness. P EVEL (lwp) is to be swelling, big, bellied, gestating. And
P UT (Eg.) to stretch the bow out is equivalent to P UFT. The P AUT
or P UT, a company of nine gods, also the name of No. 9, the nine
months of gestation, is P AFT or P UFT, and this in accordance with
the Gnosis expresses the full period of gestation or the total number
of the nine gods as the extent. P UT, i.e. puft, is to figure and form,
create the type; this too is based on swelling and puffing as did the
Genitrix, in shaping the child, the primordial image of breathing being.
The male breather of soul shares the type-name of Papa with the
female producer as in the Songo, Bola, Pepel, and Sar‘ar name
of P APA ; Soso Fafe; Tene Fafa; Baga Bapa; Ife, Ota, Karehare,
Ngodsin, Kamuka, Kiriman, Nalu, Kano, Turkish, Sonthal, and Carib
B ABBA . In a later stage the produce was called the Pup, as the
young of the dog; Pube, Cimbrisch, for the boy; German Bube;
Swiss, Bub, and Swiss Romance, BBoubo, the boy; Latin, Pupa, a
girl, Pupus, a boy, and the North American Indian P APPOOS .
Because the Sanskrit J IVE means to L IVE , be alive, revive, it is
forthwith classed with various other words that signify life, living, to
be alive. Such include the Latin, V IVO ; Greek, B…oj; Old German,
Q VEH ; Gothic, Q VIVS ; Sclavonic, S CHIVA ; Lithuanic, G YWAS ;
and English, Q UICK . Here the Egyptian shows us two distinct
ideas of life at the root of these words. The Latin V IVO is not of
the same parentage as J IVE or Q VEH , or the Russian Givoy. The
Sanskrit J represents an earlier K just as J INA , the ―overcomer of
all things‖ a title of Buddha; JINA , tne victorious, triumpbant.t
represents the Egyptian K AN or K ANU, the brave, able, victor.
The root on this line is found in K EF (Eg.). K EF or K EP was the most
ancient mother of all life, the Egyptian Eve. Now K EF means the
mystery of life related to the mystical water; it is called the mystery
of the Nile, of fertilization and fermentation; one of Two Truths
in the primitive Physiology, that of the Water or rather the Blood
which formed the flesh (Af). This was one aspect of the mystery,
one phase of the life.
K EF passed into Hebrew as G HIV , later G HI , the life, living;
Russian, Givoy, living. The nature of this origin will explain why
life and the beast are synonymous in the word G HIV or G HIVA .
The life in this sense was the blood, the life of the flesh. K EFA
was the mother of flesh and the beast personified. From K EF come
the O. G. Q VEH and Lithuanic G YWAS . But the Slavonic S CHIVA
corresponds to S KHEP (Eg.), to make live, and S HEE , flesh, bodily
shape. This relates to the first of the Two Truths.
V IVO is a form of P Â -P Â or P AF , the wind, gust, ghost or spirit;
the life of breath and primordial form of soul. This second of the
Two Truths of life is shown by FAF (fâ) to bear, with the corn-measure
on the head of the Genitrix, signifying gestation. It is the Irish.
Keltic B OBO , the mystery; the Welsh P ABO , the producer of life;
Galla B UBE, wind, breath, or B UFA , to puff; Egyptian P ABA , the
soul; English P UF , to blow; Tamul A FA , breath, as vapour, and
later spirit of life; Polynesian P U ; Greek F UO , to be; Vei F E,
to blow, breathe, kindle the fire; ba (Zulu), to be; Bû, Zend,
to be; Egyptian Ba to be a soul. With the article T prefixed to
pu, to be, tepu (Eg.) means the first and also to breathe or blow.
Buffaloes are called T EPU (Eg.) from their blowing. This suggests
the origin of the word B UF -falo from the same meaning. In Maori
the bud, shoot, growth or blowing of flowers is Tupu, and Tupu in
Mangaian signifies from the very beginning, when things first began
to TUPU or blow.
Languages without the verb to be in one sense have it in the more
concrete form of to live. The negro says the thing no ―lib‖ there,
for ―it is not there.‖ To live in the Latin Vivo is to BE in the sense
of to puff or breathe. The word L IFE is synonymous with R EP
(Eg.), to grow, bud, blossom, and bear like the tree, or as Repit the
Genitrix, the L LAF -dig. To be Q UICK is to be living, and this means
also to be pregnant, and is traceable to the mothers quickening. To
quicken, in English, is to ferment with yeast. The word Q UICK is
K HI - KHI in the hieroglyphics, to beat with a whip or to fan, to make
go; and thIs whip, early fan, is the symbol of spirit and breathing,
whilst its fellow of two, the A UT (Crook) signifies matter. These are
types of the Two Truths carried in the hands of the gods.
Our word Mother is not derived from the Sanskrit M A , to fashion,
but from the Egyptian name of the mother as M UT. Mut means
the mother, the Emaner, the mouth (she was the mystical mouth of
the breath of being); M UT the chamber, place, abode, the womb;
M UHT, the fulfiller from Mut to fill full, be full, complete, No. 9. The
form M UT also means to fix and establish. A R (Eg.) is the child,
or the likeness, the type of a fulfilled period, the thing made. Thus
M UT- AR is the place, the gestator, founder, and emaner of the child.
The name M AMA is also Egyptian. The word signifies to bear
and has the determinative of the female carrying the Modius or corn-
measure on her head, the hieroglyphic of gestation. 1 In various
other African dialects M AMA is the mother. This name has been
1 Lep. Denk, iv. 63, C.
supposed to be the spontaneous and universal utterance of infancy.
Ideographically it is written with the type of the mother bearing
seed; phonetically, with a double boat-stand. The Mamuti or Mam-
Kuti is the cabin of the boat. This doubly identifies the Mama as
the bearer.
Max Müller has suggested that the Sanskrit B HRÂTAR , Zend
BRÂTAR, Greek frat»r, Gothic B ROTHAR , Irish B RATHAIR , Slavonic,
B RAT, Cornish B RAUD , English B ROTHER mean the one who carries
or assists. The earliest namers and myth-makers, however, made
the female the carrier or bearer. If our principle of naming the male
be true, it follows that the word B ROTHER is the same word as
B REATHER . The Egyptian ―P RUT ‖ is our English breath, and
seed.
P RUT signifies to void, emane, manifest, pour out, shed seed, with
the male sign for determinative. This identifies the P RUT- AR as the
male F RUIT-er the B REATHER , seed-shedder, our Brother. The soul
was the heat, the fire that vivifies as well as the breath. Thus the
Breton B ROUD , the Welsh B RUD and Irish Bruth take the form of
heat in place of breath, both being synonymous with spirit. The
Irish ―broth of a boy‖ is a man of spirit and eruptive vigour. The
Brother includes both meanings, as the male child. We have to do
with words in their primary sense. The relation of the brother is
secondary. The meaning of sister is just as primitive, and as closely
connected with the B REATH . These words come to us from a time
when to breathe was to be, and breathing dominates the imagery
used as symbols of the male and female.
The word S ISTER is derived etymologically from the Egyptian
―S IST.‖ S IS is breath and to breathe. S ES -M UT is the breathing
Mother. The ideograph of breathing is the brood, i.e. breeding
Mare. S EST is the same, the She and Her represented by a brood-
mare going, galloping. S ES - T means breathed; it is the participial
form of S ES , breath, and to be breathed is equivalent to breeding,
and thus names the breeder. S EST likewise is the preparing house,
the House of Breath, over which Nephthys, called the Saving SISTER
presided.
THE phonetic S represents an ideographic S F , and by interchange
of U and V the Egyptian Ses, to breathe, represents the ―Svas‖ of the
Sanskrit S VASAR for sister. ŚVI means to swell, increase; Ś VASA is
breath, breathing, inspiring the breath, or soul of life. Ś VAS is the
root of many words denoting breath and breathing, puffing, as in
pregnancy. Sanskrit preserves the earlier form of Ses, as Sfs or
Svas in Svasar. Sesar (Eg.) is the breather, and Ses-ar is to breathe,
the child, whence the sister is the one who inspires life, is the breather
or breeder like the Sest-Mut. Only in Egyptian do Ses and Sest
meet, and only Egyptian could furnish both Svasar and Sister as the
two distinct names, derived on two different lines of development.
S EST (Eg.) is the Mare, as Mother, and Ar (Eg.) is the likeness of,
ergo S EST - AR is the image of the mother, a repetition of the same
sex, whence the sister, just as the brother is the likeness or type of
the father, as male breather, the inspirer of life. The Egyptian Ar
for the child, likeness, type, image, to make, serves in each case to
illustrate the Paft-ar (Bât-ar, Pat-ar), Mut-ar, Broth-ar and Sist-ar.
In Egyptian S F , later S U , is the Child; Nu is a male type.
S IFNU or S UNU means the Male Child. This was worn-down as a
word to S UN , to be made, to become, S EN the second, the other, the
alter ego, or second self. The form S FNU is implied in the Sanskrit
S ÛNU , the accent representing the missing consonant, and in the
English S ON the o represents the fo f Sif (Eg.) the Child. In Egyp-
tian, however, the two components of the word (also the word S UN )
are anterior to the distinction of male and female.
The origin and meaning of the word Daughter have exercised me
more than most words. The derivation from Duhi, Sanskrit to milk,
which makes the daughter the milkmaid, fails to fathom it.
The female as woman, wife, and mother is designated from the
womb. W AIMO , in Finnic, is the woman, and in Lap and Scotch the
W AME is the womb. In Egyptian the female is H EM or K HEM with the
determinative of the womb. Mut, the Mother, is identical with
Mut the mouth or uterus. Uterus and udder are equivalents and in
Sanskrit V ÂMA is the udder. The wife is also named from the same
origin, as is shown by the Cornish K UF , C OFF , and K EBER ; English
Gipsy, C HAVI ; Chippewa, K IVA ; Maori, K OPU ; Egyptian, K HEP ;
Malagasy, K IBO ; Old Bohemian, K EPP . The female is identified on
this ground in Anglo-Saxon as the Wif-Child, that is, the Womb-Child.
The Wife-Child is the ―Kuf‖-Child, that is, the Womb-Child in Cornish
and other languages. The Daughter is certain to be simply distin-
guished from the male on the same principle. The name is found as the
Sanskrit D UHITAR ; Greek, Qug£thr; Zend, D UGHDHAR ; Lithuanian,
D UKTERE ; Bohemian, D CERA ; Lap, D AKTAR ; German, TOCHTER :
English, D AUGHTER ; Gothic, D AUHTER . Following the clue of the
Wife-Child leads us to the name of the oldest Mother, Khept, in whom
the womb and goddess are one. Khept modifies into K AT , and this
supplies the likelier root of the word Daughter. K AT (Eg.), is the
womb; K OHT, in Esthonian; Q ATU , in Fijian; Q UIDA , Old Norse;
Q UITI , Alemannic; Q UITHEI , Gothic; U CHT , Gaelic; Cut, English;
C WYTHER , Welsh. Ar (Eg.) is the Child, and Tu the feminine
article. Thus TU -K AT - AR is the Womb-Child or child with the
womb. K AT is also the Goddess, the Seat, the hindward one, the
Cow, the Bearer, the female in various forms, therefore it is inferred
that daughter is compounded from Tu-kat-ar as the female child. In
English, daughter is also represented by D AFTER , and Af (Eg.) means
born of; Aft is the feminine abode, the womb, the ancient Mother from
the first. The Mother and Daughter are one in Mythology. The
Mother of the God is likewise called his Daughter. Hathor is the Hat
(earlier Kat, earliest Khept), the abode of Ar, the Child, and yet she
is also the Daughter. If we take the form of Kat, as in Kat-Mut,
Hathor is Kata, and with the feminine prefix Tu, Tu-kat-ar, she is
the qug£thr, Dughdhar, Daughter, Dauhter, or Duhitar, the Divine
Milkmaid, or rather nurse, as the Cow-Goddess. This feminine type
of KHEPT, KAT, or HAT, may be followed in language generally thus—
KAT . . . . Karagas . . . . Woman.

KOTA . . . . Kwaliokwa . . . . Woman.
KITHIA . . . Chetemach . . . . Woman.
KHATUN . . . Mongol . . . . Woman.
KHOTON . . . Pelu . . . . . Woman.
KITEIS . . . . Malaguaya (Cf. Greek, C TEIS) . Woman.
W ATA . . . . Baba . . . . . Woman.
W ATOA . . . Peba . . . . Woman.
W AT-W AAT . . . Keh Doulan . . . . Woman.
W ADON . . . Javanese . . . . Woman.
OAT . . . . Kwaliokwa . . . . Woman.
OUTIE . . . . Guachi . . . . Woman.
I TTHI . . . . Pali . . . . . Woman.
ETI . . . . Sekumne . . . Daughter.
A IAT . . . . Sahaptin and Kliketat . . Woman.
MACATH . . . Minetari . . . . Daughter.
MEYAKATTE . . . Crow Indian . . . . Woman.
TAKATA . . . Annatom . . . . Woman.
MU -HATA . . . Kisama . . . . Woman.
MU -HETU . . . Songo and Lubalo . . . Woman.
SAPAT . . . . Riccari . . . . Woman.
TSAPAT . . . Pawni . . . . Woman.
SET . . . . Amharic . . . . Woman.
These are derived from one original Khept, as were the names of
the hand, because the uterus and hand are permutable types and both
represent the parent power as female.
SECTION VII.
BRITISH SYMBOLIC CUSTOMS AND EGYPTIAN NAMING .
TO ―clear oneself by an oath‖ was a recognised form of speech

with the Egyptians and a mode of covenanting. 1 The word ―ARK,‖
for oath, means to bind. To clear oneself by an oath is a common
form of speech with English boys; one of these being ―By Goll.‖
This is the holy Cornish oath. The hand is held aloft whilst the
oath is taken. Goll means the hand, or rather the fist, for the
hand is clenched in token of covenant. The equivalent Ker (Eg.) is
the claw, to claw hold, 2 to embrace; and in Suffolk Golls are large,
clumsy, claw-like hands. The Irish swear this oath in the form of
be-GORRE. The custom denotes the making of a covenant and
swearing by the hand, in the primitive condition of claw, when
laying hold was literally seizing with the claw. By hook or by
crook was then by the fingers in the TALON stage. Ark (Eg.), to
bind, is symboled by a tie, which is later than the claw. Goll is a
worn-down form of Gafael (Welsh), the grasp, grip, hold and Gaffle a
hook; Gaelic Gabhail, for seizing and holding a tenure, whence
to GALE a mine is to hold it on lease, to rent it; and one form of
holding land is by the law of Gavelkind. The Languedoc Gafa, to
seize or take, is the Egyptian Kefa, to seize with the hand, or claw, as
the first instrument for laying hold. In a following stage the claw,
ker, or goll, as hand, is the Tat, or Tut, and the word means to image,
typify, unite, and establish. We still covenant in shaking hands or
daddles, as the fists are called, and the vulgar ―Give us your F IST‖
or D ADDLE is equivalent to ―Give us your TAT ‖ (Eg.), that is, the
hand, as a type of establishing a covenant.
1 Brugsch, Zeitschrift, 1868, p. 73.
2 This name of the claw is also that of the hand in various languages, especially
the African and Indian, as the KERE in Mano; K ORA, Gio; K OARO , Basa;
EKAROWO , Eafen; K ARA, Mobba; KHUR, Dhimal; KAR, Sokpa; GALA, Mantshu;
KHAL, Tobolsk; KALIOCK, Lopcha; KARAM, Malabar; KAR, Hindustani; K HUR,
Dami; GHAR, Mongol; C HEIR, Greek; C IOR, Irish, and K IERS, the finger, in
Gura; AKARU, the finger, Biafada; AGRA, the finger, in Sanskrit. In the earlier
form of Ker, the claw, we recover K HEPR, the beetle-type of laying hold.
―By Gigs,‖ is a common oath or exclamation, as in Gammer
Gurton’s Needle, ―Chad a foule turn now of late, chill tell it you, by
G IGS .‖ As an oath is a form of covenant, this is probably the
Egyptian K EKS , which means a binding, to entreat, to bind, with
the noose determinative of a bond or covenant.
There is an English custom still extant of touching the seal of a
deed with the finger on signing the document. Sidney Smith said
the ancient family of his name did not bear arms, but sealed with
their thumbs. The Statutes of Akkad decreed that, if a Son had
said to his father, ―Thou art not my father,‖ and had executed a form
of deed and ―MADE A MARK WITH HIS NAIL to confirm it,‖ he was
to pay a fine. The clay tablets or DUPPI, still show the print of a
finger-nail on them in place of a seal. In the Egyptian word Teb
we have the name of the seal-ring, the brick, and the finger, and
Teb means to answer, be responsible for. Taf (Eg.) means attention.
To tap is a sign of calling attention. The tabor is played by tapping.
The Teb (Eg.) is a drum. To tap is the same as to dab or to dub.
To dub a man a knight is done by giving him a tap. The ancient
method was to tap him on the side of the head or give him a box on
the ear. Thus a box is synonymous with a tap. So, in Egyptian,
Teb is a box. The Teb are the temples of the head. To dub is to
clothe, ornament, equip, as the knight is dubbed. Teb (Eg.) is to
clothe and equip. The box on the ear, or blow given in dubbing, is
explained by Teb (Eg.), to answer and be responsible for. Teb, to
place instead, by the substitute, shows that the person dubbed was
to be henceforth representative of the king or queen, and be respon-
sible for any blow aimed at them. Teb (Eg.) is to seal, and by the
process of subbing the knight was sealed to the royal service.
Tebn (Eg.) is to rise up, and the one who is dubbed is told to rise up
a knight. The oneness of a box and a tap leads up to the meaning
of the Christmas Box and Boxing Day. The Teb, as box, is a
sarcophagus, the sign of an ending. Teb, or Tep, is a point of
commencement of the Tebb or movement in the circle of the year.
Boxing Day is the first day of the solstitial new year. The meaning
of Teb, the box, is to close, shut, seal. Teb is a recompense; and on
the first day of the new cycle gratuities were given for past service,
and to secure and seal it for the future. The box comes in as the
type of inclosing, closing, sealing, whether delivered on the ear, or
in a gift of money.
The cow‘s tail is an emblem worn behind by the male divinities
of Egypt. This was their Q UEUE, in Egyptian Khef, for the hinder
part. The tail was a type of the goddess of the hinder part, and
when she was put back by the male, the tail or Queue was worn
behind the male, who represented the front. Hereby hangs a tale.
For the tail, at last, deposits the Q as the letter with the tail, which
is still an image of Khep or Kefa, the Goddess of the Hind Quarter.
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The tail was formerly extant, as in France, in the thongs of hide
called QUEUES to which seals were attached in legal documents;
also the end of a document where the seal was attached was called
the Queue, and when the deed was witnessed and sworn to, the
finger was laid on the Queue—a mode of sealing modified from that
adopted in the initiatory rites of the ―Sabbath,‖ and the worship
of the Goddess of the North, which is still retained, however, in
―kissing the book.‖ The Queue is also extant as the QOPO
of the Zulu Kaffirs, a tailed girdle worn round the loins, after the
manner of the gods of Egypt. When the Zulu messenger of a court
of justice is sent on official business as an Um-SILA, he carries
the white tail of an ox as his sign and Um-sila of authority. The
Zulus still make a notch or tally, in scoring, called i Q UOPO , the
same in name as the Peruvian QUIPU or knot, a figure of ten in
reckoning. The present cue, however, was only to point out the
survival of a type of the old genitrix (called the ―Living Word‖)
in our tail-letter Q.
A game is played in Gloucestershire with a ball, which the two
parties ranged on opposite sides endeavour to strike to the two
ends of the course to secure the goal. It is called N OT; sup-
posed to be from the knot of wood of which the ball is made. But
N UT (Eg.) means the limit, the goal, the end, all. Thisis the
likelier derivation of the name of the game.
H ANDY - DANDY is an ancient game played with the two hands.
Cornelius Scriblerus says handy-dandy is mentioned by Aristotle,
Plato, and Aristophanes. It depends on a thing being changed from
hand to hand for the guess to be made as to which hand the thing is
in. H ANTI (Eg.) is the returner, from han, to turn back, return, pass
to and fro; tenti is to recover, how, where, which one; TENTI also
means separate, in two.
When money is given by a newly wedded pair for the poor to
drink their healths, it is called ―Hen.‖ This may be interpreted by
H AN (Eg.), tribute, to bring; and H AN , young.
In shelling peas at a Peascod Wooing it was a great object to be
the finder of a pod containing nine peas. That is a hieroglyphic of
the Pet Circle of Nine Gods and the nine months of gestation. The
kitchen-maid who finds this pod of nine will place it on the lintel of
the kitchen-door, and the first man who enters is to be her husband.
When a youth has been jilted, it was a Cumbrian fashion for the
lasses to rub him down with peas-straw, the lads doing the same to a
girl deserted by her sweetheart.1
In the Marriage Service of the English Church, printed in the
York Manual, the bride pledges herself to be ―B UXOM ‖ to her
husband. In the Sarum Manual she engages to be ―bonere and
buxom in bedde and at borde.‖ These are explained in the margin
1 Brand, ―Peascod Wooing.‖
by ―meek and obedient.‖ Buxom and bowsome came to mean
obedient and pliant, but that is not the primary sense. The earlier
spelling is bucksome, to be blithe and conjugal, and this reaches the
root. Bukh (Eg.) means to conceive, engender, enfanter, fecundate,
be fecund; Sam means similitude, likeness of; bucksome is Bukh-
like, and the promise is related to fertility and ensuring of offspring.
Of this we can adduce a remarkable ideographic custom. One form
of ―P ET‖ in Egyptian is a foot and to stretch. Pet and Pesh also
mean the same thing, to stretch out. So in English the game of
put-pin is likewise called push-pin. The root meaning of ―Pet‖ is
to stretch, to reach, to attain, no matter what the mode may be.
Hence ―Pet,‖ the foot, is stretched in walking. ―Pet,‖ the bow,
is stretched in shooting. Pet, No. 9, is the full stretch of the measure
by months in gestation. The pot-belly is at full stretch of roundness.
Anything putrid has gone to the utmost verge. The putting-stone
used in curling is that which stretches the player‘s capacity to
the utmost in putting. Hutchinson, in his History of Durham, 1
speaks of a stone cross near the ruins of a church in Holy Island,
which was called the ―P ETTING Stone.‖ When a marriage took
place, it was customary after the ceremony for the bride to step upon
the stone cross, and if she could stride to the end of it, the marriage
was supposed to be fortunate. To be lucky and fortunate in mar-
riage always meant child-bearing. And this petting or stretching
stone was the means of divining or pre-figuring the future with regard
to the woman‘s fertility and willingness to be fertile. The promise
to be bucksome was represented bby the act of stretching or petting.
Every one of these primitive meanings has been turned to male
account. This has been taken for a promise to bend and be yielding
in the servile sense. It was not so. The woman simply pledged
herself to motherhood as well as wifehood.
The sign of the Sut-Heb festivals, held every thirty years, is the
double-seated boat. It was, as the name implies, the Heb of Sut,
although given to Tum in a later system of myth. Heb means a
festival. The double-seated boat is a form of the Neb (basket) sign,
which indicates the whole, all, composed of two halves. Our sym-
bolic custom of H OB - NOBBING repeats this festival of conjunction.
Hob-nobbing is celebrating. Moreover, the ancient hob of the
chimney corner actually reproduces the image of the Sut-Heb, the
double-seated Heb of Sut. It was called the hob, and on either side
of the fire there was placed a settle, the double seat or Set of the
Heb, where people could hobnob together. Grose says, ―Will you
hob or nob with me?‖ was a question formerly in fashion at polite
tables, signifying will you take wine with me, and if the party
challenged answered Nob, they were to choose whether white wine
or red. These were the two colours of the two crowns, upper and
1 Brand, on Wedding Customs.
lower, of the two halves of the circle which was symboled by the
double-seated boat, and Neb, as before said, is a twin-total.
The Essex labourers divide a jug of beer into three ―pulls‖ at it.
These three draughts are called ―N ECKUM ‖ (1), ―S INKUM ‖ (2),
and ―S WANKUM ‖ (3). Khem (Eg.) means to have power over,
potency, prevail over, possess by force. Nekk (Eg.) denotes the first,
as the I or ―A one.‖ Nek-khem is equivalent to ―My first pull.‖
Neked (Eng.) is a small quantity. Nakhn (Eg.) is little one.
Sen (Eg.) means second; Sen-khem, the second strong pull. Skhen
(Swan) is to imbibe, multiply, and render victorious, therefore the
finishing draught.
A tea-drinking among Oxford students is called a ―B ITCH -party,‖
but the designation does not imply any slur on the sex; it is rather
an apology for the beverage. It is at root a sign of modesty and
bashfulness. It is true that ―B ITCH ‖ is a term of reproach or worth-
lessness, and it is generally limited to one sex. But a Bitch-party is
simply a name for the P OOR - THING - NESS , the humble status of the
celebration. In like manner the German swipes are ―B OSCH .‖ A
small beer, or mead, made in the North is B OTCHET. B OTCH, a failure
or shortcoming, is a form of the word. B UDGE is a Suffolk term for
dull and poor. B ATCH -flour is course flour. B ATCH worth is the low-
lying place, or hinder part. To BUDGE is to give way, succumb, accept
the inferior station. The B ADGE is a token of this inferiority; it was
the sign of slavery, the mark of the serf, the brand of possession, as much
so as the brand on the sheep. Hence the term, the badge of slavery.
Its true survival is yet on the livery button. Later, it was elevated to
a place of dignity in heraldry, and worn as a trophy by the conquering
superior instead of by the conquered inferior. But even there it keeps
its humbler station; badges being a subsidiary kind of arms. 1 The
Batcheler (A.-N.) was a young man who had not attained the honours
of knighthood; the Bachelor is one who has not reached the dignity of
marriage of mastership. He too is a B ITCH -party, and of lowly
estate. A Bitch-party, then, is so called because it is a poor thing of
humble status, where the drink is weak and the proceeding slow. The
total meaning may be found in the Egyptian word ―B ETSH ,‖ weak,
slow, lazy, lowly, and humble. The Betsh or Bitch party has a
divine origin, and a primordial form of it is found in the Egyptian my-
thology as the ―Children of Inertness,‖ who dwelt in Am-Smen, before
the firmament was lifted, as the first eight gods, and did not keep
correct solar time, as there are 366 days in the sidereal year; whence
the 366 bells attached to the robe of the Hebrew High-Priest. They
consisted of the seven stars of Typhon (Ursa Major) and the dog-star
Sut. These same Children of Inertness are described by Taliesin as
the ―sluggish animals of Sut‖ or Satan; the primal Bitch-party being
Typhonian, and belonging to the lower region of the hinder part in
1 Montague, Guide, p. 48.
the north. By the aid of the Swabian Petz, we can recover the Bear,
the type of the original Betsh or Bitch, the Lap Pittjo, the genitrix
of the Betsh-party, or ―Children of Inertness.‖
Lightfoot says that in the Scottish Highlands, when an infant is born,
the nurse takes a green stick of ash and thrusts one end of it into
the fire, and as it burns, she receives the sap oozing from the other
in a spoon, and administers the liquid to the child as its first
sustenance.1
One writer suggests that the reason for giving ash-sap to newborn
children is, first, because it acts as a powerful astringent, and, secondly,
because the ash is potent against witches.3
Another affirms that it was because some thousands of years ago
the ancestors of Highland nurses knew the Fraxinus ornus in Arya,
and had given its honey-like juice as divine food to their children.3
We need not go so far, however, to derive the sacred character and
living virtue of our symbolic ash. The ash was the Egyptian tree of
life, the Persca fig-tree named the ash. ―Ash‖ signifies emanation,
emission, the creative substance of life. The rowan tree is the typical
ash, with its sap within and red berries without. Ruhan in Egyptian
is a shrine, therefore a synonym of sacredness. The rowan is named
the quicken tree, from quick, alive, pregnant. It is therefore our
tree of life called the ash, precisely the same as the tree of life in
Egypt.
Sap in Egyptian is to spit, evacuate, as does the ash wood in the
fire; to make, create. Saba is food and aliment. The ash-sap was
a form of the essence of life in Egypt as in England.
In Germany it was a custom to tap the ash tree in spring, and
drink the sap as an antidote to the venom of snakes. The serpent
having become a type of the inimical power, the ash was in every
way fatal to it. The common belief was that snakes could not rest even
in the shadow of an ash tree, and that a single blow struck with an
ashen wand would prove fatal to the adder.
―B AAKABAKA ‖ in Egyptian signifies upside down, topsy-turvy, with
a man standing on his head. This sense of reversal is extant in the
Hebrew ―Bakbuk‖ a bottle or pouring out of a bottle. Buge and
beck in English mean to stoop; Baka (Eg.), is to squat down, also
to pray.
Still more primitive is the survival in the boy‘s game of ―Buck-
buck, how many horns do I hold up?‖ in which one boy stoops with
face down in a reversed position to guess the numbers. He bucks and
sets a back at the same time. This is probably the game which we
see played in the monuments with one prostrate figure face downwards,
the others holding up their hands as if pounding his back, which is
permitted when the guess goes wrong, and may have been called
1 Sylvan Sketches, London, 1825, p. 24. 2 Choice Notes, p. 24.
3 Kelly, Curiosities of Folklore, p. 145.

B AAKABAKA , now rendered by the English ―Buck-buck.‖ Puka
(variant of huka) means magic, conjuring, divining, i.e. the object of
the game. Another mode of this divining is played by children in
Devonshire, and is called Buggy bane, or Bucka bene; the following
rhymes are repeated by one of the players:
― Buggy, buggy, bidde bane,
Is the way now fair and clean?
Is the goose y-gone to nest?
Is the fox y-come to rest,
Shall I come away?‖
Bug or Puck is a supposed hobgoblin. Bugan is a title of the

devil. In the hieroglyphics ―Pukha‖ is a name of the infernal locality.
In Jersey the cromlechs or tumuli are called Puck-lays, or places
of Puck. This name identifies them with the Egyptian Pukha, of
the underworld, the pit-hole or Sheol, as the place of the dead.
The name Pukha is probably from P-uk-ha, the dead-house.
Uk or Akh (Eg.) is the manes, or the spirit, whence the Uk or Puck,
bug or bogey. The rhyme, like the questioning of Buck-buck, denotes
conjuring or divination; the game being played in the dark. The
goose of Michaelmas and the fox (jackal, Apheru) of the vernal
equinox, symbols of Seb and Anup, witness to the astronomical allegory.
Between these two lies the locality of Pukha, the infernal region.
Pukh or Pekht as cat-headed goddess was stationed there to look
after the Apophic monster. The appeal is apparently made to the
Puck, as spirit of the dark extant as Shakspeare‘s sprite of the night.
B IDDE formerly meant to require, and B ANE to proclaim or make
known publicly: ―Buggy, buggy, bidde bane,‖ is thus a demand
made to the spirit or hobgoblin of the dark, the underworld, to answer
the questions propounded, and the chant is a magical invocation.
The present writer, when a boy, was taught that a Typhonian
monster lurked in the dark places of deep waters, called ―Raw head
and bloody bones.‖ The name should assimilate the monster with
the Apophis or red dragon in the Pool of Pant, the Red Sea. Raw-head
is a name of the devil. Also, when bathing, it was considered the
correct thing to urinate on the leg before wading in the water; a
supposed antidote to cramp or the lyer-in-wait in the water. Now in
the eighty-sixth chapter of the Ritual in which the deceased is crossing
the valley of the shadow of death and the waters, and the pool of fire,
we read ―What do I say I have seen? It is Horus steering the bark.
It is Sut (Typhon), the Son of Nu, undoing all he has done.‖ The
allusion is to the evil enemy of the sun and of souls, who lurks under
the waters. Then follows the statement, ―I am washed on my leg.
Oh, Great One! I have dissipated my sins; I have destroyed my
failings, for I have got rid of the sins which detained me on earth.‖
He has performed an act of lustration and purification by the washing
on the leg before entering the water, and this is symbolical of getting
rid of his failings or in the eschatotogical sense of dissipating his sins
which detained him on earth. It does look as if the bather did the
same thing, although unconscious of the symbolism.
In the parish of Altarnun, Cornwall, the people had a singular
method of curing madness by placing the patient on the brink of a
square pool fined with water from the Nun‘s Well; he was plunged
suddenly and unexpectedly into the water, where he was roughly
baptized, and repeatedly dipped until the strength of the frenzy had
forsaken him; he was then carried to church, and masses were sung
over him. The Cornish people called this immersion B OOSSENNING ,
from Beuzi, in the Cornish-British and Armoric, signifying to dip or
drown.1
In Egyptian we find Bes (mau), inundater;2 Besa, an amulet, pro-
tection, and Besi to transfer. S AN means to heal, save, charm,
immerse. B ES - SAN therefore agrees with Boossenning as a process
of immersion for healing, charming, protecting, and preserving.
The Egyptians were accustomed to enrich their tombs with valuable
writings. Mariette, who recovered the Serapeum from its burial-place,
an ocean of fluid sand, says, ―On certain days of the year, or on
the occasion of the death and funeral rites of an Apis, the people of
Memphis came to pay a visit to the god in his burial-place. In
memory of this act of piety they left a STELE, that is, a square-shaped
stone, rounded at the top, which was let into one of the walls of
the tomb, having been previousily inscribed with an homage to the
god in the name of the visitor and his family.‖3 These documents were
found to the number of 500. The custom was not confined to the
tomb of Apis.
With this we may parallel the practice of the ancient Britons of
depositing in their burial-places a wooden rod with Ogham letters on
it. This also was shaped four-square, and called a F É . A V E, in
Icelandic, is a sanctuary; the F AI , a painted figure; the P EI , in
Chinese, is a stone tablet erected to the dead in a tomb or temple;
P EI is also divine, or inexplicable; P E denotes eternal life; B AI , in
Irish, means death; F AY , English, doomed to die; F EI , Chinese, is
to be grieved, to mourn, bewail; P EI , Mantshu Tartar, is to cry
―alas!‖ B OIYE, Galla, is to cry, howl, weep. The Carib B OYE is an
invoker of the gods. In Egyptian F UA means life, full, large,
dilating life; B A is to be, to be a soul. F E also has the sense of to
bear, or be borne by the genitrix who was typified by the tomb, and
ÂII or FAII signifies to raise up. F É is no doubt a form of fay and
faith, and some of the sarcophagi of the Eleventh Dynasty contained
the writings which especially embody the Egyptian faith as found in
Ch. 17 of the Ritual.
Possibly the name of the Ogham represents the Egyptian Aukhem.
1 Borlase, who cites Carew, Nat. Hist. of Cornwall, p. 302.
2 Champ, N. D. 209. 3 Monuments of Upper Egypt, p. 93.
The Ogham is a monument with the letters cut in stone, and figured
round a circle. Aukhem (Eg.) means indestructible. Akh (Eg.)
denoteS a circle and to turn round. A M means belonging to. The Akh
are the dead, manes. Khem also means the dead, and the Oghams
are found as the monuments of the dead.
In Egypt it was the ceremonial custom to cast sand three times on
the remains of the deceased, and with us this survives in the ―Ashes to
ashes, dust to dust,‖ and the earth cast thrice upon the coffin lid. It
is likewise popularly supposed that wherever a corpse has been
carried, the way becomes thenceforth a public thoroughfare. And
although no extant statute may now warrant such a belief, the writer
does not doubt that such was once the custom from the stress laid
by the Egyptians on everything concerning the road of the dead, the
eternal path.
According to Chief Justice Hale, the sources of the common law
of England are as hidden as were those of the Nile. It was for so long
an unwritten tradition, whose sole record was the proverbial memory
of mankind, when priests and lawgivers were instead of books, and
through them tradition spoke in the living tongue. This has be-
queathed to us an inheritance of use and wont, the larger liberties of
which crop up continually as an unwritten tradition, not verifiable
by the Roman or Norman code of laws.
The Curfew Bell is a suggestive example of ancient things retained
under the mask of later customs and names which often conceals the
face of the past altogether. There is no doubt that a COUVRE-FEU law
was enforced by William I., having the meaning of Cover-fire. But
the custom was neither of Norman origin nor enforced as a form of
servitude, nor had it the only meaning of cover-fire. The ordinance
directed all people to put out their fires and go to bed; noble and
simple alike. Nor was the Curfew solely an evening bell. A bell
was formerly rung at Byfield Church at four in the morning and
eight in the evening;1 also a bell was rung at Newcastle at four in
the morning. In Romeo and Juliet2 we read:—
―The second cock hath crow‘d,
The curfew-bell has rung, ‘tis three o‘clock.‖
A cover-fire bell tolled at three in the morning!

Again, in King Lear3:—
―This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet; he begins at curfew, and walks to the
first cock.‖
In Peshall‘s History of Oxford4 it is said the custom of ringing

the Bell at Carfax every night at eight o‘clock was by order of King
1 Bridges‘ History of Northamptonshire, i. 110. 2 Act iv. scene 4.

3 Act iii. scene 4. 4 P. 177.
Alfred, who commanded that all the inhabitants should, at the ringing
of that bell, cover up their fires and go to bed.
The Curfew, then, was pre-Norman, and it was rung in the
morning as well as at night. As pre-Norman, Curfew is earlier
than Couvre-feu, and if the word signified Cover-fire, it would have
to apply in a double sense, as we find in Cure, to cover, and
Kere, to recover, the fire covered at night being recovered in the
morning. But cover is not the earliest sense. The bell was rung
night and morning, the beginning and end of the course; that is,
the char or Karh in Egyptian, the course of the night. Karh is
night. Kar, the lower, under of the two courses of time; H RU being
the upper, the day. In this sense the Curfew applied to fire is
the bell that announced the beginning and end of the Kar of dark-
ness, or fireless time. But the Curfew is not limited to the meaning
of fire. ―Few‖ also denotes quantity and measure, therefore Cur-few,
or Char-few, may have primarily indicated the length of the Char, or
Kar, or course of the night; and the bell may have announced the
sunrise and sunset, like the morning and evening gun, before ever it
was the Couvre-feu Bell.
The Welsh had an ancient coöperative custom called the Cym-
hortha, in which the farmers of a district met together on a certain
day to help the small farmer plough his land or render other service
in their power. Each one contributed his leek to the common
repast, and the leeks for the occasion were typical, for they were
the sole things so contributed. 1 In Egypt the Mert were persons
attached or joined together for a common purpose, such as a com-
munity of monks. Ka is labour and land. Now in the old
quarto Hamlet2 the word C OMART occurs, and is usually under-
stood to mean a joint bargain. Co-mart (Mert) is co-attached, co-
bound, hence the covenant and the co-agreement. If this be the
origin, Comart is at root the same word, as the Welsh Cymhorta,
explained by the Co-merti. It also follows that the name of Com-
rade is a deposit of both, the Comrade being the co-attached person,
fellow, one of the Merti. The form of this primitive commune is yet
extant as the Ka-merti (Eg.), the Merti on the land, in the Russian
Mir. The leek answers to the onion, the Egyptian Hut, and it
was the express token of the Co-mart or Cymhorta. Huter (Eg.)
means to join together, as did these men or the Hut (Lesk). ―A
regular Huter‖ is a vulgar phrase applied to a common woman.
The word Hut (Eg.) also means to bundle, or a bundle, with the
―ter‖ determinative of time, and to indicate; and this same word for
bundling means to touch, to consecrate. Whether the Leek (Hut),
a form of the ―had,‖ is emblematic of the Welsh buildling, the
present writer knows not, but this same word ―Hutu‖ signifies one-
half; and in the Guernsey custom of ―Flouncing,‖ and other forms
1 Hampson‘s Kalend. i. 107 and 170. 2 Act i. scene 1.
of betrothal, the practice denoted that the lovers were half-bound, in
token whereof, if the man changed his mind) the woman could claim
one-half (Hutu) of his property, and vice versâ.
Many popular and hitherto inexplicable customs relate to the
keeping of time and period. A complete year-book of the heavens
might be made from these celebrations; the larger number of them
belong, however, to the time of the vernal equinox. It is now in-
tended to take a ―run round‖ the year, in the order of the
seasons, the illustrations being limited to what is here called the
Egyptian naming, following the philological and ideographical clue.
An old custom was extant in the Isle of Man when Train wrote, 1
called the Quaaltagh. Young men went from house to house on
New Year‘s Eve singing rhymes and wishing the- inmates a Merry
New Year. On these occasions a dark-complexioned person always
entered the house first, as a fair person, male or female, was con-
sidered unlucky for bringing in the New Year. The Quaaltagh signifies
the first foot that crosses the threshold on New Year‘s morning.
In Egyptian the Kar is the lower half of the solar circle out of
which the sun begins to ascend with the New Year: also Karh
means night. Takh means a frontier, and to cross. The Kar-takh
(Quaaltagh) is therefore emblematic of the sun‘s crossing from Hades.
This sun of the night and winter was the Black God, Kak or Hak,
who must be represented by a person of dark complexion to com-
plete the symbolical significance of the custom. Persons with dark
hair are in the habit of going from house to house in Lancashire to
bring in the New Year auspiciously. Light persons are as good as
prohibited. And so in keeping with the dark is the feeling that the
most kindly and charitable will refuse to give anyone a light on New
Year‘s morning lest it should bring ill-luck on the giver. The nature
of the Black God here represented by the dark-complexioned man
has to be expounded in this work, the present volumes of which are
limited to the comparative matter.
A grotesque manorial custom was extant in the time of Charles II.
At Hilton, Staffordshire, there existed a hollow brass image repre-
senting a man kneeling in an indecorous position known as the Jack
of Hilton. The image had two apertures, one very small at the
mouth, another larger at the back. When filled with water and put
to a strong fire, the water evaporated as in an æolopile, and vented
a constant blast from the mouth, blowing audibly, and making a
sensible impression on the fire. There was an obligation upon the
lord of Essington, the manor adjoining, to bring a goose to Hilton
every New Year‘s Day and drive it three times round the hall-fire
which the Jack of Hilton was blowing all the while with his steam.
The goose was then handed over to the lord paramount of Hilton.
One wonders if this was related to the Chase of the Goose, a great
1 Vol. ii. p. 115, 1845.
mystery with the Egyptians. The Jack, we may be sure, was a
representation of Kak, the God of Darkness, and Sun of the Under-
world. Hil-ton, read as Egyptian, is the upper seat, and Hes (Eg.)
means the captive subject ordered to obey.
Among the Scottish peasantry the first Monday of the year—
Handsel Monday—is a great day for ―tips.‖ The young people
visit the old for tips. The tips of Handsel Monday are the equivalent
of Christmas boxes in England. Tep is the Egyptian word for
the first, and for commencement of the circle. The tip, however, is
unknown by name in the North.1 Handsel Monday was the day on
which labourers and servants changed their places, and were engaged
by new masters. Those who stayed on were treated by the farmers
to a liberaI breakfast. It is in short the labourers‘ day, and in
Egyptian the Hanuti are the labourers. This plural is the equivalent
of ―hands.‖ Sel (Eng.) is self. The equivalent Ser (Eg.) is private,
reserved, and sacred. Thus Handsel is sacred to the Hanuti‘s self,
or the labourer‘s own day, as recognized.
To han‘sel money is to spit on the first that ig received—a custom
still common. The spittimg is a mode of consecrating or anointing.
Hant (Eg.) is the name for a rite of consecration, which in han‘selling
is the spitting. The word Sel (Ser), in addition to sacred, private,
reserved, sole, also denotes some kind of liquid, cream, or butter, and
is evidently connected with anointing. If we take the word to
mean ―han‖ rather than hant, then Han (Eg.) signifies to bring,
contribute. Han is the divinity of bringing called the Bringer, and
as the money thus han‘selled is consecrated to the bringing of more,
the han‘sel may be devoted expressly to Han the Bringer. The deity
is all the more probable as we have old ―OUNSEL ‖ as a name for the
devil, the final status of the earlier god.
New Year‘s gifts in England were formerly called ―X ENIA .‖2
Khen (Eg.) is the act of offering, and some kind of festival. Kennu
means plenty, abundance, wealth, and Khent is to supply; it also
denotes the circumstances of a festival.
The Boosy or Boosig is a trough out of which cattle feed; com-
monly it is the manger in front of them. In some counties it is
called the Booson, whtch in the earliest form would be Boosigen.
The Sekanu (Eg.) is a trough. Buh slgnifies in front or before. Buh-
sekhanu is the trough in front. Sekhan abrades into Sen. At the
wassailing on the vigil of Twelfth Night a large cake with a hole in
the middle used to be made by the farmers‘ wives in Herefordshire,
and with much ceremony placed on the horn of the finest ox. The
ox was then tickled to make him toss his head. If he threw the
cake behind, it became the mistress‘s perquisite, and if before, in what
was termed the Boosy, the bailiff claimed the prize.3 This adds the
1 Chambers, Book of Days, i. 52. 2 Brand, New Year‘s Day.
3 Brand, on Twelfth Day.

Apis Bull to the Boosig, and an illustration of the Two Truths of
Egypt, male and female, before and behind.
In Cumberland and other northern parts of England, Twelfth
Night, which ends the Christmas holidays, is devoted to dancing and
sport. The supper concludes with the eating of a large flat oaten
cake, which is baked on a griddle, and sometimes has plums in it.
This is called a THARVE -cake. 1 In Egyptian Terf is the word for
sport, dancing, being lively; and terp is not only the name of a cake,
but of certain ceremonial rites of Taht, the reckoner and recorder
of the gods. The English festival ends with the burning of a tar-
barrel, a common mode of terminating popular rites. Ter, in
Egyptian, means to indicate the end, extremity, finis.
The image of winter, burned on the 12th of January, 1878,
at Burghhead, near Forres, where there is an ancient altar locally
known as the ―D OURO .‖ A tar-barrel set on fire was borne round
the town, blazing, and then carried to the top of the hill and placed
on the Douro. When the barrel crumbles down, the fishwomen try
to snatch a lighted brand from the remains, with which the cottage
fire is kindled, and it is lucky if this fire can be kept alive the whole
year through. The ceremony is called a C LAVIE. The Douro
answers by name to Teriu (Eg.), the two times, and the complete
circumference of the round of the yar. CIavie is a form of Kherf
(Eg.), first, chief, consecrated, to pay homage, the primary form and
model figure of a thing, the typical ceremony.
The Plough is a name of the Great Bear constellation. In the
Fool-plough performances the characters are seven in number, six
males and Bessy, or six males and Cicely, the Fool, Cicely, and the
Fool;s five sons, the number of stars in the constellation. Cicely
is also a form of the Irish Sheelah-na-Gigh. Lort-Monday is a
name of Plough-Monday, on which day the mummers and morris-
dancers used to go round and entertain the people with shows
and plays. Lort in Egyptian is Rert, to go round, make a
circuit. Amongst other characters exhibited, as we gather
from an old song of the mummers,2 was the hobby-horse, a
dragon, and a worm or snake. In the hieroglyphics Rert is
the name of a snake, a sow, and the Typhonian water-horse, the
hippopotamus. Thus the old Typhonian genitrix and Goddess of
the Great Bear or Plough is identified by five of her types with Lort-
Monday, and by the going round. The bear and unicorn were forms
in which the mummers were sometime.s dIsguised, and both were
types of Sut-Typhon. The fox‘s skin was worn in the shape of a
hood, the fox being a symbol of Sut. The Fox (jackal) and Bear are
Sut-Typhon. The great character in the ―fool plough‖ is the Bessy,
who used to wear the skin of a beast. The Bes or Basu was a skin
worn by the priests in Egypt. The besau was also a sash with ends
1 Dyer, p. 29. 2 Brand, ―Fool Plough.‖
behind, as Bessy wore the calf‘s tail and the fox‘s tail. The Basu
is some kind of beast, as the leopard. Bes in Arabic is the cat
or lynx. The cat-headed Pasht was a feminine form of the Bessy
or beast.
In a Yorkshire representation of the Fool Plough1 the character of
the Bessy is taken by a commander-in-chief called Captain Cauf‘s
Tail, who is the orator and dancer, and one of the titles of Taurt
of the Great Bear is Bosh-Kauf (Ape), in which we find the Bessy
and the Cauf are identical, as they were in the mumming. As we
read the matter, the Bessy is primarily the Goddess of the Great Bear.
Bessy‘s tail denotes the hinder part; the Pes (Pest) in Egyptian and
English is the back, and the Goddess of the Great Bear represented
the hinder quarter. The word Bes signifies to bear and transfer, pass
from one place or shape to another, be proclaimed and exhibited. In
the Ritual the sun is said to transform into a Cat, that would be, into
the Bessy. The meaning is that the sun was re-born of the genitrix
represented by the beast, whether as Rert or Pasht, Hathor, the Beast,
or Bessy. This may account for the death of Bessy, who is killed
by the six youths in white for interfering while they make a figure of
6 with their swords. The hexagon was a figure of the four corners
and the upper and lower heaven, possibly connected with the Pleiads
as the typical six, Bessy represented the No. 7. At Hollstadt, near
Neustadt, a plough-festival is still held in the month of February
once in seven years, and the plough is drawn by six maidens
corresponding to our six youths in white.
The cat was one of the Druidic types. The ―Paluc Cat‖ is spoken
of and was thought by Owen to be a tiger. So the Basu kind of
beast may be cat, tiger, or leopard. Again it is called ―Cath Vraith,‖
the speckled cat. Taliesin says the spotted cat shall be disturbed,
together with her men of a foreign language, i.e. her priests.2
The cat was both male and female, Cath Vraith, and Cath Ben
Vrith, and the Sun-God became female in making his transformation
into the cat. The Druidic cat was likewise a symbol of the sun, and
Taliesin, who is assimilated to the solar divinity, recognises the sun‘s
transformation into the cat type, just as we find it in the obscurest,
most remote and rarest matter of the Ritual (Ch. 17). Speaking of
one of his transformations in the solar character, he says, ―I have
been a cat with a speckled head on a tripod‖—―Bum Cath Benfrith
ar driphren‖3 (or on something with three branches). The spotted
cat denoted the double nature. The Welsh were in possession then
of the Two Truths, with all that the fact implies, which has yet to
be explicated.
―Ploughing the fields‖ was one of the things to be done in making
the ―working figures of Hades‖ (Ch. 6). In the Ritual (Ch. 1) we
1 Costume of Yorkshire, pl. 11 (1814). 2 Welsh Arch. p. 73.
3 Ibid. p. 44.
also find the ―Festival of ploughing the earth (Khebsta) in the land
of Suten-Khen,‖ which answers to Bubastes, the abode of Pasht, the
cat-headed, a form of the Basu, Bessy, Beast, or Bosh Kauf. The men
who follow the plough on Plough-Monday are called P!ough Jags.
Jag is Khakh (Eg.), meaning to follow. In Norfolk the ploughman
is a plough-jogger.
In many churches a light was set up before an image, and termed
the ―Plough Light,‖ maintained by the husbandmen, old and young,
who went about and collected the money on Plough-Monday. The
image, no doubt, represented the lady of lights, whose first type was the
constellation of the seven stars, from which was derived the typical
seven-branched candlestick. That was as Typhon, the old beast, who
gave birth to the son as Sut, and who was the Sabean type of the
genitrix. She was followed by the cow-headed type of the beast in
Isis-Taurt, the lunar genitrix, and lastly by Pasht, the lioness type
of the beast, as the solar genitrix. The death of Bessy, while inter-
fering with the hexagon, probably represents her supercession in a
later chart of the heavens and the bringing in of the six Pleiads.
A custom was formerly observed at Ludlow on February 3rd. The
corporation provided a rope thirty-six yards in length, which was given
out at a window of the market-house as the clock struck four. A
large number of the inhabitants then divided into two parties—one
contending on behalf of Castle Street and Broad Street wards, the
other for Old Street and Corve Street wards; both strove to pull
the rope beyond the prescribed limits; when this had been done, the
contest ceased.
This is a mystery.1 The measure of thirty-six yards relates the rope
to the thirty-six decans of the zodiacal circle, and four o‘clock to the
four quarters. The game of pulling the rope was the drama of the
two lion-gods of the horizon. The equinox was imaged by the scales
or balance, and two powers were described as contending for the
victory up or down at the level place. We read in the Ritual (Chap.
17) that the day of contending of the two lion-gods was the ―day
of the battle between Horus and Sut, when Sut puts forth the ropes
against Horus, and Horus seizes the gemelli of Sut.‖ It is the battle
of north and south, darkness and ligbt, evil and good. The Osirian,
using the same imagery in the Ritual (Chap. 39) exclaims, ―I
make the haul of thy rope, O sun. The Apophis is overthrown!
Their cords bind the south, north, east, and west. Their cords are on
him.‖ The cords of the four quarters. The same conflict occurs be-
tween the lion and the unicorn (the type of Sut), ―a-fighting for a
farthing,‖ or for the circle imaged by that coin. Kherf is a title of
the majesty of the sun-god, and one of the streets is named Corve
Street, that is, in Egyptian, the street of his majesty the Horus. In
support of this, the lion-gods who contend are called the Ruti, the
1 Dyer, p. 85.
Twins of the Ru, the horizon. Ludlow also has its rock of the
horizon, the place of the Ruti, castle-crowned, and, in Welsh,
L LEWOD is a name of the lions. The ceremony has the look of
being belated from the day of the winter solstice, and of be-
longing to the division by north and south which preceded
that of the east and west.
On Shrove-Tuesday the Highlanders make bannochs called the
bannich broader or dreaming bannochs. These are eaten for the pur-
pose of divination, the eater being supposed to see the beloved one in
his sleep. At (Eg.) signifies sleep, image, type. Pru (Eg.) means
to see, appear. Pru-at is to see, appear in sleep, and Bruader is
dreaming.
On Shrove-Tuesday, at Westminster School, a verger of the Abbey
in his gown, bearing a silver baton, issues from the college kitchen
followed by the cook of the school, in his white apron, jacket, and cap,
carrying a pancake. On arriving at the schoolroom door, he announces
himself as ―the cook,‖ and, having entered the schoolroom, he ap-
proaches the bar which separates the lower from the upper schoolroom,
twirls the pancake in the pan, and tosses it across the bar into the
upper schoolroom among the boys, who scramble for the catch, a
reward being dependent on securing the cake whole. 1 The hiero-
glyphic cake is the sign of the horizon, the place of the equinoctial
colure, the line of the crossing. The pancake is tossed across
the line. The line separates the lower from the upper of the two
halves of the solar course in the two heavens. The sun in crossing
the colure completes the circle of the year and the symbolical cake
must be secured whole. To toss a thing up is to cook it or chuck it up.
This is done by the Cook. Moreover, the balance or equinox is the
Khekh (Eg.). Tossing the pancake across the line is also an Irish
custom. A fine is imposed if the cake be broken tn the process.
The Jack-o‘-Lent was a puppet set up to be thrown at for sport.
In a ballad called ―Lenten Stuff,‖ Jack-o‘-Lent wears the ―headpiece
of a herring.‖ On Easter Day at Oxford the first dish brought to
table was a red-herring depicted as riding away on horseback, set in a
corn-salad.2 There used formerly to be held on Shrove-Tuesday, at
Norwich, a festivity in which the seasans were represented, and Lent
was clothed in white and in herring-skins, and the trappings of his
horse were oyster-shells. The fish had been adopted in to the Chris-
tian iconography, but the symbol is not to be understood there. The
Messiah, Son, was born in the Fishes; born of the goddess with a fish
on her head (Athor), or a fish‘s tail (Derketos and Ichton), when the
sun was in Pisces at the time of the spring equinox, 27,000 years ago;
at least the imagery belongs to that time, not to the sun‘s entrance
into Pisces, 255 B.C. When the sun passed forward into the sign
1 Book of Days, vol. i. p. 237.
2 Brand, Easter-Day. Aubrey, MS. Ashmolean Museum.
of the Ram, the fish was done with, as it ceases to be eaten at the
end of Lent. It was rejected and made a mockery of, a puppet to
throw sticks and stones at, or set on horseback to ride away. It
was a fish in April, a fish out of water, a Geck, the Khekh which in
Egyptian had modified into Kha, the fish.
In France the April fool is called the April fish. This cm be read
astronomically. It would still hold good if the custom only dated
from 255 B.C.; but it more probably belongs to the fixed year of the
zodiac, in which the spring equinox occurred with the sun in the sign
of Pisces. When the sun had left that sign, the fish was the type of the
past, the passed-time, synonymous with pastime, and the fish of April
was out of date.
In Lancashire, May-eve was at one time celebrated by all kinds of
mischief and practical jokes. One of these consisted in exchanging
the sign-boards of different tradesmen. They were representing the
sun in his exchange of signs. Formerly there existed the following
custom at Frodsham and Helsby. The bourne of the two parishes of
Frodsham and Durham was a brook, and in walking or beating the
parish boundary the ―Men of Frodsham‖ handed their banner across
the brook which divided them from Helsby, in the parish of Durham,
to the ―Men of Helsby,‖ who in their turn passed over the Helsby
banner.1 This also enacted the change of signs by an exchange of
banners. Helsby shows the place (By) of the Kar or circle completed
at the crossing.
The phenomena of the seasons were followed and reflected in this
way seriously, religiously, at first, and at last in fun and frolic. This
was so in all lands; in none was it more faithfully followed than in
ours, and although the Christian re-adapters of the past have obscured
much of its imagery as with a coating of lampblack or a whitewash
of new names, it could not be obliterated. The Jack-o‘-Lent is another
symbol connected with the fish.
In the Egyptian mythology the region of the Eight Gods is named
Sesennu. The lunar deity Tahuti is lord of this region, which is also
called Smen, the Hebrew Shmen, No. Eight, and Hermopolis. It was
the place of return or facing round for both sun and moon. Sesennu
also reads the eight Nu or gods. In the zodiac Smen was the locality
where the solar Son was established in place of the Father, hence
the solar and lunar birthplace. The region of the eight great
gods was in the sign of the Fishes in An. The fish in Egyptian is
the R EM .
Now Halsted, in his History of Kent,2 describes an ancient
custom of the fishermen of Folkstone, who used to select eight of the
largest and best W HITINGS out of every boat when they came home
from that fishery; these eights were sold apart from the rest of each
―take,‖ and the money was devoted to make a feast on every Christmas
1 Dyer, p. 210. 2 Vol. iii. p. 380.
Eve, called a ―Rumbald‖; the fish were likewise named Rumbald
Whitings. The custom is extinct, but Christmas Eve is still called
Rumbald Night. It has been suggested that this usage was in honour
of St. Rumbald. Saints in general are modern sign-posts put up in
place of the ancient symbols on purpose to mislead. The Rumbald
connects itself with the fish and the number Eight. In Egyptian
Rem-part, the equivalent, means proceeding, emanating from Rem, the
fish-region of the Ritual, where it is plural as ―Rem-rem,‖ our fishes.
The number Eight connects the fishes with Sesennu, the eight gods,
and their region of the same name. The institution belongs to the
passage of the sun in the Fishes, or out of that sign, at the time of the
spring equinox, shifted to Christmas when christened anew. A
Rum-duke, the name of a grotesque figure, some faded symbol or
other, is older than the saint, whilst Rum-fustian is a drink made with
the yolks of twelve eggs, and therefore zodiacal, but with no rum in it.
Bale is a pair, the sun in the Fishes would be Rem-baled. ―Rumbalow‖
belongs to an old refrain, sung no doubt at the Rumbald. There is
a broth called Balow or Ballok made from two fish, the eel and pike, i.e.
the jack, obviously connected with the sign of Pisces.1 Ballow is a goal,
and the Fishes were the goal of the sun, and Rem-ballow would signify
the goal attained in the Fishes, the twelfth sign, hence the number of
eggs in the Rum-fustian. BaIlow, the goal, is likewise called ―Barley‖
in children‘s games. B ER (Eg.). denotes the goal as the summit. The
eight whiting correlate the RumbaId with the region of the eight
great gods.
Ash Wednesday begins the penitential season of Lent, when the
devout mourned their sins in dust and ashes. How ancient is the
name may be judged from the word Ash (Eg.), a cry, plaint, answer,
turn, invert, with the sign of a man praying, or invoking heaven.
Asha is also applied to a festival.
The rectorial tithes of the parish of Great Witchingham were held
(in 1835, by P. Le Neve Foster) under a lease from the Warden and
Fellows of New College, Oxford, and a bond of covenant to provide
and distribute to the poor inhabitants two S EAMS of peas, containing
in all sixteen bushels.2 These were distributed on Ash Wednesday
amongt all the peopIe, rich and poor, who happened to be in the
parish on that day
In the ancient reckoning one kind of measure ran into another, and
each was a part in the total combination. In the present instance, the
two Seams are equivalent to the half-year or circle, if we consider the
measure in time belongs to the equinox as it does, Peas and Pasch
being identical; the Peas are typical of the division, and were divided
because they divide in opening, and Pasch (Eg.) or Pekh is the division
which divided the year into two halves. The Seam is a quarter, and
there was an Egyptian goddess of the western quarter named S EM .
1 Forme of Curry, p. 12. 2 Dyer, p. 96.
The seam is a quarter of corn, also the quarter of an acre. Two
seams are a half of some unknown total, like the quarter of corn, which
has no whole in our corn measure. Sem (Eg.) means a total, and
here, the quarter which is a total in itself is a Seam.
The churchwardens of Felstead in Essex were accustomed to dis-
tribute, as the gift of Lord Rich, seven barrels of white herrings and
three barrels and a half of red, on Ash Wednesday and the six follow-
ing Sundays amongst ninety-two poor householders of the parish in
shares of eight white herrings and four red a-piece.1 The number
twelve correlates the twelve herrings with the twelve signs, and the
ninety-two with the number of days in the three months, as in March,
April, and May. Also the number 91—92 would be the division of the
year into four quarters. Such a custom belongs to the times when
reckonings were enacted like other forms of symbolism, and facts were
recorded by means of acts which were a mode of perpetuating remem-
brance to supply the want of letters.
The Bomonse in Central Africa are tattooed with twenty cuts or
lines on each side of the face; these are drawn from the corners of the
mouth towards the angles of the lower jaw and cheek-bone; sox on
each arm, six on each leg, four on each breast, and nine on each side
above the hips, with one cut in the middle of the forehead. The total
number is ninety-one. These groupings also correspond to the one
year with its twelve months and four quarters of ninety-one days to
the quarter.2
A Colorado woman described by Spix and Martius wore a circle
on the cheek, and over this were two strokes. Down her arms the
figure of a snake was depicted.3 The serpent signifies renewal, and
the two strokes obviously denote reduplication of the circle or the
Egyptian two times, and these were true hieroglyphics. The name
of Tattoo in Egyptian (Tattu) means the Eternal. Tattu in An was
the place of eternizing or establishing for ever.
The wife of a Bectuan chief was seen by Lichtenstein wearing
seventy-two brass rings, the number of demi-decans in the zodiac.
What dod they symbolize? Why, that she impersonated the whole
circle of the heavens, as did the ancient mother who embraced and
gave birth to her solar Lord, her RA , or Har. Such customs did not
originate in the mere ornamentation of human bodies, but were the
means of reckoning, and of registering facts for use. Picture-writing
was precious because of its purpose. No amount of suffering was
considered too great. The significance had to be branded into the
memory. When the boundaries of certain parishes are beaten, and
the boys are bumped against the stone, they are told it is to make
them remember. These customs contain the earliest acting drama on
the world‘s stag'e. The players were bringing on to us what they
1 Dyer, p. 94. 2 Denham, vol. iii. p. 175.
3 Travels in Brazil, vol. ii. p. 224.

knew with no other means of preserving and communicating their
knowledge.
The herrings connect the reckoning with the sign of Pisces. When
the sun emerged from this sign in the fixed year, it was the place of
the spring equinox, the point of issue from the three water-signs.
One wonders whether the Lord Rich was one of the Rekhi, the
knowers, the Mages, whose name of Rekh means to reckon, keep
account of, and to know?
Three Egyptian words will tell us mo-re about the customs of
Valentine‘s Day than all the falsehoods concerning the saint.
It is, says Bourne, a ceremony never omitted among the vulgar to
draw lots which they term Valentines on the eve before St. Valen-
tine‘s Day. The names of a select number of one sex are, with an equal
number of the other, put into some vessel and after that every one draws
a name, which for the present, is called their Valentine. Va (Eg.) or
Fa means to bear; Ren is the name and to name; Ten means to deter-
mine. Thus the day of Valentine is that of determining whose
name shall be borne by each person in this mode or marriage by draw-
ing lots. Valentine‘s Day is the day of coupling, and the custom points
to the time when chance rather than choice was the law. Marriage
is still said to be a lottery. The custom of sending caricatures on
Valentine‘s Day is probably based on asserting the freedom of choice,
and making a mock of chance.
St. David‘s Day is observed by the officers and men of the Royal
Welsh (23rd) Fusileers, by the eating of the leek, every man in the
regiment wearing a leek in his ―BUSBY.‖ The officers have a party, and
the drum-major, accompanied by the goat, marches round the table
carrying a plate of leeks. Each officer or guest who has never eaten
one before is bound to mount a chair, and, standing with one foot on
the table, eat a leek while the drummer beats a roll behind his chair.1
Hut, the name of the onion, is not only applied to that type of the
Sun-god, the goat is also Hut or Hutu in Egyptian. St. David has
now taken the place of Hu, and all the toasts are coupled with his
name. But the onion, Hut, is the sign of Hu, and the step from
chair to table identifies the act with the worship of the ascending Sun,
the winged disk or Tebhut. Tebhut is likewise a nameof the table
in Egyptian. The goat, designated a Hut or Hutu, like the onion,
is a symbol of Hu. This name of the goat and onion, Hutu, signifies
one haIf-circle, and in the solstitial year which commenced with the
sun‘s entrance into the sign of' the Crab the ascending half of the
year began with the sign of the Goat. It looks as though the name
of David were a modernised form of Tebhut or Tevhut, the lord of
heaven and giver of life, the great solar type of commencement in a
circle.
Simnel or Mothering Sunday is the mid-Sunday in Lent. On this
1 Dyer, p. 110.
day a cake called the Simnel Cake was eaten. It was the custom for
apprentices to visit their parents especially on this day, and the
practice was termed going a-Mothering. The simnel cake is also
known as the mothering-cake. In the Dictionarius of John de
Garlande, compiled at Paris in the thirteenth century, it appears
thus: ―Simeneus-placentæ-simnels.‖ In the fifteenth century the
form of the word is symnylle. The placentæ were signed with the
image of the Virgin Mother 1 or of the Child. Now Sem (Eg.) is a
representative sign, and nel (ner) means the mother and the vulture.
Sem-nel is the mother-sign. The mother-sign was the Fishes in the
Hermean zodiac. In this sign the mother as the fish-goddess (Athor-
Atergatis) brought forth the child. In this sign (in An) was the tree
of life from which Athor poured out the waters, holding the cake
in her hand, the mother-cake the placenta-symbol of birth, the
simnel cake of our Mothering-Sunday.
Another derivation, however, is the more probable. Smen (Eg.) was
the place of establishing the child in the seat of the father. Smen
means to prepare, set up, constitute, in the region of the eight
gods, where the son was established. The cake was a symbol of this
establishing, the type of the land attained by the youthful sun-
god. The son or child is the El (Ar), and the simnel cakes with
the Christ on them would be the sign of the newly-established son,
whence their connection with Mothering-Sunday, and the festival of
the young people who went to see their mothers. At Bury, in
Lancashire, from time immemorial, thousands of persons from all
parts assemble to eat the simnel cake on Simnel Sunday. And this
practice of meeting en masse in one town is confined to Bury. The
origin of the custom is entirely unknown. Bury is evidently a repre-
sentative of Para, the sacred name of An (Heliopolis), the birth-
place of the Solar God, where we find the cake, the mother, and the
child.
Pa is written with the open house or the bird with open mouth.
And in Bury nearly every shop was formerly kept open on this day
in the most unacoountable defiance of the law respecting the closing
of shops during religious service on Sunday.
Passion Sunday, the Sunday preceeding Palm Sunday, was formerly
known as Care or Carle Sunday, as may be seen in some old almanacks.
On this day Carlings were eaten, carlings being explained as peas
boiled on Care Sunday. Careing Fair was held at Newark, 1785,
on the Friday before Careing Sunday. It is also called Whirlin
Sunday in the Isle of Ely, and cakes were eaten called Whirlin
Cakes. Whir and Kar are interchangeable. Carling and Whirlin
cakes were provided gratis at the public-houses, and rites apparently
peculiar and sacred to ―Good Friday‖ were celebrated on this
day, which the Church of Rome called Passion Sunday. Yet it
1 Dyer, p. 113.
was an ancient popular festival in England, having no relation to a
mourning. In the old Roman calendar a ―dole of soft beans‖ is set
down for this day. This is the same as the dole of peas boiled
soft called Carlings. ―Our Popish ancestors,‖ says Brand, ―cele-
brated as it were by anticipation, the funeral of Our Lord on this
Care-Sunday, with many supestitious usages.‖
Lloyd, in his ―Dial of Days,‖ observes that ―on the 12th of March,
at Rome, they ccIebrate the Mysteries of Christ and His Passion with
great ceremony and devotion.‖ They celebrated many mysteries in
Rome undreamt of in Protestantism; this of Carcing Sunday being one.
What with the beans in Rome and the beans and peas in England,
we may call it the Feast of the Lentils.
The festival of the lentils was Egyptian, and consecrated to the
elder Horus, the child that died, not the Horus who rose again.
Isis, according to Plutarch, either conceived or was delivered of
Harpocrates about the winter tropic, he being in the first shootings
and sprouts very imperfect and tender; which is the reason, they
say, that when the lentils begin to spring up, they offer him the tops
for first-fruits.1
Plutarch, however, has mixed up the two Horuses. Har-p-Khart
was conceived in the month Mesore—in the African Galla language
the lentil is named M ESERA , and M ASURA in Sanskrit—and a sort of
pulse was presented to his image in that month (Plutarch); his death
occurs about the time of the winter solstice, when Isis made search for
him, and the sacred cow was led seven times round about her temple.
This was in the seventh month of the sacred year, Phamenoth
(Pa-Menat, the month of the wet-nurse). The reason for this, says
Plutarch, is because the sun finishes his passage from the winter to
the summer tropic in the seventh month. In the Alexandrian year
the feast of Phamenoth had receded to February 25, and about this
time was the feast of lentils, brought on by Rome, and celebrated on
the 12th of March. The tender shoots of the lentils offered to
Har-ur are imitated by the peas being steeped until they were soft
and tender in making Carlings.
Gregory says there is a practice of the Greek Church to set BOILED
corn before the singers of those holy hymns which were sung in com-
memoration of the dead, or those which are asleep in Christ, and
that this rite denoted the resurrection of the body, and he quotes
Paut ―Thou fool! that which thou sowest is not quickened except it
die.‖2 The parboiled wheat, the steeped beans and peas, and the
tender shoots are all one as types.
The hymns also were identical in their character with that song of
Linus heard by Herodotus in various lands sung in memory of the
divine victim; the song of the R ENNU or nursling, the child Horus,
who in death was Maneros. The child and seed are identical as Sif
1 Of Isis and Osiris. 2 Opuscula, 128, ed. 1650.
(Eg.), and the first Horus as the seed was buried in the earth, during
the typicat three or the forty days, when the seed quickened and
the transformation took place by which he became the Horus-Khuti
of the resurrection. In India it is yet held to be the most propitiatory
of all good works to personate the buried Seed by entering alive into
a vault and remaining there whilst a crop of barley, sown in the soil
overhead, springs up, ripens, and is harvested, which takes about the
length of the forty days of the Mysteries and of Lent. Rich Hindoos
usually perform the forty days‘ rite by proxy.
In going ―a-souling‖ on ―All Souls‘ Day‖ in Herefordshire, the
oat-cake, called S OUL - MASS C AKE, used to be received with the
acknowledgement,
― God have your saul,
Beans and all.‖1
The oats had superseded the beans, but this type of the seed
survived.
The lentil takes its name from that of the Renn (Eg.), the nursling
child and tender shoot.
The feast of the lentils, then, belonged to the elder Horus, he who
was born of matter, and was always the elder, the sufferer, and the
child, because the type of the dying sun. Har-p-Khart is Har the
child, the Crut, the dwarf or puny weaking, in short, our Carling.
Carline is a name of a woman that does not bear. The Carling
is the foundation beam of a ship or the beam on the keel. Har-p-
Khart corresponds to both. He was the basis, but also typified the
infertile sun. The truth is the adapters of the ancient festivals
and celebrations to the new theology were hard put to it in
adjusting the times of the two Horuses to the one Christ. For the
Egyptian Messiah was double, as will be demonstrated. And the
feast of the lentils was dedicated to the first-born Horus, whereas
the Easter festival was consecrated to the younger, the god who rose
again.
This is the one or whom Plutarch observes in continuation of the
account of the lentils offered to Harpocrates:—―They also observe
the festival of her (Isis) after-birth, following the vernal equinox.‖
The after-birth was the younger Horus, the god of the Easter
resurrection. The suffering Messiah was represented as passing through
a feminine phase, and as weeping tears of blood. This was signified
by the wound of Tammus, and the Kenah image used by the women
of Israel in their lewd and idolatrous mourning for Adonis. Apis
was passing through this period during the forty days of Lent when
he was visited by the women alone, who stood before his face and
raised their dothes to show him thdr secret parts; they who were
forbidden to enter his presence at any other time.2 The action was
1 Brand, All-hallow Even. 2 Diod. Sic. b. i.
symbolical of the feminine nature of the mystery of the biune being
of whom so much has to be explained.1
The lentils are identified by name with the season of Lent, just
as the carlings are with the French name of Lent, Carême. Lent
itself is named from the Egyptian Renn (Len), the nursling child.
Lent is the time of the great mystery of the transformation of
the child Horus into the young hero ef the resurrection. Hence
the Mothering Sunday of mid-Lent. The Renn, so to say, becomes
the Renpu. Pu adds the masculine article to Renn, and Renpu
means the young shoot, plant, or branch. The first Horus (the
Renn) was of a feminine, dwarfish kind of nature, the type of the
winter sun. This, in a feminine form, would be the Ren-t, our Runt,
a dwarf. He was a deformed dwarf, hence the chiId. In his trans-
formation he is the Renpu, the renewed and renewing Youth.
The branch or shoot of the palm is the Renpu, and this, too, is an
extant type jn our palm branches of Palm Sunday.
Palm Sunday follows Car Sunday, and the palm shoot follows the
carlings, the tender shoots of the lentils in Egypt, the ideograph of
a new cycle of time.
Care Sunday was the ancient Passion Sunday. The passion, which
lasts seven days, was the transformation of the god or the soul; ―he
is transformed into his sow from his two halves, who are Horus the
sustainer of his father and Horus who dwells in the shrine,‖ as it is
written in the Egyptian Gospel.2 The seven days correspond to the
cow being led round the temple seven times.
TAHIN is the Turkish name of an oily paste still made use of for
food by Eastern Christians during Lent: that is, during the time when
the eye of Horus was being formed which was called the Tahn, and
was made of tahn, a substance typical of preservation or salvation.
This was in the place of preparation and of re-uniting the Osiris from
his two halves, the two Horuses. The process of preservation by the
TAHN is described in the seventeenth chapter of the Ritual as that of
being steeped in resin or TAHN .
A very ancient form of the Genitrix who gave re-birth to the Child-
Horus, the Runt as the Renpu, the fresh shoot of eternal life, was Ren-
nut, and her name is that of the season during which the mothering,
the passion, and the transfiguration take place, the Romish Lent.
The day before Good Friday is called Shere Thursday and Maundy
Thursday. Shere Thursday is the last day, the day selected for the
Last Supper of the Lord, and Sher (Eg.) signifies to close, to shut.
Sheri also means a rejoicing, and to breathe with joy. Maundy
1 In the worship of the binue being called Venus-Barbatus, ―Videre est in ipsis
templis cum publico gemitu, miseranda ludibria et viros muliebria pati, et hanc
impuri et impudici corporis labem gloriosa ostentatione detegere.‖ Also see
Arnobius, Adv. Gentes, 5, 7.; and Dictionary of the Bible (Smith), v. iii., p. 1434.
2 Ritual, ch. 17.
interpreted by Menti (Eg.) tells the same tale of the ending. Menat
means the end, repose, death, or having arrived.
In Northumberland and Yorkshire Shere Thursday was known as
Bloody Thursday, and in Egyptian Tsher is blood, gore, red blood,
bloody, also the name of the red calf or heifer of sacrifice, the lower of
the two crowns, and the desert land. The ―red calf in the paintings‖
is alluded to in the chapter of transforming into a Phœnix. 1 In
ancient times, we are toId, the people clipped their beards and polled
their heads, and the priests shaved their crowns, on this day. The
hair-symbol is important. The Child-Horus the Carling, wore a single
lock of hair, the type of childhood. This was put away on arriving at
maturity, when he transformed into the fully pubescent God. As
the child, he was the non-pubescent Horus, as the second Horus
he became the Sher. Share in Eaglish denotes the pubes of a
man; in Egyptian Shef denotes pubescence. Sheru (Eg.) is barley,
because it is bearded, and the word signifies the adult, the youth
of thirty.2
The Child-Horus was the beardless youth, the mere Carling with
the curl of childbood, either boy or girl. The sun of Easter is
the virile, pubescent, full-bearded, no longer the wearer of the Horus
lock, but the adult Sher, represented as a youth of thirty.3 Sher
has an earlier form in Kher, to be due; Kher, the word or logos.
Passion Week is called Char or Care Week; the Char, as in
Egyptian, is a completed course, and on Char-Thursday the circle
clasped on Good Friday was completing, and being ―C HARRED .‖
Khar (Eg.) also signifies the animal destined for the sacrifice; and in
England, on Shere-Thursday, the altars were washed (for the new
sacrifice). 2 Khar modifies into Har, the lord, wbh was the hairy
or full-bearded solar god, represented as being buried for three days
in the underworld, and mourned with the same ceremonies as those
of our Shere-Thursday, or rather as those of the three days. Thus
we have the two types in the Kar (Shere) and the Carling, the one
being the diminutive of the other; and as that modifies into Har,
we have the two Horuses in their right relationship by nature and
by name. This will expIain wby the Christian ritual traverses the
same ground twice over. The Church of Rome continued both
Horuses and all their symbols faithfully enough. For cxample, the
time was, as late as the year 1818, when Bloody or Holy Thursday
was celebrated by the typical burial of the Cbrist on that day;
and in the Sistine Chapel and other churches the Host in
a box, i.e. the real flesh and blood of Chrisl; was laid in the
sepulchre the day before the rite of the Crucifixion was performed.
―I never could learn,‖ says the eye-witness, ―why Christ was to be
1 Ritual, ch. 84. 2 Denkmäler, iv. 51, B.
3 ―Youth of thirty.‖ Cf. Gen. xli. 46; and Luke iii. 23.
2 Collier‘s Eccles. Hist. vol. ii. p. 157.
buried before He was dead.‖ 1 They were worshipping the double
Horus of Egypt, as will be proved in a later part of this work; and
this necessitated the beginning on Thursday, for the fulfilment in
three days, as it was in mythology, and as it was in Rome where the
resurrection took place on Saturday.2
The mystery of the Child-Horus, who always remained a child, is
also the mystery of St. Nicholas and of the boy-bishop. Nicholas is
the chosen patron of children, and is himself the child. In the
English Festival3 it is said ―he was christened Nicholas, a man‘s
name, but he keepeth the name of the child. Thus he lived all his
life in virtues with his child‘s name, and therefore children do him
worship before all other saints.‖4 His Child‘s name! the name of the
child! and yet a man‘s name! In Egyptian Neka is the typical
male, virile power, the bull. Ras (las) is suspended. The sus-
pended virility marks the child, the unvirile, infertile sun, the Child-
Horus of Egypt. Nicholas was a survival of the Child-Horus, who
was the Neka-las in person. In cathedral churches in Spain, when the
boy-bishop was elected, there descended from the vaulted roof a
cloud that stopped midway and opened, whereupon two angels
issued from it with a mitre and placed it on the boy‘s head. This is
a replica of the crowning of the Child-Horus by the two divine
sisters Isis and Nephthys.5 The Child-Horus is Har-Skhem, lord
of the shut-place, the secret shrine. The mouse was one of his
emblems. And this character of secrecy and working in secret is
extant in the child‘s Saint Nicholas.
The writer is forted to confess that every great day of festival and
fast and every popular ceremony and rite pressed into the service of
the Christian theology were pre-identified in these islands. No true
account of many of these has ever been given; of others we have
nothing but downright lying, as needs must be in a thorough course
of systematized fraudulence and imposture such as was practised by
the Romish Church.
The return of Palm Sunday has, from time immemorial, been
celebrated in a peculiar manner at Hentland church, Herefordshire.
The churchwardens presented the minister and congregation with a
bun or cake, and formerly a cup of beer. This is partaken of
within the church, and the act is understood to be one of good-
fellowship, implying a desire to forgive and forget all animosities
in preparation for the Easter festival.6 Hent-land suggests an
Egyptian name. Hent (Eg.) signifies rites, consecration. Hen is
one‘s neigbhour or familiar frIend; an equivalent of our ―forgive and
forget.‖ Hen also means to bring tribute, and Hent is the priest; here
the church is called Hent-land.
1 Rome in the Nineteenth Century, vol. iii. pp. 144, 145.
2 Ibid. 3 P. 55.
4 Liber Festivalis in die S. Nicholai. 5 Sharpe, Egyptian Myth. fig. 23.
6 Dyer, p. 128.
A singular custom existed for ages at Caistor Church, Lincolnshire,
and Sir Cullen Eardley, in 1836, petitioned the House of Lords for
its abolition. The estate of Hundon appears to have been held by
the lord of the manor subject to the performance, on Palm Sunday
in every year, of the ceremony of cracking a whip in Caistor Church.
The whip was taken every Palm Sunday by a man from the manor
of Broughton to the parish of Caistor, and while the minister was
reading the first lesson, the whip was cracked three times in the
church porch. At the commencement of the Second Lesson the man
approached the minister whip in hand, with a purse at the end of it,
and kneeling opposite to him, be waved the whip and purse three
times, and continued in a determined attitude until the end of the
chapter. After the ceremony, the whip was deposited in the pew of
the lord of Hundon in Caistor Church. There is no reference to the
subject in the title-deeds. The estate was held under the ancient
tenure of demesne.1 These dateless customs have all been Chris-
tianized and dated; the present one has been supposed to refer in
some way to Peter‘s repentance and the cock crowing thrice. With
this we parallel certain FACTS derived from Egyptian which may
possibly throw some light on the mystery. The whip is a most im-
portant hieroglyphic. Hun (Eg.) means to rule and to flog, also
territory. Hun then is rule-of-whip. Ten (Eg.) is place, seat, or
land. Hunten is the seat or land of whip-rule. Khi is the whip. It is
the sign of rule, and means to rule, govern, screen, protect, and cover.
Ster is a name of the dead laid out and lying together. Khi-ster
then signifies ―Protect, screen, cover the dead laid out together.‖
From this we may suppose the land of Hundon (the whip-land) was
held on condition that the owner protected and gave shelter to the
buried dead. Hence Caistor Church was built and named as the
latest place of protection for the dead. Ster, the couch of the laid-
out dead in the monuments, becomes our Min-ster. Mena (Eg.) is the
dead. Mena-ster, the couch of the laid-out dead, is our Minster.
Cockneys persist in calling Westminster ―Westminister,‖ and that
rcpresents the Mena-ster, the Egyptian couch of the dead. The whip
is as good a hieroglyphic in Caistor Church as the ideographic Khi,
to rule over, screen, cover, and protect.
So interpreted, the tenure of demesne is obviously typical.
Temesu (Eg.) is the name for the division, or a division of land,
and Nu is a divine or sacred type; Temes-nu is literally demesne,
the Egyptian e bsving been an earlier u. The oldest tenure of land
was typical of service to be rendered to the dead.
At a place named S TOOLE , near Downpatrick, a ceremony is pre-
formed at midnight. Crowds of worshippers assemble to do penance,
kneeling and crawling on their knees. The men, without coats or hats,
ascend St. Patrick‘s Mount by steep and rugged paths, on their bare
1 Dyer, p. 128.
knees, many holding their hands at the back of their heads. This
they do seven times over. At the top is St. Patrick‘s Chair, formed
of two large fiat stones set upright on the hill. There sits an aged
man who, while they repeat their prayers, turns them round three
times. The penance is concluded by the devotees going to a pile of
stones called the altar.1 The name of the place, ―Stoole,‖ is identical
with the Ster (Eg.), a couch or seat, and the other meanings of the
word, coupled with the nature of the ceremonies, suggest that this
must have been a most ancient form of the Ster or burial-place of
the dead. The seven times also appear to connect the Mount with
the goddess of the seven stars, the Great Bear, who was the first form
of the seat and abode of the living and the dead. According to
Polwhele, there used to be on Start Point, in South Devon, the visible
remains of a temple that belonged to the goddess Astoreth, and he
connects the Start with her name. In Egyptian, Ster-t is the partici-
pial form of Ster, to he laid or stretched out. The Start might
be named from the way in which it is stretched out. It is the Start
Point, and the Ster was the couch of the dead. Start or Stert may
include the As (chamber, resting-place) of Taur or Taurt. These
high places were burial-places, and the dead used to be carried long
distances to be interred on the headlands, where the stone sanctuaries
once stood. Caistor Church had taken the place of the Stoole and
the Start.
Although out of date here, it may be mentioned that in North-
umberland it was customary on the 24th of June, to dress up stools
(the seat) with a cushion of flowers. A layer of earth was placed
on a stool and various flowers were planted in it, tastefully arranged,
and so close together as to form a cushion. These were exhibited
at the doors of houses and at the crossings of the streets and corners
of lanes, where money was solicited from the onlookers for a festival
in the evening.2 The stool was a form of the Ster, the seat which
represented the genitrix.
In the Witches’ Sabbath the eye-witnesses tell us how they joined
hands and formed a circle standing face outwards, and how, at certain
parts of the dance, the buttocks were clashed together in concert,3 in
the worship of the goddess of the hinder quarter; and at one time, a
ceremony was observed at Birmingham on Easter Monday, called
―clipping the church,‖ when the first comers placed themselves hand
in hand with their backs to the church, and thus gradually formed a
chain of sufficient length to embrace the building.4 In our Easter
and Pasch we have the same season doubly derived from Hest and
Pasht, two Egyptian goddesses. The term Easter denotes the division
(er) of Hest, the British Eseye and Egyptian Isis, who was the earlier
1 Hibernian Magazine, July 1817. 2 Dyer, p. 327.
3 De Lancre, Tableau de l’Inconstance des mauvais Anges et Démons, p. 209.

4 Every Day Book, vol. i. p. 431.
Taurt, whence Hes-ta-urt, Astarte, Ishtar, and Eostre. She was the
Sabean-lunar genitrix. Pasht is the later solar goddess, whose
types were the cat and lioness. Her name denotes the division of
Easter. Both Hest and Pasht, as well as the earlier Typhon, were
typified by the seat, the hind quarter, which became the seat of worship,
at the Church, just as Stonehenge had been the seat of Eseye.
The gammon of bacon and leg of pork, which are still eaten at
Easter, are typical of the goddess of the hinder thigh, who brought
forth the son, whether as the Typhonian Khepsh or the lioness Kheft.
The pig however identifies Rerit,the sow, the Goddess of the North
Pole and Great Bear, the oldest form of the genitrix in heaven,
whose son was Baal, ami whose bringing forth was sostitial, whereas
the solar time of birth was equinoctial.
About the end of the sixth centnry it was discovered that the
difference in point of time between the British Pasag, as celebrated
by the natives, whether we look on them as Christians or pre-Christians,
and the Easter ceremonies as observed in Rome, was an entire month.
This means that the festival had been kept in the British Isles for
2,155 years previous to the sixth century, and the people were behind
solar time to that extent, on account of their not having re-adjusted
the times of the feasts, fairs, and fasts, by which the reckoning
was kept.1
It was a popular superstition in England that the sun danced on
Easter Day. In the middle districts of Ireland, says Brand, the
people rise on Easter morning about four o‘clock to see the sun dance
in honour of the Resurrection. He also mentions a mode of making
an artificial Sun dance on Easter Day in a vessel fun of water set out
in the open air, in which a reflected sun was seen to dance. This
custom was practised by the present writer‘s mother, who little knew
what a good heathen she was! We read in the RituaL ―I do not
DANCE like thy form, oh sun! borne along in the river of millions and
billions of moments.‖ 2 ―Thou hast LODGED DANCING ‖3 is said of
the sun of the horizon, that is of the level, the sun of the equinox, who
was called Har-Makhu. The dancing may be interpreted by the
scales or balance (Makha), and the nodes of ascent and descent.
The sun dancing on Easter Day is at the poise of the equinox. Maka
(Eg.) means the dance, and the Makha-level was the place of dancing,
and Khekhing up and clown.
―Apheru dandles me,‖ says the Osirian.4 Ap-heru is the equal
road, that is, the equinoctial level, and dandling is the same as the
dancing of the sun on Easter Day; the image being founded on the
scales or balance figured as going up and dawn and dandling the
child new-born as an immortal at this the place of rebirth into the
higher life.
1 Gieseler, vol. 1. p. 54; Cummianus, cited by Ussher, Sylloge, p. 34.
2 Ch. 15. 3 Ch. 15. 4 Ch. 44.
Two farms in the township of Swinton, belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam,
change their parish every year. For one year from Easter Day at
twelve noon till the next Easter Day they are in the parish of Mex-
borough, and then till the Easter Day following, at the same hour, they
are in the parish of Wath-upon-Dearne, and so on alternately.1
This is the same dancing at the time of the vemal equinox. Mak
(Eg.) is mixed; Maka, to dance; Makba, the balance or level.
Mexborough may be named from this, and the alternation marks a
boundary line answering to the boundary, in time, of Easter. Buru
(Eg.) means the cap, tip, roof, the eye, which was made at this place
in the planisphere. Swinton equates with Shen-tun (Eg.), the seat,
throne, high-place of the circuit (Shen) whlch was clasped at the
equinox.
Cole, in his History of Filey, says, on Easter Day the young men
seize the shoes of the females, collecting as many as ever they can.
On the next day the girls retaliate by getting the men‘s hats. Both
are redeemed afterwards at a meeting held for the purpose. 2 These
shoes and hats correspond to the Two Truths of the lower and upper
heaven.
Changing of clothes or signboards, and mixing of the sexes is a
form of Mak-ing from Mak (Eg.), to mix, and has the same meaning
as the two farms changing their parishes. A form of this Mak-ing is
made use of by Hamlet in his ―Miching Malecho,‖ an evil Miching,
or double-faced performance. The Mak-ing or mixing had strange
illustrations in the ancient religious restivals, as may be gathered
from the Hebrew practice of lbt or lb-lb in \ylbd-tb.
One form of the Makha and Mak-ing is to be found in the sport called
hocking.
The meaning of the word hock or hoke in the ceremony of
hocking is, according to Chambers‘s Book of Days,3 totally unknown,
and none of the derivations hitherto proposed deserve consideration. It
is an Easter festivity in which the men hock the women on Monday, and
the women hock the men on Tuesday; hocking consisting in binding
or stopping people with ropes. Tuesday appears to have been the
principal day, and on this the women bore the rule. The Egyptian
hok, hek, or hak, denotes a time of festival. The Hakr4 is shown by
the twin lions to be the equinoctial festival. Hek sfgnifies rule,
dominion, and is a form of hooking and holding. In hocking the men
rule one day, the women the other, by binding them. But it was an
essential part of the ceremony that the men should lift the women
up in their arms, and the women in their turn should lift the men.
This alternate heaving was the analogue of the dancing sun, and the
balance of the equinox, and the change from the lower to the upper
hemisphere. It is represented on the monuments by the ―Kabat,‖ a
1 Dyer, p. 168. 2 Dyer, p. 168.
3 Vol. i. p. 499. 4 Egyptian Saloon, B. M. 573.
legend of two dancers doing the mill by raising each other up and
down.1 The G AVOT dance is an extant form of the K ABAT.
The imagery and place of the equinox can be identified as
Egyptian. The cake is an ideograph of the horizon and the cross
figured on it of the crossing. The cake then is a symbol of the equinox.
Honey.fairs are celebrated in Cumberland and other parts of the
North, with no relation to honey. They are a kind of wake, with
dancing and other sports, held a week before Christmas. The honey,
or hinny, called a ―singing hinny,‖ is a cake. The fair marks a re-
peating period. Han (Eg.) is the cycle. Hani means to tum and
return. Hani is the solar bark; Hannu, the scales. If the Honey
fair had got beIated from the time of the autumn equinox to the week
before Christmas, that would calendar the lapse of over five thousand
years. The cake, however, as the pancake, belongs to the horizon of
Easter. Khekh (Eg.) is the balance, level, equinox. In English the
cock is the tongue of the balance, as is the Khekh in Egyptian.
Making cockledy bread is related to the equinox. Aubrey and
Kennett describe the game. ―Young wenches have a wanton sport
which they call moulding of cockle bread, by getting upon a table-
board and gathering up their knees as high as they can, and then,
wabbling to and fro as if they were kneading dough, they say these
words:
― My dame is sick and gone to bed,
And I‘ll go mould my cockle bread,
Up with my heels and down with my head,
And that is the way to mould cockle bread.‖
A Westmoreland version reads:

― My grandy‘s sick, and like to be dead,
And I‘ll make her some cocklety bread.‖2
This however, was not the only way. The present writer, when a
child, was received by a group of country girls as one of their own
sex, and initiated into the mysteries of their games, which retained
relics of the most primitive symbolical customs. Making cockledy
bread was one of these. ―Up with my heds and down with my
head‖ shows the reversal or transformation to be found in what we
term khekhing. It also denotes the bringing of head and heels
to the level or Khekh. And that this was the significance is shown by
the other practice of lying down flat on the floor and rolling to and fro.
Each one of the party did this in turn whilst the rest sat round in a
ring. The ring was zodiacal, and the wabbling to and fro was the
ascending and descending motion of the balance. They were doing
their scales. It was the same thing as the Kabiric custom of doing
the mill by two persons raising each other up and down as in a pair
of scales, called the Kabat, the same as the Kapat of the Abipones,
1 Champollion. See Pierret, ―Kab-t.‖ 2 Brand, ―Cockle Bread.‖
who danced all night first on one foot, then on the other, swinging
round a half-circle on each. The Kabat survived in the Easter custom
of lifting. The Dame or Granny who is sick represents the Great
Mother as the bringer-forth.
There is an endowment in the parish of Biddenden, Kent, of ancient
but unknown date, for making a distribution of cakes to the poor every
Easter Day in the afternoon. The source of the benefaction was
twenty acres of land in five parcels. The cakes made for the purpose
were impressed with two female figures side by side and close together.
An engraving of one of these may be seen in the Every Day Book.1 It
was believed among the country people that the figures were
those of two maidens named Preston who had left the endowment,
and it was said they were twins born in bodily union and joined
together.2 The gift being on Easter Day tends to identify the cakes
with that of Easter, and it may be with the two characters of the
motherhood, the two divine sisters, who, as Isis and Nephthys, bring
forth the Easter child. At Easter the two houses of the sun were
twinned, forming the Beth or Both. It may also bethat Biddenden
derives its name from this origin. Pet-ten-ten (Eg.) would denote
the region or place of the division of the circle of heaven. Also
the Egyptians made a kind of cake called the Baat or Boths.
At Bury St. Edmund‘s on Shrove Tuesday, Easter Monday, and
the Whitsuntide festival, twelve old women fonn two sides for a
game at trap and ball, which is kept up with great spirit till sunset.3
This is the same contention in another form, and still more inter-
esting because doubly feminine. Bury (Eg. Buri) means the top,
cap, roof, supreme height.
The Egyptian name of the balance would seem to nave given tho
title to M AGONIA , a mythical region once believed to exist in cloud-
land. Agobard, Bishop ot Lyons in the ninth century, says there were
people in his time insensate enough to believe that there was a region
called Magonia, whence ships of cloudland came to take on board the
fruits which had been beaten down by tempests as the wrecks of
earth. The sailors of that upper deep were fabled to be in league
with wizards who had power to raise the wrecking storms, the fruit of
which was shipped off to Magonia.4 This ascension and declension
of the scales between the two solstices is evidently at the bottom of
such a tale of upper and lower as is told by Gervase of Tilbury,5 who
relates that a native of Bristol sailed from that port for Ireland, and
his ship was driven out of its course to the remotest parts of the
ocean. It chanced one day that he dropped his knife overboard, and
it fell through the skylight of his own house at Bristol and stuck in
the table in the midst of the family dinner, so directly did it descend
1 Vol. ii. p. 443, 1827. 2 Dyer, p. 165.
3 Every Day book, vol. i. p. 430. 4 Grimm, Deustsche Myth, p. 604.
5 Otia Imperialia.
from where his ship was sailing overhead. This would originate in some
astronomical teaching, just as we might say if the knife fell straight
through the earth, it would come out at a given point in Australia.
It was a mode of describing the antipodal positions of the solstices
and the sailing of the sun‘s bark through the upper signs, in relation
to Makha or the equinoctial plane and the region of Magonia. Ma-
gonia as the place of the scales would, at the time of the autumn
equinox, be the landing level during the season of the equinoctial
gales and Typhonian tempests.
The Egyptian M AKHA , and the Irish M AGHERA (Co. Down), where
the maypole was formerly erected at the crossing; the Moslem
M ECCA , and the Greek M AKARIA , an abode of the Blessed, and the
M AKARON N ESOI , or Islands of the Blessed, were each and all based
on and named from the Makha of Magonia, as the landing-stage of
the sun and the souls from the passage of the underworld. M EIGH is
an Irish name of the Balance or Scales.
We find the Cake also under this name. When Dulaure wrote
his work it was the custom at Clermont and Brives in France to
make Easter Cakes in the image of the female, and these were popu-
larly known as M ICHES . 1 The M KATE in Swahili is a cake, and in
English a Micher is a cake or peculiar kind of loaf.
The Guising Feast, or Gyst Ale, was commonly held in the spring
about the time of Lady Day, when rents were paid and servants
were engaged for the year. The Gyst is really the hiring or cove-
nanting; and the Ale was the periodic: festival. KEs (Eg.) is to bind
and be bound, to envelop with slight bands, and Khes is a sacred
rite. The Gyst was the binding or covenanting at the most hallowed
time of the year stiIl known as Lady Day. The Marlocking, or frolic,
and rough horse-play of the same season, supposed to illustrate the
manuring of the fields with marl, is more probably derived, like Gyst
from Kes, from Mer (Eg.), to bind, attach (marry), will, and Lekh
(rekh), to reckon, know, relationship. The Marlock is the periodic
merriment and celebration of the newly made covenant or binding; a
form of the statute fair.
Amongst other Hocktide customs kept at Hungerford, in Berk-
shire, is one connected with the Charter of the Commons for
holding the rights of fishing, shooting, and pasturage of cattle
on the lands and property bequeathed by John O‘Gaunt, Duke
of Lancaster. The day is known as Tuth Day. The tything or
tuth men proceed to the high constable‘s house to receive their
―tuth‖ poles, which are commonly bedecked with ribbons and
flowers. These tuth men visit all the schools and ask a holiday for
the children. They call at various houses and demand a toll of the
gentlemen. The tithe levied on the ladies is a kiss, and in the streets
they distribute oranges all day to the children. The high constable
1 Dulaure, Histoire abrégée de différens cultes, pp. 255-7.
is elected at the annual court held on this day, and one of the
customs is for the constable‘s wife to send out a plentiful supply of
cheese cakes to the ladies of the place.1 The Tut, or Tat, was an
Egyptian magistrate; the Tut is also a symbolical image, a type, and
a ceremony. Tat means to establish and to signify.
The palm with us is the sallow or willow, and this serves for the
same symbol as the palm-shoot of Taht or Tekh, on which he marked
another year (Renpa). It was the custom on Ascension Day for the
inhabitants of parishes to perambulate and beat the bounds. At the
commencement of the procession willow wands were distributed, especi-
ally among the boys; at the end of each wand there was a handful of
―Tagsm‖ as they were termed, and these were given away in remem-
brance of the event, and as honorary rewards for the boys to
remember the boundaries.2 It was a practical mode of tecch-ing or
teaching. Tek (Eg.) means to fix and attach. Tekh was the name
of the divine teacher who registercd the years and cycles on the
branch of palm, which was thus represented in England by the slip
of sallow. The peeled willow wands were called Gads, and the gad is
an English measuring rod; thus the wand with the tags was another
emblem of Tekh, the measurer of earth and heaven and preserver
of boundaries.
At Leighton Buzzard, Beds., the children of the township, bring-
ing green boughs in their hands, assemble each year at the market
cross on Rogation Monday. There a procession is formed, headed
by the town crier, and usually accompanied by the guardians of
the charity lands. They proceed to a number of different stations
situated on the boundary of the land belonging to the poor, and at
each of these a boy is made to stand on his head with legs extended.
A book is held over this figure of the cross or crossing, and a reader
recites, in a loud voice, a description of the benefaction, its purpose
and extent. The children receive one cake each, and the boy who is
inverted and bifurcated receives two. Here, again, is the cake
and the crossing with the beating of the ancient boundaries, the
double cake corresponding to the Dual Truth.
A festival called B EZANT, so ancient that no authentic record of its
origin or meaning exists, was formerly held at Shaftesbury or Shaston
on the Monday in Rogation week. The borough stands on the brow of
a high hill and, owing to its situation, was, until lately, so deficient in
water that the inhabitants were indebted for a supply of this necessary
of life to the people of the hamlet of Enmore Green, lying in the valley
below. The water was taken from two or three tanks or reservoirs in
the village and carried up the steep ascent on the backs of horses and
donkeys, and sold from door to door. The Bezant was an acknow-
ledgment of the privilege made on the part of the mayor, aldermen,
and burgesses to the lord of the manor of Mitcombe, of which
1 Dyer, p. 191. 2 Hawkins, History of music, ii. 112.
Enmore Green forms a part. The Bezant was represented by a kind
of trophy consisting of a framework about four feet high. On this
were fastened ribbons, flowers, peacocks‘ feathers, and it was also
hung with coins, medals, and jewels and plate. On the morning of
Rogation Monday a lord and lady of the festival were appointed,
and these, accompanied by the mayor and aldermen and the mace-
bearers carrying the Bezant, went in a procession to Enmore Green.
The lord and lady performed, at intervals, a traditional dance to the
sound of violins, as they passed along the way. When the steward
of the manor met them at the green, the mayor offered for his
acceptance, as the representative of the Lord, the Bezant, a raw calf‘s
head, a gallon of ale, and a pair of gloves edged with gold lace. The
steward accepted the gifts, but returned the Bezant, and permission
was accorded to use the wells for another year. No charter or deed
exists among the archives to explain the ceremony. 1 The calf‘s
head is presented as an offering to the steward on account of the
water privilege. The calf, in Egyptian, is named Behs, and ent (or
nt) signifies to be indebted and bounden, to present tribute, or make
an offering. Behs-ent is the offering of a calf. The hieroglyphic of
the calf‘s head is the sign of breath. Water is one of two life-
principles; breath the other. The calf‘s head is the typical
acknowledgment that they were indebted to the folk of Enmore
Green for very life. Only an Egyptologist can know how aptly the
two are juxtaposed according to Egyptian symbolism. An (En)
means a valley, and Mer is a pool, trough, cistern, or reservoir of
water. An-mer answers to Enmore. Shau (Eg.) is the high dry
place, and this is an abraded Shaf; tes is the dense, hard rock.
Thus Shautes, or Shaftes, is the waterless rock. Shastoin is appa-
rently Shafteston, corresponding to Shaftesbury. Ton equates with
bury, and throws lighton it. Ten (Eg.) means the elevated seat, and
Burui is the cap, height, summit.
At the Bel-tein celebration of the 1st of May in the Highlands of
Scotland it was customary to make oatmeal cakes, upon each of
which nine nipple-like nobs were raised, each one being dedicated to
a different being supposed to be the preserver of their herds and
flocks.2
The Egyptian Put was the festival of the 9th or Nine. Put is the
company of nine gods. The Baal-fire belongs properly to the summer
solstice, coincident with the beginning of the Inundation, when three
months overflow and nine dry months made up the year. A cake is
the ideograph of land, and the nine nobs, like the nine Bubu of Isis
the Gestator were equivalent to the nine months of dry land.
What is the origin of the belief that there is a peculiar virtue in the
dew of the first day of May? It was at one time religiously regarded
like the fabled fount of living waters that made the bather young
1 Dyer, pp. 205, 206. 2 Pennant‘s Tour in Scotland, p. 90.
or renewed the bcauty for ever. One of the commonest English
customs was for people of both sexes to rise early and wash their
faces in May-dew to make them beautiful. The present writer was one
of a faithful few in his boyhood who performed the ceremony without
attaining the supposed result.
Our English dew is probably the Egyptian ―Tuau,‖ some kind
of liquid. But if the U be a modified V, ―Dev‖ still represents
the Egyptian ―Tep,‖ a drop, the dewdrop, ―Tep‖ seed, ―Tef‖ the
divine source; T EF to drip. One of the earliest observations en-
shrined in mythology was that of the condensation of breath into
dew. Dew is both brcath and spirit. In Toda Div is breath, in Zend
it is spirit, both meet in the Egyptian Tef, seed source, and this was
the first dew, the dew of life, dew of heaven, dew from above. One
Egyptian name of this dew of source is Mai. the semen; our English
May, the seminal month of the year. The may or hawthorn is one
of the first trees to blossom as the first fruits of Spring. Our word
Haw is the Egyptian ―Hau,‖ signifying first-fruits and rustic or
countryfied. Thus interpreted the dew of May is an external emblem
of the Mai of masculine source considered as the fount of life and
water of immortaIity.
This, however, was later, the first water of life was assigned to
the female nature, and poured out of the tree by Nupe or shed by
the wet-nurse Mena, Maka, or Mâ, our May, and by T EF nut.
On May-day in the Isle of Man, there was a Queen of the May
electedm likewise a Queen of the Winter. Each was supported by
their respective followers who marched and met on a common where
they fought a mock battle. It was a celebration of the turning back
of Winter in presence of Summer. There was a procession of Summer,
sometimes composed of little girls, locally called the Maceboard
—an assumed corruption of May-sport! 1 The ―Maceboard‖ went
from door to door with a small piece of green ribbon, asking if the
inmates would buy the Queen‘s favour, the token of triumph over the
Winter. Now Mesh (Eg.) is to turn back or the turning back, Pert
is the name of Winter, and Mesh-pert, the equilvalent of M ACEBOARD
means the turning back of Winter. Green was the symbol of re-
birth. Our May customs, games, rites, and ceremonies belong mainly
to the equinox, and this contention of Summer and Winter equates
with the battle of Horus and Sut at the crossing; the proper date
would be the 25th of March.
In Halsted‘s History of Kent, it is related that a singular and most
ancient May custom was extant at Twyford in that county, although
nothing was known of its origin or meaning. Every year the people
elected a ―Deputy to the Dumb Borsholder of Chart,‖ as it was
called. This Dumb Borsholder was always first called the Court-
Leet holden for the hundred of Twyford, when the keeper of the
1 Dyer, p. 246.
image for the year held it up to the call, with a neckcloth or hand-
kerchief run through a ring fixed at the top.1
The dumb Borsholder was made of wood, about three feet and
half an inch long with iron ring atop, four more at the sides, and a
square iron spike at bottom, four and a half inches long to fix it in
the ground. It was made use of to break open, without the warrant of
any justice, either of a certain fifteen houses in the precinct of Pizein-
well, on suspicion of anything being unlawfully concealed there. The
Dumb Borsholder claimed liberty over these fifteen houses, every
householder of which was formerly obliged to pay the deputy one
penny yearly. This Borsholder of Chart and the Court-Leet was
discontinued and the Borsholder put in by the Quarter Sessions, for
Wateringbury, afterwards claimed over the whole parish.
Chart represents the Egyptian Karti, the dual Kar or circle which
was divided equinoctially at the Pool of the Two Truths. The plural
chart exists in Kent where we find the Two Charts called the Great
and Little Chart.
The place of the Leet was Twyford, the double crossing, an equi-
noctial name. At Twyford the river Medway receives two of its
affluents, one rising in Kent, the other in Sussex; and here the Pool
of the Two Truths (in An) is represented by the Pizein Well.
Pi-shin is in Egyptian the circuit, the twin-total of the Two Truths
typified by the two waters or by the Pshent Crown and Apron; it is
the equivalent of Twy-ford. The mapping out is astronomical and
identifiably Egyptian.
At the place of the well of the two waters, was the hall of double
justice. And at Twyford was held the Leet. A Leet is a meeting
of cross-roads, a type of the equinox, and the Leet in the legal sense
is the hall of Justice.
Lambarde says that which in the Wst Country was at that time,
and yet is, called a Tithing, is in Kent, termed a Borow. A borowe
(A.-S) is a surety, to be a pledge for another; the (A.-S) borgh, a pledge.
Borwehood is Suretyship, and the Ealdor of this Tithing, who is also
known as the Borsholder in a Tithing of ten families, was the Borow-
Ealdor, Borgh-Ealder, the Surety and Pledge-Ealdor, who was
responsible for the security of his borh, borge, or borough. The
Borowe-Ealdor became the Borsholder and finally the Bosholder.
He was the one who gave pledge and surety as a substitute for
the rest. A doctrine of the Messiahship is bound up with this
suretyship. Horus, in one character, was the pledge and substitute
for others. In the chapter of coming forth justified2 the Osirian says,
―I come forth . . . I have crossed the earth at the feet of spirits, a
S UBSTITUTE, because I am prepared with millions of charms.‖ The
sun-god, who descended into the Hades or crossed the earth, was
represented as the suffering substitute, the one who pledged himself
1 Vol. ii. p. 284. 2 Rit. ch. 48.
or his word for the safety of all. When he went down he promised
to rise again, and when he re-ascended he was as good as his word,
the word made truth, the justified Makheru.
The Kart or orbit of the sun was divided into upper and lower
heaven, and in the nether Kar, the ―bend of the great void‖ 1 are
the fifteen gates of the House of Osiris, through which Horus, as
―Tema‖ the justicier, has to pass, and issue from the fifteenth gate
on the ―day of the festiva1 of the adjustment of the year,‖ that is,
of the spring equinox.2 These fifteen gates were probably luni-
solar, fourteen belonging to the half-circIe of the moon, the fifteenth
being added in the luni-solar half month of fifteen days. These
correspond to the fifteen houses over which the Borsholder claimed
lordship and liberty in his half of the Kart in the precinct of Pizein
Well. Horus Tema was but the deputy of his father, and he breaks
his way through the fifteen gates, ―correcting the fugitives,‖ ―chasing
the evil,‖ and ―slashing the enemies of Osiris,‖ as the deputy of the
Borsholder had the right to break into the fifteen houses without
warrant of any justice. The Bors was lifted up in court by a hand-
kerchief or neckcloth passed through a ring fixed at the top of it.
Amongst other IDENTIFICATIONS of himself with things, Horus, in
the Fifteenth Gate, says, ―I am the strap of the hole (or ring) which
comes out of the crown,‖ evidently to lift it by.
The image called the ―Dumb Borsholder‖ was the Deputy‘s sign
of rule, and probably represents the Tum Sceptre, the sign of
strength. Every year in the Hundred of Twyford they elected the
Deputy to the Dumb Borsholder. The Deputy impersonated the
solar son. Every year in the Myth the father, as Atum or Osiris,
was represented by deputy in the suretyship which became the
Messiahship of Eschatology. This deputy was the son, the Nefer-
hept, the Prince of Peace, called in Egyptian the Repa, or heir-
apparent, the Governor for and in the place of the father. Also, in
accordance with this are the other facts that one of the titles of
Horus is ―Lord of Khent-khatti,‖ that Khent-katti isa designation
of the Har Sun, as ―Lord of Kem-Ur, dweller in Katti;‖ that the
―Stone of Ketti,‖ one of the three vast labours of the Kymry was
erected in Kent, and the Kymry were the first known inhabitants of
that county. The custom being equinoctial had, like so many more,
got behind with the lapse of time.
So inseparable are the cross and circle that, at Northampton, the
ceremony of beating the bounds is termed ―beating the cross.‖ The
crossing and the four quarters are synonymous. The four quarters,
in Egyptian, are named Fetu or Fatu. The ―Furry Festival,‖ cele-
brated from time immemorial, at Helston, in Comwall, on the 8th of
May, was an equinoctial festival, as shown by the illustrations of
crossing. It was held as a general jubilee. People who were found
1 Rit. ch. 147. 2 Ibid.
working on that day were compelled to leap across the river Cober,
or fall into it. The Cober answers to the Egyprlan Khepr, the trans-
former and god of the crossing where the transformation occurred.
We have the mount of transformation of the one water into two rivers
in the Irish Kippure; the image of transformation in the Cyfriu, and
here the Cober, the river of the crossing, supplies another type of the
passage and change of Khepr. At Helston the people danced what
was called the Fade dance, claiming the right of crossing and passing
wherever they chose, up and down the streets, and through and
through the houses. This answers to Fetu (Eg.), the four quarters,
and it is suggested that that is the meaning of the Fade dance.
F UDU , in Zulu Kaffir, denotes a peculiar kind of dancing: a V ITHI
in Sanskrit, is a sort of drama. The festival is called the Furry, sup-
posed to have the same meaning as the fair. The word and its true
significance are probably represented by Peru (Eg.), to go out, go
round, show, appear, see, sight, manifest, explain, with the ideograph
of the year. Michael is the patron saint of Helston, and he is the
British form of Har-Makhu or Khepr-Tum, the sun of the double
horizon, and equinox.
Helston has a tradition which shows the place is named as the
stone of Hel, that is Har (Eg.) the Solar Lord. The stone placed
at the mouth of hell is contended for, as was the body of Moses, by
Michael and Satan, 1 or the advantage in the scale by Har-Makhu
and Sut. This marks the annual conflict of the Mythos localized at
Helston, the Furry festival and Fade dance being held in commem-
oration of Michael‘s or Har-Makhu‘s victory. The 8th of May is
3,000 years behind the correct date.
An old distich says:—
― Shig-shag‘s gone and past,
You‘re the biggest fool at last,
When Shig-shag comes again
You‘ll be the biggest fool then.‖
Shig-shagging belongs to the time and motion of the equinox, the

Khekhing already expounded. It is here coupled with the fool, the
Gouk, or Khekh, but is now applied to Oak-apple day. At Tiverton
on ―Shig-shag Day,‖ the Black God or Black Jack, has been trans-
formed into Cromwell dressed in black with a blackened face, and
called ―Master Oliver,‖ who is made sport of. After him follows a
young child, borne on a kind of throne made of green oak-boughs.2
These now represent, but did not originate with Cromwell and the
Second Charles. They are but a survival of imagery re-adapted to
a later purpose, just as the whole masquerade of so-called heathenism
has been re-christened and continued. We shall find the young
1 Murray, Handbook for Cornwall, 1865, p. 301.
2 Notes and Querieis, 1st. ser. vol. xii. p. 100; Every Day Book, 1826, vol. i.
p. 718; Dyer, pp. 302-305.
child in the tree, as the messianic branch, is one of the oldest types
in the world, and in the solar allegory it belongs to the time of the
vernal equinox.
Croker chronicles a custom observed in the south of Ireland on the
eve of St. John‘s Day, and some other festivals, of dressing up a
broomstick as a figure, which is carried about from cabin to cabin in
the twilight and suddenly thrust in at the door or window to startle
the people of the house. The fright caused by this apparition was
productive of merriment. The dressed-up figure was called a B RE-
DOGUE. Prut (Eg.) denotes manifestation, appearance, and Ukhu
or Akhu is a spirit, the Manes. Prut-ukhu is a spirit-manifestation
or apparition of the dead.
The festival of the Solstitial division, or Ten, is celebrated in the
Isle of Man on the 24th of June, which is termed Tynwald
day. The ceremony or the Tynwald Hill is described in the
Lex Scripta of the Isle, as given for law to Sir John Stanley in 1417.
―This is the constitution of old time, how ye should be governed on
the Tynwald day. First you shall come hither in your royal array,
as a king ought to do by the prerogatives and royalties of the Isle
of Mann, and upon the Hill of Tynwald sitt in a chair covered with a
royal cloath and quishions, and your visage to the east, and your
sword before you holden wIth the point upward.‖ 1 The Barons
beneficed men, deemsters, coroners, and commons were to be ranged
around the royal seat, according to their degrees. This was on the
one side to hear the causes of crime and of complaints, and on the
other to hear the government of the land and the royal will annually
prodaimed. Wald is an English word, which signifies government.
The Tyn we interpret by Egyptian. Ten is the royal seat, cabinet,
or throne-room. To ten (ten-t) is to take account, reckon, each
and every. The Hill was the Tent, elevated seat, or throne, said
to have been built of erth brought from each of the seventeen
parishes of the island, just as to ten (Eg.) means to fill up and com-
plete the total. The Ten, with the article suffixed, is the ten-t, the
throne, royal chamber, or other room of the king; and to the present
time a tent is erected on the top of the Tynwald Hill on the Tynwald
Day, and arrangements for the rites are still made according to the
ancient custom.2 The ceremony belongs to a time when the year
began with the summer solstice, and the king turning to the east
shows his assimilation to the solar god.
The ―Blue Peter‖ is a flag with a blue ground and white figure in
the centre; it is hoisted as the signal when a ship is about to sail.
It notifies to the town that any person having a money claim may
make it before the vessel starts, and that it is time for all who are
about to sail to come on board. Peter is supposed to be a corruption
of the French P ARTIR . The Blue Peter is a time-signal.
1 Cumming‘s History of the Isle of Man, pp. 185, 186. 2 Dyer, p. 325.
The present suggestion is that Peter is the Petar (Eg.) meaning
time, to explain, show, regard, look at. Pru (Eg.) the, equivalent of
blue, means go forth, come forth, proeeed. The Petaru a slip of
papyrus is extant with us as the slip or broadside of the street
patterer. Petar-er is Egyptian for announcing by word of mouth.
Petar (Eg.) is some form of measuring and reckoning, and has the
palm-shoot for determinative, a symbol of time and period. We have
a third form of the petar.
At Nun-Monkton, Yorkshire, on the Saturday preceding the 29th of
June, called Peter‘s Day, the villagers at one time mustered together
and, headed by musical instruments, went in procession to Maypole
Hill, where an old sycamore stands, for the purpose of ―rising Peter,‖
who lies buried under the tree. The effigy is a rude one carved in
wood—no one knows when—and clothed in a ridiculous fashion.
This was removed in its box-coffin to the public-house near, and there
it lay on view. Then it was thrust into some outhouse and no more
thought of till the first Saturday after the feast, when it was taken
back to the tree and re-interred with all honour. The ceremony was
designated the burying of Peter. In this way the risen Peter presided
at his own feast.1 This also is now claimed as the Petar, an image of
time, the time beIng the Summer solstice when the sun begins
descending to his burial.
A bundle of reeds tied up is an ancient ideograph of Tur, a time,
and to indicate, and of Rut to repeat. Bundles of reeds, rushes, and
flags, were tied up and carried in procession at our old country Eng-
lish rush-bearigs and wakes. On the Sunday next after the feast of
St. Peter the parish church of Farnborough, Kent, is annually strewn
with reeds. The day is called by the inhabitants of the village Reed
day, and the local tradition affirms that a Mr. Dalton was once saved
from drowning by reeds. A mural tablet in the church sets forth that
this. gentleman left a perpetual annuity of 13s. 4d. chargeable upon
his lands at Tuppendence; 10s to be given to the preacher of a
sermon on that day, and 3s. 4d. to the poor. But the tablet does not
corroborate the tradition. Now to go no farther back than the
canonized Peter, the hieroglyphics enable us to see that Reed Day
may have been connected with his escape from drowning, if not with
Mr. Dalton‘s. The bundle of reeds tied up is the symbol of a time
and a repetition. With the article p prefixed it is Peter by name,
meaning to show, explain, the time. The time is that of the Mid-
summer solstice, the crown and climax of another year, when the new
year in Egypt was announced by the inundation. Rut (the reed) is our
word reed, and the reeds are the sign of tur, Petur, or Putar, to regard,
look at, explain, show, the time of repetition, i.e. the solstice. The
whole matter may have been connected with the Dalton name. Dal
represents tar (Eg.), and ptar the interpreter of time and period, whilst
1 Dyer, p. 333. 2 Maidstone Gazette, 1859.
ton (tun) means to fill up, terminate, determine, as was done by the
reeds. Tr-tun also reads the high time or tide of midsummer.
We also have the Petar or Bew candle. At the festival of St Giles,
whose day is September first, betar candles were burned in his church
at Oxford. These are mentioned in the Proctor‘s accounts so late as
the early half of the sixteenth century. They are called Judas Betars
and Betars for Judas‘ light. This apparently associates them with the
lights at the betrayal ascribed to Judas, which would be in keeping
with the meaning of Petar, a time, to discover, show, explain, reveal.
In Egyptian symbolism the candle, Ar, was a type of the Eye-of-
Horus and is called the Ar-en-Har. The betar was made so as to
give forth a strong smell in burning. A form of this candle used in
the Coventry Mysteries was made of resin and pitch.1 Also the eye
or candle of Horus was made of tahn or resin. The first Horus,
the Khart or Khar, was the cripple deity, and Giles or Gele, as his
name is also spelt, was the patron saint of cripples. He was a
cripple himself who refused to be cured of his lameness. His church
in Cripplegate, London, still represents the idea. Now it seems to me
that the betar or petar candle tends to show, reveal, explain, that it
was an extant form of the Ar-en-Har candle, and eye of resin, and
that the Cripple Gele or Giles was the Cripple Khar (or Khart), who
was also the Kherp as the first form of the child Horus.
On July 25th, St. James‘s Day, it is the custom for the rector of
Cliff, in Kent, to distribute at his parsonage, annually, a mutton-pie
and a loaf, to as many persons as choose to demand them. The
amount expended in costs is about £15 a year. Nothing is known
of the origin of the gift. But it happens that the name of the living,
Cliff, corresponds to the Egyptian Kherf or Kherp, which means to
supply a sufficiency, an offering of first fruits, the first or model form
of a thing. Kherp also means to steer. And this would apply to the
first day of the oyster-fishing, as on St. James‘s Day it is customary
in London to begin eating oysters. The Egyptian sacred year opened
about this time, the date given being July 20th. With this custom
of Cliff we may compare that of the ―Clavie,‖ in Morayshire, where
we find the procession used formerly to visit all the fishing-boats
in making the circuit of the boundaries.
The upper crown of Egypt is white, the lower red. When the
sun entered the abyss, the white crown, put on at the time of the
vernal equinox, no longer appIied. One name of the abyss, the deep,
is the Tes, and at Diss, in Norfolk, it is the custom for the juveniles
to keep ―Chalk-back day on the Thursday before the fair day, held
on the third Friday in September, by marking each other‘s dresses
behind with white chalk.‖2 At this time the sun, the enlightener or
whitener, entered the region called the hinder part of the circle. The
1 Sharp‘s Coventry Mysteries, p. 187.
2 Notes and Queries, 1st ser. vol. iv. p. 501.
upper crown is the Hut, of Hu, the white god, and the red is the crown
of the lower sun. In the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, WHIT-
sunday was especially observed as a SCARLET day.1 Further, we shall
find that Thomas is a representa.tive of Tum, the wearer of the red
and white crown, and to him has been assigned the onion of Hu, and
one of the old cries of London was ―Buy my rope of onions; W HITE
St. Thomas‘s onions,‖ the white (Hut) Hu being a form of Tum or
Tomos. The chalking on the back denoted that the rule of the
White God of the White Crown had ended.
The peasantry in the parish of Bishop‘s Thornton, Yorkshire,
object to gathering blackberries after Michaelmas Day, because, as
they say, the devil has set his hoof on them. The triumph of Typhon,
the Egyptian Satan, began with the autumn equinox, when the sun
entered the lower signs, and Osiris was shut up in the ark of the
underworld. The black fruit then passed into the possesion of the
dark power, the Apophis-serpent of evil, who, as Satan, made his trail
over the berries. The berries thus rejected are often the ripest and
finest, yet the superstition holds its ground against the temptation
of selfish gain.
In Suffolk the harvest men have a custom called ten-pounding, the
origin of which term is unknown, but it has nothing to do with the
number ten.2 The reapers who work together agree to a set of rules
by which they are governed during the time of harvest. When any
one breaks them, a mode of punishment is practised called ten-pound-
ing. The culprit is seized and thrown down flat, and stretched out at
full length on his back and held down. Then his legs are lifted, and
he is pounded on his posteriors. Ten (Eg.) means to extend, spread,
and stretch out. This describes the signification of both ten-pounding
and tunding.
The Welsh had a symbolical play on Allhallow Eve, in which the
youth of both sexes sought for a sprig of ash that was perfectly even-
leaved, and the first of either sex that found one cried out ―Cyniver,‖
and was answered by the first of the other sex that succeeded, and this
was on omen that the two were destined to become man and wife.3
The meaning of the word is unknown. K AB (Eg.) signifies two or
double. Nefer means good, beautiful, perfect. Kab-nefer (Cyniver)
would express the meaning of the cry when the TWO perfect leaves
are found. Nefer (Eg.) also signifies a crown, the youth, puberty, and
to bless. Nefer is a divine title, expressive of the highest good and
absolutely perfect one. The ―Un-nefer‖ is the good or perfect being.
It may be the word Cyniver is an abraded form of Ken-nefer. Ken
(Eg.) is to accompany, go together. Ken-nefer means that perfect
match sought for in EVEN leaves. This Cyniver suggests that the
name of the beautiful Gweniver is derived from Khen-nefer, the
1 Kalendar of the English Church, 1865, p. 73. 2 Forby‘s Vocabulary.
3 Owen‘s Welsh Dictionary, voce Cyniver.

beautiful Khen, queen, accompanier or mate. Khen (Eg.) is the
boat, the ark, the feminine abode of the waters, and Gweniver is the
lady of the summit of the water in the triad of Arthurs wives. 1
The festival of Hallow Eve is observed in the Isle of Man by
kindling of fires with all the accompanying ceremonies to prevent the
baneful influence of witches. The islanders call the festival Sauin.2
Sahu (Eg.) means to assemble and perambulate, to set up, charm,
drive away the evil, and the island was perambulated at night by
young men who stuck up at each door a rhyme in Manx, as the
charm against the evil influence.
We learn from Martin 3 that the inhabitants of Lewis worshipped
a deity known by the name of Shony. On ―All Souls‘ Eve‖ of each
year, the people round the island gathered at the church of St.
Mulvay, and brought their provisions with them. Each family
furnished a peck of malt, which was brewed into ale. One of their
number was chosen to wade into the sea up to his waist, to carry a
libation to the god. He then cried, with a loud voice: ―Shony, I
give you this cup of ale, hoping that you‘ll be so kind as to send us
plenty of sea-ware for enriching our ground the ensuing year,‖ and
then threw the cup of ale into the sea. This act was performed in
the night-time, and at his retum to shore the company assembled in
the church, where a candle was kept burning on the altar. They
stood silent for a little while, then the light was put out, and they all
of them went into the fields and spent the rest of the night in
merriment.
Shony presided over the tides that deposited the sea-weed and
drift on the land, and Shennu (Eg.) is to fish and gather from the
waters. Num (Nef), the God of the Inundation, was likewise the
Lord of Shennu. Shony, interpreted by Egyptian, was a deity of
the tempest and the tide answering to the Lord of Shennu and the
Inundation. The sacrifice was offered to S HONY on the eve of ―All
Souls‘,‖ and S HENI (Eg.) signifies the crowd, myriads, the million or
millions, and also the region beyond the tomb.
A modem writer has advanced the theory that religion began in
the worship of dead ancestors. Unquestionably the image of the
dead did take its place sooner or later as the object of sacrificial
offerings, and in the case of the ―T ENF ‖ (Eg.), the ancestor, which
is determined by the mummy figure, we cannot dissociate the
human ancestor from the wave-offering or T ENUPH of the Hebrews.
Yet, according to the system of thought and theory of things un-
folded in mythology and symbolism, and enforced by the imagery of
the Egyptian Ritual, the sun as father, he who descended into the
grave or the lower heaven every year, and was renewed in the person
1 Davies, Mythology, p. 187.
2 Train, History of the Isle of Man, vol. ii. p. 123, 1846.
3 Western Isles, p. 287.
of the son, was the first ancestor whose death had any sacred signi-
ficance. He is the old man, the ancient of days, the past of the two
Janus-faces in the image of Time, whose place was on the inner side
of the closing door whence issued the radiant youth for universal
welcome. And while the ―Tenuph‖ or typical corn was waved to
and fro in token of the waving wheat, and in welcome to the sun
ascending from the lower signs, it was the wave of welcome and fare-
well; welcome to Horus and farewell to Osiris; the father, the ancestor,
who had passed away in giving birth to the offspring; whether the
transformation was imaged by the sun or the grain, it was the dead
ancestor who had reproduced himself in the offspring now waved
and offered to the manes. This belongs to the genesis of ancestor-
worship, according to the data now collected and correlated.
At least it is certain that the solar, lunar, and stellar imagery fur-
nished the types by which the primitive men expressed their feelings
and intimated their hopes. The first ancestor of the fifty claimed by
Tahtmes III. in his ancestral chamber is Ra, the sun-god. Solely on
this foundation was the throne of the monarch built and the name of
Ra as monarch conferred. Ra was the first ancestor worshipped
because the earliest type of the fatherhood. Ancestor-worship applied
to the fatherhood could not have existed when men did not know
who their fathers were. Long before that time the bones covered with
red ochre, and the embalmed body, the mummy, represented the ances-
tor of the soul in the primitive cult. The mystery of ―Semsem‖
(Eg.) applied to the re-genesis of souls is based on the solar myth,
and this is related to the ceremonial celebration of ―All Souls‘ Day.‖
In the course or our explorations we shall find that ―All Souls‘ ‖
Day is common to the various mythologies, as the one day of the year
on which the ghosts of those who have died during the year assemble
together, and prepare to follow the sun through the underworld as
their leader into light. In the Mangaian versiQn of the myth, if
some solitary laggard fails to join the crowd of ―All Souls‖ at the
time appointed for the annual gathering and exodus, the unhappy
ghost must still wait on and wander until the next troop is formed
for the following winter, dancing the dance of the starved in a desert
place where desolation seems to be enthroned.1
On ―All Souls‘ Day‖ a solemn scrvice is held for the repose of
the dead by the Church of Rome. The ―Passing-Bell‖ used to be
rung on this day, or as it is sometimes called, the N OANING Bell.
N UN (Eg.) means negation, not, is not, without, and in English
to N OAN is to toll the bell. In some counties they say ―the bell
N OANS ,‖ when the knell is rung; it proclaims that the person is not
(Nun), and the living are bereft (Nun), and the bell NOANS . ―Old
Hob‖ was carried round from All Souls‘ Day to Christmas; the
head of a horse (the grey mare) enveloped in a sheet. The Irish
1 Gill, Myths and Songs of the Pacific, pp. 157-9.
kept the festival of S AMHAN , called OIDCHE S AMHAN , when it was
believed that all the souls which had passed away during the year
were assembled together and called before the god Samhan to be
judged, and then passed on to their reward in the abodes of the
blessed, or, according to the modern report of the Druidic cult, to be
sent back into re-existence on earth to expiate their sins in the flesh.1
Samhan and Samana, in Sanskrit, mean to bring, unite, and join
together. S AMANA is coming, meeting together, collection, and
union. Samyana denotes the carrying out of a dead body. S OMEN
in English, S AMYN in Scotch, and S AMEN in Low Dutch have the
meaning of assembling and joining together. Sem (Eg.) is to com-
bine, join together, unite, go in, a total, the ―All‖ Souls; Sem, to
conduct a festival, to traverse and PASS . S MEN (Eg.) signifies to
determine, constitute, make durable, fix, and establish. The S MEN
were the primodia! eight gods, the Ogdoad of mythology, founded
on the Seven stars of the Great Bear (our Old Hob) and the Dog-
star, the ―Children of Inertness,‖ the ―Betch-party‖ in Am-Smen
who ruled before the firmament of Ra was uplifted. In the solar
mythos the son was annually established in place of the father in
S MEN , the place of preparation of ―All Souls,‖ and their regenera-
tion in the mystery of Sem-sem followed, and was founded on that of
the sun and earlier stars.
―The Osiris lives after he dies like the sun daily, for as the sun
died and was born yesterday, so the Osiris is born‖ or the soul is
reborn.2 In the same way the annual sun was the type of the
soul in the gathering of ―All Souls,‖ that assembled on the day
appointed to pass from earth to heaven along the shining track. To
recur for a moment to the mummy type of transformation, the Shebti
or double shape, it can be shown that the figure also represented
the risen Christ of mythology.
The Christ is said to mean the anointed, but it cannot be that
grease is the root-meaning of so mystical a name. It is so, however,
for all that has hitherto been expounded. Chriso, Chrisei, Christes,
Chriesthai denote an anointing with oil or unguents, and the Christ
in this sense is literally the greased. Various Ianguages show the
same result. But the root which yields grease supplies Kr worn
down in Egyptian to Ur for oil, and to anoint. I R , in Welsh, is oily,
unctuous matter; I RA , Cornish, to anoint; U RO , Fijian, fat, grease;
1 It is doubtful whether the doctrine of transmigration and reincarnation of souls
is not a Hindu and Greekk misinterpretation of the Egyptian doctrine of trans-

formation, and a mis-rendering of the typology. In the Egyptian eschatology of
the Two Truths of flesh and soul, blood and breath, the ―Sen-Sen‖ still dominated
in their expression, and if the first soul, the mummy, that represented the flesh
body of earth, did not transform into the second or pure spirit, was not re-gene-
rated, it was resolved in the place of dissolution just as if the flesh were resolved
again into blood, and the blood formed the Red Sea, the Pool of Pant or Primordial
Matter. Now in their ―Abred,‖ the Druids possessed this same region of source and
dissolution. This subject will be pursued in a chapter on the Ka Image and
the Mummy Type. 2 Ritual, ch. 3.
E WIRI , Oloma, palm-oil; H ORU , Maori, red ochre; K ORAE, Maori,
to anoint with red ochre and oil; G UHR , English, a kind of ochre;
O CHRA , Greek, coloured earth; G ERU , Hindi, a kind of red ochre;
I CHIRA , Manya, oil; G IRA , Kra, palm-oil; K IRA , Basa, palm-oil;
E KURO , Ako, palm-oil; U KARA , Bola, palm-oil; G EIR , Gaelic, to
anoint with grease; C HRIO or C HRISO , Greek, to rub over with
colour; C HRIESTHAI (Greek), to rub over with colouring matter;
C HRISTES or C HRISTOU , one who colours, smears, or bedaubs.
Anointing the living with oil was a mode of consecrating, but the
dead were consecrated first, and red ochre was one of the earliest
substances employed, as in the Maori custom of preserving the
bones of the dead, which were exhumed periodically, scraped, and
re-anointed or rather re-clothed with H ORU , or red ochre. So the
Hurons celebrated their feast of ―All Souls‖ once every ten years,
when the dead were taken out of their graves, no matter in what
condition of corruption, cleansed from worms, 1 and carried once
more to their homes. They were collected from near and far for the
ceremony, and then were all laid in the earth together.
The human bones in the British mounds of Caithness were found
to have been coated over with red earth. This, which was practised
by other races, was the earliest mode of embalming and anointing
the dead, who were K ARAST in their covering of ochre; the red earth,
being an image of the flesh, preserved a kind of likeness to life.
These were the men of the later paleolithic age, who had rudely
begun the art of embalming the dead, which culminated in the produc-
tion of the Egyptian mummy, as the K ARAST, in the Karas. Karas
denotes the burial and embalmment, and the corse embalmed (anointed)
becomes the K ARAST. Karas is equivalent to the English corse
for the dead body; Gaelic and Irish Cras, the body; Greek Chros,
the body.
The Karas as the place of the mummy embalmed is extant in the
Irish C REAS , a shrine; C ROISÉE, French, transept of a church; the
C ROUSTE (French Rom.), Arabic KURSIY ; Turkish K YURSI for
the pulpit, Irish C REAS and French (Rom.) C RES , for a grave.
The K AR - AS is the sepulchre as resting-place below. And because
the circle and cross, as in the Ankh, were typical of life, the Karas
and ancient graves were often cruciform, and the dead were laid
there with their arms crossed, hence the identity of the Karas and
the cross; also of the KARAST and the crossed with the Christ, in
the sense of the crucified.
The mummy image is the reduplicated shape, as the Shebti, the
alter ego, other self, or literally the double of the dead. It was a type
of tranformation, and as such stood up in the Karas as the re-ariscn
image of the corse that lay below. It was the risen K ARAST.
1 Rabbi Isaac declares that a worm in a dead body is as painful as a needle in
a living one.
Chrestos is a Greek term applied to the sacrificial victims, denoting
them to be auspicious and signifying good luck. This was the
Chrestos or Karast, the Maneros of the Egyptians, the divine victim
who, ―in the likeness of a dead man,‖ was carried round at the festival,
not, says Plutarch, to commemorate the disaster of Osiris, but by
way of wishing that things might prove fortunate and auspicious.1
In the African Pepel language K RISTO means an idol or divine
image, and in this the worshippers had their Christ independently of
the Greek or of Christianity. It represented the primitive type of
the mummy or Mamit, as did the figure of the deceased in Egypt or
Assyria, the one that was embalmed and anointed as the K RAST, the
Egyptian original for the name of Christ. But to return.
On St. Leonard‘s Day each tenant of the manor of Writtel paid
to the lord for every pig under a year old a halfpenny, for every year-
ling pig one penny, and for every hog above a year old twopence, for
the privilege of pawnage in the lord of Writtel‘s woods. The pay-ment
was called Avage, 2 or Avisage. Aph, in Egyptian, is the hog or
boar, and Aph-age would be boarage. Also, Sekh is to remember,
remind, memorize, and Sak, to bind, direct, order, execute. So read,
Aphisak is the tenure of pawnage in the woods. As many of these
payments show that the tenure was religious, the name of Writtel
may denote an ancient religious house or lands.
A belated equinoctial custom is apparent in the hundred of
Knightlow, where a certain rent is due to the lord called Wroth (or
Warth) money, or the Swarff Penny, payable on Martinmas Day in the
morning, at KnightIow Cross before sunrise. The person paying it
has to ―go thrice about the Cross and say ‗The warth money,‘ and
then lay it in the hole of the said Cross before good witness‖; the
forfeiture for non-payment in the prescribed manner being 30s. and a
white bull.3 The cross is a certain sign of the equinox.
W RATH is the name of a pillar, a prop, ergo the cross, as the Hin-
dustani U RUT is a cross-beam, the Irish U IRED , a pillar, column, or
stone cross. The Egyptian R UTI are cross-shaped, as gates,4 and the
horizon, or crossing, is also the R UTI . The same word ―Rut‖
means to engrave in stone, figure, retain the form, the earliest
writing, and it passes into the name of writing. But this custom of
payment at the Wrath or Cross must have been a survival from the
Stone age, when there were no written documents. The cross is a
sign of the Kart (Eg.), the orbit, or circuit of the two heavens,
and Wrath is equivalent to Kart. The payment was made at the
cross because the course was completed, and cross and course are
synonymous. Also the stone cross served the same purpose as the
making of the cross for a signature of covenant. The ―S WARFF
1 Of Isis and Osiris. Herod. b. ii. 78.
2 Blount‘s Law Dictionary, 1717.
3 Dugdale, Antiq. of Warwickshire, 1730, vol. i. p. 4.
4 Eg. Sal. Brit. Mus. 254.
penny‖ probably denotes the K HERF penny (Eg.), an offering of first-
fruits by which homage was paid, now represented by the G LEBE.
The Scottish WRATH for food and provender tends to identify the
offering as the provision penny.
The four cross-quarter days of Whitsuntide, Lammas, Martinmas, and
Candlemas are doubtless the most ancient quarter-days, or gules, as
witnessed by the rents still paid on them, especially in Scotland; and
as these were markings of the solstices and equinoxes, they are now
some 3,000 years behind time. Lammas, for example, preserves the
Egyptian Rem, or measure of extent. The determinative of Rem is
the arm as type of the extent; and the charter for Exeter Lammas
Fair is perpetuated by the sign of an enormous glove, which is stuffed
and carried through the city on a long pole decorated with flowers
and ribbons. It is then placed on the top of the Guildhall as a token
that the fair has begun, and when the glove is taken down the fair
terminates. 1 The glove takes the pla.ce of the hand or arm, the
sign of Rem (L IM -it), the measure, and the hieroglyphic is the same
whether on the top of the Exeter Guildhall or the Tower of Anu, or
in the caves of Australia. One form of the Rem (Eg.), measure, is
a span, that is a hand, used as a measure by the foot. The
human body supplied the first hieroglyphics, and these are after-
wards supplemented by the productions of man. So the glove follows
the arm and hand. It was customary, at one time, to give glove-silver
to servants on Lammas Day, but this was not the only limit in time
thus marked. Gloves were likewise given on New Year‘s Day, as
well as glove money. The word glove still retains the value of Kherf
(Eg.), a first form, a model figure, a primal offering.
Tander and Tandrew are Northamptonshire names given to St.
Andrew, supposed to be corruptions of the Christian name. St.
Andrew‘s or Tander‘s Day used to be kept with ancient rites and
ceremonies, amongst which was the exchange of clothes, the men
being attired as women, the women habited as men.2 The day has
receded to November 30, but the change of raiment identifies the
custom as belonging to the equinoctial crossing. The type of the
―Saint‖ Andrew is the cross. An (Eg.) means to repeat, to renew
the cycle, and is the name of the crossing where the cycle was
renewed. Teriu (Eg.) is the two times, the circumference. Andrew,
like so many more saints, is an imposter, a personification of the cross,
which has been assigned to him as his symbol. Hence it comes that
the Maltese Cross, called by the name of ―Saint‖ Andrew, is found
to be the ideograph of the old god Anu of Assyria; and neither he
nor his emb1em, nor the Egyptian two times (Teriu) represented by
the cross, could be derived from the Christian Andrew. The singed
and blackened sheep‘s head that used to be borne in procession before
1 Every Day Book, vol. ii. p. 1059.
2 Sternberg, Dialect and Folklore of Northamptonshire, p. 183.
the Scots in London on St. Andrew‘s Day was probably the antithesis
to the ram of the spring equinox,1 just as the black bird of autumn
is opposed to the bird of light. Tander‘s Day regulates the com-
mencement of the ecclesiastical year. The nearest Sunday to it,
whether before or after, constitutes the first Sunday in Advent, and
Tander‘s Day is sometimes the first, sometimes the last festival in
the Christian year.2 This, again, relates the day to the equinox, and
keeps up the dance of the crossing. but at the beginning of the lunar
year, still kept and correctly adjusted by the Jews about the time
of the autumn equinox.
Shau, in Egyptian, is the English sow. The word Sha also denotes
all forms and kinds of commencement beginnings, and becomings.
Now the people in the parish of Sandwick, in Orkney, kept what
they termed Sow-day on the 17th of December, upon which day
every family that had a herd of swine killed a sow.3 The Egyptians,
according to Herodotus, held the swine to be impure, but they had
their Sow-day. One day in the year (at the full moon) they sacrificed
swine to the M OON and Osiris. He knew why they did it, but
thought it becoming not to disclose the reason.4 The sow was a type
of Typhon, and the time of Typhon began at the autumn equinox.
Anent this time we learn that from Michaelmas to Yule was the time
of the slaughter of Nairts.5
It appears to me that the Nairt here slain in the Typhonian time
was an infertile animal named from its not breeding. Narutf (Eg.),
the variant of Anrutf, is the barren, sterile. infertile region in the
Ritual. Neart also is an English name of night. Nai-rut (Eg.)
denotes the negation of the race, or non-fertility. Sow-day was so
ancient that there was no tradition concerning its origin, and if the
17th of December represented by the natural lapse of time that 17th
of Athyr (September in the sacred year) on which Typhon shut up
0siris in the ark,6 the custom was, indeed, most ancient
The tinners of the district of Blackmore, Cornwall, celebrate
―Picrous Day,‖ the second Thursday before Christmas Day. It is
said to be the feast of the discovery of tin by a man named Picrous.
There is a merry-making, and the owner of the tin stream con-
tributes a shilling a man towards it.
Tin in Egyptian is Than, which is also the eye of Horus, and the
halfway of heaven, that is, the equinoctial division where the eye
constellation is found. The division is Peka (Eg), our Pasch or
Easter. Res (Eg.), to raise up, is also determined by the same
sign, the half-raised heaven. Pekh-res (Eg.) is the half-way heaven
1 Brand, St. Andrew‘s Day. 2 Book of Days, vol. ii. p. 636.
3 Brand, Martinmas 4 B. ii. 47.
5 Laws and Constitutions of Burghs, made by King David the First at the New
Castell upon the Water of Tyne, in the Regiam Majestatem, 1690, ch. 70; Of
Butchers and Sellers of Flesh.
6 Plutarch, Of Isis and Osiris.
of the equinoctial division. As before said, many of the equinoctial
festivals were transferred to the time of the solstice, as the initial
point of the uprising.
St. Thomas‘s Day is observed in some places by a custom called
―Going a Gooding.‖ The poor people GO ROUND the parish and collect
money from the chief people for the keeping of Christmas. Formerly a
sprig of holly or mistletoe was presented to those who bestowed alms.
Going round, peregrinating, is the essential meaning of Gooding.
The good-time is the periodic festival. Khut (Eg,) signifies to go
round, travel circularly, make the orbit, circuit, circle, cycle.
Har-Khuti, god of both horizons, is the deity of going round, the
good or Khut god. The devil has the character of the goer round,
and he is called the good man. The fairies go in circles, and they
are the ―good folk.‖ Going gooding is the same as going gadding round
about. Khut is to shut and seal, to catch and keep hold. And in
the customs of Valentine‘s Day, catching and clasping of the person
is a salute equivalent to the salutation ―Good Morrow.‖1 The going
round from house to house to sing the ―Good Morrow, Valentine,‖ is
identical with the going a-gooding. One form of Har-Khuti, the god
of going round, is Tum, whom the Greeks called Tomos. Goading is
based on going round, making the circle as a symbol of a completed
cycle of time. In this sense the last Sunday in Lent is designated
―Good-pas Day;‖ the six Sundays being called Tid, Mid. and Misera,
Carling, Palm, and Good-pas day. Khut-pesh (Eg.) is the extent
of the circle-making. The Khut as place was the horizon of the
Resurrection. And the ―Good‖ Friday is the Khut Friday. Nor is
the hieroglyphic missing.
The Khut-ring is a seal and sign of reproduction, restoration, and
resurrection, and the kings of England, according to Hospinian, had
a custom of hallowing rings with great ceremony on Good Friday to
be worn as an antidote to sickness.
The greater number of popular customs and festivals belong to the
vernal equinox, although some of these have been shifted to the
Winter solstice to celebrate the later new year, and others have got
belated through not being readjusted in the course of time.
Train, in his History of the Isle of Man,2 relates that the Christmas
waits go round from house to house at midnight for two or three
weeks before Christmas. On their way they stop at particular houses
to wish the inmates ―Good morning.‖ The fiddlers play a piece
called A NDISOP . Anti (Eg.) is to go to and fro. Sop (or Sep)
is a time, a turn, as is midnight and the turn of the year, the
solstice. But the true time of to and fro was equinoctial. The
dancing, mocking, and mixing were all connected with the vernal
equinox and the sun‘s ascent from the underworld.
Formerly it was a custom in Somersetshire for the youth of both
1 Brand. 2 1845, vol. ii. p. 127.
sexes to assemble beneath the thorn-tree at midnight on Christmas
Eve or on old Christmas Day, and listen for the bursting of the buds
into flower. It was said by one village girl that ―as they came out,
you could hear ‘um haffer.‖
The word haffer has been given by Halliwell and othern as
meaning to crackle, patter, make repeated loud noises. But it is
more likely a derivative from H FA (Eg.), to crawl Iike the snake
or caterpillar. Thus hearing them haffer would be to hear their
stealthy movement in opening, their heaving. A form of the word
Hâu (Hfau) means first-fruits, and yields our name of the haw or
thorn-tree. The ceremony had doubtless been put back to Christmas.
In the Scilly Isles the young people bad a pastime on Christ-
mas Day called Goose-dancing, in which the sexes changed clothes
with and wooed one another; vieing with each other in politeness
and gallantry.1
In Egyptian Kes is to dance, also to bend and sue, entreat
pronely, abjectly. Khes is a religious rite, and means to reverse,
turn back, and is connected with the turning back of the sun from
the lower solstice.
Not long ago the festivities of Christmas commenced at Ramsgate,
Kent with a strange procession, in front of which was carried
the head of a dead horse, affixed to a pole four feet long; a string
was attached to the lower jaw and pulled frequently, so that the head
kept snapping with a loud noise. The people who accompanied the
horse‘s head were grotesquely habited, and carried hand-bells; the
procession went from house to house with the bells ringing and the
jaws snapping, and this was called going a-H ODENING .2
Our word head is the Egyptian Hut, head and height. Hutr (Eg.) is
the going horse. The winged Hut was a symbol of the sun, and the
horse was also adopted as a type of the swift goer. Hutu (Eg.)
means one-half or halfway round the circle. One Huti image is the
demoniacal head on a staff, the ideograph of throat and swallowing.
The action of the horse-jaws suggests that of swallowing. Huter
is a ring, and they made the ring in going round a-hodening.
The Hut (Eg.) is the good demon. And the horse-head was
typical of the Hut and of the horse constellation, Pegasus, which
the sun at one time entered at the turn of the Winter solstice some
five thousand years ago. Uttara-Bhadrapada is the twenty-seventh
lunar mansion in the Hindu asterisms, partly in Pegasus. This was
the point at which the sun began to mount, hence the winged horse.
The horse-head was the Hut (Hutr), the good demon threatening
and terrifying and overcoming the powers of darkness. The horse
was a substitute for the ass of Sut-Typhon, which was condemned at
a very early period in Egypt, so early as to be almost absent from the
monuments except as the symbol of Typhon. If for a moment we
1 Troutbeck, 1796, p. 172. 2 Brand, Christmas.
restore the ass, then this ―hodening,‖ with the horse‘s head and
snapping jaws is the exact replica of the jaw-bone of the ass with
which the Jewish solar hero slew the Philistines. The Hebrew
mythology made use of the instead of the horse; the ass on which
the Shiloh rode, the Shiloh being the young hero, the avenger of his
father; in the Hebrew myth Shem-son. The singing of carols at
Christmas is still called hodening.
It is not known why our ancestors chose the 26th of December,
calkd St. Stephen‘s Day, for bleeding their horses, but people of all
ranks did so. Aubrey1 says, ―On St. Stephen‘s Day, the farrier came
constantly and blooded our cart-horses.‖ Tusser refers to the same
custom. The Pope‘s stud were also bled and physicked on this day.
Now in Egyptian S TEFU means to sacrifice, to purge, purify, and
refine; this includes bleeding and physicking. Stefu is also a name
of the Inundation, which in the mystical aspect was the periodic flow
of blood. The blood-letting was probably a comminatcd form of
sacrifice, hence we find it is called ―sacrificing.‖
The game of ―Snap-dragon,‖ played by children at Christmas,
belongs to the soIar allegory. Raisins are snatched out of the blue
flame of burning spirits or from the keeping of the dragon. The word
snap is the same as Snhap (Eg.), to take hastily, but Snab (Eg.) fire,
sparks, to burn, is the more appropriate, and it renders snap-dragon as
the fiery dragon. Snab (Eg.) also signifies configuration, and Snab,
to retreat and flee, expresses one part of the performance.
The yule log in Cornwall is called a Mock; in English the Mock is
a stump or root of a tree. This is the old stock of the symbolical
tree of the old year, which was renewed from the branch annually.
Log or Rek (Eg.) is time, reckoning, rule. Mak (Eg.) is to regulate,
and the Christmas Eve was regulated and reckoned by the log, in this
instance by burning it. But the Mock is more than the stump or root
of a tree. It is the name of the wake or watch; the children being
allowed to sit up to watch the log a-burning and drink to the Mock,
and keep up ―Mag‘s diversion.‖ Makh (Eg.) means to watch, think,
consider, and this was the watching. Also the name shows that the
festival was removed from the equinox to the time of the solstice, as
the Makha (Eg.) is the balance, scales, the emblem of the equinox.
The Christmas tree will be especially treated in the ―Typology of the
Tree,‖ but it may be necessary to say a word here in season.
A writer in the Revue Celtique, Mr. David Fitzgerald, has lately
argued that the TREE B AAL , and not the divinity, is the origin of the
name of ―Beltene‖ for May. He says:—―The theory that the first
element is the name of an old solar or fire god has many adherents yet,
not by any means confined to the class of the superficial and half edu-
cated. The following, however, would seem to be the true explanation.
First, the Northern antiquaries seem to have been quite accurate in
1 Remains of Gentilism; MS. Lansd. 226.
seeing a representative of the world-tree in the may-tree, or may-pole,
and the Christmas tree. The usage yet survives in Galway, Donegal,
Westmeath, and elsewhere of planting a may-tree or may-bush (Crann-
Bealtain. Dos-Beltain) on the dunghill or before the farmhouse door,
and eventually throwing it into the home-fire. The name of the fes-
tival, Lá Beltene, was the same as Lá Bile-tenidh (or Bele-tenidh), Day
of the Fire-Tree, and came from the bonefire and may-tree usage.‖
Philology by itself can settle nothing from lack of the ideographic
determinatives; hence the eternal wrangle over words when divorced
from things. Baal may denote the god or the tree, the star (Sothis)
or the pyramid, or several other variants.
La Beltenei to begin with, is the day of the Baal-fire, and L Â (Râ.)
is the Egyptian name for D AY . The tree is earlier than the sun-god,
who was born anew at the time of the vernal equinox, and Beltene
applied to May is but a belated equinox. The log of the old year
is now burned at Christmas, when the birth of the branch, shoot, or
divine Child is celebrated. This festival belongs to the end and
re-beginning of the equinoctial year, the 25th of March. The god
then reborn was the solar son, the new branch of the old tree. But
there was a still earlier solstitial beginning and ending of the year
determined in Egypt by the heIiacal rising of Sothis the Sabean
Bar, or Baal, who was born as the Child of the Mother, one of whose
types, we shall find, was the tree. This time corresponded to our
Midsummcr.
The boundary of each Cornish tin mine used to be marked by a
tall pole with a bush at the top of it and on Midsummer‘s Eve these
were crowned with flowers.1 The tree of the year and the boundary
had typically blossomed anew at the time of the summer solstice.
And at Whiteborough, a large tumulus with a fosse round it, near La
Launceston there was formerly a bonfire on Midsummer Eve, with
a large pole in the centre surmounted by a bush, round which the
fuel was piled up for burning.
The tree as Bar, Baal, Bole, or Fur, is a symbol of the god Baal
which can be bottomed in Egypt only, where the imagery is yet
extant.
The tree was a type of Baal before pyramids were built, and there
the pyramid had superseded the tree, as the symbol of Baal or Bar,
that is, Sut, Sebt, or Sothis. Ber, the supreme height, the roof, deter-
mined by the pyramid, and star, is identical with Bel or bole for the
tree, and the tree as Baal is a type of the god Baal whose other
type is the pyramid. In proof of this the tree-type still interchanges
with the pyramid for the Christmas symbol. In Germany the
pyramid is a form of the Christmas tree, and in England small pyra-
mids made of gilt evergreens used to be carried about in Hertford-
shire at Christmas time.
1 Brand, Midsummer Eve.
In the neighbourhood of Ross, Herefordshire, it is customary for
the peasantry to carry about a small pyramid on New Year‘s Day
built up of fruit and leaves, which takes the place of the tree. 1
The pyramid is an ideograph of Ta, to give, and the pyramidal
tree is loaded with gifts for the children. The F IR -tree is pyramidal,
named from the same root, and chosen for its shape as a Christmas
tree, or a FIRE-tree.
This permutatlon of tree and pyramid shows we have both types
of Baal. The fir-tree adds another application of the name, and it
agrees with Afr (Eg.), the name of fire. The fire-tree adds another
type of Baal, the fire-god, who has at least three names signifying
fire, the fire of the Dog-star. The Baal-fire then, it is repeated, belongs
to Midsummer and the rising of Sothis, visible as the Dog in the
tree, and the emblems imply the cult to which they belong in what-
soever land they may be found. The log now burned at Christmas
was represented by the tree, or fire-wheel, or besom once burned at
Midsummer; not because the sun was then about to descend in the
circle of the year, but because the star had risen that opened the
new year; the fire in heaven was once more rekindled, the time and
tide of plenty had come again, another branch had sprouted on
the eternal tree, and the merry-makers wore the young green leaves,
and burned old brooms, and relighted the sacred annual fire, the
Need-fire, as it was called, which can be interpreted by the Egyptian
Nat, to compel or force, as in the Old German N OT- FEUR ; Nat, to
salute, address, exhort, bow, incline, hail, help, and save. Nat is also
a name of the heifer-goddess Isis, and in the year 1769 a heifer, the
type of Nat (Neith), was sacrificed in the Need-fire kindled at that
time in the Island of Mull. This was the offering and tribute likewise
called Nat (Eg.).
For years it was a subject of wonder to me why Egyptian offered
no explanation of the name of fire found as TAN , in Welsh; T EINE ,
Irish; T EINE, Gaelic; T EEN , or THUN , Chinese; D ANU , in Hindu-
stani; T ENA , Soso; T EENE, Salum, firewood; T EINE, Irish, a fire-
brand; TINE, Cornish, to light a fire; TINE, English, to kindle a
fire; and TINDLING , for firewood. Each of these is a worn-down
form of a word represented by the Welsh T EWYN , in which the w
stands for a K , and the full word is found in the Persian TIGIN for fire.
In Egyptian the root A KH means fire, and in the African languages,
A KAN , Bode; I KAN , Anan; A GUN , Udom; O GON , Akurakura;
U GONI , Rungo; E KANG , Haraba, denote fire; and U KUNI , in Swahili;
I KUNI , Matalan; E KUNI , Meto; O GUNO , Egba; T EGENA , Soso;
I GINIO , Aku; E KUAN , Afridu, are the names of firewood. Akh is an
abraded Kakh, as in C HECHI (Swahili), a spark; K OKA (Ib.), to set
on fire; C HIK (Uraon), fire; K AGH (Persian), fire; and T‘ JIH or
T‘ KIH (Bushman), fire, the T being a click. With this click, or the
1 Fosbroke, Sketches of Ross, p. 58.
Egyptian article prefixed to the Akh, fire, we obtain T EK , a spark,
to spark, and sparkle. K AR - TEK is a title of the Goddess of the
Great Bear and Mother of Baal, meaning the spark-holder. Now,
the Baal-fire, the Need-fire, was always sacredly reproduced FROM
THE SPARK in the annual ceremony, and ―T EK - EN ‖ means the
fire at the spark. The word T EKHEN is extant in Egyptian for
winking with the eyes—that also sparkle. Teken accounts for the
Persian TIGIN , and Welsh T EWYN , on the way to T EINE, TINE ,
TIN , or TAN , for the fire of Baal which was kindled from and was
representative of fire as the divine spark. The D AWN of the Druids
and Barddas was the divine spark of inspiration, the fire from heaven,
and TANE in Japanese is the creative fire, ferment, cause, origin.
It was a custom formerly and not many years since in Leeds and
the neighbourhood for children to go on Christmas Day from door
to door, singing and carrying a ―Wesley-Bob.‖ This was made of
holly and evergreens, formed like a bower, with a couple of dolls placed
inside, adorned with ribbons. The Wesley-Bob was kept veiled or
covered until they came to a house-door, when the two dolls in their
leafy niche were exhibited during the singing of a ditty.
At Huddersfield the children carry what is there termed a ―WESSEL-
B OB,‖ consisting of a large bunch of evergreens, hung with fruit, and
decked with coloured ribbons. They sing a carol of ―Wassailing.‖
― Here we come a wassailing

Among the leaves so green.‖
Wassail is said to mean wish-health or wholeness. The ―Bob‖

in the Wesley-Bob answers to Beb (Eg.), a niche, to go round, circu-
late. Beb-t. (Eg.) is a branch, and a place. Ba means wood, leaves,
and B, a place. The Bab or Bub, is a place or niche made of green
leaves, carried round.
But the form Wes-ley may denote another origin than wassailing.
Uash (Eg.) is to invoke, call; English, wish. Lui (Rui) is the door.
The Wesley-bob is carried from door to door, and the good wishes
are there expressed. At Aberford, near Leeds, the two dolls were
borne about in the same way, but the bob was called the Wesley-
box. Box is the Bekh (Eg.), the birthplace. It was a name of the
solar birthplace in which the genitrix brought forth the child. The
two dolls, no doubt, represented the mother and the child brought
forth at Christmas instead of at the equinox.1 Elsewhere the Wesley-
bob appears as the ―vessel‖ called the ―Vessel-cup,‖ which merely
reduplicates the name. When the vessel or box is uncovered, the
carol of the ―Seven Joys of the Virgin‖ is sung.2 The cup,
vessel, bekh, and beb, each typified the womb of the Genitrix.
The Christmas-box and Boxing-day are supposed to be named
1 Dyer, pp. 483, 484. 2 Ibid. p. 464.
from the begging boxes in which gifts were deposited on Stephen‘s
Day. Boxing-day is begging-day. In Bedfordshire there formerly
existed a custom of the poor begging the broken victuals of the rich
the day after Christmas. 1 It is still the day on which the annual
begging is done on a national scale.
In Egyptian Beka means to pray, solicit—that is, beg. Bak is a
name of the servant, the labourer, the menial. Boxing-day is the
servant‘s day. The X reptresents an earlier K, and B EK -ing is iden-
tical with begging. Back, to bow, is a cognate of the same group
answering to Beka (Eg.), to pray. The boxes used by the Romans
for receiving the contributions at rural festivals were called Paganalia,
the box being a type of praying or begging. Bak is the variant of
Pag, and the Pagan is not only the peasant in the country, but the
servant, the labourer, the Bak. The Latin Pagus is a division the
same as Pek-ha (Eg.), and the Bak-ing, or beg-ging-day, com-
memorates the solstitial division of the year, the Pekha of Christmas,
which had been removed from the time of Pekh, or Pace, our Easter.
The name of Bakshish is in use from Egypt to India, and is doubly
connected with the name of the gifts sacred with us to the Boxing-
day. Egyptian will tell us why. S HUS is the name of the servant
and follower. The Shus-en-Har were the servants and followers of
Horus in pre-monumental Egypt. Baka (Eg.), to beg, pray, and Shus
(shish) the servant, yield Bakshish as the present solicited by the
servant and follower. Shus (Eg.) also means food, and Bak-shus will
read the servant‘s food. With us the gift is given at Christmas under
the Christian dispensation. But in the hieroglyphics the B AK hawk
represents the Har of the resurrection, who was brought forth from
the Bekh at the time of the spring equinox, bence the Egyptian
Boxing-day was equinoctial.
Hogmena, or Hogmanay, is the Scottish name for the last day of
the year. The Hog, or Hock with us, as in Egyptian, denotes a time
and a festival. Hak (Eg.) is a time, a festival, and the double Lion
shows it was at the end of a year, the equinoctial year, whereas our
Hogmena is solstitial. The Hog-Colt, or Sheep, is the one-year old.
The Hock-Cart is the last, the harvest-home load. A shilling is a
hog, twelve pence, as the year consists of twelve months. Mena
(Eg.) denotes the end and death. Hogmena is the end or death of
the year, the time, the completion of the cycle. Hence the festival;
and because it is the death of the old year, the festival is pre-eminently
a celebration by the young.
In Scotland the children go round begging food, oatcake being the
principal offering. Each child used to be presented with one quadrant
section of oatcake, which identifies the corner of the circle. The
1 Dyer, p. 493.
cakes were expressly prepared beforehand. The Egyptian Hak-ing,
so to say, is begging. Heku, is to supplicate; Hekur, to hunger;
Hekau is food. The children cry—
― Hogmenay,
Trollolay,
Give us your white bread and none of your gray.‖
Hekau equates with Kamhu as the name of some kind of bread, 1

and Kam-hu reads black-white, the equivalent of gray. TRU -
RERU - RÂ (or Tru-lelu-lay) means time, children (or companions
going round), to give, and the whole may be rendered—―Hogmenay,
the end of the year, is the time for gifts to the children who go
round.‖ The giving of gifts to the young is emphasised with an
appropriate moral in these words:—
―Get up, guid wife, and binna sweir,
And deal your cakes and cheese while you are here;
For the time will come when you’ll be dead,
And neither need your cheese nor bread.‖2
The demand is compulsory, and the bread and cheese are termed
Nog money. Nog is the Egyptian Nek, to force compliance.
In a Derbyshire masque at Christmas, the mummers perform a play
of St. George, in which he fights with and slays a character named
―Slasher.‖ The doctor is called in and applies his bottle to the
fallen Slasher‘s mouth, which brings him to life again. Then the
Slasher is addressed: ―Rise, Jack, and fight again; the play is
ended.‖3
They had a custom at Ashton-under-Line of shooting the Black
Lad on horseback. He was supposed to represent a black knight
who formerly held the people in bondage, and treated them with
great severity.
The Scotch ―Quhite Boys of Yule,‖ perform a drama of St. George,
in which Black Sambo is the opponent of the good divinity. The
black knight and Sambo are reliquary representatives of the Akhekh
of darkness, the oldest personification of the Typhonian monster.
Horus the George of Egypt; as the opponent of darkness, was the
white god. These contests are forms of the battle between Horus
and Typhon in the Eschatological phase, and of light and darkness
in the earlier time.
The ―Quhite Boys‖ represent spirits, and in Egyptian Akhat, the
equivalent of Quhite, means white and a spirit, the white sun-god.
Horus, or Hu, into whom the black Kak transforms.
Mummers disguised as bears and unicorns were particularly
prominent in the grand scene of Christmas mumming,4 and the
1 Lep. Denk, ii. 28. 2 Brand, New Year‘s Day.

3 Dyer, Popular Customs, p. 469. 4 Dyer, p. 461.
unicorn and bear are the types of Sut and Typhon, the oldest form of
the Mother and Son in Mythology.
Christmas mummers in Hampshire are called Tip-Teerers. Tip-
ter (Eg.) means the commencement of the season.1 Tep is the first
and tee a time. Loaf-stealing was one of the practices of the Tip-
Teerers, and Teb (Eg.) is a loaf. They were dressed up fantastically
and danced. Teb is to dress up, clothe, crown, and tep means to
dance. It was neccssary that the mummers should be transformed
as the winter solstice (or spring equinox) was ―the time of transforma-
tion. This was effected by the two sexes exchanging their clothes.
This scene of transformation is as sacredly preserved in the Christ-
mas pantomime. And the exchange of sex illustrates the same trans-
formation as is illustrated in the book of the dead when Osiris goes
into Tep, and is transformed into his son, from the two halves, who
are Horus the sustainer of his father and Horus who dwells in the
shrine, or ―the soul of Shu (male) and the soul of Tefnu‖ (female); 2
these two constitute the one, and are symboled by the mummers‘
change of dress and blending of sex.
The going from house to house to partake of Christmas cheer
indicated the going forth of the sun or Osiris from the lowest sign.
The blackened faces were symbolic of the dark depths in which the sun
had been buried. Masking, disguising, blind-man's buff, blackening,
bowing, and bobbing, all forms of suppression and effacing of self,
were characteristic of the Christmas mummeries, in keeping with the
lowly and benighted state of the sun. It was a common superstition,
that at twelve o‘clock on Christmas Eve the oxen in their stalls would
be found on their knees, all things preserving the lowliest attitude.
In antithesis to these, the summer solstice was the sign for carrying
about the giants in the midsummer pageants. The giants were
represented on stilts. In Marston‘s Dutch Courtezan, one of the
characters says, ―Yet all will scarce make me so high as one of the
giant‘s stilts that stalks before my Lord Mayor‘s pageants.‖ The
morris dancers are raised upon stilts. Their chief time is May-day.
The celebrations of the equinox are for the sun that rises up from the
water boundary. Some of these havc got belated so far as May.
Mur (Eg.) is the water limit of the land, and RES is to raise or be
raised up; also it is the name of thr south toward which the sun is
ascending.
Our transformation scene at the Christmas-tide is merrily made to
call up the light of laughter in the young-eyed. The Aleuts in their
cold north region took theirs more solemnly in terrible earnest. Their
traditions tell of certain mysterious dances held by night in the month
of December. They divided the sexes, the men being placed far
1 Great Har. Pap. An. of Ram, iii. pl. 52-12.
2 Egyptian Faith, ch. 17, Ritual.
apart on one side, the women on the other, this being the solstice.
In the midst of each party a wooden figure was set up. Then they
all stripped naked, except for the wearing of a huge mask which
limited their sight to a small circle about their feet. It was death
to lift the mask, or for the one sex to look on the other, and they
danced on the snow naked to the arctic night, before the image.1
This was their mode of mumming, this was their celebration of the
transformation of the sun in the passage through the Meska. It
was the incarnation of the Child, for even while they danced it was
held that a K UGAN descended and entered the symbolic figure. This
was the spirit of the renewal often figured as the Messiah and Saviour
Child of other mythologies.
In Egyptian Khu is a spirit, and Khen, to alight, rest, reveal. This
was the significance of the KUGAN . When the pantomime was over
the image was destroyed, the masks were broken and thrown away.
The Kugan is the transforming spirit, who, in Egypt, was the
beetle-headed Khepr, and it is noticeable that in the Xosa-Kaffir
dialect a peculiar kind of sacred beetle is called a Q UGANE .
The mask was also used by the Thlinkeets to place over the face
of the dead.
Our English pantomine still preserves the imagery of the Egyptian
Ritual, and scenery of the Meska, the place of re-birth. The
Meska is our Mask, and the mask plays a great part in the panto-
mime. The Meska was the place in which the Mum (the dead)
transformed. The Mime in the mask represents the mum or mummy.
In the Bask the Mamu is the ghost or hobgoblin, and to mam or
mum is to mask in a hideous manner, in fact, to personate the dead,
as was done by the African Mumbo-Jumbo. In German the ghost
or bugbear is the mummel. The ―masks‖ of the pantomime
are the mummels, or mummers of the underworld, who undergo
their change or transformation. The two worlds, lower and upper,
are represented, and the change from the one to the other is
portrayed in the transformation scene with its emergence from
the domain of gnomes, fairies, giants, sprites, into the upper world
of common day or daylight, the fun and frolic, dancing and feast-
ing of which are symbolical of heaven. And the gods are still
there in person. The great Mother in her ancient type of the
Dove (Columbine) and the Ancient of Days, the old father or
pantaloon; the clown and harlequin are the two brothers Horus,
the clown, Kar-nu (Eg. inferior type) is the elder or child Horus,
and harlequin is Har, the younger, the spiritual type; Har of the
resurrection with the power of becoming invisible, or a spirit among
mortals.
A few things in common at starting may be sufficient for the
1 Bancroft, vol.iii. p. 145.
foundations of languages, colonies, and civilisations, which grow up
unlike in their surface features. What they had originally in common
may be either outgrown or massed over. If they grow at all there
will be divergence amongst the branches, although they spring from
the same rootage. Here, however, the supreme surprise is the amount
of Egyptian material still extant as English; but more than enough
will have been produced in illustration of the ―hieroglyphics in
Britain,‖ the Egyptian ―origines in words,‖ and the Egyptian naming
of our ―personages‖ and symbolical customs.
Aye keeping their eternal track,
The Deities of old
Went to and fro, and there and back,
In boats of starry gold.
For ever true, they cycled round

The Heavens, sink or climb;
To boundless dark a radiant bound,
And to the timeless, Time:
Till, mortals, looking forth in death

Across the deluge dark,
Besought the Gods to save their breath
In Light‘s celestial Ark.
To the revolving Stars they prayed,

While sinking back to Earth;
―In passing through the world of Shade,
Oh, give us thy re-birth!‖
And, ever a Sun, beyond the Sun,

Quickened the human root
With longings after life, that run
And spring with heavenward shoot.
Their yearnings kindled such a light

Within them, so divine,
That Death encompassed them with night,
To show the starrier shine.
SECTION VIII.
EGYPTIAN DEITIES IN THE BRITISH ISLES.
ACCORDING to Cæsar, the Druids worshipped Mercury in particular,

and possessed many images of the god. They regarded him as the
inventor of all arts, looked to him as their guide of ways on
their journeys, and considered him to have great influence over
mercantile transactions. Next to Mercury, they adored Apollo,
Mars, Jupiter, and Minerva. ―Concerning them, they have almost
the same opinion as other nations, namely, that Apollo wards off
diseases, that Minerva instructs them in the principles of works and
arts, that Jupiter holds the empire of heaven, and that Mars rules in
war. To him, when they have determined to engage in battle, they
generally vow those things which they shall have captured in war.
When they are victorious, they sacrifice the captured animals, and
pile up the other spoils in one place. The Gauls declare that they
have all sprung from their father Pluto; and this, they say, was
delivered to them by the Druids.‖ 1
―Cæsar‘s statement, that the Druids worshipped Mercury, Apollo,
Mars, Jupiter, and Minerva, is of the same base metal as the state-
ment of more modern writers—that the Buddhists worship the
Trinity, and that they take Buddha for the Son of God.‖ So says
Max Müller.2
Cæsar, however, as we shall find, knew what he was talking about.
Such divinities as were familiar to him he identified by their nature,
and transliterated their names according to Roman equivalents. So
far as it went, Cæsar‘s statement is entirely true and trustworthy.
It is supplemented by Richard of Cirencester, who writes of the
Britons thus: ―Among their gods, the principal object of their
worship was Mercury. Next to him they adored Justice (under the
name of Astarte), then Apollo and Mars (who was called Vituca-
drus), Jupiter, Minerva, Hercules, Victory (who was called Andate),
Diana, Kubele, and Pluto.‖3
1 Cæsar‘s Commentaries, b. vi. ch. xvii. and xviii.
2 Chips, vol. iii. p. 251. 3 B. i. ch. iv. 4.
Dionysius Periegetes sings:—
― Upon the ocean‘s northern coasts are found
Two British islands fronting to the Rhine,
Where in the sea he disembogues his stream;
Of these th‘extent is vast, no other isles
To the Britannic justly can compare:
Islets adjacent lie, wherein the wives
From the Amnites‘ distant shore perform
Due rites to Bacchus thro‘ the livelong night,
Deck‘d in the dark-leav‘d ivy‘s clustering buds,
Whiile the shrill echo of their chaunt reasounds:
Not so, upon Absinthus‘ Thracian banks
Bistonians hail the harsh Iraphiote;
Nor thus, around the dark-gulf‘d Ganges stream
The Indians with their sons on Bacchus call,
Noisy and loud, amid the festive scene,
As shout these women, ‗Evoe‘ to their god.‖
Geoffrey, in his History, tells us that Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford,
a man of great eloquence, and learned in foreign histories, offered
him a very ancient book in the British tongue, in which he found the
story of Brut, the first king of the Britons, written in an elegant style,
and continued down to the time of Cadwallader. This he rendered
into Latin.
The present writer can have no difficulty in accepting the tale
of the book brought from Brittany, and translated into Latin by
Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford. Walter, as a Latin scholar, did as
Cæsar did, he read the myth, common to various races, because each
had derived it from the same original, as if it were Roman. He
knew the name of Brutus, the legend of Troy, and the tradition of
Æneas, but was unacquainted with the myths as British, or with
the character of Prydhain, the youthful solar god, whose reign
was established when the celestial Troy was overthrown, that was,
when the Sabean cult and reckoning were superseded by the Solar,
the dragon-tyranny overturned, the Son of the Virgin Mother
elevated to the supreme place as the Father in Heaven, and the idea
of a divine fatherhood exalted over that of the earlier motherhood.
Geoffrey Latinized the British mythos. The Troy city that was over-
thrown is still figured in the children‘s games in Cornwall and Wales,
and consists of seven circles round a centre cut in the grassy sod.
These represent the seven regions of Dyved, the seven encirclers of the
Great Bear. The seven belonged to the great mother, and with the
son added, as Eshmen (8th), the earlier Sabean Sut, this was the
Egyptian Troy or Teruui, the circumference, a form of Sesennu, and
No. 8. It can be identified by the shield or circle of Pridwen, in
which the Ogdoad of Arthur and his seven companions escape from
the Deluge. The naming of London as the New Troy (Trinovantum),
when collated with the gate and tower of Belin, can be restored to
its proper place in the mythos. Belin is the son, considered as the
child of the virgin mother. In one version of the ―Hanes Taliesin‖
EGYPTIAN D EITIES IN THE B RITISH I SLES . 313
the speaker says: ―I have endured hunger for the Son of the Virgin.
I have been in the White Hill in the Court of Cynvelyn, in bonds for
a year and a day. I have had my abode inthe kingdom of the
Trinity‖—this in enumerating the manifestations of the Word or
Announcer of the various cycles of time.
Belin is said to have made a road from Totness to Caithness, and
another from Southampton to St. Davids. 1 And when he had made
the burgh of Kaer-Usk, he went to London, the burgh he greatly
loved. He ―there began a tower, the strongest of all the town;
and with much art a gate thereunder made; then men called it
Billingsgate.‖2
The New Troy was established by the young sun-god, considered
as the child of the mohter. ―I am come here,‖ says Taliesin, ―to
the remains of Troy.‖3 Also, New Troy, the White Hill, and the Gate
of Belin will supply a possible rendering for the name of London.
Renn (Eg.), the virgin, pure, unblemished, is the equivalent of white,
as in linen (Renn); thus Renn-ten (London) is the White Hill.
Lelvellyn is another Hill of Belin, and retains his name so long as
mountains stand. ―Now and evermore the name standeth there,‖ 4
says Lazamon‘s Brut of Billingsate, the Gate of Belin, in the
account given of the tower build by Belin, the good king who lived
there as the princ eof peace and plnety, the Nefer-Hept of Egypt.
Belin, like Sutekh and Sat-ren, means the little or child Baal, who
was Sut, the star-god, in the Sabean mythos, and Pryd (or Brute) in
the solar. So interpreted, London is the royal seat (Tun), the throne-
room of the Renn. The Renn is also the nursing mother, who was
Rennut in Egypt, Luna and Selene in Greece, and the Keltic Luan,
the moon-goddess. Tradition tells us that a temple of Luan once
stood where St. Paul‘s now stands. Thus London is the Tun of the
virgin (Renn) and a child of a pre-Christian religion. Belin is the
diminutive of Baal, and he his the mythical builder of London. Belin
is the Nursling, i.e. the Renn, and London was his seat and throne,
or tun, as witnessed by Billingsgate; therefore the most probable
derivation of the name of the city is from Renn-tun (Lenn-tun), the
throne of the child, who was Belin in the British Mythos. The child
who came to the ―remains of Troy‖ was Pryd, who is represented
by Geoffrey as Brute who came from the remains of Troy.
The sun of the resurrection, i.e. of the vernal equinox, is the potent
because pubescent son. Hence he is the bearded or the long-haired god
in many mythologies; the elder Horus being the wearer of the lock
of childhood. This is illustrated by Arthur in the story of the giant
who had made himself furs formed of the bears of kings whom he
had slain, and who commanded Arthur to cut off his beard and send
1 Brut, MS. Cott. Calig. A. 9, lines 4829-35, Madden.
2 Ib. lines 6050-60.
3 Hanes Taliesin. 4 Lines 6060-4.
it to him as a tributary offering. 1 Belin and his brother B RENNES
are a form of the ―two-halved youth,‖ the dual Horus or double
Anubis of Egyptian mythology. Brennes or Brennius is but the
Latinised form of the Pren (branch), that is, the Renn (Eg.) or
nursling child of the mother, a type of which is extant in the Wren
as the little king, the prince of all the birds, the Breton Roen.
The wren was hunted to death on Christmas Day, and on the day
following it was carried about, suspended by the foot in the centre of
two hoops crossing each other at right angles. A procession used to
be formed in every village of men, women, and children, who sang an
Irish catch importing the Wren to be the king of all birds. 2 Now the
hieroglyphic noose for the feet of cattle is a Ren. In this ceremony
the dead wren was typical of the first of the two brothers who died
and rose again, or was transformed.
The process of modernizing the ancient fragments by re-casting in
the classical or Biblical mould is sufficiently apparent. In the ―Poem
in praise of Lludd the Great‖ the name of the god Aeddon (Hu) has
become Adonai. How easy is it to turn round and claim this to be
the Hebrew Adonai, and then to infer that he was derived from the
Hebrew writings! Aeddon is identical with Adonai and with Adonis,
and Tammuz, and Duzi, and other forms of the same god in divers
lands, who were independently derived from the Egyptian Aten, long
before the Jews brought their version of the mythos out of Egypt.
The same perversion of the original imagery is manifest in free-
masonry through this re-casting of the ancient matter in the Biblical
mould. It was this process of interpreting the fragments by the
Hebrew rendering of the same original matter that put Davies irre-
coverably on the wrong track. The process may be followed into the
Christian stage in which the Christ is substituted for Prydhain.
All this and much more is admitted without determining the true
nature of the ancient British relics, which can only be done by collecting
their correlatives, and showing how they belong to an original system
of thought, of mythology, of typology, of eschatology, which it is
now proposed to identify as Egyptian at first, and pre-Hebraic in the
isles. The Welsh text of these fragments cannot be adequately
rendered without their mystic meaning being understood and allowed,
instead of laughed at.
It has to be shown the the most ancient form of the great mother
was the goddess whose image in heaven is the Great Bear. Her name
in Egypt runs through the gamut of Taurt, Khepsh, Kheft, Aft, Apt,
Khebt, Kheb, Kep, Ap. Her name in full is synonymous with that of
Egypt. Af signifies born of; Ap is the first; Aft the abode and the four
corners. She was represented as the hippopotamus, the cow, or horse
of the waters. Her name is likewise that of the north. Lower Egypt
was to the north, and her constellation revolved about the pole of the
1 Geoffrey, x. 3. 2 Vallency, Collectanea.
north. The celestial north is the oldest place of birth in mythology.
Kheb means to give birth to; Khep is the womb; and Khebt was the
birthplace in the north personified. From Egypt (Lower) the name of
Kheft extended to Phœnicia, Kheft or Keft being the Egyptian name
of that country, which was called so from the north. The Hebrew
name of Japhet, Japht, or Apht (tpy), corresponds to the Egyptian
Aft, earlier Kheft, the lady or queen of heaven, and is represented
by Aipht, the Welsh name of Egypt. In the account of the
generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis, Japhet and his de-
scendants are the people who migrate and take possession of the
isles. ―By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands;
every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.‖ 1
The present writer believes that books have been written, although
he has not read them, to identify Gomer with the Kymry of Wales.
After long seeking and by very different roads he arrives at the
same result, and anticipates having the pleasure of seeing the
ripple of derision ironed smoothly out of the faces of the scoffers and
scorners this time by the weighty pressure of hard facts.
Kheft is the north, the birthplace, the genitrix. She was the bearer,
the great or pregnant mother, hence her type of the water-horse, the ark
of life amid the waters before any artificial means of carrying had been
invented. Kheft, by a well known law of language, becomes Khêt.
So Kheft, the abode of birth, becomes Ket-Mut, the Mother Ket or
Kat. Kat, like Kheft, means the womb. Kat softens into Hat, the
habitation of the child, named Hathor. By this process we are
enabled to claim our British goddess Kêd as the old Mother Kheft
figured as the living ark of the waters. Kêd is the Arkite goddess
of the British Druids.
The readers of Davies‘ writings will remember how like a ridiculous
dance witnessed by one who may be deaf to the music seemed all his
wearisome references to the goddess Kêd and her ark, which was also
a mare—as bad as any nightmare. Yet there was original meaning
in the whole matter, although its expounder knew not how to put or
prove it.
Kheft or Aft was the goddess of the four quarters of the first circle
made in heaven. Aft, the abode, is also the four corners. This circle
of the four quarters was repeated in the Caer or sanctuary of Kêd,
called the ―quadrangular enclosure.‖ The Druids, her teachers, are
described as Druids of the Circle, of four dialects, coming from the
four regions.2
Taliesin, in praise of Lludd the Great, recognises the Kymry of
four languages, and says, ―the Kymry of four languages shall
change their speech.‖ These four quarters of the Kaer and four
languages of the Kymry affiliate them to Aft of the four corners, the
earlier Kheft, or Kêd. Taliesin says that Necessity produced nothing
1 Gen. x. 5. 2 Cynddelw, In Praise of Owen Gwynedd.
earlier than Kêd (Keridwen), and the primary sacred order in the
world was that of her priests; the claim in relation to the four
quarters is exactly the same as that made by the monarchs of Egypt
and Assyria.
In the first period of the Round Table, Kêd is represented as
living in the time of that Arthur whose symbol in the heavens was
the Great Bear, and whose harp was the constellation Lyra. 1 Arth
is the name of the Great Bear, and of Arthur it is said, ―Aythur-
ap-Arth-Hen against foeman‘s attack and injury made the blade (for
use) in battle,‖ which identifies him as the son of the old Arth, the
genitrix, goddess of the Great Bear.2 Khebt, the hippopotamus of
the waters, became the fish-goddess as Derketo, the Syrian mermaid.
And in an old Christian poem which was palmed off as one of
Taliesin‘s, the fish that swallowed Jonah is called ―Kyd.‖ The
writer asks, ―Who brought Jonah out of the belly of Kyd?‖3
The ark of Kêd is described as passing through the dale of grivous
waters, having the fore part stored with corn, and mounted aloft with
the connected serpents.4 The Bard Cuhelyn sings (eight century)
of ―the goddess of various seeds,‖ and of the ―enjoyment of the
society of Kêd,‖ and the poems sung in her praise by the ―chanters of
Caw.‖ This is in allusion to the Druidic mysteries. She is the goddess
of corn and of those who carry ears of corn, as did her priests. Ta-
urt, a name of Khebt, may be translated the corn-bearer, the genitrix
being represented at times with the modius or corn-measure on her
head. This ―TA ,‖ illustrated by the Akkadian Umme-Da, the
bearing-mother, means the ENCENITE. Ta-urt is the ENCEINTE, or
great mother, and corn was one of the ideographs.
The Cornish Hav, English Gipsy Giv, English G OFE, for corn
harvested, Sanskrit Yava, Lithuanian Javai, Egyptian Sef, Greek
Zeiá, lead back to Khefi (Eg.), harvest, the Kaffir Kewbu, an ear
of corn, and to Khepsh, Khept, or Kefa, the name of the genitrix
as the primal corn-bearer. So is it with the name of Ta-urt. TA
is corn, but, as in the Akkadian Umme-da and the Maori TO , it
also denotes pregnancy. Da-mater (Demeter) is the mother of corn,
but the external is not the original sense, and she was the great
mother, the gestator. The corn or seed was an image of life. One
of Kêd‘s names is Llâdd, to cut, reap, and mow, which corresponds
to Rept (Eg.), the goddess of harvest and lady of corn; and this
name of the lady of corn was certainly not derived from the Saxon
HLAFDIG . L LAD (Welsh) means to confer favours, gifts, blessings,
and the favourer, the giver, was the lady, the good lady, Welsh LLADAI,
Gaelic L EUDI , from REPTI (Eg.), the lady of corn and goddess of
harvest.
Enough to show that Kêd WAS, as the fragments of the Barddas and
1 Hanes Taliesin. 2 Iolo MSS. 263; Rhys, Welsh Phil. p. 325.
3 Welsh Arch. p. 43. 4 Gwawd Lludd y Mawr, Welsh Arch. p. 74.
Druids claim; much more might be cited to prove that she has been.
As we have seen, the Welsh call the Great Bear by the name of Arth,
the Irish Art, its Egyptian form minus the Ta. The Bear was
originally the water-horse image of Ta-urt, the Typhonian great
mother. In this connection with the horse we are enabled to identify
Taurt with the prefix to the name.
On one of Camden‘s coins, No. 32, there is a female head with
the legend Direte. History, says Davies, 1 mentions no queen or
city of this name, but in our old orthography Direit, and in the
modern Dyrreith, is a title of the mystical goddess who is introduced
by the name of Dyrreith in the ancient British poem called the
―Talisman of Cunobeline.‖ She is a goddess, and takes the form of
the Mare to carry the hero to battle and victory. It is said ―Cunobe-
line, the indignant, the lofty leader of wrath and that divine allurer
Dyrreith, of equal rank with Morion, shall go under the thighs of the
liberal warriors.‖2 This was the bearer, the ark of the waters, and
Ta-urt is the chariot and bearer of the waters. It is now claimed
that our Druidic Direit, the goddess whose symbol was the mare, the
crosser of the waters, is a British form of Taurt by name, which
doubles the identity of Khebt and Kêd.
The word Tasc is frequently found on the British coins, sometimes
Tascio, Tascia, or Tascie. This has never been satisfactorily ac-
counted for, although Davies rightly connected the word with corn and
the corn-bearing vessel of Kêd. The great mother of mythology is
depicted as the corn-bearer whose solar son is Hu, or Corn, and whose
earlier Sabean child was Sut, a name of seed or corn. The ear of
corn is frequently depicted on the coins, along with the mare or
mother. It is omitted, however, from one coin,3 but in its stead we
find the word Dias inclosed within a frame. Dias in Irish signifies an
ear of corn; it here takes the place of the ear of corn, and in
Egyptian ―Tes‖ is corn and food made from corn, also a tie or bond.
Moreover, ―Tes‖ is a part of the style of the great mother, meaning
the enveloped form and very self; Ta-su signifying the bearer of
corn, or the child.
Tas in English is a mow of corn, the tasker, a reaper of corn.
Tiscan in Cornish is a handful of corn tied up as a sheaf. On a coin
published by Whitaker, and reproduced by Davies, the goddess
appears in the dual shape of the mother and mare, in the act of going,
like the hieroglyphic Ses-Mut. the coin bears the legend, ―Tasc-ia-
no-va-lin.‖ Tasc is corn, IA or IUA (Eg.) is a boat; Nu means a
divine type; Fa (Eg.) is to bear, carry the corn, with the corn-
modius on the head—a symbol of pregnancy; and Lin is the water.
The title thus interpreted is that of the divine boat which carried
the corn across the waters as the Ark of Kêd. This figure was
the water-horse in Egypt, and is the mare in Britain. Both are
1 Myth. 609. 2 Davies, Myth. p. 620. 3 No. 13, Camden‘s Tables.
personifications of the womb, or the mother great with child, called
the Great Mother.
Whitaker also publishes a coin1 on which there is a child borne upon
a dog with the legend, ―Tasc No Va,‖ the same as Tascianova, with
the boat, IUA (Eg.), omitted. This reads the bearer of divine corn, or
corn typically carried. The dog connects the legend with Sothis or
Sut, the Dog-star, the first child borne by the great mother, whom
we shall try to identify with the mythical Arthur, whose star is the
Great Bear.
The noose hieroglyphic held in the hands of Ta-urt is the A RK
sign of reckoning, the end of a period, a cycle of time. So, on the
back of the mare (coin 6, Camden), the vase of Kêd is portrayed,
the Pair or cauldron that boiled for a year and a day, and is,
therefore, the symbol of a cycle, the circle and period of the water-
horse or Bear. The one equates with the other. Kheb (Eg.), the
water-horse, gave us the hob, or hobby-horse, of the mysteries and
mummeries.
Memorials of the goddess Kêd exist in many symbols and
things that bear her name. She was the genitrix. Kat (Eg.) is the
womb, and the cat, or cut, is a type-name of the female emblem.
The chat, cat, or gat, is alluded to by the Wife of Bath, who says
―Gat-toothed I was, and that became me well.‖ Her teeth were
cut, indented, suggestive of the gate, the opening. Cate signifies
lecherous; hence the gat-tooth is the liquourous tooth. Kêd is the
typical female in other applications of her name. The chid-lamb is
the female lamb; the chideress, or chidester, is a female scold; also
the cat in the same sense. She was the cat, and is still the cat with
nine lives; the nine months of gestation in which she kills the rat
nine times. She was the abode of birth, and the cot, cottage, quod,
cathedral, and city, are forms of the abode named after Kêd. She
was the first house, and the kit is an outhouse for cattle; the cat a
shed for protecting soldiers. She was the lady of corn, Keres, and
cod is an enclosure of seed and a seed-basket. The cod-fish is the
prolific seed-fish; the milt of a single cod-fish has been calculated to
contain one hundred and fifty thousand million animalcules; the
eggs of the female are numerous in proportion, and this furnished
a type of Kêd, and was named after the prolific great mother.
We have her namesake in the kid or cod of peas, with which some
ancient customs are connected. The ―scadding of peas‖ was a
Scottish custom of boiling the common grey peas in the kid and
shelling them afterwards. Skhet (Eg.) means to be enclosed,
shut up, as in the pod. It was also a custom to woo and to
divine with the peascod. The old chap-bookk called Mother Bunch’s
Closet Newly Broke Open gives instructions for seeking a green
peascod in which there are full nine peas, and writing on a slip of
1 History of Manchester, 2nd ed. vol. i. p. 342.
paper, ―Come in, my dear, and do not fear‖; this is to be placed
inside the kid and laid under the door; the first man who enters is
the predestined husband. Kêd was the seat and sustainer of being,
and the cat is still used as a support. The Cather (har or ar (Eg.) is
the child) is a cradle. Kêd was the first cradle of the har, child. She
carried the tie or noose in heaven as one of her symbols, a sign of
surrounding, inclosing, catching, tying up, being pregnant. In the
children‘s game of cat‘s cradle we have Kêd‘s cradle, and the
string twisted on the fingers is analogous to her tie; the game is
hieroglyphical. She was the typical ship that carried us over the
waters when she let us out of the ark, at the end of nine months,
or ten moons, and the cat is still the tackle of a ship. It
was also carried on board as the Cat-o‘-nine-tails. How pro-
found the worship of Kêd in Britain must have beeen may be
judged by the religious feeling with which we preserved the
Cat-o‘-nine-tails! so dominating is the symbol. Kêd was a goddess of
fire and ferment in one phase; one of Ta-urt‘s titles is spark-holder
or reproducer; and her emblem is the Chad-pot or feminine fireholder
used by the lace-makers and straw-plaiters. Lastly, she became
the devil in Egypt, and Quede is an English name for the devil;
Quaid, Scotch, evil. She was degraded to this secondary stage of
deity when the male was made supreme; en revanche, Kêd seems to
have become our St. Catherine, or Catern, who had her festival on
Catern Day. Kêd became our Kate. Ern, in Welsh, is a pledge.
Ern (Eng.) means to flow, run; and on Catern Day, Kate (Kêd) is
pledged in the flowing bowl called the ―Catern Bowl‖ by the
Chapter of Worcester.1 Khat-renn (Eg.) would be the renewer of the
race, the dandler of the child. Khat also means going round, wheeling
round, as did the stars of Kêd, and the wheeling or circle-making of
the Great Bear became the Catherine wheel of the spark-holder,
still imaged by the firework. This was the wheeling round per-
petuated in the ceremonies of Catern Eve, as in London, when, at six
o‘clock of the day, there used to be a procession round the battle-
ments of St. Paul‘s, accompanied with fine singing and great lights. 2
On her day, in the Isle of Thanet, the carters place a small figure
across a wheel on the front of their cart-sheds. But this has no relation
to the popish imposture of St. Catherine and her wheel. It represented
the circle of the year divided at the autumn equinox, and the cele-
bration once dated September 25 instead of November 25, or more
than 4,000 years earlier. In the ―Cadair Keridwen,‖3 the chair of ―Ged-
widedd‖ identifies the goddess with the celestial circle of revolution
and the stability dependent on cycle-making. Hence her wheel, for
she is called the ―Goddess of the Silver Wheel.‖ Catherine has been
1 Dyer, p. 429.
2 Strype, Eccles. Memor. vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 507 (1822).
3 Welsh Arch. p. 66.
made the patron saint of weavers, knitters, and lace-makers, and Kat
(or At), in Egyptian, denotes weaving and knitting. Khet is to
net, weave, a woof. The Kat (Eg.) is the loom, the primal form of
this being the womb (Kat or Kêd). The genitrix was the first
weaver and knitter, the Ankh-tie being a primitive symbol of her
work. Kêd (Kheft), in going round, made the noose and did the
netting. Catherine is the typical virgin. To coiffure St. Catherine,
or to braid her hair, is to remain a virgin. Renn (Eg.) means
virgin, and Rennut was the virgin mother, that is, the mother who
bore before the fatherhood was acknowledged, as will be sufficiently
explained. Kat-renn (Eg.), in this sense, denotes the virgin womb.
The lace-makers of Buckinghamshire hold merrymakings on Catern
Day, and eat a kind of cake called ―wigs‖; 1 that is, they eat the
symbol of hair instead of coiffuring it for the virgin condition. Hair
was a symbol of puberty, and it was tied, snooded, or wigged up, at
marriage. The merrymaking celebrates the other of the two
characters assigned to the mother. Also the name of Kheft was given
to an Egyptian headdress. The vessel of Kêd called a Pair, English
pail, Egyptian Par, a pail, survives in the milkmaid‘s pail called, after the
goddess, a Kit. The ―milkmaids‘ dance‖ is yet performed on the first
of May, the kit, or pail, being dressed and decorated for the occasion.
At Baslow, in Derbyshire, there is a festival of dressing the kit now
and again observed. The kits are fancifully and tastefully ornamented
with ribbons and festooned with flowers. They are carried on the
heads of the young women of the village, who parade the streets
attended by the young men, preceded by a band of music. The day
is ended in dancing.2 One name of a fiddle is the kit. Baslow
reminds one of Bes (Eg.), to bear, to carry. The milkmaid with the kit
on her head is an image of the bearer, one of whose types is the cow.
The cat being a type of Kêd and a name also of the fiddle may have
a serious bearing on the rhymes of
― Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle.‖
and the cow that jumped over the moon may be the cow-goddess of
Ursa Major, Kêd, who was anterior to and higher in heaven than
Luna. Also, a ―diddle‖ is a young duck or a young pig, and both
are types of the old genitrix; and the little dog, or Canis Minor,
imaged Sut, the son of the cow-headed goddess, or Hes-Taurt, later
Astarte and Eostre.
The seat of the Goddess of the Seven Stars was represented by
the seven hills. She is the mythical beast, whose seat is the seven
hills of Rome; the Mount Meru, with its seven steps of divisions,
is a form of the sevenfold hill. And at Great Grimsby the divinity
Kêd sat enthroned on the symbolical seven hills. Two of these
1 Dyer, p. 426. 2 Journal of Arch. Assoc. vol. ii. p. 208, 1852.
seven, Holm and Abbey Hills, are joined together by an artificial
bank, known as Kit‘s Bank, once a landing-place.1
Tob, Kef, and Kheft are names of the goddess of the hinder part,
the back, the north, the place of the mount, the fundamental seat.
And tin English, teb is the fundament; also the extreme end and
outlet of a cart. Keb is the Peak of Derbyshire, with the same
meaning. The Cefn or Keven is a ridge also called the Back, the
hinder part. The Chevin is a ridge in Wharfdale, and Chevening is
on the great ridge in North Kent. To this naming from the North,
the hindward quarter, we may assign the Back as in Saddleback.
Kêd is synonymous with the good. The good time or tide is named
from Kêd; Gut-tide is a name of Shrovetide; the good-day or holi-
day was the day of Kêd. The good wife is a form of the goddess.
Kedy, a familiar name with the British Barddas, is our ―Goody.‖
A goody was an old woman that wore the red cloak, and the red
crown was worn by the genitrix in the lower world. One ―Good
Woman‖ was a sign of a woman without a head. This too can be
understood as a form of Kêd or Kheft, who represented the lower and
hinder part; it was synonymous with the lower crowrn of Neith—
minus the Hut or head—the crown of the north and hieroglyphic of
her name.
Our word U RE means use, custom, practice, and Ur (Eg,) is the first
great, oldest, principal; this gives the primal sense of ure, as use and
usage. Ured means to be fortunate, that is, fruitful. Urt (Eg.) is to
be gentle, meek, peaceful, bearing or pregnant. The Urt is the crown
with asps, a type of maternity. Urt was the great mother, who in
mythology is the goddess of luck and fortune. In Egypt she was
personified as Ta-Urt, the pregnant Urt. She was depicted as the
hippopotamus, with big belly and long drooping dugs of breasts,
more like udders. In English Ur is a name of the rudder. The con-
stellation of Urt was Ursa Major, and this most ancient form of the
genitrix is identifiable in Ireland, where the nane of the Great Bear
is known as Art, and in Britain as Arth. And Urt is a name of
Khebt, our goddess Kêd.
As-t or Hes-t, the great mother, who is personified as the heifer,
the seat, the house, couch, or bed, reappears by name as Ast, a title
of Kêd as the greyhound bitch, the female dog being a type of her,
as were the dog and dog-star of Isis in Egypt. One of Ked‘s
stone monuments in Cardiganshire was named ―Llech yr Ast,‖ the
flat-stone of the bitch. 2 A place near Tring, in Hem, called Astoe
is probably the circle of Ast. Ast, the bitch, is a form of the As
or Hes, the seat, bed chamber, abode of birth belonging to the
female, personified in Astarte, Ashtareth, Ishtar, Asterodia, Eseye,
and Eostre.
1 Oliver, Monumental Antiquities of Great Grimsby, p. 39.
2 Gibson‘s Camden, cols. 772, 773.
Gwal y Vilast, in Glamorganshire, is the couch of the greyhound
bitch. In the Mysteries Keridwen, the great mother, is represented
as transforming herself into the swift greyhound bitch and pursuing
Gwion the Little.1 In the story of Saneha, an Egyptian tale of the
Twelfth Dynasty. it is said of the swift hero, ―His limbs are like
(those of) the greyhound of the great goddess.‖2
So in the hieroglyphics the bitch-dog Khen is the image of the
inner abode, the Khent or womb. And this brings us to the mean-
ing of Kêd's name of Keridwen. She is the Khen. Wen has a
prior form in Gwen, the equivalent of Khen. Gwen, the lady, is Khen,
the hall, interior, or boat. Gwenhywyvar, the lady of the summit of
the water, is the Khen (Khen, to image, navigate, carry on the water)
personified as Keridwen. This Khen is written wIth the boat-oar
assigned to the goddess; Kher-it (Eg.) is the figured oar, and Khart
is the child. Keridwen, as the vessel of the child and the oar, is
the ark of life.
The sow was a primitive type of the great mother as the suckler,
the Dea MuItimammæ and goddess of the Great Bear. It was cast
out of Egypt as unclean, but its name of Shaau shows it to have
been an image of primal being, whilst the primordial name of
Hathor as Shaat is the same as Shat, the sow. The sow was also
an image of Taurt as Rerit. This was one of the shapes of the
British genitrix Kêd, and is a proof of her being the goddess
Khebt, the good Typhon. The ship or vessel of Kêd that carries
the corn is typified by the sow called Hwch (hog) in one of the
Triads. Hwch is also an epithet for the ship. In English hug
means to carry.
The sow of the Welsh Druids was born in Dyved, and she went to
the Black Stone in Arvon; under this she laid a kitten which Coll
threw from the top of the stone into the Menai. The sons of Paluc
in Mona took it up and nursed it to their injury. This became the
celebrated Paluc cat.
Even a sow that gives birth to a cat may be explained by
Egyptian symbolism, for Shau, the name ef the sow, is the same as
Shau, the name of the cat, and the two are interchangeable types of the
genitrix. The Druidic cat or tiger is spoken of as a large ferocious
beast. In the Ritual we have the ―cat in the house of Pet, whose
mouth is twisted when he looks because his face is behind him.‖3
The cat and the ass are called the ―Sayers of Great Words‖
in the Hall of Two Truths. The cat is primarily a feminine type,
that of Pasht or Pekht, the mortal enemy of the rat. When the
Solar mythos was adapted to the symbols and imagery previously
extant, and the sun-god became supreme, the sun in one phase took
on the female form, and in the passage of the Pool of Persea is made
1 Hanes Taliesin, ch. 3. 2 Records of the Past, vol. vi. p. 138.
3 Ch. 125. Birch.

to transform into the great Cat or Leopard. 1 The Greeks had the
same representationt although the symbols had become a dead
letter to them.
Apollo is designated the rat-killer; but why, the Greeks cannot tell
us. A story is current about a priest of his, one Crinis, who neglected
his sacred duties, whereupon the god sent against him a devouring
swarm of rats. The priest repented, prayed for protection, and
Apollo slew the rats.
Apollo is the rat-slayer becauso the evil Apophis in the Egyptian
mythology takes the rat for one of his types. The rat is a form of
the destroyer, ―the abominable rat of the sun,‖ as it is called. This
is the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
This was the rat that was put a stop to by coupling, and as
rhyming is a kind of coupling, this may be the origin of the Irish
practice of ―rhyming rats to death.‖ Remn (Eg.) denotes the
limit and stopping-place, whence the rhyme.
The Cat in to which the sun transformed (or was catted) ―on the
night of the battle made to bind the wicked,‖ when the cat
attacked the ―abominable rat of the sun,‖ seems to have been
represented in the rites at the Witches‘ Sabbath, for we are told that
after the supper or Eucharist there stepped out of a statue standing
in the midst of the assembly a black cat, as large as a goodly-sized
dog, which advanced backwards towards them, having the tail turned
up. Then the company gave the cat the kiss in ano, the hind ward
salute, a common formula of the Witches‘ Sabbbath, and sat in silence,
with all heads bowed towards the cat. Then the lights were put out,
and, like the Israelites, they rose up to play. After which there
appeared a figure, half sun, half cat.2 This was probably the trans-
formation scene in which the great cat was re-transformed into its
solar splendour.
The kiss in ano is equally the kiss in Annu, for Annu (Eg.) also
signifies behind, and in Annu occurred the scene of transformation
into the cat, when the Egyptian mystery of Sem-Sem was enacted in
the darkness. The Witches‘ Sabbath serves to enlighten the obscurity
of the Ritual and its mythological allusions. In the Hellenic Cos-
mogony the Sun is said to create the Lion; the Moon creates the
Cat. This likewise is an illustration of the Egyptian imagery.
In the two bulls issued by Pope Gregory the Ninth (1232 and
1233) against the Stedingers of North Germany, he charges them
with their heathen practices, and amongst other secret ceremonies
used on the initiation of a convert, he says that a shining personage
appeared from the dark corner of the chamber, the upper part of his
body being luminous as the sun, making radiant the whole room,
1 Rit. ch. xvii. Birch.
2 De Lancre, Tableau de l’Inconstance des Mauvais Anges et Démons. 4to. Paris,
1613; pp. 67-72.
while his lower parts were rough and hairy, and like a cat; 1 an
image of the sun above and cat below that perfectly reproduces
the solar symbolry of the Egyptian Book of the Dead,2 where the sun
in Annu makes his transformation into the cat.
This, then, it is claimed, is the speckled cat into which Taliesin,
assimilated to the sun, says he had been transformed: ―I have been
a cat with a speckled head upon a tripod,‖ or a tree. Nor is the cat
an isolated synlbol, but carries with it the total cult and all its
doctrines. The cat-headed solar goddess Pasht followed the sow-
goddess, and in the British Mythos the sow brought forth the cat.
The cat-headed goddess Pasht is designated ―Menhi,‖ and she is
also called Ur-Heku, the old ruleress, or the great magic power.
With the article prefixed, P-ur-ukhu, the great magic power or the
old ruleress, is the equivalent of the Paluc cat of Menai.
Not a refrain, burden, or rhyme of the old popular nursery lore
but had a meaning once, and became a permanent possession on that
account. Things thrown off without sense do not become matterful
by repetition. They live after the sense is lost, because of the
meaning they once conveyed.
― Ding, dong, dell,
Pussy‘s in the well,‖
says the distich, and pussy as the goddess Pasht is found there in the
Well or Pool of Persea, and at the bottom of the well we are to find
Truth. That same well was the Pool of Maât, goddess of the two-
fold total truth. Our Pussy even is a diminutive of Puss, because SI
and SIF (Eg.) denote the child.
There is a goddess Uati on the Monuments, very ancient, but
little is known of her. She is identified, however, with the Buto of
the Greeks. Uati is the goddess of the north. Uat (Eg.) is the name
of the North and of Northern Egypt. Khebt is also the North
and Northern Egypt. Thus Uat and Khebt are synonymous.
Khebt, Goddess of the Great Bear, is likewise the Goddess of the
North. Buto and Leto are one with the Greeks. Leto is Urt
(or Urta), a name of Khebt, the old genitrix, and it follows from this
that Uati is a continuation of Khebt, as Goddess of the North and of
the Great Bear, the British Kêd, mother of the sun-god Hu.
Now wc: are told by Pliny that the British ladies, married and
unmarried, stained their bodies with woad, and danced naked in the
open air.3 This was obviously in the performance of certain religious
ceremonies, but it has given rise to many false notions about the
ancient Britons being painted savages. One name of woad is wad.
Wad is a Cumberland name for blacklead. Woad is also written
ode. Kettle is a name of purple, and the purple orchis is called the
1 Baronius, Annales Ecclesiastici, tome xxi. p. 89.

2 Ch. xvii . 3 Bk. xxii. 2.
Kettle-case. Kit is also to smear or daub. Woad implies a form
written with K. In Egyptian Khu is paint. Khu-t will be painted,
and we have need of this for determining the nature of woad.
Pliny says the woad was black, and wad is blacklead. Cæsar
called it blue. Jornandes affirms that it was produced from iron ore.
In Egyptian Uat is the name of bluish-green, as stone for paint,
and green plants and herbs. It is also the name of a blue cos-
metic in the great Harris papyrus. And we can see that Uat in
Uatmes, the name of Collyrium, merely means colour or paint,
and Uatmes is black paint. It is also found as a brown colour.
Uat as the name of water included both green and blue. My own
conjecture is that Woad was green when wet, and that it dried on the
flesh in a kind of blue tint. Green and blue were the two colours
wanted for the types of lower and upper, earth and heaven, whilst
the transformation or the wet-green into the dry-blue would be the
most perfect realization of the symbol possible. Again, one of the
great objects of worship was Hu, the solar god, whose sign is a tongue,
and the tongue is found to be painted blue and red, two colours that
inrerchange with blue and green, the image of the heavenly and the
earthly, or spirit and flesh, soul and body.1
Uat in the dual form is Uati, goddess of wet and heat, the two
truths of water and breath, the two factors of being also personified
by Hu, as the Sphinx. Madder is a name of woad, also of paints.
As Egyptian, Mat-ter would read the twin-total of truth. Uat is found
to be the colour of vestments worn in certain religious ceremonies
of the Egyptians. This is identical with the woad vestment of the
British devotees; and the woad has the name of the goddess of
the north, who was Uati and Khebt, our British goddess of the
north, who was Kêd. We have our Wad‘s-den not far from
Gad‘s-den, two forms of the name of Kêd.
Painting the rosy flesh with a blue tint was clothing the earthly
with the heavenly, and the ladies, maiden and matron, who danced
and showed their colours dedicated to Hu and Uati made the same
sign that we still perpetuate on the Union Jack. In the Ritual 2
Uati is described seated with Pasht in the great quarter, the
greatest of the heaven, i.e. in the north.3 And in another chapter,
with a vignette of the deceased adoring, we read: ―Oh! great
land, I have come from thee, I have prepared, I have irrigated
the meadows. I am the bull painted (drawn) BLUE, the lord of the
fields: the bull called (by) Sothis at her time. . . . . Oh Uat (Blue-
Green), I have come, putting on my clothes. I have put on me
the W OOF OF THE S UN when within the heaven. Oh, Usert
(Sustenance) at the head or the place where Hu was born! Oh
1 As on the sarcophagus in the Amhurst collection. Copied in colours by Bon-
wick in Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought.

2 Ch. xxiii. 3 Ibid.
divine land of corn and barley, I have come from thee. I have
stopped my arm from working at my service in thee, who art called
ruler of purity—pure mistress.‖1
In this the worshipper of Uati and Hu says he has painted himself
of a bluish-green hue, and put on the woof of the sun for his vest-
ments. The bull of the sun wears the blue woof of heaven as his
clothes. He has stained himself, as it were, with woad, like the
worshippers of Hu and Kêd in Britain. Mistress of purity was a
title of Kêd; she was said to be pure as the crescent moon, and fair
―as the snow which the cold has polished upon the lofty peak.‖2
We have the name Uat in Watchet blue, now given to a palish
kind of blue. But the original mixture of blue-green was worn by
Sabrina (described by Drayton),3 who sat as a queen in Neptune‘s
throne wearing
― A watchet weed, with many a curious wave,
Which as a princely give great Amphitrite gave.‖
In mythology the son of the mother becomes her husband and his
own father. This is the relationship of the god Hu to Kêd. His
name of Hu-Gadarn is rendered Hu the Mighty. But such titles as
this and that of EI-Shadai, the Almighty, are all too vague for the
primitive thought. Gadarn is susceptible of a fine rendering in
Egyptian. Renn is the child, the nursling of the great mother
called the old dandler, who is Kêd, and the Welsh Ern, a pledge,
agrees with Renn, the nursling, as the child of Kêd.
The Druids called Hu the overseer, and on the Mithraic sculptures
this solar overseer is pictured in place of the disk, afloat overhead on
wings, with the serpent attached. Pliny said the Druids of Britain
might have taught the Magi of Persia. But both drew from the
parent source.
The magical banner of the ancient British was emblazoned with
the same device of sun and serpent, and the Two Truths were
likewise identified by the presence of Hu and Kêd, the father and
mother who supported the disk and serpent.4 One emblem of Hu
(Eg.) was the tongue, from which he has been called Taste personified.
But the tongue means more than taste. Stockius observes that a
tongue was the type of flame. The tongue denotes the Word,
utterance, mystic manifestion.5 The tongue-emblem of Hu is
represented on the Tokens of Cuno along with the mother as the
mare, Hu being the male deity.6
The 56th Triad asserts that the god Hu had already instructed the
race of the Kymry in the art of husbandry and the cultivation of
corn, previous to their removal and separation from the old land.7
1 Ch. cx. Birch. 2 Hywell. 3 Poly-Olbion, song 5.
4 Oliver, on Initiation, p. 229. 5 Hor-Apollo, bb. i. 27.
6 Gibson‘s Camden, tab. i. fig. 3. 7 Davies, p. 107.
Hu, whose name in Egyptian signifies corn, also means spirit,
aliment, and sustenance, and he is the giver of wine and generous
liquor, who presides over the festive carousals. ―After the deluge he
held the strong-beamed plough, active and excellent, this did our
lord of stimulative genius.‖ 1 Hu (Eg.) means both aliment and
genius. The god Hu on the Monuments is the good Demon, the
winged sun, the sun in the act of shedding. In the Ritual he is said
to be one of the gods attached to the G ENERATION of the sun.2 He
is seminal as well as solar, hence Hu represents the seed of life, the
giver of corn.
The great emblem of Hu is the Tebhut, the sun on expanded
wings called the great god, lord of life. A British priest invokes
the god under the title of Hu with the wings.3 He too is the Tebhut.
Hu was depicted as the driver of his three oxen, and in the
hieroglyphics Hu signifies ―to drive.‖
Hu is the bull, the mighty bull, and the one bull takes the Triadic
form in the three bulls that draw the Avane out of the lake. The
triad of bulls which is the three-in-one is the analogue of the Egyptian
male triad.
In the Ritual4 we read, ―These gods who are attached to the
generation of the sun are Hu and Ka; they are followers of their
father Tum daily.‖ K A or K AK was the god TOUCH . We still
swear by touch in the sayings ―true as touch‖ and ―touch-true.‖
Kak, the blind God, went by touch, and touched home as the one who
reached the boundary. Kak, in Eskimo, and Kakoi, in Japanese, mean
boundary. The boundary of Kak or TOUCH is extant in TICH -field
and TICH-bourne, the boumc in the latter being a translation of TICH.
Tum (Atum) is the solar bull, the powerful bull, and Hu and Ka
complete the bull-triad. The death of the bull as a sacrifice of
virility was represented in the Druidic mysteries.
―The assembled train were dancing after their manner and singing
in cadence with garlands on their brow, loud was the clattering of
shields round the ancient cauldron in frantic mirth, and lively was the
aspect of him who, in his prowess, had snatched over the ford that
involved ball which cast its rays to a distance, the splendid product of
the adder shot forth by serpcnts.5 But wounded art thou, surely
wounded, thou delight of princesses, thou who lovest the living herd.
It was my earnest wish that thou mightest live, O thou victorious
energy! Alas! thou bull, wrongfully oppressed, thy death I deplore.‖6
Aeddon is a name of Hu, and Atum is said to be ―the duplicate of
Aten.‖7 The priest of Hu was distinguished by the title of Aedd
1 Iolo Goch. fourteenth century. 2 Ch. xvii.
3 Davies, p. 121. 4 Ch. xvii.
5 Cf. Pliny‘s account of the production of the serpent‘s egg or stone, to note
another instance of the Roman and Greek ignorance of the ancient symbolism.
6 Ancient Welsh poem. Davies, p. 576. See also p. 172, ib.
7 Stele of the Excommunication.
after the god Aeddon, and in the hieroglyphics the At is a divine
father, a priest.
Having shown the identity of the British and Egyptian Hu
and Aeddon with Atum (earlier Aten or Adon), it is now intended
to suggest that the triad of Atum, Hu, and Kak is the British
triad of Tom, Hu, and Jack.
Atum in one character is the setting sun; he sets from the land of
life.1 He is the sun of A UTUMN , to which season he has bequeathed
his name. He is the god of the underworld, also namned from him
as the tomb. He was the lame and lessening sun of wintet and it
is touching to think of the ancient deity who was the great god of
heaven and earth, the great judge of the dead in the lower world,
from whom we derive the primitive name of the judge as the Demster,
and judging as dem-ing or condemning, and lastly damning, actually
reduced to the condition of Tom Tiddler; but so it is. Tum was
the winter sun: the slow-moving, long-in-coming, feeble sun, who as
Tom Tiddler is Tom the Toddler, a sort of simpleton or Tim-
doodle, who moves with slow tiny steps, and is twitted for being the
lazy one, from whom his gold and silver may be filched with im-
punity. One game at his expense is played on the eminence up
which he, the lower sun, has to mount and send off the mockers.
Tum, the setting sun, is depicted as crossing the waters by means of
the cow. In one instance, this sun, as lord of Hab, is making the
passage, as it is called; and it is said of the deity, ―Thou hast rested
in the cow, thou hast seized the horns, thou hast been immersed in
the cow Mehur.‖ 2 The sun was re-born at the thigh of the cow.3
How has the myth been minified our faeryology in which Tom
Thumb is described as being swallowed by the cow and re-born
from it! Yet the matter is the same. Tum is the name of the lowest
member of the hand, the thumb. Tum was the red as well as the
lower sun. Both colour and lowliness meet in the plant called Thyme.
The Damson also is the redder, lesser plum. Tom is a close-stool,
botTOM , the lowest part. Tawm, a swoon, a sinking down. The
Temples are the lower part of the head. The Taum is a fishing-line
which goes under. The Tom-tit, a name of the wren, builds under-
ground, the other Tom under the grass. The Tommy-loach stays
in holes, the Tom-cull, Miller‘s Thumb, or Bull-head, lurks under
stones. Tom-tiler is a hen-peckcd husband who knuckles under; the
tame and timid derive their appellations from Tum, the lower, hinder.
Timings are the dregs of beer. Tum was the negative, sterile
under, hindward sun. Hence Tum signifies no, not, negative. He
completed the circle of the day and of the year, hence Tum, to
announce, or Time, which depended on termination; thus ―tumt‖ is
1 Ritual, ch. xv.
2 Trans. Bib. Arch. vol. v. 293. Ins. of Darius at the Temple of El Khargeh.
Birch. 3 Rit. ch. xvii.
total or timed. Tum the lower, hinder, and secondary, are among
the meanings of the word, and these have been curiously applied
in the formation of English, and in words not found in Egyptian,
though shaped in its mould. Tum, as the lower, is the name of
our underworld, the tomb. Toom means empty, hollow, void.
From Tum, the winter sun, comes the word and meaning Dim.
This is echoed in many other languages, as D IM , in Akkadian, a
phantom; TUMMA , Fin., dull, slow, dim; TUMME, Esth., dim, dark,
slow; TUOM , Lap., dull in action, slow, and dim; D UM , Danish,
obscure, dull, and dim; D IMBA , Swedish, haze, fog; TUMU , Sho-
shone, winter; TOMO , Wihinasht, winter; TAMN , Kanuri, to com-
plete, finish, end. In the Xosa and Zulu Kaffir doalects, D AMBA
means to grow less and less in bulk, and a person who totters with
unsteady gait, whether from drink or weakness is called D AMBU -
D AMBU . To tremble is to go under, to dimple is to dip under. To
be in the dumps is to be down. Trees are timber when cut down.
A Timp is a place at the bottom of a furnace through which the
metal runs. A Dump is a deep hole in water, supposed to be
bottomless. The Ducking-stool was also called a Tumbril. The
helmsman at the hinder end of the vessel is a Timoneer. A Tim-
Sarah is a kind of sledge with wheels behind, and a Tim-whiskey is
a chaise all bottom and no head. A Tom-noddy and Tim-doodle
are foolish, deficient persons, and Tom, as the sign of the lower
lesser, or little, attains the point of culmination in Tom Thumb.
A Tom-toddy is a tadpole. Here, too, is an image of Tum. One
type of the sun crossing the waters was the frog-headed Ptah, the
father of Tum, and our Tom-tadpole reproduces the son. Tom-toddy,
or TUTTI , is literally the secondary type found in Tum, the son of Ptah.
Tom-tut (in Egyptian the image of Tum) is also a kind of bogy.
Children in Lincolnshire are frightened by being told of Tom-tut, a
supernatural being that still haunts the nursery; and persons in a state
of panic are called Tut-gotten. In Norfolk the same bugbear of
naughty children, and the especial demon of dark places, is known as
Tom-poker. Possibly this title actually enshrines the motherhood of
the God. Tum was the son of Pekh, the cat-headed goddess,1 and
Pekh-ar is the son of Pekh; Tum was Pekh-ar, as Osiris, the son of
Hes, is Hes-Ar.
At Bromyard, in Herefordshire, among the ceremonies performed in
the first hours of the new year, is a funeral service said over ―Old Tom,‖
as the departed year is called.2 Here the transformation of Old Tum
is applied to the year and made solstitial. In the Egyptian cult of
Tum it was equinoctial, the old Tum changed into the young Iu-em-
hept. When the devil appeared to the Witch of Edmonton, he
called his name Dom.3 That is Tum, the solar deity of darkness, who
1 Rit. ch. xvii. 2 Fosbroke, Sketches of Ross, p. 58, 1822.
3 Sphinx and Œdipus, or a Helpe to Discourse, p. 271, 1632.

becomes the devil of eschatology. Though dead and buried and
transformed into the devil, the spirit yet lives, and still bears the
name of ―Old Tom,‖ in a kind of gin.
Tum, as the lower, was the sun of the left hand. And there was a
custom of drinking over the left thumb connected with passing the
bottle round the table according to the course of the sun, and the
left hand or lower sun was the solar god Turn. Also instructions were
given that in a fit of convulsions or shortness of breath you should
hold your left thumb with your right hand, and the god Tum was the
breather of life, the breath of the mouth. Children were taught to
fold the thumb inside the hand as a charm against approaching danger;
it was an English custom to double the thumbs of the dead within
the hand. This was a typical mode of laying hold of Tum, the
great judge of the dead.
It is reported that during the battle of S OLFERINO Victor
Emmanuel, King of Piedmont, kept his right thumb doubled in
his hand for good luck. 1 He was typicalIy holding on to the god
of justice.
The good old Irish names of O‘Tom and O‘Jack, common in an
Irish poem by O‘Duvegan, of the early fourteenth century, are of
divine origin after all.
Tum‘s two manifestations are in the persons of Hu and Ka or Hak,
earlier Kak. In the pictures of the lower sun (Tum), crossing the
Ament in the boat of the solar disc, Hu is at the prow and Hak
(Kak) is at the helm.2
Tom is our impersonation of all that belongs to the lower, minimized,
dull-looking, lagging winter sun, and Jack is his natural antithesis.
If Tom goes down, Jack leaps up, on springs, as illustrated by the
Jack-in-the box; or ascends, as by the bean-stalk. Jack is the lively
lad, the spirited, full of spirit, a spirit or sprite. Jack-bandy is a
name of the spritely minnow. The Jack-a-dandy dances on the
ceiling, Jack-a-lanthorn is the dancing will-o‘-the-wisp, Jack-in-the-
green dances in true Egyptian colour on May Day. Green with them
was the hue of reproduction from the invisible or spirit-world, and
Jack as the sprite of the May dances invisibly in green. We still
perpetuate the symbot in the colour called ―invisible green.‖ The
flesh of both Ptah and Num was painted green, the hue in which the
spirit of life emerges from the underworld. The Aztec divinity
Huitziton was represented with his head decorated ith feathers, his
arms in the shape of tree-trunks with branches, while from his girdle
green leaves fell or flowed downwards.3
The god Ka is the more ancient Kak, whose name modifies into Ka
and Hak. Akh (Eg.) is a spirit, lively, gay, and the word also means to
1 Thomas Wright, On the Worship of the Generative Powers, appended to Payne
Knight‘s Worship of Priapus, p. 151; privately printed, 1865.

2 Book of Hades, first division, plates. 3 Bancroft, iii. 400.
rise up and illumine. Akh is to elevate, suspend, adjust. An image of
this is extant in our Jack-in-the-box, who is suspended on springs and
who ―jacks up‖ with a broad smile to illumine with merriment, being
now reduced to a solar symbol for the nursery. Jack dances on May
Day in green leaves, and Akha is to be verdant, green. Jack is the
quick, clever, sharp, hence the knave. Akar in Egyptian is to be
quick, clever, sharp, always ready, just as we say ―Jack‘s the Iad,‖ the
character aimed t by ―cheap Jack.‖ Akh is a spirit, the creative
or Virile spirit in Egyptian, Assyrian, and Hebrew. It is the evil
spirit in Japanese. In English the Jack used to hold the spirit.
Jackey is a name of gin and strong ale. It is said or sung of our
ancestors that they ―took a smack of the old black Jack, till the fire
burned in their brain.‖ The Jig is the lively dance, fun of spirit. The
Egyptian Akh, to lift up, suspend, is embodied in the Jack instrument
for lifting a weight, and Akh, to turn round, is imaged by the Jack
suspended and adjusted to evolve in the chimney. The Jacks used
to jump up in the spinnette of old, Jack Ketch hangs up, the Union
Jack is run up, the Jack struck the bell when the hour was up. Jack in
his box leaping up with a laugh or a broad grin is a type of the sun
or of the soul ascending from the nether world. Here is the fellow
picture from the Egyptian Ritual:1 ―I rise up as a god from men. I
prevail as ye do with that god taller than his box. I have sat in my
place on the horizon.‖ Just as the Jack leaps up. ―Oh, taller than his
box; lord of the Crown Atf!‖2 That is the head-dress of Jack! The
Akh in his box is literally the Jack, and this spirit taller than his box is
the Akh. Jack-in-the-box is an Egyptian hieroglyphic of resurrection,
and this gives the significance to ―Jack‘s Barrow,‖ a large tumulus
in the parish of Duntesboum, Gloucestershire. The name was like
a warrant for rising again. A place near ―Jack‘s Barrow‖ is named
―Jack‘s Green.‖ Jack represents the spirit of life in spring, in the act
of springing up or in jactation. One image of this was the ascend-
ing sun that rises up, aspires, illumines, puts a spirit of youth in every-
thing, or ―Jacks up,‖ rises, revolves, and reigns higher and higher,
and ranges from little Jack, who climbed up the bean-stalk, to the place
of the giant, or to the top of the great circlet over which reigns Hu with
wide-expanded wings as the god in his disk, or, to reverse the process,
from him who rides on the heavens by the name of Jach, down to our
Jack of the bean-stalk, and the box. Possibly Jack, the Akh who
jumps up out or his box as the young god, the sun of the spring
equinox, is extant as the veritable ―little Jack Horner.‖ The divinity
was represented as the young one, the Ar or Har. His place was
the corner, and he is described as king in his corner, or angle. Says
Ra, in the last judgment, ―Let the great one, who is in his angle
call the souls of the just, and have them placed in their abodes near
1 Ch. lxxix. 2 Ch. cxxv.

the angle.‖ 1 Har-khuti is not only god of the corner, he is per-
sonified as ―the brilliant Triangle which appears in the shining place.‖2
And this god, who rises up victorious on the horizon, spiritualized
(Akh) is literally Jack Horner for Hor is Horus, and ―Ner‖ (Eg.)
means victory. Jack‘s corner has been removed to the place of the
solstice, and his victory minimized to the pulling out of plums. One
wonders if these plums, like those of snap-dragon, may represent souls
snatched from the burning or the abyss. His exclamation, ―What a
GOOD boy am I,‖ still preserves the title of the youthful god called
Nefer (the good, the young), applied to Nefer-Tum, and Khunsu
Nefer-hept.
Har-Khuti, god of both horizons, the sum total of the Tum Triad,
called ―the brilliant triangle which appears in th shining place,‖
seems to be extant in the Lord (Har) C ADI , and the triangle to be
reproduced in his garland.
The Cadi is a remarkable character among the May mummers
in Wales. He is the most active personage, chief marshall, buffoon,
and money-collector. He is generally arrayed in a dress of both
sexes, male above and female below. The number of the other
mummers is thirteen. They are dressed in white decorated skirts
worn over black velvet breeches. This dual dress of the Cadi and his
followers corresponds to the Two Truths; two birds (light and black)
two colours, two origins, and two horizons, of Tum-Har-Khuti, and the
mythical personage designated by Taliesin the ―two-halved youth.‖
The company carried the May garland, the glorified image of the
circle completed and once more renewed at the time of the vernal
equinox.
The Cadi, as primus, suggests the god Khuti of Egypt, called Har-
Khuti, the sun of both horizons, lord of the two seats or double seat
of the equinox, one of whose types was the Sphinx. One name of
the Sphinx is Hu, and Hu is the god of the horizon, and the British
sun-god. The mixing of sex in the dresses answers to the dual nature
of the Sphinx, and the Two Truths. The garland of the Cadi, says
the Every Day Book,3 consists of a long staff or pole, to which is affixed
a TRIANGULAR or square frame. In the procession the triangular
garland is carried next after the Cadi. The god Har-Khuti is pre-
monumental. In the record of the divine dynasties, a period of 13,420
years is claimed for the Shus-en-Har or worshippers of the Har, who
as Sut-Har (whether Sabean or solar or both) manifested on the double
horizon as Har-Makhu and Har-Khuti. Another hieroglyphic of Har-
Khuti of the brillant triangle is extant in the three-cornered cake. In
the city of Coventry one of the New Year presents given by all classes
1 E. Lefébure. Also, the Book of Hades, by Lefébure and Birch. Records of
the Past, vol. x.
2 Litany of Ra, ii. 7; Records, viii. 116.
3 Vol. i. p. 562.
of people is the God-cake, invariably made in a triangular shape.
The god and triangle meet in one name as Har-Khuti. The cake
is the Egyptian symbol of the sun and the horizon; Har-Khuti of the
triangle is god of the horizon, the British Hu. This custom is peculiar
to Coventry.1 The Coventry three-comered cakes, are called god cakes,
and the name of God is one etymologically with Khut, the god of the
triangle, of which the equinox was the apex, the Khut, the solstices
being marked as low down on the horizon, the equinox in the zenith.
The cake was a hierog]yphic of the triangle. Coventry is supposed to
take its name as Conventry from a priory founded there in 1044, by
Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva. But were there such persons as Leofric
and Godiva? It is on Trinity Friday that the Lady Godiva rides
naked through the town. The day also agrees by name with the three-
cornered cakes and the triangular god, Har-Khuti, who was the
manifester of the Trinity. The corner or angle at which the young
sun-god was re-born is the Kheb or Kep, i.e. Cov. It was in the
place of the two times, the ―Teriu,‖ where the two became three in
one. The Egyptian ―Teriu‖ is expressed by three, and gives us the
word, and Kep-en-terui is the corner and the concealed sanctuary of
the two times. Terui also denotes the limit, the circumference, and
a form of Sesennu, the seat of the eight gods in the lunar birth-
place. The Egyptian name is represented by the Welsh D ARU
or D ERYW , an end, and by the TROI , a turn, a circle, the figure
of Troy, earlier Trev, the Rep (Eg.) or religious house of Egypt,
whence we derive our Trefs, Tres, and Troys. ―En‖ (Eg.) is the
preposition ―o‖" or ―of the.‖ The name Godiva will resolve into
Khutifa, the bearer of this god Khuti, from FA , to bear, carry, bbe
pregnant with Khuti, the child. Thus Godiva, the lady, the patroness
of Coventry, apparently becomes a form of the goddess Khet-Mut
(Eg.), the British Kêd. Further, I VA or Iua (Eg.) is the boat, the
symbol answering to FA , to bear, carry, and Kêd was the bearer whose
image is the boat that bore the seed across the ―dale of grievous waters,
having the forepart stored with corn,‖ a symbol of the mother, great
with her child. Khep denotes the secret place, the sanctuary, the
Ha-Khebt in which the god was reborn at the Terui or Troy, to be-
come the young divinity of the double-seat, he being the ―brilliant
triangle.‖ The same word Kep means hiding. concealing, lying in
wait, looking, watching. And Tum in the Kep-en-terui would be in
the place of concealment, watching, looking, tying in wait, literally the
Peeping Tom of the Coventry mystery. One application of the word
Tum actually means to spy, and covet, with the eye for determinative.
It would indeed be strange if the Coventry mystery were based on
historical characters, for Godiva is just the native goddess who appears on
the Monuments as Khatesh or Khen, the bearer, the boat of the waters,
first of all personified as the pregnant hippopotamus, Khebt, later Khet
1 Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. ii. 229.
the British Kêd. Kef or Kep is the genitrix; the word means mystery.
Khep is the goddess of mystery, the mystery of fermentation, fermented
spirits, and fertilization. The Coventry mysteries were among the
most famous in Britain. The word mystery or Mes-terui (Eg.) means the
birth, a child of the dual time, born at the spring equinox in Kef-en-
Terui. This derivation of the name of Coventry, as opposed to Con-
ventry, is supported by another name, that of Daventry. Tef or Tep
is a variant of Kep, and the Tep is likewise the abode of birth at the
Terui. Tep was a mythical locality consecrated to Buto or Uati, the
goddess of the north, the British Kêd, and it permutes with the Kep
or Khab, as the Ha-Khab.
The ―try‖ as a form of the Tref or Tre, Egyptian Rep, Trep, and
Terui, our Troy, will not agree with the Convent.
―Curcuddie,‖ says Jamieson, ―is a phrase used in Scotland to denote
a game played by children, in which they squat down on their hams
and hop round in a circular form.‖ The word Curr means to sit in
this fashion. It is the Egyptian Kar, to stoop down, bear, carry
and be under; khuti is to make the circuit, go round in a circle.
The game is probably an imitation of the lame sun moving round
slowly and with difficulty through the lower Kart belonging to the
childhood of the race, and its mimetic rnode of enacting ideographic
reprentations. Kar-Cuddie is the hard form of Har-Khuti, and the
sun in the Kar-neter is well represented by the English Caddee, a
servant employed under another servant; he is the Kar-Cuddie, the
child Har, who was maimed in his lower members.
In the game of ―noughts and crosses‖ there are two players; one
makes the circle and one the cross. It is gained by the one who can first
get three marks in a line. Here we find the circle, the cross, and the triad.
But when neither of the two players wins the game it is given to ―Tom.‖
―Tommy Dodd‖ is a term a1so used in tossing, when the odd man
goes out. Tum is the god of both horizons, and Hu is his represen-
tative of the circle (the Hut); Hak, of the crossing; when neither Hu
nor Hak win the game, it is given to Tum, so that each has it in turn.
The cross and four circles or dots of Tit-tat-toe form one of the chief
patterns in the artistic designs of the Bronze age.1 It depends on the
particular cult as to which of these three is acknowledged figure-
head and primus of the triad. In the Egyptian Ritual Tum is the
supreme; with the British it was Hu, and with the Hebrews it was Jah
Iach or jy.
The house that Jack built is the solar mansion of the thirty-six
gates in the upper half of which was stored the bread and drink of
life, both being represented hieroglyphically as grain. Jack is the
Akh or Jach who, as Tum, is said to ―build the house.‖ The rat that
ate the malt is the ―abominable rat of the sun,‖ found in the Ritual.
The cat-headed goddess Pasht is designated the cat devouring the
1 Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, p. 378.
abominable rat.1 The dog that worried the cat occurs in the shape of
a dog-faced demon, with human eye-brows, that lived off the fallen
ones at the angle of the pool of fire, in the west, the domain of Athor,
the cow-headed goddess, who at this point, having tossed the dog, took
the sun (Atum or Tum) between her horns and carried him across to
the east. The cow and the cat were both bringers forth of the new
sun of spring in the house that Jack built; the house of the two
horizons. This was the representation of Egyptian mythology, doubt-
less the very form in which the facts were taught in the Mysteries.
The Aztecs, at certain religious festivals, as in the feast of Tlaloc,
in the sixth month, were accustomed to carry in their arms the images
of gods ―made of that gum which is black and leaps, called Ulli‖;
these were named Ulteteu, that is, gods of Ulli. 2 Ulli is india-
rubber. And the leaping gods, the Ulteteu, suggest kinship to our
Jack-in-the-box, whose progenitors leaped in india-rubber before
other springs were invented.
This india-rubber image of deity, a type not yet extinct, is in our
day subjected to a great deal of stretching.
A more mystic image of our Jack is the dance of sunbeams on the
ceiling, reflected from water in motion, called Jack-a-dandy, or Jack
beating his wife with a silver stick. It is emblematical of the two
sources illustrated by sun and water; for Jack is a sun-god,and his
wife is water, a pail of which he went for with Gula, or Jill, up
the hill.
Jack dancing on the water is the same solar image that we find in the
Ritual—―Oh sun, thou hast lodged dancing‖;3 that is, on the waters.
The box of Jack is the ark in which the sun lodged dancing, and
crossed the water. ―The great one crossed in the cabin, capped in
the ark.‖4 I saw the sun in the midst of his box when I hailed his
disk daily, the living Lord,‖5 says the spirit in crossing from this life
to the other.
Atum was the lord of An: lord of the double-seated boat in An.
Atum is one with Aeddon (Hu), and this solar gad of the Britons
appears in one of Taliesin‘s poems as T EYRN O N , the Sovereign On,
or of On, i.e. An, usually written Annwn. This is identifiable, because
in another poem of Taliesin‘s, on the ―Rod of Moses,‖ he con-
nects the British On or An with Heliopolis. He says of Joseph, ―the
son of Teyrn On collected treasures from his associates, and the sons
of ]acob had those treasures in possession.‖ The title of his poem
is ―Kadair Teyrn On,‖ the chair of the sovereign of On. In this he
sings of the ―Person of two origins of the race of Al-Adur, with his
divining staff and pervading glance, and his neighing coursers, and
his regulator of kings, and his potent number, and his blushing purple,
and his vaulting over the boundary, and his appropriate chair:
1 Birch, Gallery, p. 18. 2 Bancroft, iii. 340. 3 Ch. xv.
4 Ibid. 5 Ibid.
amongst the established train, the sovereign of On, the ancient, the
generous feeder,‖ or Heilin Pasgadur, the feeder.1
Hu (Eg.) signifies corn, food, and aliment. Turn is the generous
feeder. He provides the bread of Tu and the drink of Tep for the
Osirian. ―My father Tum did it for me; he placed my house above
the earth; there are corn and barley in it; unknown is their quantity.
I made in it the festival of Tum.‖2 Tum is the lord of An, and the
feast is in An. The altars in An are piled with plenty. Tum is
called Hetu Abi,3 and hetu means bread. Tum is the ancient god,
called Ra in his first sovereignty, and the oldest of the chiefs, who is re-
presented as Har-Makhu of the two origins, or horizons. The boundary
was that of the horizon, where the seat was established in An.
The poet sings of Teyrn On, ―Let him be the conductor of his
fleet, then, were the billows to overwhelm beyond the strand, so that
of firm land there should indeed remain neither cliff nor defile, hill
nor dale, nor the smallest sheltering cover from the wind when its
fury is roused, yet the sovereign of On will protect his chair: skilful
is he who guards it.‖
This will appear less remote when we have set forth the typology
of the Ark and the Deluge. The writer apparently means that were
the deluge to break forth again, there is always one place of safety
in the ark of On; that seat of the god will remain secure. This was
the seat of Atum in An, the established region; the double-seated
boat is there, the ark of Sekari, found with Atum in the procession
of the great gods.4 ―There let them be sought; let application be
made to Kedig for the men of Kêd, who have been lost.‖5 That is,
in An, the established region, called Tattu the Eternal.
The Eel was a type peculiar to Atum as sun of the under-world.
It took the place of the solar serpent, as the crawler through the
waters and mud of the abyss. The eel preserves its divine name,
and being a divine type:, it was too sacred to be eaten. That was the
primitive law of the case. Things forbidden to be eaten were hal-
lowed and not abominated. This was the later phase when the theo-
logy had changed. At first the Jews did not eat the pig because it
was sacred, a form of the multimammalian mother; afterwards
because it was degraded and denounced. The later cursing implies
previous consecrating. And to this consecration of the eel in Egypt
the present writer attributes the yet surviving horror of the eel found
in Ire;and and in Scotland. where it is invested, rightly too, with the
character of the serpent. This repugnance to eating the eel is a
superstition; the feeling against eating it was once religiously
fostered because it was a divine type, and when the theology changes
1 Davies, p. 528. 2 Ch. lxxii.
3 Ch. lxxviii. 4 Wilk. Mat. Hierog. pl. 65.
5 Davies, pp. 527-532, whom I have here followed. He is not to be compared
with Skene as a translator, but was right as to the Barddas being in possession of
the ancient mythical matter, although it was not derived from the Hebrew writings.
and the thing is anathematized as unclean, the horror of eating it is
there, ready to be set against it.
The superstitions of folk-lore and religion are mainly a deposit of
denaturalized mythology, and not until the original types are inter-
preted and rightly explained can the superstitions be estimated justly.
The eel is a symbol then, extant in our islands, but not under-
stood, which can be interpreted in Egypt, where it belonged to a
deity of the dark, worshipped in the remotest times. This accounts
for the eel that was seen by a man in Lorn as he was fishing, which
was passing from mornrng until sunset without coming to an end—
that was a long eel! Not at all. It was the type of a circle, or the
completion of the circle passing through the deep, as the sun-god
Atum, whose name denotes a water-type. A namesake of Tum is
extant in the Timber, a kind of worm.
Tum was known in Egypt as the living god. That is the Ankh.
And we have our divinity of the same name in the god Jingo,
whose worship has outlived that of Kêd, Hu, Prydhain, and others
of the ancient Pantheon. Jingo is the modified Kingo, the Mentula
type of deity. Jingo was a god, also, of the Bask people. ―By
Jingo‖ is a common oath, but the more emphatic form is ―by the
living Jingo‖; that identifies the Ankh (Eg.) with the living one.
―Ankh,‖ the living, and also the name of the King, was an oath
and a covenant, so sacred that it was profane and punisbable to use
it vulgarly, or to swear by the life (Ankh) of the Pharaoh. Profane
swearing consists in making the sacred usage common.
The Irish B EANCAN and Welsh P INCEN , for a sprig or branch, are
derivatives from Ankh, the living. The ―living Jingo‖ apparently
translates and identifes the Egyptian Ankh, an oath meaning by
the living or the life. This sense of life enters into our words jink
and ―high-jinks.‖ Jink is to be gay and ebullient with life. ―High-
jinks‖ are the very festival of frolic life.
Unki (Eg.) is also a god, or the name for God. According to
Brugsch Bey, the special Ankh, Unki, or Jingo of Lower Egypt was
the god Atum, the only one who is expressly denominated the Ankh
or living god. Our Jingo ought therefore to be identified with the
Tum Triad, as he may be. Eidin, a form of Aeddon, signifies the
living, and both names are identical with Adon and Atum, who is
the living god of Pithom, the Ankh, our living Jingo.
Again, the wedding-ring was formerly placed on the thumb. The
author of Hudibras refers to this:—
― Others were for abolishing
That tool of matrimony, a ring,
With which the unsanctified bridegroom
Is married only to a thumb.‖1
1 iii. ii. 303.

The Hereford, York, and Salisbury missals direct that the ring
shall be first placed on the thumb and left on the fourth finger. But
as late as the time of the first George it was a custorn to place it on
the fourth finger during the ceremony, and afterwards it was worn
on the thumb.1 Here we have the Ankh coupled with Tum, the ring
being an Ankh-sign of to pair, to clasp, and to make a covenant.
At Kidlington, in Oxfordshire, the custom was on the Monday after
Whitsun week for a fat live lamb to be provided, and the maids of the
town used to run after it having their THUMBS tied behind them, and
the one who caught it with her mouth was declared Lady of the
Lamb.2 This points to the time when the vernal equinox occurred in
the sign of the ram. Possibly the thumbs tied behind may have been
symbolical of Tum, the hinder sun, now transformed into Hu, in the
sign of the ram. Tum (Eg.) is also a na.me of the mouth.
Tut is the hieroglyphic hand, and the name of number five or one hand.
We have Tum on the hand as the lower member, itnd Tut as the sign
of five in the little finger. In the ancient nursery lore the hand is
reckoned up as ―Tom Thumkin, Betty Bodkin, Long Gracious, Billy
Wilkin, Tutty-Woo.‖ Tutty-Woo, the fifth sign, is number five in two
languages, ―Tut‖ in Egyptian and ―Wu‖ in Chinese. There are
two versions of the last line; the little finger is likewise called ―Little
Tut,‖ and in this version Tut is a hieroglyphic of five, fifth, or a hand.
It is this little finger Tut or Tutty that knows and makes known. In
Piedmont mothers are accustomed to awe their children by making
believe that it reveals everything3. Tut (Eg.) is speech, the tongue,
the word, the manifester and revealer of the hieroglyphics. The
revealer personified is Tut or Tahuti, the lunar deity. In fact, we have
two Egyptian deities on one hand in the thumb and tutty-woo.
The first month of the year in Egypt was called the Tat, and
this is the Irish name for the first or opening day of harvest. Also
the Irish god of harvest was called Tath. Another name of Taht is
Takh, and Dagh was a god of the Irish Tuatha-Dadanan; Deaghd
is a name for divinity.
On the Monuments the lunar deity Tahuti, lord of the moon in
its first half, is represented by deputy in the second half. One form
of this deity is the dog-headed monkey, the Aan, earlier Kan.
From this connection of the Cynocephalus with Taht, we derive the
well-known man in the moon, who is followed by his dog as Taht
was by the dog-headed monkey. These two images of Egyptian
mythology have their abiding-place in the moon for ever. One legend
makes the man to be Cain, that is, Kan the dog, or Cynocephalus.
The man is supposed to carry a bundle of sticks, said to have been
gathered on Sunday, the origin of which has been derived from the
1 British Apollo, vol. i. p. 270.
2 Blount‘s Jocular Tenures, Beckkwith‘s ed. p. 281.
3 Gubernatis, Zool. Myth. vol. i. 166.
Book of Numbers. 1 The earlier representation may have been
coupled with the Hebrew story to point a moral, but the image is
sure to be Egyptian. In our elder poets, Chaucer and Shakspeare,
the bundle is a bush of thorns, and a bush is but a branch or rod,
and Taht is the bearer of the palm-branch of the Panegyrics; he is
also lord of the date-palm. Time was reckoned by the palm-branch
or the festivals. The great spring festival was that of our first of May.
The branch of May was a sacred sign of this season, and that is the
white-THORN bush. Thus we recover Taht and the Cynocephalus
in our man in the moon and his dog, whilst the palm-branch is
represented by the bush of thorn or branch of May.
But to return to Hu, the sun-god. A relic of the Disk-worship
apparently survives at Silchester in connection with the onion. Onion-
pennies is the name given to Roman coins when found there. Accord-
ing to tradition, they are so called after a giant whose name was
O NION .2 The great god, lord of heaven, divinity of the disk, is the
Hut, and Hut is the onion. It seems to follow that the giant Onion
is a form of the solar god. Further Hut, the onion, for the god and
the disk, is also the name of silver, and the pennies are the disks of
Onion. The giant is one form of Hu, the great god of the Hut sign
and circle, the great solar circle. Huten (Eg.) is this circle and the
name of a ring, and from Huten in the hard form of Khutn comes the
Norse Jotun or Eoten, the old English Etin, the giant. In
Egyptian, Khut, Hutn, Aten, all denote the ring or circle of time.
The giant was a figure of great extent, a type of the larger course.
In one of our western isles, that of Borera, there was a vast stone
on the hill Criniveal, some twenty-four feet long; this, the natives said,
marked the spot where a giant of a month old was buried.3 Of course,
when time came to be reckoned by hours and minutes, the lunar
period of time looked a giant; that of Hu or Aeddon was a year.
This type took one form as the eye of the Cyclop, or giant, the one-
eyed monster, the eye being another ideograph of the circle. The
Norse Jotunheimr, the giants‘ home, is a region of the eternal, or on
the way to it, by means of gigantic cycles of time. The Saxon Eoten
for giant is a word unknown in the Teutonic branch of language.
Nilsson traces it to a Lap word. Grimm thought it had been derived
from Etan, to eat. It comes from Katen, an image, a ring, as the
representative of a large circle of time. The eye as a symbol of the
cycle was given to Horus to Taht, and to Hu. It was likewise
assigned to the giant as the Cyclop, and putting out the eye was
synonymous with slaying the giant. The story of Odysseus and his
escape from the monster whose eye he had put out has been traced
by M. Antoine d‘Abbadie among the tribes of Abyssinia. In this ver-
sion the hero escapes from the cave by being carried under the belly
of the ram. This gives the thread of a clue to the maze.
1 Ch. xv. 2 Wright, Dictionary, vol. ii. p. 711. 3 Martin, p. 59.
Odysseus is a form of the giant-killer or circle-ender, like Khunsu,
and to put out the eye is figurative for ending a cycle personified in
the Cyclop. Khunsu, the Egyptian Hercules, the god who repre-
sented the full moon, and with the full moon of Easter the cycle of
the year, the eye of the Cyclop, ended. This, in the ram calendar,
was where the sun entered the sign of Aries. When the vernal
colure was in Pisces, the solar hero was conveyed in the belly of
the fish.
The onion of Hu was a form of the Ankh, or living, and as an
emblem of life the oldest spelling of the name Onion retains the
primary significance; it is the I NGAN , and A NKH - AN is the repeater
of life, who was worshipped as Tum, the living, and Hu, the lord of
life. Juvenal satirizes the Egyptian veneration for the leek and onion.
He says it is impiety with them to violate and break with the teeth
the leek and the onion. ―O holy race to whom such deities as
these are born in their gardens.‖1 The onion of Hu or Turn, has been
given to ―Saint‖ Thomas. Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy,
speaks of a kind of divination with onions laid on the altar on
Christmas Eve. In the instructions for divination with onions the
buyer is told to be sure to select a shop with two doorways and to go
in at one and come out by the other. The onions are to be placed
under the pillow on St. Thomas‘s Eve.2 St. Thomas takes the place
of Tum or Tom, and the double doors correspond to the double
horizon, the double house and double-seated boat of Atum.
Here is another meeting-point. The great god Hu was the
youthful sun-god, son of the old Atum, and O NION (Hut) is an
English name of a young child. Also the O NION is the little one in
the sailor‘s reckoning of so many knots and an O NION .
According to Stukely, the remains of a stone temple at Navestock,
in Essex, showed that it had represented a circle with wings. He
could not have derived this supposed image from the hieroglyphic
Hut, being wholly intent upon the serpent, yet it is the figure of the
Hut or celestial sun, the chief sun, the life-giver, the winged disk of
the god Hu, called the solar disk spread out. The disk with wings,
however, does interchange, as Api, with the disk and serpent. So
the British Hu is called the gliding serpent.
The Hut sun is closely connected with our Whit-sun. Hut (Eg.)
means white. It was a common superstition that whatsoevet was
asked on Whitsunday morning at the instant the sun arose and
played or danced, God would grant. The god was HU, and the sun
his Hut; the Sunday his White day. Evans, in his Echo to the
Voice of Heaven,3 says he went up a hill to see the sun rise betimes
on Whitsunday morning, and saw it at its rising ―skip, play, dance,
and turn about like a wheel.‖ As the Hut sun was the sun of the
1 Sat. xv. 1. 2 Choice Notes, p. 244.
3 1652. P. 9.
equinox, our Whitsuntide is apparently seven weeks late or nearly
4,000 years behind time.
On one of the British coins the word ―Att‖ accompanies the solar
disk or wheel.1 Aedd was an abbreviated form of Aeddon, the
solar god. ―Att‖ is the solar circle in the hieroglyphics, also to
fly and soar; be a type of Aten or Aeddon. This circle is known to
the bards as the ―Barrier of Eidin,‖ the encircling mound,2 built of
stones in the circular temple, and culminating at last in Edin-burgh.
Edinburgh was doubtless one of the seats of Aeddon. Buru
(Eg.) is the height, summit, cap. In the hard form this yields the
brig or arch over, and the Burgh. ―Ethan‖ is an unknown place,
named in the Pictish Chronicle.3
The Caer of Eidyn is mentioned in ―Cunobeline‘s Talisman,‖ and
in ―Gwarchan Maelderw,‖ as well as in the Gododin, and in the sixth
song of the latter poem, the ―Knights of Eiddyn‖ are celebrated;
they are the equivalent of Arthur‘s Knights of the Round Table,
or Circle of Edin, Aeddon, Aten, or Adonai, the lord. Dun-Edin,
another name, is the Tun, elevated seat, throne, mount of Aeddon,
the solar god.
Aten and Atum are identical as the youthful god. The Nefer-
Atum of a later cult reproduced the Aten or Adon of the earlier.
This will be fully explained, meantime Atum (Turn) and Aten are
interchangeable names. Hu, the youthful form of Tum, is the earlier
Adon or Adonis.
In the Eton Montem it seems to me we have a surviving relic
of the worship of Aeddon. Eton itself has the name of the youthful
god. The Montem is a peculiar ceremony, said to have been coëval
with the foundation of the college. Such foundations as this and
those of Cambridge and Oxford were made, so to say, over the
crypts of the more ancient cult.
On May the 12th a procession was formed of the boys who carried
standards and were accompanied with music. The scholars were
dressed in military or in some fancy costume, and the procession
went to a small mount on the south side of the Bath Road, called
the ―Salt‖ Hill, supposed to be a British barrow or burial-place of
the dead.
The hill was ascended, the grand standard unrolled, when the
captain made a speech, and the ―Salt‖ (money) was then collected.
The money bags were richly cmbroidered, the salt bearers were
superbly dressed. Members of the royal family attended at times,
and their donation was called the ―Royal Salt.‖ The origin of the
Montem, as of so many other immemorial customs, is unknown. At
one time it Was celebrated on the 6th of December, the festival of
St. Nicholas, the same day as that on which the boy-bishop was
1 Poste, Keltic Inscrip. pl. 7, coin 5. 2 Davies, Myth, p. 585.
3 Jamieson, Anc. Culdees, p. 112.

elected at Salisbury and other places from among the children
attached to the cathedral.1
The boy-bishop was a survival under Christianity of the youthful
sun-god, and the ceremony will help to identify the meaning of the
Eton Montem. Eton Montem! We use the word immemorial,
forgetting what ineffaceable memorials are registered in words! Eton
contains the name of Tum, who transformed annually into the child,
the Adon or lord. Men-tem (Temau) in Egyptian reads the proces-
sion, memorial, dedication, gift of restoration. Eton Mon-tem would
thus denote the festival of Aeddon‘s restoration.
A passage in the ―Status Scholæ Etonensis‖ (A.D. 1560) shows
that in the papal times the Eton scholars elected their boy-bishop
on St HUGH‘s Day, November 17; St. Hugh being a supposed real
boy-bishop at Lincoln, whose day was November 17. St. Hugh is
just the papal name of the sun-god Hu, written in the Welsh
form, otherwise Aeddon, Egyptian Aten.
At the time of the spring equinox the old god was restored in
youthful form, and the event was celebmted in all lands. Eton is
still dedicated to the Young god as the especial college for boys. In
the same manner on the mount did the Druids unfold the dragon-flag
of Aeddon at the time of the vernal resurrection. It was called
―M AGNUM S UBLATUM .‖
―I have devised a huge standard, the mysterious glory of the great
field of battle, and its excessive toils. There the victor directs his
view over Manon, the luminary, the Arkite with the lofty front, and
the red dragon, the Budd of the Pharaon; it shall accompany the
Advaön, flying in the breeze.‖2
Salt (Sart) in Egyptian is the name of wisdom and science, and
the word has the sense of sowing, planting, distributing, augmenting,
and extending, which was no doubt typified by the ―Salt‖ as money-
means. Salt is still a recognized emblem of learning and wisdom.
The people of Alnwick formerly celebrated St. Mark‘s Day in con-
nection with the making of ―freemen of the common.‖ The custom
is locally attributed to King John who is said to have once at-
tempted to ride across Alnwick Moor and got stuck in the morass,
in commemoration whereof he commanded that all freemen should
pass on foot through Freeman‘s Well. When any new freemen were
to be made, a small rill of water which runs through the morass was
kept dammed up for a few days before the ceremony was performed.
In this way a miry bog chin-deep in mud was made, and through
it the freemen passed. King John is here as great an imposter as St.
Mark. There was a race for the boundaries, in running which the
young freemen were obliged to alight from their horses, in passing an
open part of the common, and to place stones on a cairn at intervals
1 See Dyer, p. 291, for authorities.
2 Davies, Ancient Welsh Poem by Gwarchan Maelderw.
as a mark of boundary. This shows the true Mark, March, or
boundary signified. Then the race was continued to the Town-law
or Twin-law Cairns, a high hill, for the honour of arriving first. On
this mount the names of the freemen of Alnwick were published.
Having competed for the honour of winning the boundaries, the young
men returned to the town in triumph, and were met, according to
tradition, by women dressed up with ribbons and flowers, playing
upon bells, who welcomed them home with dancing and singing.
These were called ―TIMBER W AITS ,‖ a supposed corruption of
timbrel-waits.
The ceIebration may be entirely interpreted by the solar mythos,
of which so much has to be written in this work. To begin with, it
celebrates the making or becoming free. This freedom was attained
by the young deliverer, the sun-god Aeddon (Hu), who crossed the
abyss of waters and landed on the mount, the rock of the horizon,
where the Hall of the Judgment and of the Twin Truths was located.
Alnwick Moor was anciently called the Forest of Aidon or Aeddon,
which identifies the passage with the solar god. King John, who
crosses the morass, takes the place of the An or Oan, the manifester,
who came up out of the deep, as the sun of the water-signs; the mark
or boundary represents the land re-attained and the twin-law the place
of the Two Truths, also called the double seat of Atum or Aten.
The Timber Waits announced the reappearance of the victors who
had won the boundaries.1
The ―Hill of Aren‖ is a form of the mount of the horizon and
landing-place of the sun. The resting-place of Tydain, the father of
the inspiring muse, is in the border of the Mount of Aren; ―while the
wave makes an overwhelming didn, the resting-place of Dylan is in
the fane of Beuno, the ox of the ship.‖ 2 The ox of the ship here
identifies the landing-place with the colure of the equinox in the
sign of the Bull. This ―Hill of Aren‖ is a form of the solar birth
place, the Bekh (Eg.), found in An. Renn (Eg.) is the young child,
the nursling, and the name-circle; and it is suggested that Aln-wick
is one with Arn-wick or hill of Aren, the birthplace and resting-place
of Tydain, who, as the British Apollo, is the solar god and a form of
Aeddon or Hu. Renn (Eg.) is the typical birthplace, personified as
Rannut, and in the Aren was the Bêdd of the youthful god. Bed
in English, is the uterus; the Egyptian But and Pa-t; Hebrew,
Beth; Vei, Ba; Keltic-Irish, Beith; Sanskrit:, Bheda. This Bedd is the
―Pet‖ of the hieroglyphics, the divine circle of the gods which is syno-
nymous with number nine, the nine months of safety from the Deluge,
thoe nine days associated with the Deluge of Deucalion. Tydain, the
father of theMuses, is the progenitor of the nine. Thus the Timber
1 History of Alnwick, 1822, pp. 304-309. Antiquarian Repository, 1809. Dyer,
p. 201.
2 Davies, Myth. p. 194.
Waits may have represented the Muses. Tema (Eg.) means a choir
(Temau, choirs), and Ma signifies number nine. The nine were
extant in the damsels whose breathings warmed the cauldron of
Keridwen. The Gallicenæ of Sena were the Nine. ―The tuneful
tribe will resort to the magnificent Se of the Sêon,‖ says Taliesin.
Hu, the sun-god, was celebrated by the Barddas for putting an
end to the dragon-tyranny. Hu, the bull, was son of the dragon, as
in the Bacchic Mysteries the bull was born of the dragon. The
dragon was a type of the mother Kêd, Draconis of the sphere.
She was the deity of darkness and the night-side; Hu, the god of
light, who was her son and consort, became the father who superseded
the Sabean mother. Hence we hear of the ―Deluge that afflicted
the intrepid dragon.‖1
Atum was especially called the Lord of An, which may be rendered
Har-An; and there is reason for supposing that ―Heron,‖ from
whom the city of Heliopolis was named, was a title of Atum, as
lord of the lower world. Champollion considered the analogy
between Atum and Heron confirmed by the monumental inscriptions,
giving to the kings the title ―Born of Atum,‖ since Hermapion,
in his rendering of the obelisk of Rameses, calls that monarch the
―Son of Heron.‖ In Egypt the An of the Monuments, the Æan
of Pliny, is the black land, an appellation of the Heroöpolitan nome.
Har-an is Lord of the Black Country; a title of the Pharaohs. In
the inscriptions the king is called Lord of the Red-land (Tsher), and
Lord of the Black-land, An. Hat-An has his likeness in the British
Arawn, the solar lord of Annwn, the deep.
Osiris was also a lord of An. Ben Annu is a tide of the god in
An, which is echoed in a title of Hu, as Pen Annwn, ruler of Annwn.
By aid of the Osirian myth with Osiris as Lord of An, and his
relation to Horus-Tema, the avenger of his father, we shall be able to
correlate the myths of Arawn and his son Pwyll or Pyr. Pwyll, like
Horus, the son, changes characters with Arnwn the Arkite, who
answers to Osiris shut up in the ark by Typhon. Pwyll transforms
himself into this character in order that he may become the avenger
of Arawn the Arkite, just as Horus is the avenger and defender of
Osiris. Arawn is the sovereign lord of the deep. ―Behold,‖ he says to
Pwyll, ―there is a person whose dominion is opposite to mine, who
makes war on me continually; this is Havgan,‖ a power also in
Annwn; ―by delivering me from his invasion, thou shalt secure my
friendship.‖ On the day that completes the year Pwyll was to kill
the usurper with a single stroke. This was the rôle of Horus, who
did battle with Typhon, the ―day of the fight between Horus and
Typhon,‖ as it is described in the Ritual, as if on a certain day the
battle was concentrated into a blow. This was at the time of the
spring equinox, and the conflict was in Annu. It is absurd to
1 Gwalchmai, Welsh Arch. p. 202.
render Havgan by summershine. 1 Summershine did not dwell in
Annwn, the deep of winter. Hef is a name of the gigantic serpent,
the Apophis of the Ritual, and Havgan is the analogue of the
Egyptian Apophis.
Har-An, however, is but a title, and it equally applies to Shu as one
of the Lords of An. Shu is the Egyptian Mars, god of battles; and
Mars, according to Cæsar, was one of the divinities of Britain. Arawn
Pendaran is the Lord of Thunder, and as Master of the Hounds, the
dogs of the deep, he partakes of the character of Shu. The Welsh
―Cwn Annwn‖ that appear with Arawn are found in the Ritual as
the dogs of shade, that is, Shu or shadow, ergo, shadow-dogs. These
are hard to lay hold of; they are thus spoken of: ―Oh, leader of the
boat; thou goest in the waters. The Osiris shoots through every place
in which he has been, through a person who has been to him swifter
than the dogs following after Shade.‖ Three times in this chapter
(24) the swift shadow-dogs or dogs of shade (Shu) are quoted. The
Shadow Dogs of the Ritual are the Echo Dogs of the Welsh myth.
When Pwyll is hunting in the Vale of the Boat, G LYN C WCH , listening
to the cry of his pack, he hears the cry of another pack of a different
tone coming in an opposite direction. These belong to Arawn, the
Lord of the Deep, who is here one in person, with Shu, the Lord of
the Shadow Dogs of the Deep. The Cwn Annwn, or Echo Dogs,
unite both the echo and the shadow character in popular belief to this
day, and are supposed to hunt the souls of the dead in shadowy
apparition by night, as they do in the Book of the Dead.
It has to be shown that the constellation Kepheus and the star
Regulus were two starry types of the god Shu, who was depicted both
as the hunter and the shepherd. The star Regulus is in the Baby-
lonian astronomy the shepherd of the heavenly flock.2 As Kepheus,
he is the lawgiver in the North. The shepherd in British mythology
is the swineherd. We are told that the first of the mighty swineherds
of the island of Britain was Pryderi, the son of Pwyll, chief of Annwn,
who kept the swine of his foster-father, Pendaran Dyved, in the Vale
of Cwch, in Emlyn, whilst his own fathert Pwyll, was in Annwn.
Pwyll and Pryderi, called father and son, are the swineherd in two
characters agreeing with the two phases of Shu-Anhar. The star
Regulus in the Lion was the shepherd or swineherd, the lawgiver and
guide when Kepheus was low down in the northern hemisphere.
Pwyll is designated Lord of Annwn and Dyved, in which there are
seven provinces answering to the seven halls in the house of Osiris, the
seven circles of the Troy figure, and the seven caves of the American
myths. Dyved is the Tepht (Eg.) or abyss of the beginning, in the
region of the north.
Now we are told by Taliesin that it vas through Pwyll and Pryderi
2 Vide chapter on the Two Lion Gods.
that the god entered what Davies calls the ark, or the inclosure of Sidi.
This, as will be shown, means that these two as a double Regulus were
the determiners of a circle of the year. Hence Pwyll is said to govern
Annwn, the great deep, the place of the waters of the Deluge, for a
whole year, for the solar god of the underworld called Arawn. All
this will be vivified later on, at present we must establish our com-
parison. There is another name of Pyr, called Pyr of the East,
supposed to be another charecter altogether. But we take Pyr to be
a local form of Pwyll. Pyr of lhe East was the son of Llion the
Ancient; that is, of the waters called Llion, which burst forth and
overwhelmed the world. Llion is the British form of Nun (Eg.), who
is the father of Shu, the Egyptian Mars. Nun signifies the celestial
water. Pyr, son of Llion, equates with Shu (Kepheus), the son
of Nun, and Pwyll is the god of the solar boat, as Shu is in the
Egyptian mythos. Thus we identify PwyII as the British war-
god Mars.
Now, to complete the proof that Arawn is the same as Haran (the
sun in An), and that Pwyll is Shu, it can be shown that Anhar-Shu-si-Ra-
Neb-Khepsh1 has a character in which he represents or is assimi-
lated to, Har-Tema under the style of Har-Tema of Tinis.2 Har-Tema
is the lord who represents justice visibly, whether as the solar Horus
or as Shu, and is a representative of the great judge Atum Har-an.
H ERIAN or H ERRAN is likewise a name of the Norse god Odin, the
huntsman with the hounds who is the equivalent of Shu and Pwyll
with their dogs.
The Cwn Annwn or dogs of the deep are, at times, accompanied
by a female fiend named M ALT- Y - NOS . This name in the Isle of
Man is spelled M AUTHE, where they have the dog of death called the
Mauthe dog. Math or Maut was the Hecate of the Britons. She is
the Egyptian Mut, to die, Mut, the tomb, underworld, personified
as Death. Maut was a form of Mut, the great mother who as Isis
was accompanied in her wanderings by the dog. The dog of Mut in
Egyptian reads the dog of death. The Druids had Mut in her
unfallen form, as the Mother Nature. Math signified kind, Nature,
who created out of nine principles or elements. Ma in the hiero-
glyphics is number nine, and Mat is the mother. A form of
―Mat‖ in Egyptian is fruit, and one title of the Druidic Math was
the fruit of the primeval deity, or ―F RWYTH Duw Dechrau.‖
One name or title of the Druidic creatoress is Henwen, the ancient
lady. Another divine name of the primordial life-spring or of spring-
ing into life at the lowest point of animated existence, out of the
chaotic mass of matter in its uttermost stage of disintegration,3
personified as the deity who was the most ancient and unoriginated
ruler, is Ddi-henydd. This can be read by the Egyptian Han or Nun.
1 Harris, Magic Papyrus, 2, 3 2 Brugsch, Dict. Geog. 95.
3 Barddhas, vol. i. p. 218.

Han or Nun is the bringer, called a god. But we shall find the
feminine is always first. The N UN is the primordial cause in the nega-
tional, passive phase of being, the water, as the factor contrasted with
breath; N UN is typical, and water is one of two types, the oldest in
the mythical creation. One ideograph of the Han or Nun is the vase,
and the vase means the womb, the As. Han, the deity of the heavenly
water, is primarily female, as is Hen-wen. Henydd appears to repre-
sent the Egyptian ―Enti‖ (Hen-ti), the name of existence, or Hent,
the matrix, the water-dam and reversed vase. Hent signifies ruling
power, and Ddi-henydd is the unoriginated ruling power. Ti (Eg.) is
two or reduplicative; Ti-enti is dual existence; Ti-hent, the plural of
rule, in short, the two Truths of all beginning according to Egyptian
thought.
Ddi-henydd so rendered is the ancient dual divine being, of which
so much has to be said, and then it will be manifest how ancient is this
Druidic portrait of cause. We are told in the Anglia Sacra 1 that
the name of the mother of David (Dyved) was Non. This serves to
reproduce the female Nun (Han), the bringer of the hieroglyphics, the
Nun of the celestial abime, and the primordial factor of creation, the
divinity of the heavenly water.
Among the Irish deities are Krom-Eacha, the god of fire, and Man-
a-nan, the divinity of the waters. Akha (Eg.) is fire; Akhu, the
furnace. Mena is the wet-nurse, and Nun (Eg.) is the typical
primordial water, the inundation. ―I have a sword which M AN - A -
NAN MacLir (Son of the Sea) gave me,‖ said Naisi of the ―Sons of
Uisnach.‖
At Lydney Park, near Chepstow, Gloucestershire, a god was found
bearing the Romanised name of ―Deus Nodens,‖ who is not known
as a Latin divinity. An inscription on one of the votive tablets runs
thus: ―To the god Nodens. Silvianus has lost a ring; he has made
offering (i.e. vowed) half its value to Nodens. Amongst all who bear
the name of Senecianus, refuse thou to grant health to exist, until he
brings back the ring to the Temple of Nodens.‖ Amongst the other
relics preserved are certain letters cut out of a thin plate of bronze
forming the words ―N ODENTI S ACRUM,‖ which are supposed to have
been affixed to the alms-box of the temple wherein those who con-
sulted the orade deposited their offerings. This may afford a clue
to the meaning of the name Nodens.
In Hebrew the Nethen (plural Nethinim) was one who was offered,
consecrated, and dedicated to the service of the temple. Nathan
(}tn) means to give, to offer, place, set, bestow. It signifies many
forms of offering, including the sacrificial; those devoted to the sword3
or slaughter;4 having especial relation to blood-sacrifice and offerings
of blood. ―I have set (}tn) her blood upon the top of a rock.‖5
1 Vol. ii. 2 Glen Etive, p. 105. 3 Mic. vi. 14.
4 Jer. xxxiv. 2. 5 Ezek. xxiv. 8.
―Thou shalt take of the blood and place it (}tn) upon the tip of the
right ear of Aaron.‖1
The form Nuden has similar meanings of gifts, offerings, presents,
to present, hand over. ―Thou givest thy gifts (}dn) to all thy lovers.‖2
Nadan permutes with Nadeh (hdn) for ―gifts of all whores,‖ in the
same verse. Nadeh signifies the wages of prostitution, the images of
impurity, uncleanness, the menstruating woman, which suffices to
connect Nuden with blood.
Nethen (Heb) means to pour out a blood-offering, and it has been
conjectured that a circular opening nine inches in diameter found
in the floor of the temple was made use of for receiving drink-offerings
of blood as a libation to the god Nodens. Nuden (Heb.) denotes
a belly-shaped receptacle, and this terracotta funnel-shaped orifice
was ringed round with outer bands of blue and inner bands of red,
the two typical colours of flesh (blood) and spirit in relation to the
Two Truths of Egypt.
Nat (or Nut) in Egyptian is the name for gifts, offerings, to present
tribute, make a collection, to bow, address, hail, help, affiict, punish,
save. Enti (Eg.) signifies existence in the invisible form, the lower
of the Two Truths, that of blood, the flesh-maker. Enti (Eg.) or
Nat is the name of the red crown and the negative form of existence
determined by the bleeding flower; Nat, therefore, as in Hebrew,
means blood, the lower of the Two Truths, and Nadeh, the flowers,3
are one with Nat, the flower of blood. The origin of blood-sacrifice will
be shown to be related to or suggested by the menstrual purification.
So interpreted, Nutenti (Nodenti) indicates Blood-offerings, and
―Nodenti sacrum,‖ the sacred place, a mystery of blood-sacrifice;
hence the belly-shaped receptacle. When the spirit was offered up
to heaven, the blood was poured out in libation to the mother earth,
the Egyptian Neith, goddess of the lower heaven, that is, earth.
Thus Nodens, whether male or female, or both in one, appears to
have been a divinity of blood-offerings.
Calves and lambs which happen to be born with a certain natural
mark in the ear called the ―Nod‖ or token of Benno are still chosen
as offerings to the Church of Clynnok Vaur, in Carmarvonshire, on
Trinity Sunday.4 The ―Nod‖ is the mark of offering, the blood-
sacrifice of Nodens. Beano in English-Gipsy means birth, and the
Nod-Beuno is proba.bly the birth-mark. The Bennu (Eg.) was a
type of re-birth.
The name written Noddyns has beeo trans]atcd by Kettie scholars
god of the abyss. Neith was a Keltic divinity of the mystical water,
or blood. The name of Noden also is a well-known English proper
name. In the Chronicle or Ethelwerd (A. 508) ―Nathan Leod, King
of the Britons,‖ was slain by Cerdic. Natan-Leod sounds much as if
1 Ex. xxix. 20. 2 Ezek. xvi. 33.
3 Lev. xv. 33. 4 Dyer, p. 295.
the name had been adopted from the (Romanized) Nodens of Lydney.1
An inscribed stone found at Lea Mills, on the east side of the River
Avon, two miles below Bristol,2 has on it a bust with sun-like face,
which a pair of eardrops proclaims to be feminine. The legend reads
―Spes (O) senti!‖ with the circle O broken. Spes might be the Latin
for expectation or the resurrection, and this would be corroborated
by the cross in the centre; the dog and cock on either hand corre-
sponding to Anup and the hawk. But these signs only prove the
imagery of the equinox, which was pre-Christian and pre-Roman.
The rays round the head show the divinity, probably that of the solar
goddess known as Sul Minerva. Senti is Egyptian for worship and
breathing homage. Spes or Sps is a hieroglyphic variant of the
statue As, the sign of the noble, the Great. Here, the one
worshipped is feminine. And Spes (Eg.) is the spouse. Seps or
Shaps (Eg.) also denotes the bringer forth of the child. Taking the
imperfect O to be the hieroglyphic circle, Spes (circle), Senti is the
statue erected in the circle of worship to the genitrix, who gave birth
to the solar child of the crossing every vernal equinox. This reading
would not determine whether the monument be Roman and Mithraic
(there was a feminine Mithras) or ancient British. The inscription,
however, contains the leaf-stops that took the place of the ancient
papyrus roll of Egyptian punctuation.
The Egyptian Fates or Parcæ are seven in number, called the Seven
Hathors, who are in attendance at the birth of children. In the
―Tale of the Two Brothers‖ the Seven Hathors came to see the
newly created wife of Bata, and they prophesied with one mouth that
she would die a violent death. In the tale of the ―Doomed Prince‖
the Seven Hathors greet him at his birth and predict his fate. 3 They
appear in the Ritual in the form of seven cows, with the bull
who is the husband of the seven.
The Seven passed into Persia as the Seven Sisters or Wise Women
who are present at the birth of children and at other sacred times.
They appear in the Rig-Veda as the Seven Sisters who are also Seven
Cows like the Hathors. The Chinese have the Seven Sister-Goddesses
in connection with the Seven Stars. These seven are found in a
diminutive and elfish form among the Manx.
Waldron, in his account of the Isle of Man,4 relates that a woman
who was great with child and lay in bed waittng for the good hour of
deliverance, saw in the night-time seven (or eight) little women of the
wee folk come into her chamber, one of them having an infant in her
arms. A scene of christening ensued, and they baptized the infant
1 Roman Antiquities at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. By the late Rev. W. H.

Bathurst, with Notes by C. W. King.
2 Archæological Journal, v. xxxi. p. 41.
3 Records of the Past, vol. ii. pp. 145-155.
4 Works, p. 132 (1731).

by the name of Joan, by which the woman knew she was bearing a
girl, as it proved to be a few days after.
The Seven in Waldron‘s story were accompanied by a male (the
bull), who acted as a sort of scribe or minister.
The number seven was continued in divining. Mother Bunch
says of the experiment of the Midsummer shift: ―My daughters,
let seven of you go together on a Midsummer‘s eve just at sunset
into a silent grove, and gather every one of you a sprig of red
sage, and return into a private room, with a stool in the middle,
each one having a clean shift turned wrongside outward hanging
on a line across the room, and let every one lay their sprig of red sage
in a clean basin of rose-water set on the stool; which done, place
yourselves in a row, and continue until 12 o‘clock, saying nothing, be
what it will you see; for, after midnight, each one‘s sweetheart or
husband that shall be shall take each maid‘s sprig out of the rose-
water and sprinkle his love‘s shift.‖ This too presents a picture of
the Seven Hathors.
By aid of the Cauldron of Keridwen or Vessel of Kêd the genitrix
we may recover the Egyptian Un, the Goddess of the Hours. The
―Pair Keridwen,‖ was a vessel, and the typical name of the whole
circle of laws and doctrine of the Druids. Cauldron or Kart-ren is the
circle by name. Pair is the Egyptian Per, to go round, surround, be
round, and is synonymous with Pail or Pale.
Keridwen, with due attention to the books of astronomy and the
hours of the planets, collected plants for the cauldron, which boiled
and bubbled for a year and a day, to obtain three ―blessed drops of
inspiration.‖ These three drops represent the knowledge of the
cycles of the sun, moon, and stars.1
On a certain day about the end of the year, whilst the ancient
mother was muttering to herself and feeding the cauldron with
plants, three drops flew out and the cauldron divided in two halves.
The two halves typify the two divisions of the circle of the year
completed in An, the place where the pool and water of the Two
Truths are found in the Egyptian mythology. And this Pair, out
of which came the Druidic inspiration, is variously called the
Cauldron of Keridwen, of Prydhain, and of Awn. From the Cauldron
of Awn came forth the Waters of Truth. The divine drink was
brewed in it for a year and a day. It is called the Cauldron of
Five Plants, and these represent five planets.
―Manifest is truth when it shines: more manifest when it speaks,
and loud it spoke when it came forth from the Cauldron of Awen, the
ardent goddess.‖2
An in the hieroglyphics is speech, and to speak, a form of the Word.
An also means repetition, again, to be periodic. An was the place of
1 Hanes Taliesin, ch. ii.
2 Kadair Teyrn On, Welsh Arch. p. 65.
periodicity, the place of re-birth. An and Un interchange, and have
one meaning. One form of An is lunar, the Ape-Deity. An is a
form of Taht. The Ape An was a type of periodic time. And
the time-circle or cauldron is the symbol of ―the Goddess Awn.‖
It the ―ardent Goddess,‖ the ―ardent Awn,‖ the inspiring Muse whose
cauldron is also said to be warmed by the breath of nine damsels.
Un (Eg.) is the hour, the repeating period, like An. Un personified
is the Goddess of Periodicity, or the Hours, as is Awn the ardent
Goddess.
The sum and substance of the earliest science or inspiration was the
teaching concerning time and repetition of periods. Awn was the
revealer; Un means to show, reveal. Awn burst open the cauldron
that divided into two halves. Un is the opener of the circle. Hence
it is now claimed that the Druidic goddess Awn, or of the Awn,
is identical in nature with Un and the lunar An.
Noë and Eseye are two divinities celebrated by the Druids as pre-
siding over and being worshipped in the vast temple of Stonehenge,
called the ―great stone fence of their common sanctuary.‖1 They are
representatives of the genitrix Kêd, whose seat was in Stone-
henge. The Great Mother, as we shall see, divides into two other
characters called the Two Divine Sisters, who personify the Two
Truths, the two heavens, or Heaven and Earth, the two principles
called Breath and Water. One form of the Two Sisters in Egypt is
Hes (Isis) and Neft (Nephthys). Hes is the cow-headed goddess,
the seat, and Hes signifies liquid, hence the vase ideograph. Nef
means breath. Hes or As are two readings of her hieroglyphic.
Eseye being identified with As, Hest Iusaas, or Isis, Noë is one
with Nef.
Nef means breath and the sailor of the waters. Nawa in Javanese
is breath. Neff in Cornish is heaven above, the place of breath. Isis
represented the lower heaven and the waters; Neft, the heaven above
the horizon, in the total circle imaged by Stonehenge.
Hes, the seat, equates with the goddess of the hind quarter, and
Hes (Isis), the cow-headed, was compounded with Ta-Urt, the bearer,
in Hes-tareth. Eseye was our Isis in her seat at Stonhenge, and
H SA is also an Irish name of the Great Bear.
Nor was Stonehenge the only sanctuary in these islands of Noë
and Eseye. In Strathmore there was an extensive Druidic ground,
in which numerous monuments have been found. There is a place
named Eassie, and a large circular mound, about a mile from the old
church of Eassie, and in the ―united parish of Eassie and Nevay‖2
we have the names of the two goddesses, united as at Stonehenge,
whilst in the form or Nevay we recover the F modified in Noë. But
we must go a little further round.
1 Gododin, Song 15.
2 Stuart, Sculpt. Stones of Scotland, pp. 90, 91.
There is, says Herodotus,1 a large city called Chemmis, situate in
the Thebaic district, near Neapolis, in which there is a quadrangular
temple, dedicated to Perseus, the son of Danæ. In this enclosure is
a temple, and in it is placed a statue of Perseus. The Chemmites
affirm that Perseus has often appeared to them on earth and frequently
within the temple, and that a sandal worn by him is sometimes found
which is two cubits in length, and that after its appearance all Egypt
flourishes; which is delightful when interpreted. Chemmis means
the shrine (Khem) of birth and the child. Thebes also has the same
meaning. It was the Ap, Apt, or Aft, the quadrangular enclosure
and place of birth. Perseus is the appearing star or child, from Per
(Eg.), to appear, show, explain; and Siu, star, a divine son. His re-
appearance was astronomical. Two cubits are equal to Mati, the
Two Truths. Mati is a pair of feet, the pair of feet found on the
stones, and the Egyptians were telling Herodotus of the reappearing
star in the place of the Two Truths and dual foot in Mat (Mati) or
An, the solar birthplace.
The chief corner of this quadrangular enclosure was at the place
of the spring equinox, in Apta, called the corner or end of the
world; that is, the place of completion. Here we find a temple
within a quadrangular enclosurer and are enabled to see that it
represented the reappearing son of the mother within her temple or
Aft of the four corners; and this was in Chemmis, the shrine of birth.
We find the Egyptian Khi, one of the four supports of heaven, in
Gyvylchi, and in the account of the temple at Dwy-Gyvylchi, given in
Gibson‘s Camden,2 we are told that the most remarkable monument
in all Snowden, called ―Y Meini Hirion,‖ within lhe parish of
Dwy-Gyvylchi, is a circular entrenchment about twenty-six yards in
diameter, on the outside whereof are certain rude stone pillars, of
which about twelve are now standing, some tw yards and others five
feet high, and these are again encompassed with a stone wall. It
stands upon the plain mountain, as soon as we come to the height,
having much even ground about it; and not far from it there are
three other large stones pitched on end, in a triangular form. The
triangle with Meini Hirion thus formed square, a quadrangular
relic of the quadrangular Kaer of the genitrix and her son, who
were Kêd, and Prydhain, or Ior, the appearing youth. The four
corners are the four Khi, the four supports of heaven. This enables
us to restore the sanctuary in its dual form, and to understand the
meaning of the double figure. The quadrangular Kaer represented
the maternal abode, the Aft or Fet of the primary four quarters.
Within or near this four-square enclosure was the temple of twelve
stones, which number identifies the twelve solar signs, the temple of
the young sun-god, whose statue, as Perseus, was placed in the inner
enclosure at Chemmis. The sanctum sanctorum of Stonehenge
1 B. ii. 91. 2 Col. 805.
was oviform, as were the Adyta of those temples where the fire
for ever blazed,because this figure was female, the circle within the
circle, the womb.
The Jewish cult was so emphatically feminine in its origin that
they sacredly preserved this ovoid form of the circle. Says Rabbi
Simon, son of Gamaliel, ―When the rent is round it is forbidden,
when it is lengthwise it is allowed.‖1 That is, when it was the oval
shape of the hieroglyphic Ru, the emaning mouth of birth. This
was the type of the holy of holies, where stood the statue of the
child. ―Beloved of the Adytum, come to Kha,‖ say the two divine
sisters in their invocation to the child Horus. The Kha is the
type of the uterus.
In the ―Song of Cuhelyn,‖ the inclosed temple at Stonehenge is
called the ―precinct of Ior,‖ ―in the fair quadrangular area of the
great sanctuary of the dominion.‖2 The god Ior is our Perseus and
Horus. Ior, says Davies, became a title of the supreme God, but is
―borrowed from the British mythology, where it seems to have meant
the sun, moving within his orbit or circle.‖3 The orbit is identified
by the twelve pillars of Gyvylchi. Ior is the British Har, the solar
divinity, who was the son of the mother before the fatherhood was
embodied in Ra. At Stonehenge, then, we Had the quadrangular
inclosure and the youthful sun-god Ior united with Noë and Eseye,
whom we identify as the two divine sisters of Har (Horus) in the
well-known Triad of Horus, Isis and Nephthys; whilst the double
nature of Horus as the elder and younger Har is manifested by
Ior, who is the renewed and glorified form of Keridwen‘s recovered
son Avagddu, the child of darkness, who was transformed into the
radiant lord of light.
In the Osirian mythos Isis, the great mother, has two chiIdren,
Har the elder and Har the younger. The elder is born deformed,
and maimed in his lower members. Plutarch describes him as the
cripple deity, who was begotten in the dark. He dies prematurely,
or rather he transforms into the second Har. The elder Har is
portrayed finger to the mouth, and named Hor-pi-Khart. Khart is
the Egyptian word for silence. Hence the Greek Harpocrates was
designated the God of Silence. In the astronomical allegory the
child Horus was the mystical Word; the second Horns is called Ma-
Kheru, the True Word, or the Word made Truth. This is effected
when the Silent One is united with him who is the True Voice, and
Horus is ―transformed into his soul from his two halves.‖4 The
meaning will be made apparent, but for the present this much is
stated on purpose to show that the Druids had the same myth.
Keridwen bears a deformed first son, who is hideous to behold,
whose misfortune is the grief of his mother. The name of this
1 Mishna, t. xi. ch. ii. 2 Davies, p. 313.
3 Ibid. p. 315. 4 Rit. ch. xvii.
child, Avagddu, is said to mean ―black accumulation,‖1 and we learn
that no change could occur for the relief of both until a certain time
appointed, which was set forth as the annual boiling of Keridwen‘s
vessel; then came the change, the ―Correcting God‖ formed the
child anew under another name, which indicated the one bursting
forth with radiancy. This transformation implies the transition from
the elder Horus, the dumb and deformed child of Isis, to the younger
Horus, the true light of the world.
There is an Irish word, ―Pocrat,‖ signifying. according to Vallancy,
―lame in the foot.‖ Po-krat is usually read the child. But Plutarch
says he was maimed or lame in his lower rnembers, and here in Irish
is ―pocrat‖ for lame in the foot. Vallancy knew nothing of Egyptian.
We have the ―Crut‖ also in English, as the dwarf and the puny
child. P-crut is the Crut or Khart, the elder Horos.
In the British Mythology we have a character named Gwion the Little.
The Welsh Gwion is the Irish G AN , the little one, the diminutive.
Gwion is said to be the son of Gwreang, the Herald of Llanvair, the
fane of the lady. Gwreang the Herald identifies the impersonation
with the Word, or Logos. The Lunar Herald, or Word, is Taht, who
is associated with Khunsu, the Victorious Child, or brave boy in the
Moon mythos. Gwion was stationed in Caer Emiawn, the City of
the Just, in Powys, the land of rest, by Keridwen, to superintend the
preparation of the cauldron which boiled for a year and a day to
produce the Water of Inspiration and Sciences intended for her son.
Three drops only could be obtained. About the end of the time
these very three drops chanced to fly out of the vessel, splash the
finger of Gwion the Little, and burn him so that he put his finger
into his mouth. As soon as he did so, his eyes were opened and
all futurity was present to his view. The cauldron divided into
two halves, and Gwion the Little fled in mortal fear of the angry
goddess, who pursued hEm and eventually caught and swallowed
him.2
We may well suspect that Gwion the Little is not only a form of
Khunsu, but that his name throws a light on the meaning of Khunsu‘s
name. Khun is depicted with the infantine lock of Harpocrates, the
child Horus, and Khunsu as the Child (Su) is Khun the little. Gwion,
son of the herald, corresponds to Khunsu, the boy-representative of
the moon. Khunsu is depicted as the time-reckoner, holding the
palm-branch of the panegyrics, and marking the years with a stylus.
And the cauldron of Keridwen attended by Gwion, which divided at
the end of the year, or at the place of the equinox, represented the
time-cycle kept by Keridwen. The drops of the water of life were
emblematic of the knowledge whereby future events could be known,
that was, astronomical knowledge which afforded real ground for
1 Davies, Myth, pp. 190, 203, 263.
2 Hanes Taliesin. Davies, Myth. p. 213.
prophecy. Gwion was stationed in Powys, the land of rest, for the
preparation of the cauldron. And one title of Khunsu is Nefer-Hept,
the Child, or Prince of Peace. Khunsu is stationed in the zodiac of
Denderah, in the sign of the Fishes, figured with the pig and full
moon, which is the full moon of our Easter, the sign of the solar
resurrection, and the point of renewal for another year. In the Welsh
legend the myth is physiological as well, for when Keridwen pursues,
catches, and swallows Gwion, he is again born of her at the end of
nine months. Khunsu is a form of the elder of the two brothers of
mythology, and, as such, is a Har-pi-Kart, who is represented with
finger pointing to his mouth as the symbol ol the mystic Word.
Gwion the Little was represented in the same manner, only he put
his finger in his mouthr whereupon his eyes were opened, or his
tranformation came.1 Khunsu is a luni-solar form of the son, and
Gwion the Little likewise transforms into the solar hero. ―I have,‖
says the Initiate, ―been for the space of nine months in the belly of
Keridwen. I was formerly Gwion the Little; henceforth I am
Taliesin.‖2 Taliesin, or radiant front, is a title of the sun. This is
the luni-solar transformation of Khunsu.
Gwion the Little is identical with the Gaelic Con, the son of
Cruachan, and hero of a hundred tales, who wields the sword of
light against the giants in the underworld of the dead,3 and who
is thus related to the Egyptian Khun, the slayer of the giants
according to Macrobius;4 the vanquisher of the proud rebels in the
Book of the Dead.6 Khunsu, the bringer-up of the orb of light from
the world of the dead, is figured as Con, who gathers the gold down
among the dead, and ascends with it in the giant‘s creel. Con-al, or
Khun-ar, is the exact equivalent of Khun-su, the brave boy. But to
recover the allegory from the Gaelic tales is somewhat like trying to
spoon out the sparks of sunshine from its reflections in the water.
Nevertheless, it is shining there. For instance, in the Tale of the
Fine, where Fionn and his heroes are in the house with seven doors,
and they sit altogether on the one side to breathe, and the king and
people of Danan sit on the other; ―Yonder side of the house be theirs,
and this side ours;‖ the house is the double solar house, the house of
Osiris, with the Seven Halls in the Ritual. Fionn and his men are
the celestial heroes, the Danan are the people of earth. Ta-nan
(Eg.) is the type of earth. The ensuing battle is that of Horus and
Typhon, who is the black dog of the people of Danan. Fionn
slaying the Danan seven by seven with the jawbone of the boar is the
same solar or luni-solar hero as Samson slaying the Philistines with
the jawbone of an ass. The deadliest battle of Fionn, when he set
his back to the rock on the ―longest night that came, or will come,‖
1 Hanes Taliesin. 2 Welsh Arch. p. 19.
3 Campbell, West Highland Tales, No. 7.
4 Saturnalia, i. 20. 5 Ch. 83.
was the struggle of the sun with the dark power on the longest night
of the year.1
The common Irish form of Conal‘s name in O‘Connel, and
O‘Conner adds the word Ner (Eg.), meaning victory. Thus Conner
is the victorious Con. Con, as Khun-su, will account for the Gaelic
tradition that Coner lived at the time of the Crucifixion. Khun was
the king of the crossing, the determiner of the very moment at full
moon. It is possible that the stone of the ball in Conor Mac-Nessa‘s
brain may have been derived from the full-moon borne on the head of
Khun-su. The legend relates that when he observed the darkness on
the day of the Crucifixion, and was told by the seer that the ―Inno-
cent One‖ was then suffering, he got so excited that the ball flew out
of his head and he died. In this version of the myth, Conal is desig-
nated Conor Mac-Nessa. Nessa appears in Irish legends as the
widow with her son Conal; she is said to marry Feargus Mac-Roy,
but is as likely to be entirely mythical as Conor who earned the ball
in his brain. The only object of introducing the name of Nessa
here is to point out that it is an Egyptian feminine name. Nesa
means ―her,‖ and a daughter of Khu-en-Aten2 was named Nesa.
Prydhain was a name and character of Hu, the sun-god, the youthful
character into which the solar divinity transformed every spring.
The same is found in all the mythologies. In the Mabinogii he is
called the son of Aedd the Great; that is of Aeddon, a name of Hu.
He also interchanges names with Beli as the solar son. The young
god appears in the British fragments as lord of the seven provinces
of Dyved in Annwn the Deep.
These seven provinces answer to the Seven Halls in the house of
Osiris in which the young solar god is annually rebornm and from
which he emanates. Pwyll also proceeds from the seven provinces and
the high place of reappearing in Arberth and from Diarwya, called by
Davies the ―solemn preparation of the egg.‖ The egg was a symbol
of the circle, and this Diarwya looks very like the Egyptian Teruu,
the circumference, a name of Sesennu and a form of number eight
the expression of the Seven—whether of the Great Bear or planetary
Seven—as in the person of Taht. Pwyll or Per read by Egyptian
means coming forth, manifestation. With the terminal t this is
Pert, to appear, emanate, proceed. Thus Per and Pert, our Pwyll and
Pryd, meet in one meaning. Hain (Eg.) is the youth; Prydhain, the
appearing, emanating, manifesting youth, or the young solar god of
various names. Hu is the God of Corn, and the son and corn (seed)
are synonymous. Per is corn, grain, the seed. Pert, the corn or food
appearing; Hain, the young. Prydhain is the young seed or corn of
Hu who reappeared at the time of the vernal equinox. We have
Pryd personified as Corn.
1 Campbell, Tales of theWest Highlands, No. 29.
2 Amenhept iv.
Martin speaks of a custom in the Western Islands,1 observed on
the second day of February, in which the mistress and servants of
each house take a sheaf of oats and dress it up in woman‘s clothes,
put it in a large basket, and lay a wooden club beside it. This they
call Briid‘s Bed. Then the mistress and maids cry three times,
―Briid is come; Briid is welcome.‖ This is done just before going to
bed, and on rising in the morning, they look among the ashes to see if
the impression of Briid‘s Club is visible there; if so, it is a presage of
a good harvest and general prosperity. Briid and Pryd or Prydhain
are identical, and from Pryd, through Briid the corn, comes our name
for bread. The son of Hu, whose name means corn, was the bread of
life in person, and Pert in Egyptian is the food made of corn. Briid
or Prydbain was the earlier Christ, and when the new theology was
adopted in these islands, Briid‘s bed was made for Christ. It was, as
already related, the custom at Tenby, in Wales, for young persons to
meet together on Good Friday to ―make Christ;s Bed.‖ This was
done by gathering the long reed-leaves from the river and weaving
them into the shape of a man. The image was then laid on a
wooden cross left in a retired part of some garden or field.2
But the son of the great mother is a star-god at first; the solar
imagery is latest: one form of the genitrix and son is that of the
Bitch Baal and the Dog Baal, the Baali or Baalim of the Hebrews,
and Sut-Typhon of Egypt. The dog wbo accompanies Isis, and is
said to be born of Nephthys, is the Dog-star, Bar-Sutekh or Sut-
Anubis, the Sabean Son. This divinity reappears in Britain as
Cunobelinus, whose name is found on the British coins or amulets.
This was the title of a famous prince in the reigns of Augustus and
Tiberius, said to have been the father of Caractacus. By his title he is
assimilated to the Cynvelyn of the Bards. That is Baal or Belin with
the style of Cun, or Cyn, which we identify with the dog as in the
Cynocephalus. In the hieroglyphics a headless dog is a Khen, a
conductor without exterior vision, therefore a type of interior per-
ception, hence the name given to the Kenners. The priests of Kêd
are designated dogs, and she is the bitch. They represented her
son. The Cynvelyn of Helvelyn, of Belin‘s gate, and of the Druids, is
the Dog Baal, in the diminutive form of Belin or Velyn. This form,
like that of Sutekh and Saturn, determined the god as the child,
the little one who was the son of the mother in the Sabean Cult.
Saturn was the planetary type of the male Sut-Anubis of the Dog-
star, and in the dialogue between Ugnach and Taliesin we read:
―Seven blazing fires will counteract seven battles: the seventh is
Cynvelyn, in the front of the mount,‖ Skene renders ―Cynvelyn the
seventh in every foremost place.‖3 The seven are the planets, of
which the seventh is Saturn. Therefore Cynvelyn is identified with
1 P. 119. 2 Mason‘s Tales and Traditions of Tenby, p. 19.
3 Battle of Ardderyd, Skene, ii. 368.

Sut in the form of Saturn, and is one with the Egyptian Bar-Sutekh,
the Sabean Baal.
Sut was the great warrior-god; the dog of battles. And in the
Talisman of Cunobeline the Dog Baal plays the part of Bar-Sutekh.
―Cunobeline, the indignant; the lofty leader of wrath, pamperer of the
birds of prey, and that divine allurer Dirreith, of equal rank with
Morien, shall go under the thighs of the liberal warriors. In equal
pace shall the GwyIlion proceed with the benign blessing. Amongst
the splendid acquisitions of the mystic lore, the most majestic is the
Talisman of Cunobeline. It is the shield of the festival, with which
the man of fortitude repels the affiiction of his country.‖1 In this
Cunobeline is coupled with Dirreith, who has been shown to be the
great Mother Ta-urt, or Rerit. These are the Sabean Mother and Son
as Goddess of the Great Bear and the Dog of Sothis, the first-born son
of heaven. Now it appears to me that the mythical Arthur is
primarily a form of Cynvelyn, the dog of battle.
Arth is the ancient British name of the Great Bear, and this con-
stellation was associated with Arthur. Arth corresponds to Urt, the
goddess of the Bear, and we may derive Arthur, the son of Urt or
Arth, in one of two ways, Ar-t-ur (Eg.) as son of the old mother, or
Arth-ar, the old mothers son. He must have been the solar son in
the later myth of the Round Table with the twelve seats for the twelve
companions. There is an Egyptian Artaur, rendered by Maspero the
flames of God. But the first son of the gcnitrix was Sabean, not
solar; Sut-Har (Ar) of the Dog-star, Sut-Anubis, the earliest form
of Hermes, the heaven-born.
The Vervain plant was used by the Druids in casting lots and fore-
telling events. It was gathered without being looked on by the sun
or moon at the rise of the Dog-star. In digging it up the
left hand alone was to be used, and when dug up, it was waved
aloft. Leaves, stalks, and roots were dried separately and in the
shade.2 This serves to connect the plant of prophecy with the
Egyptian Star of Annunciation, the Dog-star, the son of the great
mother, who appears to have been reproduced as Arthur, the son of
Arth or Ta-Urt. Arthur, son of the Great Bear, is the equivalent
of Sut-Hat of the Dog-star, which leads me to condude that
Arthur was the Sabean son before he became the solar representative.
The parents of Arthur are the Great Dragon and Eigyr. The Great
Dragon is Typhon, the old genitrix.
The British Arthur is primarily represented with the Seven in the
Ark who are the only ones that escape from the Deluge in the
circle of Caer Sidi. Sidi corresponds to Suti (Sebti, Sothis, the
Dog-star, Sut). A poem of Taliesin‘s called Preiddeu Annwn, the
―Spoils of the Deep,‖ contains this Arkite imagery. In the house of
Osiris there are seven halls and seven staircases. These seven came
1 Davies. 2 Davies, Myth. p. 276.
to signify the circles and pathways of the seven planets, but the first
seven in mythology are not the planetary seven, they are the seven
companions in the constellation of the Bear. These are the seven
Rishis of India, the seven Hohgates of the Californian Indians, the
seven sons of Sydik in Phœnicia. They appear to be the seven com-
panions of Arthur of whom the bard sings in their escape from seven
different Kaers, ―Thrice the number that would have filled Prydwen
we entered into the deep; excepting seven, none have returned from
Caer Sidi.‖ The subject matter of this mystical representation is
the escape of Arthur and the seven companions from the Deluge
based on the time and circle-keeping of Arthur‘s Star, and seven
other stars. Now if Arthur were here considered a solar god, there
would be one too many for the seven planetary gods, therefore the
seven are those of the Bear, Arthur‘s constellation, and Arthur is
identical with Sydik, the Egyptian Sutekh of the Dog-star.
Again, the Talisman of Cunobeline is a shield, and it is in Arthur‘s
shield Prydwen that he and his seven companions escaped from the
Waters, or the so-called Deluge. Prydwen, the Lady of the esta-
blished order of things, is a form of the Ark, which also contains
eight persons in the Hebrew mythos.
Arthel is a British word, written Arddel in Welsh, to avouch, prove,
justify; a similar meaning to that of Makheru, a title of Horus. At
Exmoor the number eight is called Art; eighteen is Arteen. Art-
har is Har the prince or lord of the eight, the manifester of the seven.
This, however, belongs to an earlier myth than that of the eight great
gods of Egypt, in which Taht was the manifester of the seven. Arthur
was the eighth to the seven Kabiri of the Great Bear, the manifester
of the seven, or the son of the sevenfold constellation, considered as
the great mother.
Arthen (Welsh) is the bear‘s cub. Arth-al is to growl as the
bear. Al interchanges with Ar, as the voice, speech, faculty of
speech, and Arth-ar is the speech or utterance of the Bear. This is
the doctrinal word or Logos. So An (Anup), the Anush, is the
speech, the announcer of the year of the Bear. Ar (Eg.) is the earlier
Har, from Khar, the speech, to speak, be the Word, the son and Word
being identical. Arthar is thus the Word as son of Arth the Bear.
Arthur, in his first estate, then, we hold to have been the Sabean
Mercury, son of the goddess of the Great Bear, and identical with
Sydik and Sutekh, who was continued in Egypt as Sut-Har, god of
the sun and Sirius-cycle, known as the Negro Sut-Nahsi and Sut
Nubti, a Sabean-solar combination to be found in other mythologies,
in which a star-god of fire becomes a sun-god.
The series of astronomical legends or myths found on the Assyrian
tablets is known to consist of twelve in number, one for each sign of
the zodiac. In the ―Fight between Bel .and the Dragon,‖ in which
appears the sword that turns and flames all round the circle, wielded by
the hand of Bel against the Dragon, when the battle is over, it is said
―the eleven tribes poured in in great multitudes, coming to see the
fallen monster.‖ Evidently the twelve signs were said to be peopled.
These correspond to the twelve tribes of Israel, and to the twelve
labours of Hercules; the conflict occurs in the twelfth sign, and
the people of the other eleven rush in to see the result. The
twelfth sign is the last of the old year, and the fight of Bel with
the dragon is the same conflict as the battle between Horus and
the evil Typhon, the earlier Akhekh—serpent, griphon, or dragon.
This battle occurred annually, and specially just before the time of
the vernal equinox, and is called ―the day of contending of the lion-
gods,‖ ―the day of the battle between Horus and Sut, when Sut puts
forth the ropes against Horus.‖1 The contention, being equinoctial,
is represented as under the lion gods who kept the level on the
horizon, whilst the light and darkness contended in the balance,
and each pulled at the ropes of eitherscale. This befongs to mytho-
logy in the latest stage, the solar. Most of the Assyrian matter yet
recovered relates to this later stage, although we do get glimpses of
earlier things submerged in Akkad. These twelve representations in
the twelve signs, the present writer considers to be akin to the twelve
battles assigned to Arthur by Nennius (50), the twelfth being a ―most
severe battle, when Arthur penetrated to the Hill of Badon,‖ or, as we
interpret it, to the Bed of Tydain, Tiotan, or Tethin, the solar god,
who was reborn in the hill.
Cæsar affirms that the Britons chiefly worshipped the god Mercury;
of him they have many images, him they consider as the inventor of
all arts, as the guide of ways and journeys, and as possessing the
greatest power for obtaining money and merchandise. But we have
to reckon with two forms of Mercury; the Sabean and the lunar.
Sut was the first form of Mercury; Sut-Anubis is the guide of ways.
Taht is the second. This is acknowledged in the Ritual,2 where we
read Taht formerly, or otherwise Sut, when Taht had superseded Sut
as the Word, announcer, and reckoner of the gods.
The deity Gwydion has been considered the same character as
Mercury, the son of Jove and Hermes, the councillor of Kronus.3 He
is called Gwydion ap Don; Don being the father of the gods. There
is an Egyptian divinity, Tann, both female and male, a type of the
earth. Gwydion, the son of Don, they say, by his exquisite art charmed
forth a woman composed of flowers, and early did he conduct to the
right side as he wated a protecting rampart, the bold curves and the
virtues of the various folds; and he formed a steed upon the springing
plants, with ―illustrious trappings.‖4 Or, as Skene renders it, ―Gwy-
dyon-ap-Don of toiling spirits, enchanted a woman from blossoms, and
brought pigs from the South. Since he had no sheltering cots, rapid
curves and plaited chains, he made the forms of horses from the
1 Rit. ch. xvii. 2 Ch. xliv. 3 Davies, p. 264. 4 Davies, Myth. pp. 263, 264.
springing plants and illustrious saddles.‖1 It was Lleu and Gwydion
wh ―changed the form of the elementary trees and sedges.‖ 2 The
elementary tree belonged to the ten primary Ystorrynau of Kêd.
These were the earliest branches of the ―Kat‖ (Eg.), tree of know-
ledge. They were so old that Taliesin in the ―Battle of the Trees,‖
(Cad Godeu) says, ―The mountains have become crooked; the woods
have become a kiln, formerly existing in the seas (like bog-oak or a
geological stratum), since was heard the shout,‖ the triadic ―Beam,‖
or Cyfriu sign. ―The tops of the birch,‖ he continues, ―covered us
with leaves, and transformed us and changed our faded state.‖
In this poem of the trees, ―the head of the line‖ is described as a
female who issued forth altogether alone, and the birch was a. much
later arrival. Probably the birch, Bedwin, the male emblcm, refers
to the change in the elementary trees made by Gwydion, and the
introduction of the masculine type of the creative power.
But, says the old goddess (or her poet for her), ―when the chairs are
judged, mine will be the most excelling; my chair, my cauldron, and
my laws, and my pervading eloquence meet for the chair.‖ 3
At the time of the mythological deluge, we learn from a poem by
Taliesin, that in the living Gwydion there was a resource of counsel,
and when ―Aeddon came from the land of Gwydion into Sëon of the
strong door,‖ then Gwydion advised him to ―impress the front of his
shield with a prevailing form, a form irresistable.‖4 By this means the
―mighty combination of his chosen rank was not overwhelmed‖ when
―Math and Eunydd set the elements at large,‖ which is described as
producing a deluge. Gwydion is credited with devising means for
saving what Bryant and Davies call ―the Patriarch and his family,‖
when the deluge is about to burst forth and overwhelm the world.
This he accomplished by forming the ―bold curves,‖ and the ―virtues
of the various folds,‖ and making a ―protecting rampart,‖ the shape
of a shield or of a circular pattern, a form irresistible. A mode
of meeting the coming flood, whkh is elsewhere figured as building
an ark.
Now in the Egyptian Ritual Taht says he built the ark. ―I am
the great workman who made the ark of Socharis on the stocks.‖5 We
shall see the gist of this when we come to the Deluge and the Ark.
Gwydion then is here identified with Taht in character as the ark-
builder. Taht was the Word, the manifester of the gods, lord of letters
or types. The companion given to Gwydion as inventor of an
alphabet of sixteen letters is named Lleu, and in the hieroglyphics the
Ru is the reed pen, the paint, and the written word of the scribe; the
Ru sign accompanying Taht as writer and the lord of letters. Both
pen and papyrus were made from the reed.
1 Skene, ii. 296. 2 Skene, ii. 275.
3 Chair of Keridwen, Skene, vol. ii. p. 297.

4 Davies, Myth. 263-4. 5 Ch. i.
Amongst the plants referred to more particularly was the Elestron,
the water-liIy or flag-flower, the lotus of the Druids. This answered
to the papyrus sceptre, the Uat held in the hand of the Egyptian
goddesses. The woman composed or flowers is called the rainbow,
that is Iris, and the flag-flower is the Iris. Thus, the woman enchanted
from blossoms identified by the Iris leads us to see a personification
of the reed as the instrument of the written letters invented by
Gwydion in Britain and by Taht in Egypt.
The Uat or papyrus sceptre is identical by name with the goddess of
the north, Uat, the earlier Kheft, our Kêd. And this goddess of the
papyrus reed is replaced by Sefekh as mistress of the writings and
consort of Taht. Sefekh reads number seven, which identifies her
primarily with the seven stars and with the seven colours of the
rainbow, or Iris. It was for this goddess of the rainbow, the Seven
colours, that Gwydion formed the horse (or horses) on which she was
to ride forth as mistress of the writings or as the feminine Word.
The order of mythological sequence is first the Sabean, next the
lunar, and lastly the solar. We know the lunar zodiac preceded the
solar, and just as Taht claims to have made it or built the Ark,
so Gwydion is credited with instructing the solar god how to meet
the coming flood of destruction. The eagle of Gwydion takes the
place of the ibis of Taht. Thus far Gwydion appears to represent
Taht, and the inventor of symbols and memorial types answers to the
lord of letters and scribe of the gods.
There is a god on the Monuments, however, named Khetu, of whom
little is known. He is called a god of things, it may be of types, as
Khet is the seal-ring; it may be of letters as the temple-scribe or hiero-
grammat is a Rekhi-khet. Whether a god or only a title, the name
supplies a root for Kadmus, the reputed inventer of letters. Khet,
Shet, and Set are synonymous in many meanings, and this Khet would
seem to be a form of Sut-Anubis, the earliest, the Sabean Mercury.
The name of Sut has an earlier form in Khut. Khut is the goer-
round, the circle-maker. Khut is a modified form of Kheft (Kêd),
the goer-round, as the Great Bear. The first goer-round, as her son,
was Sut or Khut, the Dog-star, who bears her name in the modified
form. Khuti means the traveller round, the maker of the circuit, the
particular god of the Britons. The name was continued in Egypt as
that of Har-Khuti, god of the two horizons, who, it will be main-
tained, was a Sabean Har-Suti before the solar-god, Har-Makhu,
assumed the title. And this hard form of Suti is found in the name
of Gwydion. Hence, it is argued, he derives from Khut or Sut the
Sabean Mercury, who preceded Taht as the scribe of the gods, and
that, as in Egypt, the lunar god eclipsed the older star god. But
the obscurity of the matter on the Monuments doubles the difficulty
with the British mythology. Still, the sixteen letters appear to
identify Kadmus, Woden, and Beli, each of whom is credited with
introducing that number of types, runes, or letters, into his particular
country, and Beli is identical with Bar or Sut, whose name in the
earlier form would be Khut, the god of things, and who corresponds
to Cæsar‘s description of the British Mercury, the inventor, the guide
of ways, and deity of commerce, with the same passing into the lunar
Taht that we find in Egypt. Another link. Sut or Sebt deposits
the god Seb, whose type is the goose, which in Welsh is the Gwydd.
The Welsh Gwydd and Gwyddion, the teachers, sages, seers, men of
letters, derive their name from this god of letters. The first written
signs, with the Druids, were cut. Khet, in Egyptian, means to cut
and imprint, or to seal. Gwyd, in Welsh, signifies the wood
that was cut, the letters that were cut, the sage who cut the letters,
and the manifestation of knowledge by means of the letters. Gwyd
was the whole science of letters. The names are countless that come
from this root, Khut, to cut, imprint, type, snow, or reveal, from which
the earliest sacred words were caned Ghetas in Sanskrit and Gathas
in Zend; Cuth, in English, to be taught, instructed; Kith, knowledge;
Guth, Irish, speech; the Gwyddion, who made known; the Godi, or
Hofgodi, of Norway, chieftains who in olden time were at once
pontiff, judge, and godi, god of the hof or temple in one,1 doubtless
identical as religious rulers with the Druidic Gwyddion, the followers
of Gwydion. Archagetas was, according to Pausanias, a name of
Æsculapius, signifying the primeval divinity. It was the arch-
Khutu, who came from Egypt on various routes. The C ADEU -ceus
of Hermes was in name and nature a type of Khet, to shut and seal,
found to be Egyptian. Lastly, God is the same word as Khut,
although it does not retain a single primal element. Khut (Eg.)
means a spirit traceable to fermentation. But the earliest Khut or
god was the maker and reproducer of a circle, the goer-round in a
circle, the opener of the circle. Hence Ptah and Sut are the openers.
The two aspects were those of opening and closing, and here the god
is one with the cutte or cleaver. To cut is to open; to open is to
reveal; the primordial god is the opener, and the axe sign is the
hieroglyphic of divinity, the type of the cutter, a primitive expression
for manifesting and making known. Kêd (English) is to make known,
whence ―UN - KED ,‖ a word used to describe the horror of the un-
known. Thus, when letters or other signs were cut, the cutter was
Khetu, Kadmus, or Gwydion. Behind the god is the goddess Kêd,
and so the god is secondary. Kêd was Khept, the feminine of
Khep, to figure forth, form, and typify.
It is certain that we have Sut, the god of the Dog-star and the
inundation in the British Pantheon.2 Seithenhin, the diminutive of
Sut, has been called the son of Saidi; but is rather Saidi, who is the
son. Seithenhin and Saidi resolve into one and the same character.
1 Mallet‘s N. Ant. Bohn‘s ed. p. 289.
2 Welsh Arch. vol. ii. pp. 4 and 26. Davies, p. 198.
Seithenhin or Saidi, the son, has the style of Kadeiriath, the language
of the chair. This title rendered in other words is the Word of the
genitrix, who was represented by and as the seat or chair; the Word
(announcer) who preceded That, the lunar form of the manifester in
Egypt as Sut-Anubis or Bar-Sutekh.
Plutarch had heard that about Britain there were many small and
desolate islands, and that in one of these the ancient Saturn was
detained a prisoner fast asleep in chains. Saturn was the Egyptian
Sut, who went out of Egypt in remote times, and was afterwards
deposed within it
Seithwedd is a name implying his sevenfold nature, or having
seven courses, which relates Sut to the constellation of seven stars in
Ursa Major. Sut, as Sothis, the dog, watched the waters of the
inundation, and announced the coming overflow. Han (Eg.) denotes
the Bringer of the Waters.
The Welsh Triads preserve the tradition of Sut (Seithwedd or
Seithenhin), who was pla.cedin charge over the waters of the
deluge, and who upon a certain time was intoxicated, and whilst in
liquor let in the inundation over the world, and drowned a district.
Seithenhin, sometimes called the son of Seithin, is designated the
drunkard. In the ―graves (or cities) of the Kymry‖ one of them
is designated the grave of the ―weak-minded Seithenhin.‖ From
Seithenhin-Sut has been derived the Saint Swithin of the Christian
calendar. In him Satan has become a saint. Swithin is called the
―Drunken Saint,‖ which identifies him with Seithin the drunkard.
Also Swithin‘s Day, our July 15th, is nearly coincident with the inun-
dation of the Nile, proclaimed by Sut; and if it rains on that day, says
tradition, it will continue to do so during forty days. This belongs to
mythology, not to meteorology, for, according to the observations
at Greenwichl, for the twenty years preceding 1861, the greatest
number of wet days after St. Swithin‘s day occurred in the years
when the 15th of July was dry. The Christian story which tells
how it rained for that length of time on the death of St. Swithin, in
the year 865, and prevented the monks of Winchester from removing
his body from the churchyard, where he wished to lie, into the choir
on the 15th July has been exploded by Mr. Earle, 1 who shows that
the weather was most fair and propitious at the time. Further, when
it rains on Swithin‘s Day, the drunken saint is said to be christening
his apples. And in the Egyptian zodiac the dog Sothis is stationed
in the tree constellation. This tree was the vine in some planispheres;
in others the apple-tree on which grew the golden apples in Avallon.
Swithin, the drunken saint, is none other than Seithenhin, the
drunkard, of the mythos, and the forty days‘ flow of rain is connected
with the overflow of the Nile conducted by Sothis or Sut.
The producer of the inundation became in other skies a meteoro-
1 Saxon MS. published by Rev. John Earle, Prof. of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford.
logical prophecy, and so this was transformed into a rainy saint. In
old calendars St. Margaret‘s Day, the 20th of July, was the one on
which it is said ―all come to church that are or hope to be with child
that year,‖1 and the 20th of July was New Year‘s Day in Egypt, the
day of the inundation announced by Sut, and the overflow of the
river which poured its fertility into the lap of Egypt. The 20th of
July was considered to be the first of the dog-days in England, and
in Egypt it was the first day in the year of the dog. St. Margaret
reminds one of her more familiar names of Peg and Page, the same
as that of the goddess Pekh, the lioness.
The British Nav and Irish Nevvy is not necessarily the god Khnum
of Thebes. Still the name of that deity is found as Knufi,2 and he
became the Gnostic Knuphis. Khnum is lord of the inundation, and
Nef means the sailor. Khnum is represented by the bearded he-goat,
and Nef is a name for an old goat. This figure of Nef, the old goat
found in the Western Isles of Scotland, survived to a late time, as
the deity exhibited for worship at the Witches‘ Sabbath, the last
flickering shadow of the ancient mysteries. In the examination of
the French witches whose confessions are elaborately recorded by
De Lancre, we find the deity or devil ofren appeared in the form
of a bearded goat, at other times as a serpent, and the serpent and
goat constitute the biune form of Knum or Nef. The pitcher is a
hieroglyphic of this god; with this his name is written. And at the
Sabbath the goat issued out of a vast pitcher set in the midst, and
began to swell and swell and grow monstrous by inflation until it was
fearful to behold. Nevi, in the African Wolof language, means to
swell and swell. Evidently this was the god of breath, or Nef, por-
trayed in a dramatic representation of the breathing source, one male
type of which was the goat. At the end of the Sabbath the inflated
form subsided and returned again into the pitcher. This is a rendering
of the nature of Nef, primitively perfect, identiffiably Egyptian by
four hieroglyphics, the goat, the breathing, the serpent, and the water
jar. It is a masquerade of Egyptian imagery, in which Nef, the
lord of breath and dominator of the water, manifests in his serpent-
crowned ideograph of the goat as the image of inflation or breathing
life. Marie d‘Aspilecute of Handaye deposed that, when she was
initiated and introduced to the goat-deity, she had to kiss him on the
hinder face, this being the face of a black man, and hidden under a
great tail. Khnef was a form of Af, the black sun of the lower
regions called the hinder part. The posterior face had not the power
of speech, and thus corresponds to the dumb Har-pi-Khart of the
dual Horus. Sometimes the deity manifested as something between
a tree and a man. This is akin to our Green man and the Jack in
the Green, who is the hieroglyphic of leafy life on May Day.
1 Cited by Grainger, Biog. Hist. of England, iii. 54.
2 Pierret, Knufi.
Khnef is pictured on the Monuments as the Green God. At other
times the witnesses saw him shaped as a great man enveloped in a
cloudiness or a smoke, flambuoyant and red-faced, like iron coming
out of a furnace. The sun of the underworld was also the Red Sun
and the god of fire. Nefer is the ―heat emitted from the mouth of
Sekhet,‖ the goddess of fire, a feminine form of divinity.
Neb also signifies gold, golden, to gild; and the great pulpit in
which the old goat Nef sat enthroned was gorgeous with gilt, and
as they all agreed, glittered very pompously. So the tinsel pageantry
of Jack consists of gilding as well as green. This identifies Nef, if
not Khnum, on the continent. In celebrating the Egyptian mysteries
or the Eleusiniæ in Egypt, Sharpe tells us that ―within the temple
the hierophant wore the dress and mask of Khneph; the crier, the
mask of Taht; the priest of the altar, the emblem of the moon, whilst
another with the dress of Ra carried a torch.‖1 De Lancre drew a
picture from descriptions given by the worshippers, which shows
the Triad of the Two Sisters and the Male-God as in the Triad of
Isis, Nephthys, and Horus.
Ard-Macha is the ancient sacred name or the city of Armagh in
many Irish documents, some of great antiquity.2 The oldest of these
is the Book of Armagh, known to have been transcribed about the
year 807; in this the name is translated by Altitudo Machæ, which
determines the meaning to be the height of Macha. Ard for height
is found in 200 Irish names, and this is the Egyptian Arrt or Ert
for the steps, staircase, or ascent. The tract called Dinnsenchas
in the Book of Lecan professes to give the origin of the name as being
derived from some wonderful woman of the name of Macha.
From other sources we learn that Macha, the first of three of that
name, came into Ireland as the wife of Nevvy, who led a colony into
Ireland 600 years after the deluge. Mythologically interpreted, this
suffices to identify Nevvy with the Nav of the Welsh and the Nef
who in Egypt is the sailor and lord of the deluge. There is a goddess
on the Monuments of unknown office and relationship whom Wilkin-
son met with but once and copied. 3 He read her name Makha or
Makht. Dr. Birch reads it Menka. It reads both ways according
as the first is taken for an ideographic Men or phonetic M. The
goddess is really the wet-nurse Menâ or Menka, as is shown by the
two vases held forth in her hands in place of the two breasts or
the woman suckling. She typifies the water of life, or one of the two
factors. Breath or Nef is the other, and Menka or Maka appears
in Ireland as the consort of Nevvy. Makh abrades into Mah or Meh,
still the wet-nurse as mother, who is called Meh-urt, the meek fulfiller.
Mah signifies to be full, complete, covercd, filled, satisfaction, also
1 Egyptian Mythology, p. 80.
2 Joyce, Origin and History of Irish Names and Places, first series, p. 77.
3 Pl. 70, 4.
the number nine connected with gestation, and Mah modifies into Mâ,
the goddess of the Two Truths, which are typified by the two vases of
Menka (Maka). So that there are three of that name in Egypt
—Menka, Mah and Mâ, and the Irish Macha was the first of three
of that name in Ireland.
The three, however, may merely mean the Triad or the Great
Mother, who becomes the Two Sisters. This was Hathor of the
Spotted Cow, who is called the Golden Hathor, and the chief, the
second, of the three Machas is known as the Golden-haired Macha.
The Irish Macha is the older form of Meh, Mehi, Maya, and May,
recovered from the Montuments as Maka or Menka, the wet-nurse.
Macha answers to Meh, a form of Hathor, whose type is the Cow.
Hathor or Athor, the habitation and wet-nurse of the child, is extant
with us as name of the womb, and she is represented in Ireland by
her own cow, that still rises up from the waters in many legends, as
did the cow Athor to receive the sun when setting in her own region
of the west.
The Irish antiquaries have been cajoled, by writers who, like the
author of Rude Stone Monuments, explain everything by means of
―the Danes,‖ and who no sooner come upon a window that opens
into a farther past than down they pull the blind, assuring you there
is nothing to see.
Dr. Joice supposes the name of the Hill of Howth to be Danish, a
form of the word Hoved, or head. But these names go thousands
of years deeper than any Danish deposit
The ancient Irish name of the ground was ―S EAN -mhagh-EALTA -
Edair,‖ rendered the old plain of the flocks of Edair, Edair being
the Hill of Howth. The tradition is that the first leader of a colony,
Partalon, took up his residence with his followers on this plain.
Now the names of Edair and Howth may possibly identify the Hill
of Hathor or Macha. The Irish Mhagh for plain corresponds to the
Egyptian Makha, the level, the scales, the place of the equinox,
where Hathor is represented by the cow‘s head in the Egyptian
planisphere close to the Scales. 1 ―Shen-Makha‖ is Egyptian for
this level in the orbit of the twin heavens; the flock of Hathor was
a herd of seven cows. Wilkinson says this goddess at times wore a
peculiar headdress of a hawk, a perch, and an ostrich feather, which
denotes that the Lady of Hut is then in the character of the
president of the western mountain. ―Lady of Hut‖ was her title
at Thebes.2 This is the Hut for height, the Howth we are in
search of, and the Hill of Howth is Edair-Hut, the Western
Mountain of the Cow-headed Athor. The ―hut‖ has many forms,
a seat, throne, boat, table, shrine, all of which have been found
on our hills and heights. H OWTH is a form of H OVED , but that
means more than a headland. In Egyptian Hut is modified from
Khut, and Khut from Kheft. Kheft is a goddess of the west, the
1 Drummond, pl. 3. 2 Wilk. 2nd series, vol. i. p. 391.
lady of that country. Hathor as Lady of Hut is the earlier Lady of
Kheft, as the solar west. The Hill of Howth or Hoved implies the
Kheft-name of the West, and this form abrades into the ―Hib‖ of
Hibernia and the ―Ib‖ of Iberia.
Edar, the Irish name of Howth, is connected by tradition with a
female named Edar, said to be the wife of Gann, one of the five
Firbolg brothers who divided the land between them.
Ben Edar would be their own mountain of the west to the emigrants
as they sailed into the sunset, the Mountain of Hut and of Hathor.
There is a tradition of a colony dwelling on the Mhagh of Edair
that perished of the plague.1 In Hebrew Makkeh (hKm) is the plague
or plagues) and in Egyptian Makha-ka is the desert, the desolate
land. Outside Eblana there is a small island called ―Edri Deserta‖
on the map, and Edrou Hēremos in the Greek text of Ptolemy, that
is, the Desert of Edyros or Edair. Edair connects this with Makha
(Mhagh), and suggests that the people who perished of the plague in
the desert were mythological, and so helps to identify the imagery.
In a papyrus quoted by Champollion it is said of Hathor in her
two characters, ―She is called Neith in the east country and Mâ
in the Lotus and the water of the West;‖2 that is, as goddess of
the equinoxes. Makha is the name of the equinox or level, and the
earlier name of Mâ. Hathor the Golden, whose statues were often
gilded, is the lady of the two doors of entrance and egress for the
sun. She was the ―Goddess of the Lovely Face,‖ of mirth, music,
and the dance; the Venus of Egypt.
The following old lines are sung of the English Hathor, who is the
Irish Macha:—
―Sing, reign of fair maid,
With gold upon her toe—
Open you the west door,
And let the old year go.
Sign, reign of fair maid,
With gold upon her chin—
Open you the east door
And let the new year in.‖
Hathor was also designated ―Daughter of the Water;‖ her Iute
was strung with sun beams, and her cows were seven in number.
This lute—of seven strings—may be represented in another lilt of song,
which was formerly sung by the children in South Wales, carrying
a jug full of water newly drawn from the well on New Year‘s
morning:—
― Here we bring the water
From the well so clear,
For to worship God with
This happy New Year.
Sing levez dew, sing levez dew,
The water and the wine;
The seven bright gold wires,
And the bugles they do shine.‖3
1 Joyce, 1st series, p. 161. 2 Wilk. Mat. Hierog.
3 Choice Notes, pp. 66, 67.

It has now been shown that the Britons worshipped the Great
Mother Kêd, who was the Egyptian Kheft (or Taurt) and identical
with Kubele. In her lunar form she was the horned Astarte, our
Hathor. In her character of Keridwen, the ancient mother was
the British Goddess of Wisdom. Gwydion, the Sabean son, is the
British Mercury, the Sut-Taht or Hermanubis of the Egyptians.
Arthur we parallel with Sut-Har, the Sun-and-Sirius of the Druidic
cycle of thirty years, which was the Egyptian Sut-Heb.
The Sun-God Hu is the Solar Hu of the Monuments, called a
Son or Tum. His name of Aeddon identities him with Aten, the
son of the mother who became Atum as the divine Father, the Jupiter
of the Romans; Atum being Ra in his first sovereignty as the father
of the gods and in the dual form, Horus of both horizons, whence the
Iu-Pater. Hu retained the character of the son as Aeddon, or
Prydhain, the youthful Son of God, corresponding to Tum as Nefer-
hept or Iu-em-hept the Son, who comes with peace, the Apollo known
to Cæsar.
Pwyll is the Druidic Mars, and Pwyll and Pryderi have been paral-
leled with Shu, the Egyptian Lion-God in his two characters. Hercules
we have identified with Khunsu, as Gwion and Con; the two children
of Kêd with the double Horus, and sufficiently shown what Cæsar
meant when he said the Great God of the Druids was Mercury, and
that after him they also worshipped Apollo, Mars, Jupiter, and
Minerva. But there were things in the British mythology indefinitely
older than the Roman cult, as known to Cæsar.
When we have collected and correlated the legendary lore of many
nations, and can read the symbols in their primal significance, and
reconstruct the myths, we shall find at the head of all, the mythical
divinities of Egypt as the oldest things extant; that is, these per-
sonifications embody the earliest configurations of human thought,
and are proveably of Egyptian origin, and traceable in other lands by
their nature and in many instances by name. Words will help us
much, but the divinities more. Through them we can get down to
firm standing ground on the Old Red Sandstone of the pre-eval world,
the primordial pavement of the past on which the footprints of anti-
quity are fossilized; through them we can get back to the primitive
types which culminated in deities, and the dumb symbols of early
expression that have been exalted to the status of religious doctrines
and revealed dogmas, and prove that these types, the fossilized
footprints of the past, are neither Roman, nor Greek, nor Hindu, nor
Semitic, but identifiab1y Egyptian.
SECTION IX.
EGYPTIAN PLACE-NAMES AND THE RECORD OF THE STONES .
SOME consciousness of the sacred significance of certain words seems

to have yet lingered livingly in the mind of the people of the Western
Islands of Scotland when Martin visited them nearly two centuries
since. In St. Kilda they had common and sacred words for the same
things. They held it absolutely unlawful, he says, to call the island by
its proper Irish name of ―HIRT,‖ but only designated it the ―High
Country.‖ St. Kilda is the farthest west of the Scottish Isles; in
this, Conachan, the highest point, is 1,450 feet above the sea.
In Egyptian the word ―hert‖ means the high country. Hert is
height, above, over, the name for heaven, and either they did not
know that ―Hirt‖ was the proper name of the high country, or this
was their mode of preserving the fact that it signified the high
country, and so they kept the old name as too hallowed for common
use, this being one of the most effective means of preserving the
mental impress.
Hert, as the height, the upper land of England, would seem to have
given the name to Hertfordshire, for it is the summit of the land.
The Grand Junction Canal reaches its summit in Hertfordshire, and
descends both ways for Middlesex and ―the Shires.‖ This is the
highest of the counties south called by the name of shires, so that it
is the Hert, the land above, in a double sense; highest in altitude
and by name as the upper boundary of the shires. ―Scarce one
county in England,‖ says Camden, ―can show more footsteps of
antiquity‖ than Hertfordshire. The highest hill in the country is
named Kensworth, and Worth answers to Hert (Eg.), the highest
or uppermost, as an inclosure.
The shore, Martin remarks, which in their language is expressed
by ―Claddach,‖ must be called ―Vah.‖ FA, in Egyptian, denotes
canals or water inclosed, and the ―peh‖ is the hieroglyphic sign of
a water-frontier. Pa is the shore or bank in Maori. These people
were preserving their hieroglyphics; V or F being the earlier form
of the P.
EGYPTIAN PLACE-NAMES AND THE RECORD OF THE STONES. 371
Tep or tef (Eg.) signifies the point of commencement. This enters
into the name of Dover. Tep-ru (Eg.) is the first outlet, gate or port.
Tepru is the Egyptian name of Tabor, the sacred hill, a point of
commencement in the solar allegory. Dover is our outlet and point
of commencement. From Dover starts the great road called Watling
Street; this runs northward on its way through the island. It is
called the Roman road, but Uat is a name of the north in Egyptian;
Uati is goddess of the north. Uat also means distance, the long, long
road, and is determined by three roads arranged lengthwise.1 So inter-
preted, the Watling is the long long north road, and the ling does but
repeat one meaning of Uat, a common mode of compounding English
names.
Uat is both water and way, the water of Nile was the first road in
Egypt. This dual meaning survives in English. Watford (Uatford) is
the Waterford, and Wat is the name for the ford, so that Watford
is the ford of the Uat (water) and the way (Uat) across the water.
The north where the three watersigns are placed was the Uat (wet)
quarter.
To wattle is to intertwine osiers and make wicker-work, and this
WATTLING was an early form of Irish bridge or Uat for crossing over
water. Tiling a roof is still called Watling.
The naming of the Isle of Thanet is a curious relic of Egyptian.
It is not an island in the ordinary sense, not an isle of the sea,
but is insulated by the aid of the river Stour forming two branches,
which separate Thanet from the rest of Kent. A thousand years
ago the arms of the Stour formed a channel three or four miles in
width, named the Wantsume.2 TNAT means divided in two, cut
off, insulated, the river containing the boundary line and land-mark
of the division called Thanet.
Our word Gate is the Egyptian Khet, which, in relation to the water,
is a ford, port, or harbour; Khet, a port, to navigate, go, stop, be in-
closed. This supplies the water-gate as in Margate and Ramsgate.
Mer (Eg.) is the sea and also a land-limit, the boundary of a region on
the water. Mer-gate (Margate) is the gate at the limit of Thanet at
the north-east extremity of the isle. Ruim or Ruym3 is an ancient
British name of Thanet. Ramsgate is the gate of Ruim. Ru (Eg.)
is an outlet, water-way. I MA or I M is the sea. R UIM is the mouth
or outlet to the sea. The gate in Ramsgate is a repetition of the
Ru in Ruim; according to the reduplicative mode of compounding
the later names, Ramsgate, the sea-gate of Thanet, is already expressed
by the ancient name of Ruim or Ruima. There is a park in Thanet
named Q UEX Park, still famous for its coursing. K HEKH (Eg.) means
to chase, follow, hunt. The Q UEX family are probably named as the
Hunters. Theirs is a very ancient seat.
1 Prise, Mon. Egypt, 15. 2 Encycl. Brit. 8th ed., art. ―Kent.‖
3 Nennius, Hist. 31.

Deal, rendered by Ter (Eg.), is an extreme limit of land, a
frontier point. Cæsar writes the name D OLA . In ―Domesday‖ it is
called Addelam. The corresponding Egyptian is Atr-am, or Atr-ma.
Atr is the land-limit, and this modifies into Ter (Deal) am (Eg.),
belonging to, also the place of, as in the ham of hamlet. Ultima
Thule, the northernmost point known to the Romans, the Thuly of
Drayton, the Isle of Thyle (Thylens-el, a name of Shetland), we may
derive from Teru (Eg.), a measure of land, the extreme limit of the
land, the frontier and boundary. This underlies the Gothic TIULE ,
the most remote land, and the Greek T ELOS , the end; TRO , Cornish,
circuit, turn; TORA , Irish, border or boundary; TARA - TARA , Maori,
palings. D HAL and TYREE are also found at the extreme end of
―the Lewis.‖ Dunnet Head, the Caledonian promotory mentioned by
Richard of Circencester as the extreme northern point of Great Britian,
has that meaning in TUN (Eg.), to complete, fill up, determine; and
Net, the limit, or end of all.
Ban or Ben (Eg.) means to cap, to tip; the Ben is the extreme
point, as the roof; the Ben was a pyramidion; with us it is a moun-
tain. F adds the pronoun It. Ban-f, the extreme point applied to
land, describes the promontory or jutting point of Banff. Near Banff
is Gamrie Bay. Ka (Eg.) is the lofty, up-lifted earth, the high place,
headland, and M ERI denotes the limit of both land and sea. On the
other side of Gamrie Bay is C ROVIE Head. Kherf (Eg.) means to steer,
and paddle; and this was the headland by which the deep-sea fishers
who left the shell-mounds of Banffshire had to steer or paddle in
coming in . Out to sea stands TROUP Head, the home and haunt of
multitudes of sea-fowl; ―all the birds in the world‖ are said to come
there. In Egyptian T ERP is a name of ducks and waterfowl, and
also means food. Thus, this breeding place of the Terp (in America
a particular kind of duck is the terapin) is designated in Egyptian as
the place of the ducks and food.
The fowlers of Rutlandshire formerly celebrated St. Tibba‘s Day
with great rejoicings. Tibba was their especial patroness. Camden
mentions the town of Rihall as particularly addicted to this worship;
the passage in which he describes this was ordered to be expunged
from his Britannia, by the Index Expurgatorius, when the book was
printed by Louis Sanchez at Madrid in 1612.1
Teb is the Egyptian name of waterfowl; the duck and goose are
called Teb, Tef, and Ap. Ap or Af (with the article) denotes the
first (Tep and Tef) born of; the duck, goose, and swan were types
of the genitrix, who, as the old great mother, was personified as Tep
or Typhon, the bringer forth from the waters. Typhon was made a
1 The passage runs thus:—―Rihall, ubi cum majores nostros ita facinasset super-
stitio, ut deorum multitudine Deum verum propemodum sustulissit, Tibba minorum

gentium diva, quasi Diana ab aucupibus utique rei accipitrariæ præses colebatur.‖
—Brit. Lond. ed. 1590, p. 419.
saint in Tebba, but the fowlers of Rihall had the pre-Christian form
of the lady, and the expurgators knew it.
Ru is another name of the waterfowl, and Rui (Eg.) means mud,
marsh, and reeds, hence, perhaps, the name of Rihall.
Caithness is assumed to derive its name from the Catti, of whom
Tacitus writes. The NEss is of course equivalent to the nose, or
jutting, but we have no such expression as nose of land. In the
hieroglyphics the Nes is a tongue, and we have the expression, a tongue
of land for the jutting. Moreover, at the base of this NESS, the tongue
is still preserved in the town and the Kyle of TONGUE . Hence the
Ness is probably the Egyptian tongue. Caithness may be the abraded
form of Kheftness, Kêdness, the tongue of Kêd. Kheft is the north,
the kind quarter to the north. Kheftness is the northern tongue of
the land. This meaning of the north (Kheft, Caith) is corroborated
by the south land lying next to it in Sutherlandshire. Sut, or Suten,
is the Egyptian south, and the south of Sut (Dog-star) and the north
(Kheft) were the two halves of the total land. In Egyptian Khata is
the end of land, and the unabraded Khap-ta is the northern end,
the Caithness of Egypt. In an ancient poem of the Irish Nennius,
―From the region of Cait to Forcu‖ is synonymous with from north
to south. Cait is Caithness, and Forcu the Forth. Caith or Saith also
signifies number seven, corresponding to the Egyptian Seb-ti, Hepti,
or Khepti, for seven, and Kheft (Kêd) was goddess of the seven stars
of the north.
Kaer Gybi (Holyhead) stands on an island at the western extremity
of the county of Anglesea. The Kebi were the four genii of the four
corners, the watchers over the sarcophagus or the four cardinal points.
The Kaf or Hapi was the dog-headed watcher of the road east and
west. The especial point of the west in connected with the goddess
Khaft, as lady of the west. Khef or Khep (Eg.) means to look,
watch, watching, and in Ireland the hill of watching, which preceded
and survives the watch-tower, is called a C OVADE, Covet, or Kivet
as in Mully Kivet, Fermanagh. Look-out points, says Dr. Joice, 1
intended for places of watching, to guard against surprise, are usually
designated by the word Coimhead, pronounced C OVADE. The title
is generally applied to hills which overlook a wide expanse, and Kaer-
Gybi is the inclosure of watching, or the watch-tower. On the mount
of Gybi, 700 feet high, are the remains of a circular watch-tower, and
on the sides of the mountain traces of extensive British fortifications.
The Island of Sark, says Pomponius, was greatly celebrated on
account of the Gallic god.2 Sarkh or Serkh is in Egyptian the temple,
palace, and shrine. This in the parent language gives the name to the
island, as the palace of the shrine and oracle of the god mentioned
by the Roman writer. Also the island divinity is recognized as
continental. Serkh, an Egyptian goddess, was a form of Isis-Sothis.
1 Irish Names, p. 206. 2 De Situ Orbis, lib. iii. cap. vi.
The Islet of Staff is named in Egyptian from the action of the
water on the rock. Stu is to excavate, to make; F A , channels. Stafu
signifies to melt down, with the determinative of water; a twofold
description of Staffa. S TAVE, in English, is to break, throw, crumble
down. S CART is the name of one of the caves, and Skar-t in
Egyptian is to be cut, cut out, cut piecemeal. Skart may be read as
a picture carved, from Skar, to cut and picture.
Opposite Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, there is a cave called the ―Cave
of CALDI,‖ containing some marvellous chambers and passages under-
ground, one of which is now designated the ―Fairy Chamber.‖ The
equivalent, Karti (Eg.), denotes holes, passages, and prisons under-
ground, and as the word also relates to running waters, it may have
included the stalactite grotto or cave, as at Caldi.
Some caverns in the chalk beds of Little Thurrock, Essex, are
called C UNOBELIN ‘ S G OLD M INES , from the local tradition that Cuno-
belin hid his gold in them. They are sometimes called D ANE-holes,
and of course the Danes are brought in, and these are claimed to have
been their lurking-places. There is a very deep D ANE-hole in the
chalk near Tring, Herts, locally called ―Dannel‘s hole.‖ Cuno-Belin‘s
gold was also stored in the chalk of the Dunstable Downs. It is
known at Totternhoe as the Giant‘s Money, which you are supposed
to hear ring if you stamp on the ground. Also Money-bury Hill is
a part of the chalk range at Ashridge.
This hidden money is known by the name of Crow Gold, one
form of which consists of nodular balls of iron pyrites, radiated within,
which are frequently found in the white chalk without flint, that is, the
mass of soft and pulverulent limestone of this formation.
The earliest gold of mythology is fire. The names afterwards
applied to gold as a product of fire were given first to fire itself.
The early man, be it remembered, had to mine for fire as diligently
as the later dig for gold.
The Egyptian P UR , to manifest, come forth, emanate, appear, is
the same word as the Greek name of fire or p à r. Pliny says fire
was first struck out of flint by Pyrodes, the sons of Cilix (i.e. Silex),
and the name of the iron pyrites used with flakes of flint for striking
fire points to this origin of fire or Pur.
Among the African names for fire and the sun are the Biafada,
F URU , fire; Pepel, B URO , fire; Mose, B URUM , fire; Dselana, B UROM ,
fire; Galla, B ERRU , splendour, glory; Kise-Kise, A FURA , hot;
Okuloma, O FERE, heat; Mende, F URO , the sun; Gbese, F URO , sun;
Toma, F URO , sun; Bini, U FORE, sun. In Arabic, A FR is sultry, and
B IRAH is the sun; in Sanskrit, V IRA is fire, and P ERU the sun; B REO ,
Gaelic, a fire; V ER , Garo, fire; V UUR , Dutch, fire. The fullest form
of the word is extand in the Maori K APURA , for fire. This modifies
into the Egyptian and Hebrew A FR (rwa), and Afr into the Welsh
A UR for gold. Gold and fire are identified by name in A UR and
A FR , Afr being first. From Aur comes ore. The first ore sought
for was not gold, but the iron pyrites, which, when struck against
the flint, yielded the precious element of fire. These were found with
the flints in the chalks of our downs. The flint manufactories, as
at Cissbury, must have also produced the equivalent of the ―steel‖
for striking fire in some form of the iron pyrites. The Eskimos, at
the present day, obtain fire by striking a shard of flint against a
piece of iron pyrites. Iron was first extracted from the stone in the
shape of fire, long before it was smelted. One name of these iron
stones is C ROW . An iron bar is still a crow-bar. There is a poor
kind of coal called C ROW - COAL , which does for furnace-fuel, but is
of an inferior kind. Crow means inferior, and is therefore the same
as Karu (Eg.), the lower of two; and crow-gold is inferior gold, not
the true gold. The crow stone, then, is a fire stone; and the fire stones
found in the chalk contained Cuno-Belin‘s gold, i.e. fire. The name
of fire as Tan or Tek-n has already been traced to an origin in the
spark, this being emphatically the fire of Baal.
Another English name for the iron pyrites is Mundic. M UN
(Eg.) is stone; T EK is the spark; and as Mundic is the equiva-
lent of Muntek, the pyrites is thus named as the spark-stone, the
stone of Baal, son of Kar-tek, the old spark-holder of the north.
Some of the West Australian tribes still say they derived fire from
the north.1 As already said, an earlier form of T EKA , the spark, is
shown by the Bushman T‘ JIH or T‘ KIH , for fire, the T of which is a
click, and the ―JIH ‖ or ―KIH ‖ reaches its antecedent in the Swahili
C HECHI , a spark, and K OKA , to set on fire with sparks; K IAOKA ,
Mantshu Tartar, for a fire made with sparks and dry leaves; C HIK ,
Uraon, fire; K AGH , Persian, fire; Q ACO , Fijian, burnt; and English
C OKE.
Belin is the little Baal, the child Baal, who in Egypt was Bar-Sut.
The name of Sut means fire and limestone, the firestone that fer-
mented. Sut-Nub is both fire and gold. And this identity of
fire and gold may be found in the god Sut-Nub, whose name includes
both. Cuno-Belin was our Sut-Nub, god of the sun and Sirius
combined, and the limestone (Sut) contained the ore, aur, afr, per, or
fire, in the iron pyrites called Crow-gold, Cuno-Belin‘s gold, and the
Giant‘s money. Fire, then, was Cuno-Belin‘s gold. This was hidden
in the chalk as Crow-gold, that is, fire-gold, in search of which
the chalk of Dunstable Downs was undermined for miles together,
and at one time the Dunstable people, who dwelt a considerable
distance apart could visit each other‘s houses by passing underground.
As the firestones were obtained from the chalk, it follows that the
word D ANE is the TEIN or TIN for fire. Baal-tein signifies the fire of
Baal, and Cuno-Belin‘s gold is Baal-tein. Tin also means money,
1 Angas, Savage Life, vol. i. p. 112.

and both the gold and the money were hidden in the Tin-hole or
Dane-hole.
The name of Sut, earlier Sebti, contains Seb, No. 5, and ti, No. 2,
and is a form of No. 7, found also in Hepti. At Lambourne, in
Berks, there are tumuli at a place known as ―S TRIKE - A -L IGHT,
S EVEN B ARROWS .‖ 1 How the old names cling! Sut, the fire-god,
our Cuno-Belin, was the embalmer of the dead. His name of
Sutekh also means to embalm, and to lie hidden as did the dead in
the Barrows, where the fire-and-flint stones were often dug out to
strike a light, and replaced by the bodies of the dead.
Kent‘s Cave or Hole has been called the Bone Cave from the quantity
of bones found in it. 2 And if such a place had been named in
Egyptian, it would be as the Ken-Kar, or, with the article suffixed,
Kent-Kar, signifying a hole underground, having some relation to
bone. Ken (Kent) is bone; Kar, the hole, beneath. K EN also means
carving in ivory or bone. The K EN is the carving tool, the B URIN , as
well as the cartouche in which the name is inscribed. The Kent is
the man of the Ken, the sculptor, or literally the scraper. Kenti would
be a plural form. In the Stele C, 14, of the Louvre, Iritisen calls
himself a Kent, or sculptor. Ur-Kent, the chief sculptor, occurs in
another text. 3 It may therefore be conjectured that Kent‘s Cave
was the workshop of the bone-carvers, hence the bone implements
discovered there, the bone awl, bodkin, and harpoon, which had been
shaped by the rudest flint tools; the philological evidence shows
the naming to be Egyptian, and the Kent-Cave, in English Kent‘s
Cave, buried like a ten-thousand-years-older Pompeii, when opened
up, reveals the earliest workers in stone and bone, ministering to the
simplest human needs as Egyptians. Kent‘s Cave is in the parish of
Tor, whence Torbay. T ERU (Eg.) means to work, fabricate, decorate,
ornament, and the TERU implement is also the Ken of the carvers.
Later, Teru is the name for portraying in colours with the scribe‘s
palette, when the artists who had carved in bone became the men
who drew in colours. The word teru enters into the name of Druid,
who was doubtless the figurer of other things besides the time-cycles.
The Bone age is the necessary complement of the Stone age; the
bone supplied the book for the pen of stone. Stone and bone were
the first implements of registering, the primeval K EN of the Kenners,
who wrought in the Ken (cave and sanctuary) before temples of
learning were built or books were made to bear that name.
The first men of Kent‘s Hole were Palæolithic. They could not
polish stones, but, as may be seen from extant specimens of their
work, they attained great excellence in the art of drawing. In the
Cresswell Cave the figure of a horse ―delicately incised on a fragment
2 Kent’s Cavern: its Testimony to the Antiquity of Man. Pengelly.
3 Maspero, Tr. Soc. Bib. Arch. vol. v. p.t ii. p. 557.
of rib is the first trace of the art of design in this country.‖1 But the
faculty must have been developed in a high degree among the cave-
men of France, where they left their drawings of the Reindeer and
whale, their hunting scenes incised on antlers, and, in one instance, the
mammoth engraved on ivory.
In the Deruthy Cave,2 near Sorde, in the Western Pyrenees, a neck-
lace was found, formed of the teeth of lions and bears, and on the
teeth were drawings of the seal and pike, also a pair of gloves.
Altogether there were no less than forty teeth variously engraved.
The cavemen cut their pictures on bone, antler, stone, and ivory. 3
Considering that their graving tools were only flakes of flint, th
execution of their figures is marvellous. Strangely enough, their art
of drawing, engraving, and sculpturing, was indefinitely superior to that
of the later Neolithic age. And yet not so strange when we remember
that this was the one especial art of the cavemen, of which the Eskimos,
Kaffirs, and Hottentots have furnished such remarkable specimens.
The Cave of the Carvers, the Kennu or Kenti, found at Deruthy, is
near S ORDE, and in Egyptian S URT or S RT means to carve, engrave,
and sculpture; which suggests that Sorde was named as the seat of
the sculptors, carvers, and engravers, whose buried work has been
found in the Deruthy cave. The word S URT is determined by the
K EN graving tool, the sign of bone and ivory.
Tradition tells of the bloody rites of the Druids enacted in gloomy
groves. The hallowed grove of the Keltæ was called a Nemet,
whence probably the name of Nymet Rowland in Devon. The
sacred character assigned to the secluded Nemet is found in Nemet
(Eg.), the retreat. The Egyptian Nemet is also the place of execu-
tion, the name of the gallows and the block. This throws a light on
the dark recesses of the Druidic Nemet, where, no doubt, they put
their criminals to death. The Nemet (Eg.), as shown by the Nam
symbols, was the scene of judgment and execution. A form of the
judge is yet extant in the Nompere, later Umpire. In Gaul the
Nemetum had become a temple, but the caves and sacred groves
were the earlier temples.
Buchan, in his Annals of Peterhead,4 describes a vast stone, thirty-
seven feet in circumference and twenty-seven feet across, which was still
in the ―Den of Boddam‖ or Bodun, in the year 1819. Both names
are Egyptian. ―Batun‖ means the bad, the criminal, the malefactor;
whilst But-tem signifies the execution, cutting to pieces of the But,
the criminal, hateful, evil, infamous, and abominably bad. The Den
of Bodun was probably the dungeon of the malefactors; the Stone of
Boddam, the block of their execution.
It was in the Links of Skail that the beetles were found in the stone
2 Explored in 1874 by MM. L. Lartet and Chaplain Duparc. Matériaux, 1874.
3 Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, figs. 75, 76, 82, 84. 4 P. 44.
coffin of one of the ancient barrows. The name of Skail is identical
with that of the Island of the Written-Rocks in the Cataract near
Khartoom, just where the land of the Inundation begins. Skul (Eg.)
denotes not only writing but instruction, counsel, design, picturing,
and planning; from which we may fairly infer that S KAIL was a
seat of learning named in the most ancient tongue. The root S EKHA
(Eg.) means to memorize and remember.
The Cornish G UIRRIMEARS are supposed to have been miracle
plays. G UIRIMIR , according to Lhwyd, is a corruption of Guari-
mirkle, a miracle play. The word ―Guary‖ is found in English.
― Thys ys on of Britayne layes,
That was used by olde dayes,
Men called Playn Garye.‖1
But Lhwyd does not go deep enough, to say nothing of the inevit-
able ―corruption.‖
Guare, in Cornish, means a play, gware in Welsh, guary in English,
and in Egyptian Kher means speech and to speak. But the play
was enacted on spacious downs and natural theatres of immense
capacity, which were encompassed round with earthen banks and in
some places with stone-work. These places, it is now claimed, were
the Mirs or Nears. The Mer or Mera (Eg.) is an inclosure of land or
water. The Water-Mer is extant in the Mere. The Mer is also a circle,
and the Guiri-mir or Kheri-mer is the inclosure or circle where the
speeches were made and the play was performed. The size of the
Mears shows they were at times beyond speech, hence G UARE means
a game, and Kher (Eg.) is also a picture, a representation, that which
was acted, the acting drama being earliest. For the Mir is our
moor, and in Kirriemuir we probably have the Guirimir by name
extant also as a place.
The so-called Anglo-Saxon and German Worth, for an inclosure,
is called a test-word, showing the Teutonic settlements. But the
Garth, Garter, Garten, and Garden are equally the inclosure. The
original of all is the Kart (Eg.), an orbit or circle, that is, the Kar or
Caer with the article suffixed. The Kart is the Russian Grod and
Polish Grod, a burgh. The modified Hert (Eg.) was the name of the
inclosure as a park or paradise. We have it as large as a county in
Hertfordshire, and small as the tiny cup of the Elae or blue berry.
This is called the whortle-berry, that is, the inclosed berry. But
another form of its name is the H ERT. In Hertfordshire it is known
as the bilberry-hert. Thus we have the Wort and Hert in one. Did
the Teutons also carry the Hert into Egypt, together with its earlier
form in Kart? The fact is simply that the thing Kart, Garth, Hert,
and Worth existed; the W is a later letter, and the later sounds
were applied to the earlier names of places.
1 Emaré, 1032.
The Egyptian Kart had to do double duty. The terminal T may
denote two, and one Kar (Kart) is the lower; the other, the upper, is
the Har (Hert), and the Hert becomes the Art, the ascent, the steep,
the height. Kart is downward, and Hert is above. This Hert or
Art becomes the Ard, of which there are 200 in Ireland, as the upper
place, the height. The Irish Ard is the Welsh Alt, a steep place, and
this becomes the Old, as the Old Man of Coniston and Old Man of Hoy.
The Art (Eg.), Irish Ard, permutes with Ret, the ascent, and this
enters into the ridge or rudge, a back or height. In the Irish Ard, the
height, we have the Mount of the Great Mother Nacha, whose seat
was at Ard-Macha (Armagh), and whose name of Arth is that of the
Great Bcar.
The Inland Wick, represented by the A.-S. Vic, Irish Fich, Mæso-
Gothic Vichs, is with us the homestead, the inclosure of the farm. It
is the place of property, of plenty. Feck means plenty, much, most,
the greatest part. It is the Egyptian Fek, fulness, reward, abundance.
The Fog is a second crop, and the fat of land; allied to the Vic, a
marsh or moist land, where plenty of food was grown for cattle. This
is the Uakh (Eg.), a marsh, a moist meadow-land.
Cattle were an early form of Fekh, Feh, or Fee. Pekau (Eg.) is fruit
or grain. Pekh, as in English, is food. The Fog, Vic, or Wick is the
place of food, and becomes at last the inclosure or homestead where
the produce is stored, it may be as Fech (vetches), Feh, cattle, Fek
(Eg.), the reward, abundance, plenty of food. The Wick is thus
finally the inclosure of the V IC tuals.
The wick as a creek was derived neither from the Norse nor
Saxon Vikings. It is the Uakh (Eg.), an entrance, a road. This Wick
is so essentially a corner that in Northumberland the corners of the
mouth are called Wikes. It is well known that some of our wicks are
places where salt is produced. But these are sometimes far away
from any sea-wick, and the wick as bay has no necessary relation to
the wick as salt-work. Wick is a sediment and the name of a strainer.
The word relates to the salt-making. A dairy is also a Wick in the
same sense, with butter for product instead of salt.
Mr. Taylor‘s suggestion that the name of bay-salt is derived from
the evaporation of sea-water in the bay may be doubted when we
know that Baa (Eg.) means stone, or rock, solid substance; it may be
salt so far as the sign goes, and bay-salt is called rock-salt. Besides
which bay is sure to stand for an earlier form of the word. Bab (Eg.)
means to exhale; Bak or bake is to encrust. Bekh (Eg.) is the rock,
Bakhn being a name of basalt. Also Pakh (Eg.) means the separated;
Maori Paka, the dried.
The Wick takes several forms. The A.-S. Wig is a temple, monas-
tery, or convent; the Gaelic Haigh is a tomb, or grave, like the Quiché
H UACA . The name goes back to the C HECH or stone chest, and K AK
for a church; the KAK (Eg.), a sanctuary; the K HAKHA (Eg), an
altar; C HAKKA , Hindustani, a circle; K HOKHEYE , Circassian, circle;
C OKOCOKO , Fijian, ring of beads; K IGWE , Swahili, string of
beads; K EKEE (Ib.), a bracelet; G IG , Scotch, a charm; gwj (Heb.),
a circle; I GH , Irish, a ring; C OICHE, Irish, mountain; K AWEKA ,
Maori, mountain ridge; E CA , Portuguese, an empty tomb, in honour
of the dead, who are the Egyptian Akh. In Cornish the modified
H AY is a name of the churchyard.
The ―Ton,‖ says the author of Words and Places, is also true
Teutonic, although non-extant in Germany. It is a genuine test-word
to determine the Anglo-Saxon settlements in the isles, where there are
thousands of tons, tuns, and duns, over 600 in Ireland alone, but none
to speak of at home. What an amazing anomaly!
In a paper on the ―Distribution of English Place-Names,‖ read by
Mr. W. R. Browne, he gave a table of the results obtained by examin-
ing 10,492 names in Dugdale's England and Wales. Those ending
in ―T ON ‖ formed nearly one-fourth of the whole, being 2,545 in
number; the Hams came next, 702 in number.
Dr. Leo has computed that in the first two volumes of the Codex
Diplomaticus the proportion of our local names compounded with
tun, as Leighton, Hunstanton, is one-eighth of the whole.1 It is cha-
racteristic of Anglo-Saxon cultivation, he says, that their establish-
ments were inclosures (Tuns). No other German race names its
settlements Tuns. This fact struck Kemble, who observes ―it is very
remarkable that the largest proportion of the names of places among
the Anglo-Saxons should have been formed with this word, while upon
the continent of Europe it is never used for such a purpose.‖
Mr. Coote sees in it another proof of Roman origin. Our tuns, in-
closures, our hedgerows, he affirms, were all Roman. The truth is
that the Tun or Tem marks an earlier stage or stratum of society than
anything extant with the Germans, Angles, or Romans. They did
not possess it, and could not have brought it here. Egyptian will
tell us what the Tun was. It is not necessarily the settlement, and
consequently the arguments of Mr. Coote founded on its being so ar
beside the mark and of non-effect. The Tun was not based on the
Roman limitatio agri and allotment of the land, for it existed
before there was any sense of possession in land that could be in-
closed. In Egyptian the Tun takes divers forms. The Tun is a region,
an elevated seat, a throne. This is extant in our Downs, the high and
still most uninclosed of places. In the so-called ―Danes‘ Graves‖
found on the Yorkshire wolds, where many tumuli are to be seen, the
graves do but repeat the Tun in a plural form, and pervert the old
spelling in the name of the Danes. The downs were the judgment-
seats of the Druids, like the Tynwald Hill of the Manxmen. The Tun
as high place is found on the downs, as are the two Gaddesdens. Tyn-
tagel is the Tun or elevated seat on a rock. Dynas Emrys was a
1 Die Angelsächsischen Ortsnamen.
Druidicial TUN -AS in Snowdon, the lofty seat of the gods. The Zulu
Donga (Tun-ka) is a division or cutting in the land, but with no neces-
sary sense of inclosing a property. One of the most primitive forms
of the Tun was the Cornish Dynas or fort, a simple entrenchment
with stones piled together without cement, and raised some twelve
feet high. The Tun is here the high seat, and As (Eg.) is the house,
chamber, tomb, the secreting place. Hence the Dynas or fort.
So Ab Ithel derives Dinus from D IN and Y SU . The barrows and
burial-places of the dead are found near these forts, as if the first
places of defence were built to protect the dead. To all appearance
the first property claimed in land and right of inclosure was on
behalf of the dead. We have a possible relic of this in the popular
belief that a common right of way may be claimed wherever a corpse
has been carried.
The first Tun as an inclosure of land is the tomb. One hieroglyphic
Tun is the determinative of a tomb, and Tun in this sense means to
be cut off, separated. The T EEN , Chinese, is a grave; THAN is
a shroud; TUNA , Zulu Kaffir, a grave; TANU , New Zealand, to bury;
D UN , French Romance, a sepulchre; D EN , English, grave. The Den
or Tun leads to the Dynas, as the house or general sepulchre of the
dead.
The Down, however, is one type-name for the elevated seat, the high
place, the burial-place, and doubtless in some of these, now swept bare
of all their ancient monuments, there are yet concealed precious
proofs of the prehistoric past. The downs were the high places, and
the reason why the word ―down,‖ came to mean below, is because the
Tun, den, or tomb, represented the under-world, where the dead went
down at whatever height it opened. The tun, ton, or town, as the
inclosure of the living and of property in land, is the final form, not
the first; the Roman, not the Egyptian or Druidic. Tun or ton
is far older than town, hence the reversionary tendency to the older
formation in pronouncing the word town. The ton did not denote a
town when it was the Cornish name of a farmyard.
In English, Scotch, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic, Manx, French Romance,
Biscayan, Lusatian, Old Persian, Chinese, Coptic, Tonquinese,
Phrygian, and other languages, the D UN or TUN is the hill, the
summit found in the Egyptian TUN , the elevated seat. Irish philo-
logists understand the Ton (or Thone) to signify the same as the
Latin Podex, but the seat is primarily feminine and mystical, the
Mons Veneris, the Hes of Isis, the Khep of Khept or Kêd, extant
in the Irish CEIDE or Keady, for the hill as the place of sepulture.
Ten and Tem permute; the Tem (dumb, negative) are the dead,
and the temple is also the house of the dead. So with us the Tun and
Tom are interchangeable as names of the burial-ground. The Tom,
Gaelic, is a grave; Tom, Welsh, a tumulus; Tuaim, Irish, a grave;
Toma, Mantshu Tartar, a tomb for the dead; Toma, Maori, a
place where the dead are laid. The Tema (Eg.) was also a fort, a
place of defence. There is a mound or natural fort near Barcaldine
old castle, known locally as TOM O SSIAN , or Ossian‘s Mound. It is
a habit of the people roundabout to give many grave-mounds the
name of Ossian. In this case it is said to be a place where Ossian
sat, according to a local legend.1 These mounds, being natural forts,
were T EMAU . The word T EM (Eg.) also means to announce and
pronounce. The Tem as the seat of the singer agrees with the plural
Temau (Eg.) for choirs.
Now Ossian was a typical bard, one of the Asi or Hesi, by whom
the announcements of the law were made from the Seat. The As is
this seat of rule and sovereignty; the A S is also a mote or mound
(which was the seat of justice) and the resting-place of the dead.
Thus the Tom is the tumulus ancl the tomb, the seat of sanctity,
defended as a Tem or fort, used also as a mount of justice or a mote.
Another mound named ―TOM - NA - H - AIRE," the mound of watching,
between Dun Cathich and Connel, further identifies the TOM and
the T EM , fort, as the watch tower.
Mr. Taylor describes the syllable ―ing as the most important
element which enters into Anglo-Saxon names.‖2 This is found in
more than one-tenth of the total names of English hamlets and
villages. In such as Tring, Wolting, Barking, it is the suffix merely,
but in Paddington, Islington, Kensington, we have the Ton or seat of
the Ing belonging to the name prefixed.
The Billings, for example, were a royal race doubtless because they
were assimilated to the god Baal; the Thurings are from Thor; the
Sulings, of Sullington, in Suffolk, from Sul-Minerva; the Ceafings,
of Chevington, in Suffolk, the Cofings, of Covington, in Hunts, and
the Jefings, of Jevington, in Suffolk, or of Ivinghoe, Bucks, from the
Kef of Kêd. This is merely by way of illustrating the type-name.
The Ing denotes a body of people founded on sonship, human
or divine. The mother was the primary parent thus derived
from, and afterwards the male. But Kemble‘s theory, that names
ending in ―Ing‖ indicated an original seat of the Angles or English,
is apparently negatived by the almost entire absence of ―Ings‖ in
South Suffolk. 3 One ―Ing‖ of the Angles is an enclosure. We
have it in the far older form of Hank for a body of people con-
federated (Var. d.), identical with Ankh (Eg.), to covenant. To be at
inches with, meaning to be very near together, is an expression be-
longing to the Ing relationship. The Ingle, a parasite, in a depraved
sense, is named from the Ing. Thus we have the Ing as the Hank,
and the Ankh was extant in Egypt not only as the living representative,
1 Angus Smith, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. ix.
1870-71.
2 Words and Places, p. 82, 6th ed.
3 Paper by W. R. Browne on The Distribution of English Places and Names.

the son, but as the body of people belonging to a certain district,
who are designated the Ankh, whilst the topographical inclosure, the
Ing, Eng, Inch, Inis, is as old as the naming of the isle, inclosed by
the waters. Cheddington, for example, is the Tun, the high place,
seat, inclosure of the Ing, which derives its name from Kêd, whose
own Tun, or elevated seat, her throne, was higher still at Gad‘s-den
(Kêd‘s tun).
The Chipping, as in Chipping Norton, Chipping Ongar, Chipping
Barnet, or Chippingham, did not originate in Chapping and Cheapen-
ing. Cheping Hill and Chepstow take us up to the old high places
of Kêd, where we find her cave, cabin, or Kibno, as in the Kibno
Kêd, a form of the Cefn or Cefn Bryn or Cefn Coed. This Cefn is
the Kafn (Eg.), an oven (a symbol of the Llafdig), and the Kabni (Eg.),
a vessel, a ship, which was represented by the boat, the cauldron, and
the divine sanctuary of birth and re-birth. The war-chariot of the
Britons was a Covine.1 This too was a kind of Cefn Kibno, or cabin
of Ked, a type of the bearer, who was called Urt, the chariot. The
Chevin, in Wharfdale, or on the hill near Derby, or the Cheviot Hills,
is not merely the ridge, but the cabin, cave, or Khep—sanctuary on the
height, sometimes found in the hill itself, or in the stone-circle on the
hill. The Cef, or Cev, is the Cornish Coff, womb, and the wife. Now
the Ing community that bears this name are the children who derive
that name from the mother‘s womb, the Coff of Kheft or Kêd, hence
the Chip-ing and the Chevening on the great ridge in North Kent.
The Kippings were still extant by name, not many years ago, in the
neighbourhood of Ivinghoe (Kiv-ing-hoe) and Cheddington.
The Coff being the birthplace, the Coff-ing or Chip-ing is the clan,
confederacy, or Hank, named from the feminine abode. The name
of the Roman C IVITAS , anciently an association of families, a cor-
poration, and that of C IV -ilization itself comes from the cave and
the genitrix Khef. This is a principle of naming direct from nature.
The Cefn Cave at the village of Cefn, near Denbigh, is not designated
from the village of that name, as shown by the Cefn-caves elsewhere;
and as this was only discovered and cleared out some forty or fifty years
ago, and had then been filled up with sand from time immemorial,
the name of Cefn must have been continued from time immemorial,
before the cave was filled up.
The B ED is another name of the uterus, and the Bed-Ing is the
gens named from the birthplace. The Cwm, or Quim, is another,
whence the Cum-ing and the Cwmmwd. In these cases the place
of abode has extended to a county, in Bedfordshire and Cumberland.
Thus C OMBE, according to Ovid,2 was Mother of the Curetes. The
Ken is another form; hence the Ken-ing and the Kennings. The
Hem, another, whence the Hemmings. Kêd, the mother and place
1 Richard of Cirencester, ch. iii.
2 Met. vii. 383.
in one, supplies one of these type-names, whence Chedding-ton, the
seat of the family of Kêd.
This subject will be pursued in the ―Typology of Naming.‖ Enough
for the present. This alone is origin from the typical birthplace, and
such names as Wamden in Bucks, Warnbrook in Dorset, Wembury
in Devon, Wampool in Cumberland, instead of being corruptions of
Wodensburg, are from the living home, Wame, Weem, Uamh, Hem,
Cwm itself. This is shown by the pool and the brook, for the Wam
was the place and the Pool of the Two Waters and Two Truths of
mythology. The Wam as birthplace is identical with woman. The
U AMH is extant on a larger scale in the place named M EALL NA
U AMH , South Uist, where the Beehive is still a human habitation.
The Beck and By are said to be Norse or Saxon names. Both
are Egyptian; both British. The bi (or bu) is a worn-down form
of the Beck. The bu is the feminine birthplace, which, with the
terminal T, is the But, or Beth, the abode. With the KH it is the Bekh,
the birthplace. Bekha is the land of the birth of the sun; the Bekh
is the solar birthplace. Our Beck is applied to the river at its
source. The Bekh of the sun was represented by the Hill of the
Horizon, the Tser Rock, stationed as a figure of the equinox. The
Egyptians placed their equinoxes high up in heaven, in the zenith;
this was where the sun was re-born every 25th of March. The Bekh
was imaged as the bringer-forth, the earlier Pekh, a form of the
genitrix, also named Buto.
The Bekh-Mount had been Sabean first, the Mount of the Seven
Stars, and was afterwards made use of as a figure for the initial point
of the solar zodiac and the birthplace in the sign of the Fishes. The
same hills served in both cults, the worshippers of the Great Mother
turning, like the Jews, to the north, the adorers of the solar son
to the east.
The mount, throne, royal seat, is the Ten (Eg.), and the word also
denotes the division, the birthplace at the equinox, the Bekh. Thus
the mount of the Bekh is Ten-bekh, and in the worn-down form
Tenby. Now we know the earlier name of Tenby is Tenbich or
Den-bigh, and the name is founded on the mount of the Bekh, or
solar place of birth. We may further infer the same origin for the
town and shire of Denbigh, as the Bekh of the Ten, the birthplace
on the mount.
The Peak is another form of the word, also the pike, as in Lang-
dale Pikes, the Welsh Pig, the Pyrenean Pic, Italian Bec, and the
Puy in Auvergne. The hill behind Bacup is one of our Bekhs. The
mountains called ―Backs‖ (as Saddleback) are birthplaces, only
these are pre-solar; they typify the mount of Kêd, and of the hinder
part. And in this meaning only do we reach the root for the
names of our Beacon Hills.
The Bekhn (Eg.) is a fort, tower, fortress, magazine, or strong-
hold. Bekhn is a name of basalt, the hard, strong stone. The
Beacon Hill would thus be the natural stronghold. The Bukan (Eg.)
is also an altar with fire burning on it, and that too was a beacon.
These, however, are but applications of the Bekhn or beacon. The
origin is in the Bekh as place of birth. Bekhens (Eg.) are called dwell-
ings of the gods, the Bekhen being the Pe, heaven; Khen, sanctuary.
Hekhn is the typical birthplace. This may be reckoned in the north,
the east, or the south. We have each of these initial points, equinoctial
and solstitial. For example, the Ten is the division, and this may be
either; at Tenbury we find the solstitial Ten. The 20th of April
is the great fair-day of Tenbury, and there is a belief that the cuckoo
is never heard till the day of Tenbury Fair, or after Pershore fair-day,
which is the 26th of June. The cuckoo is our bird of the cycle, and
here the end of his period is the solstice. Buri (Eg.) denotes the
highest Ten or division.
The Bekh represented the hill of the resurrection and ascent to
heaven. Sinai was one of these as well as Tabor, the Egyptian
Tepr. From this top (tep) the sun-god mounted to the upper half of
the circle. The rock of the horizon, as it is called, is perfectly por-
trayed in Blake‘s picture of the old man entering the rock of the tomb
below and the young spirit issuing from it upward. It was the place
of burial as the Tser (rock), and the place of re-birth as the Bekh.
And this image of the mount of burial and re-birth is the prototype of
our Beacon and Back hills, on the top of which the dead were buried
in the symbolical birthplace.
On the Palatine Hill in Rome, they show an opening in the rock
which is said to be the cave of the she-wolf that suckled the twins
Romulus and Remus; this cave also represented the primeval place
of birth, the Bekh on the Bekhen Hill. The divine birthplace gives us
the names of Buchan, Beckenham, and Buckingham, as the Ham of
the celestial place of re-birth, our Heliopolis, and Sinai, for the
Egyptian name of this mountain is the Bekh (Bekht). The Bekh as
the place of issuing forth may be variously applied to the sun of the
resurrection, the infant stream, or the beak of a bird, and the Bacch
(bitch), the back of a mineral lode, the bag (womb), and others. But
this is perhaps the most curious in its compound condition.
The Port of London extends for legal purposes to a point six miles
and a half below London Bridge. This point of egress and entrance
to the port is known as ―Bugsby‘s Hole.‖ The current interpretation
of names would possibly explain this by asserting that it was derived
from the circumstance of a man named Bugsby having ―made a hole‖
in the water at that precise spot.
This is a form of the Bekh, which in one spelling is the Puka, or hole.
―Bugsby‘s Hole‖ is the Bekh or Puka of entrance and egress by water
to the City of London. In the hieroglyphics the Bekhs (or Beks) is the
gullet, a passage of entrance and egress. The By repeats the Bekh,
and the hole is a third name of the same significance. It is a common
mode of continuing the ancient names by a sort of gloss. Beks-by-
hole, as the place of passage at the boundary and dividing line of the
port, is the Bekh three times repeated.
But for the Teutons it seems we should never have found the
English H OME . ―This word,‖ says the author of Words and Places,
―as well as the feeling of which it is the symbol, was brought across
the ocean by the Teutonic colonists, and it is the sign of the most
precious of all the gifts for which we have to thank them.‖1 There
was no home in Britain, nor the feeling for it, till the Teuton came!
Why, the home is as old as the womb. Word and thing existed as
long ago as the Scottish W EEM and the Irish U AMH , when the home
was a hole in the ground. As for the particular forms in Ham and
Hem, they come from the Egyptian Hem, the seat, abode, dwelling-
place, that goes back to the birthplace. Hem is the typical seat, and
habitation, the female Ems, the woman, the wife. It was so old that
the Hemu, abraded into Amu, are the residents, residing, seated, and
inclosed. The Am likewise indicates a residence with a garden,
park (―Hert‖), or paradise. Nor did the Egyptians bequeathe us
the Ham undistinguished.
The Hem sign, which is also the Han, is the symbol of the seat or
home on the water, and denotes a water-frontier. The Hemu are the
watermen, sailors, and fishers. The Hannu or Hanti are the voyagers
to and fro. Both Mu and Nu are the water in Egyptian, hence the
interchange of Ham and Han. In the same manner the names of our
coast hams and hans interchange, and Ellingham in Hants is repre-
sented by Ellinghen in France. On the coast-line of Oldenburg and
Hanover the ham takes the shape of um, as the Frisian suffix. The
Egyptian Ham or Han being primarily a water-frontier, a place on
the coast or river bank, rather upsets the Teutonic derivation of names
based on it, vhether found in England or France. It makes one
feel afresh that the less we know the easier it is to generalize. The
Hun (Hunt) is the matrix. This permutes with the Hem or Ham,
the Khen, Khem, or Skhem. All have one origin in the earliest place
of birth, and were applied to the abodes of the living and the tomb of
the dead, as a place of re-birth. How near to nature is the Ham as
the seat is manifest in the name of the thighs. The Khem or Ham
might be illustrated by a score of types, and each one can be traced
to the female, and her type of types, the womb, Khem, Hem, or
Ama, the primeval house and home; the K WAM , which in Khaling
denotes the mouth or uterus; the Quim, \wj, or Khebma, who is
the most ancient genitrix of Egypt and the black land.
The S KHEM (Eg.) is the shut place and secret shrine of the
child Horus. This form is extant in the African Gura, S AGUMA ,
and Icelandic S KEMMA , for the house, the abode. One type of
1 P. 82, 6th Ed.
the genitrix, and therefore of the Khem or Skliema, is the leopard-
cat (Pasht), and in Arabic a cheetah kept for hunting is the S HUKM ,
whilst in the African Bambarra the Z IAKUMA is a kind of cat. The
Khem is the feminine shrine, a name of Hathor, the habitation
K IMA , Arabic, house, home; K AM , or K IM , in Dumi, the home;
C HEM , Tibetan, house; K HEMA , Swahili, a tent ; K OMA , Persian, straw
hut. The K AN , in Nupe, Susu, Rasa, Doai, Ngodsin, and other African
languages, is a farm; G AMA , Singhalese, a village; the C HV -
MAH (hmwj), in Hebrew, is the wall, or the walled inclosure; Y UM ,
Magar, a house; U MAH , Javanese, house; U AMI , Uhobo (African),
house; C HIM , Zincali, country or kingdom. And it is here we shall
find the true meaning of the Combe, the place between the thighs of
hills. The Combe answers to the Khem (Eg.), the secret shrine, the
Shut-place of Horus, the child, in which he transformed into Horus
born again. The Combe is supposed to be the bowl-shaped or
crooked formation. The Welsh form of the name, the Cwm, com-
pared with the same word used in vulgar English, the Quim, will
sufficiently recover the ancient meaning. It is akin to the home, the
Weem, the Cam(ber), for which there is but one prototype in nature.
The underground houses called Weems, the Gaelic Uaimh, a cave,
are synonymous with wames or wombs, and represent the womb of
the auld wife, the Mother Kêd. Weem or Uaimh answers to Khem
(Eg.), a shrine, a secret shut-place, which may be that of the living
child, Horus in Khem, or of the dead (Khema). ―Can a man enter a
second time into his mother‘s womb,‖ Nicodemus asks. That was
exactly what these simple souls symbolically sought to do!
A large cromlech at Baldernock, nine or ten miles from Glasgow,
is denominated the ―Auld Wives‘ Lift.‖ The lift is the heaven or
sky. The ―Auld Wife‖ is probably the correct rendering. She was
Kêd or Kef, whence wife, and in Cornish, Kuf is both the wife and the
womb. The Auld Wife‘s Lift was the Meskhen, or Mastebah, the place
of re-birth, to which they looked for a lift into another life in the Lift
above. Auld means first and great, the exact equivalent of Urt (Eg.),
the first, the great, the old mother, who was the bearer that gave the lift
in her chariot, called the Urt, or the womb of the Khebma.
The place of birth being the type of the tomb, the abode of re-birth
will account for and explain the hole-stones so frequently found at
the circles. Through these apertures children and initiates were
passed in the Druidic rites and representations of the mysteries, as a
mode of regeneration and re-birth from the womb, the ark, the Cwm,
the prison, the cell under the flat stone, the Weem or Khem of Kêd.
The root of both Cwm and Cefn is Khef or Khep. M A is the mother
or place. The Khef is the Cornish Coff, the womb, or belly. The
Kep (Eg.) is the concealed place, a sanctuary; the Khep, or Khepsh,
is determined by the hinder thigh, as the feminine abode, and the
birthplace in the northern heaven. As cognates we have the Cop, an
inclosure with a ditch round it, a heap, and a mound; the cove and
the cave; the oval, the hop or hoop, an inclosing circle. Khebm
modifies into Khâm and Kam. The same root with the terminal N
forms the word Khefn, Chivan, or Cefu, and this modifies into the
Chûn and Ceann.
One of the cromlechs is called the ―Chûn Cromlech.‖ This is a
prevalent name for the maternal abode, the K UN of birth and re-birth,
the Mes-Khen (Eg.), which the Chûn Cromlech imaged. Chûn is Chiven
in Hebrew, the Kymric Cefn, at once the mount and the cave of
birth. Now Grimm‘s law need not be appealed to in paralleling the
Gadhaelic C EANN for the mount with the Kymric Pen and Gaelic Ben.
It is the reduced form of the Kymric Cefn and the name of the
Cevennes. This modification of Cefn occurs in the English Keyntons
in Devon, Shropshire, Dorset, and Wilts. The double N of Ceann
occurs in Conan, the old name of Conisborough. The Pen and Ben
are the Egyptian Ben, the height, cap, roof, top. The Ben was the
solar pyramidion; the obelisk was one of its types. It is masculine, as
another application of the Pen will prove. The Cefn is feminine. In
this way the TYPES will often take us beyond the region of mere
sound-shunting, and give us the definiteness of things in place of
verbal vagueness.
The Chûn Cromlech shows the application of the womb-type to the
tomb; the place of birth to that of re-birth. In Glamorganshire there
is a circle of stones named Kevn (Cefn) Llechart. Thus the crom-
lech and circle of stones are identical with the type of the birthplace,
which was first of all found in the feminine nature, then applied to
the cave of the hill, and afterwards externalized in the rude stone
structures erected outside as the burial-places of the dead.
The ark, pair, vessel, or uterus of Kêd was represented by such stone
sanctuaries. The cauldron or cooking-place of the ancient mother
was designated the K IBNO -Kêd. In the hieroglyphics the Kabni is
also a vessel, a ship, or ark, the English cabin, and the K IBNO -Kêd
is the mother-ark. The K AFEN (Eg.) is an oven, and means to
bake, and the K IBNO was figured as a cooking vessel, whether for
boiling or baking.1 In one language the belly or womb is the K ABIN ,
and in Welsh the C AFN is a boat and a baker‘s trough.
The cabin of the ark, the Kafn or oven of the Lady of Bread, the
Kibno of Kêd, the Kevn Llechart, the Chûn Cromlech, the Cenn and
Cefn of the mountain cave, the Scottish G OVAN are all illustrations
of the one original type, the birthplace called the Coff or Kep of
Khept, the British Kêd.
The Combe is often found with the Beacon Hill, and in ―Cwm
Rechan‖ the birthplace is named twice over.
The beehive-house, which was a human habitation before the type
was passed by and left behind for the bees, has two names in Gaelic,
1 By Aneurin, for example, in the Gododin, Song 24.
the B OH and the B OTHAN . Boh corresponds to the PEH (Eg.), a
form of the lower, hinder part, the Hem, a female type; B OTHAN
to the B UT (Eg.), Belly and N U , receptacle; the Hebrew tb, the
receptaculum, and }fb, the belly, the uterus, and primordial abode.
The primitive borough, burgh, barrow, bur, or bury, is the Bru
(Welsh), the mystical residence; B RU , Irish, the womb; Bara, Vei,
the womb; Apara, Sanskrit, the womb; Pal, Akkadian, sexual part
of woman; Pir, Gond, the same; Por, Armenian, the belly; Bar,
Hungarian, and Bayar, Canarese, the belly, and, lastly, the Belly is
derived from the same origin.
The Cairn does not mean a mere heap of stones above ground.
Mr. Anderson has shown that it is what we might infer by deriving
the name from KAR (Eg.), an underground cell or hole, and N U , a
receptacle, house, feminine abode. Then it becomes manifest that
the Welsh C ALON , or G ALON , for the womb, is a form of the word
cairn. We derive the charnel or carnary from the cairn.
There is an A SCIDIAN simplicity about the beginnings of human
thought, as manifested in the earliest typology, which shows the com-
mencement to have been akin to that initial point in evolution, a
mere sac, with the dual function of including and excluding water.
In the human beginning the sac is the uterus, the abode of two truths
of life, those of the water and the breath, feminine pubescence and
gestation. All utterance appears to have originated with this
primitive utterer.
All human feelings can be traced back to two desires, the one being
that of sclf-preservation, the other of reproduction. These consti-
tuted the total stock at starting in the dimmest dawn of human con-
sciousness. And to this early stage we have to look for the first rude
mould of thought and expression. Nothing that ever belonged to it
has been entirely obliterated, and its evidences are visibly extant, as
are those of the Palæolithic age. No origin has ever been wholly lost,
any more than spoken language has altogether superseded the clicks.
The desire of reproduction by itself alone is sufficient to account for
what is termed the Phallic mould of thought and utterance, and the
final stage of that desire constitutes religion.
It can and will be shown that the leer of Priapus is an altogether
later expression added to the face of the subject commonly called
Phallic Worship. There is no lewd grin in the look of the early
men; their beginnings were lowly, but their observations were made
in a spirit as seriously intent as that of modern science or of child-
hood. Hence Egyptian art, however near to nature, was pure and
unashamed in its nakedness.
The feminine abode of birth was the typical home of the Trog-
lodytes, who dwelt in the caves of the earth and named these after
the mother. These caves were afterwards devoted to the dead more
freely when the living could defend themselves outside, in the open
space, or on the mound. In this way the abodes of the living were
named as the habitations of the dead, as in the Tun or the Cleigh.
Cleigh is a Gaelic name for the burying-place. There is a cleigh
in Lochnell, identified as a burying ground by its monument, a great
cairn some sixty feet in diameter. A stone chest, an urn, and a
bronze dagger were found there. Cleigh resolves into K L or K R , the
cell; and Akh (Eg.), the dead, the Cleigh being the cell of the
dead. The Arabic K ALAGH is the stone inclosure of a tomb. The
Clach stone is another form of the same word, the stone being the repre-
sentative sign of the burying-place. The proof may be found in the
Clachan. The Cleigh (Clach) is the dweiling of the dead, and around
this was formed the Clachan, a small village built round the church
which had superseded the Cil or Cleigh of an earlier time. Thus the
Clachan of the living has its roots in the Cleigh of the buried dead.
The glebe land and ecclesiastical revenue are not primarily the
present made by the people to their god, as Mr. Spencer puts it, for
the first possession of the land was taken by the dead, who constituted
the earliest form of the landed interest, and instituted the most
primitive kind of landed property. The dead were the cause of a
sacerdotal class being established in their precincts to protect them,
and the church lands as ecclesiastical property are the last result of
this ownership, on behalf of the dead, of the soil thus made sacred
at the centre, with its surrounding circle devoted to the sustenance of
a priesthood.
The type of the tomb-temple becoming the house of the living
was preserved in Egypt to a late period. Twelve thousand inhabi-
tants are ascribed to a single temple at An (Heliopolis) by a census
taken in the reign of Rameses III. So the tem or tomb became the
fort, village, city, and king-DOM .
This origin of the artificial inclosure as the sacred precinct of
the buried dead is further corroborated by an Akkadian ideograph.
Hat (Akk.) means to die, the ideograph being the portrait of a corpse.
Bat is also a fortress, and the ideographic corpse is the sign of an
inclosure. The corpse-inclosure was primal, as the Kester, and the
corpse remained as a determinative sign of primitive usage when the
Kester had become the castle, citadel, or city.
In the ―Black Book of Caermarthen‖ there is a long series of
verses on the ―Cities of the Kymry.‖ The cities are the graves.
Each city is the grave of some mythological or legendary hero, whose
name it bears, and these cities originated in the Caers as circles of
the dead. Beyond these are the ―Long Graves in Gwanas,‖ of which
it is said "their history is not to be had; whose they are and what
their deeds.‖ We are told, ―There has been the family of Oeth and
A NOETH , naked are their men and their youth—let him who seeks
for them dig in G WANAS .‖1
1 Skene, vol. ii. p. 313.
The Long Graves in Gwanas are the ―Long Graves‖ of the
cavemen of the Neolithic age, who turned the natural Cefns into
chambered tombs, such as are found in Cefn near St. Asaph, in
Denbighshire. 1 Gwanas is Gwan-as, that is, Cefn-as. As (Eg.) is
the sepulchre, the chamber of rest, of birth and re-birth, the maternal
abode. The cave was this at first, and the chambers were excavated
afterwards; the one being used by the men of the Palæolithic age,
the others by those of the Neolithic age. The Cefn was a natural
formation; the Cefn-As (Gwanas) was artificial. Both are apparently
recognized in the two burial-places by ―Oeth and Anoeth.‖
The ―Long Graves in Gwanas‖ mean the same as the Long
Barrow at West Kennet, Wiltshire, and others found in Somerset-
shire and GIoucestershire. The name of Kennet likewise identifies
the Khen Sanctuary. Khen-net (Eg.) reads the lower-world Khen, and
the west was its entrance. The Long Barrow at West Kennet was
350 feet in length. These were made by the men of the Neolithic age.
Cleidh-na-h-Annait is the name of an ancient burial-ground in
the west of Scotland with two stone cairns in it. The word Annait
is commonly connected with sacred places. A NNOIT, in O‘Reilly‘s
Irish Dictionary, is explained as ―One‘s Parish Church.‖ In the
Highlands the church was at one time synonymous with ―the stones.‖
The Annoit, says Skene, is the parent church or monastery which
is presided over by the patron saint, or which contains his relics.2
The parent church is the mother church. The stone cairn
was the earlier Annait, sacred to the dead, and this was built
by each person contributing a stone. Nat means an offering, to
present tribute, as is done in accumulating the cairn. Annt (Eg.)
is tribute, and in English Anne means to give, and Annet signifies
firstfruits. Anit (Eg.) also means to anoint, and is the name of
incense. But the offering of the stone, An, was a fat earlier mode of
making sacred, and the Annait was the first stone sanctuary before
larger stones were hewn. The Annait can be traced upwards from
the cairn to the church, and the stone chest or ―sanctuary of the
saint‘s relics.‖ The Welsh A NNEDD is a dwelling-place. In connection
with this it is noticeable that the solar birthplace and the
soul‘s place of re-birth in the Ritual is An, An being the name for
stone, and one especial symbol of An is the stone or obelisk; also
Anit is a name of the genitrix, who was the earliest form of the
mother church. The Annait is probably identical with Taliesin‘s
Circle of Anoeth. An-at as Egyptian would also denote the circle
of repetition.
Cuhelyn uses the term ―Anoeth‖ for Stonehenge, and speaks of
the ―study of the circle of Anoeth.‖ Arthur is said td have been
imprisoned for three nights in the inclosure of Oeth and Anoeth,3
1 Dawkins, Cave Hunting, p. 161. 2 History of Ancient Alban, p. 70.
3 Welsh Arch. vol. ii. p. 12, Triad 50.

like the other solar heroes who were three days in the fish‘s belly or
in the underworld, the place of transformation and reproduction.
If asked, what is a Hoe? most Englishmen would reply, a hill. So
many hills are called hoes. But the hoe as name of a hill is second-
ary; the hoe is not the hill except that the high place and hoe place
are synonymous. The hoe is primarily a circle, and need not be on a
hill. The letter o is its symbol. Ho is a boundary; ―out of all ho‖
is out of all bounds. Our hoe is the hieroglyphic Heh, the cycle with
the sign of the circle. The hoes were stone-inclosures of a circular
form, whether on the hill or in the plain. True to the primordial
type, these circles have perpetuated the primitive idea even in their
names. In the Orkney Isles they are called Ork-hows, that is ark-
circles. ―Much fee was found in the ork-how,‖ says an inscription
in the Orkneys.1 The primary form of hoe is Kak or Khekh.
The Hay, Haigh, or Hak, as in the Cornish Hay, a churchyard, and
the Hak-pen at Avebury, is derived from Kak, an old local name for
the church or stones. The Kak is neither derived from the German Hag,
a town, nor the Dutch Haag, an inclosure, nor the Sanskrit Kaksha,
a fence or bush. It exists as the root of all in Kak (Eg.), a sanctuary,
an inclosure, and K AKUI , a coffin. The Kak or Khekh may be
manifold. One of the earliest is the Kak, a boat, a C AIQUE, Welsh
C WCH ; another is the English C EGE , a seat. It may be the keg or
cask, the Whiche or chest, the Kymric Gwic or the Norse Haugr,
a sepulchral mound. The stone-chest or Kistvaen is also called a
C HECH by Camden. The Kak is an extant provincial name for
church. The Kak (Eg.) is a boat and a sanctuary. This boat is
the Welsh Cwch, the Coracle of the goddess Ked. Hence the hoe or
how is an ark, and the Ork-hows are the arks of the dead.
The name of the Orkney Isles is undoubtedly derived from the old
Kymric word Orch, which means a border, a limit. This renders the
Egyptian Ark, an end, limit, to cease, be perfected, finis. They are
named in Egyptian as the extremity or end of the isles. Nun (Nnui)
signifies countries in relation to water and fellows of the same type,
as we say the Orkneys. Nnui (Eg.) is the name of water, and Ark-
nnui is both the land and water limit. The isle is also an ark of
the water, especially chosen in ancient times as a place of sepulture.
The A RACH in Gaelic is a bier; the O RK , Icelandic, a sarcophagus,
and in Irish the womb.
The writer is fully aware that the repetition of certain words and
names used so frequently by the Arkite triad, Bryant, Faber, and
Davies, will be to many as the offering of water in hydrophobia.
Nevertheless the dreary Arkite and Druidic subjects have to he gone
over again with the expectation of seeing a winged transformation of
the grub long buried underground, and stamped underfoot, as if for
ever, by many a passer-by.
1 Farrer, Inscriptions, p. 37.
The hieroglyphic sign of land and orbit, called the cake, occurs
four times on a stone found in the Rose Hill tumulus at Aspatria,
near St Bees. 1 This, like the hoe, is the symbol of a completed
period. That period was fulfilled when the sun had passed through
the three water signs, and entered the first of the nine dry signs.
The cake signifies land and horizon, the place of landing from the
waters. The circles representcd the ark generally on the hill-top, out
of the waters. Our cake is synonymous with the Egyptian Khekh, to
check.
The hoe or howe goes back to the Khekh (Eg.), the horizon,
collar, the round. Khekh, the balance or level, denotes the circle
completed at the equinox. The Khekh collar worn by Neith has
nine symbolic beads, corresponding to the nine maiden stones and to
the nine nobs on the Scottish Beltein cakes. Many of the circles
consisted of nine stones. The relation of this number to land and a
completed course will be amply illustrated. Enough for the present
to point out that in Egyptian Meh means to fill full and fulfil, to com-
plete. Meh is the number 9, and a water line, the same in signifi-
cance as the cake symbol. Meh-urt is a form of the cow-headed
goddess Hathor, and Mehi a name of the lunar deity Taht. Meh is
likewise the north. When we are told that Maes means a field and
Magh a plain, that explains nothing. They mean much more than
that for the present purpose. The Magh, as plain, is based on the
level of the equinox, the Makhu (Eg.), level or balance. The ancient
name of Dunstable was Magintum, and it is a lofty table-land. Ard-
Macha (Armagh) is the level aloft. Hence the place Makhu inter-
changes with Mat, the mid-way; and the Swiss Mat, the plain, level,
or meadow, is the Magh. Both meet in Egyptian, where Mat is an
old name of the Malchu in An. Malch and Meh denote the place of
fulfilment.
There is no proof extant of the original number of stones in Maes
How, which bears the same relation, however, to the standing stones
of Stennis, in Orkney, that Macs Knoll does to the circles at Stanton
Drew,2 showing a likeness in the nature of these monuments, as well as
in the name. And we know, by the Nine Maidens of Cornwall, and
the Nine Stone Rig, that some of the stones were nine in number, and
that number would in Egyptian denote Meh‘s How, or the circle of
Macha.
Kemp How is a tumulus in front of a circle among the remains at
Shap. Shap, in the hieroglyphics, signifies time, epoch, period. The
Shebu is a collar forming three-fourths of a circle with nine points.
Shebu means a certain quantity of flesh. Shap is to shape, figure,
image, bring forth, evacuate. The root of the matter is the measure
of time, nine solar months, that it took to clothe a soul in flesh or
1 Ferguson, Rude Stone Monuments, p. 157.
2 Ibid., p. 153.
shape it and bring to birth. The Shapt were persons belonging to
religious houses, such as we infer gave the name to Shap.
Kemp, in English, is a champion; Kemb, a stronghold. In Egyp-
tian, Khem is the champion, and the Khem is a shrine of the dead,
with a circle for determinative. Khem-p-how is a circle of the
dead. Khenf is bread or food offered to the dead, and the Shebti
are sepulchral figures and images of the dead.
Pomponius Mela speaks of the Island of Sena in the British Seas,
where the nine priestesses ministered in a round temple, which they
unroofed annually and covered again in one day, before sunset.1 He
relates that if in the process any one of the women dropped or lost the
portion she was carrying to complete the work, she was torn in pieces
by the rest, and the limbs were carried round the temple in triumph,
until the Bacchic fury had abated. Strabo affirms that there always
happened some instance of this cruel rite at the annual solemnity of
uncovering the temple.2 The same thing is alluded to by Taliesin as
the metaphor of a hopeless calamity, ―a doleful tale, like the con-
cussion, like the fall of a SE, like the Deluge.‖3 It was most probably
a representation in the mysteries. The nine ―Se‖s were the nine
months of child-bearing impersonated. If one of these lct fall the
burden, it was fatal to all; the eight were depicted as turning on her
and rending her piecemeal. Such was the drama of mythology. In
the same sense the Gallicenæ are said to have turned themselves
into whatsoever animals they pleased. So the sun‘s passage through
Aries and Taurus was his transformation into the Ram and the Bull.
The name ―S EON ‖ is not necessarily that of an island, although
Strabo mentions an island of Sena.4 The root meaning enters into
senate, sennet, a total or round, and is the Egyptian ―Shen,‖ a circle,
orbit, round, circuit, period. The Druidic Caer-Sëons were the primi-
tive type of these, and they were stone circles. The Caer-Seon, or
Seon with the strong door, typified the landing-place of Hu after
the Deluge, the station of the sun on his ascending out of the three
water signs into the circle of the nine land signs. Whether an island
or a Caer, the Seon was the circle emblematic of the divine circle of
the gods, the Put of the hieroglyphics, signifying number nine. And
the nine maids or priestesses were one with the nine muses of Greece,
the nine that danced about the violet-hued fountain as described by
Hesiod.5 Taliesin says, ―The tuneful tribe will resort to the magnifi-
cent S E of the Seon.‖6 ―Sua,‖ in Egyptian, is loud singing; Shen,
the circle.
The vessel or cauldron of Keridwen, the symbol of this circle, was
said to be warmed by the breath of nine damsels; in Taliesin‘s
―Spoils of the Deep,‖ it is the cauldron of the ruler of the abyss.7
1 Lib. iii. c. 8. 2 Lib. iv. 3 Gwalchmai.
4 Lib. iii. ch. viii. 5 Theogony, 1. 6 Davies, Myth. p. 67.
7 Davies, Myth. app. iii. p. 518.
These were the nine muses of Britain, and of greater antiquity than
those of Greece.
The nine personify the nine months of gestation and of giving
breath to the child; in the eschatological phase they performed the
rites of the dead, and represented the ―wake,‖ the resuscitation, and
re-birth of the soul of the deceased, as did the nine in attendance upon
Osiris. Hence the nine maidens of memorial in the nine stones.
The accented ë in Seon shows the elided consonant. This is re-
coverable in Segon (Caer Seiont, from Segont), and Segon is the
Sekhen (Eg.), the inclosure, place of settling, of rest, a breathing
place, from Skhen, to give breath to. And in Caer-Sëon the cauldron
of Keridwen was warmed by the breath of nine damsels or muses, the
Gwyllian of the Sekhen who become the nine Gallicenæ of Mela‘s
account. The Seon or Sekhen is found in several forms.
In the year 1843 seven urns were exhumed at Swinkie Hill; these
were inverted and imbedded in an artificial mound. Near at hand is
a monument called the Standing Stone of Sauchope. Sau-Khep (Eg.)
denotes the sanctuary or place of transformation for the mummy or
dead body. Of course the Sau may only have denoted the deceased,
but doubtless they preserved the dead to the best of their ability.
Swin in Swinkie answers to Skhen (Eg.). Ki (Eg.) signifies the land,
earth, interior region. Thus Swinkie is the domain of the Sekhen,
sanctuary, resting-place, where the dead were gathered together,
literally, as the Hieroglyphics show, to be embraced in the arms and
inclosed in the womb of the mother earth in the Sekhen or Khen
shrine, as at Swinkie.
We are now able to show that Scone in Scotland is another
Sëon or Segon. The Moot Hill of Scone preserved the original,
that is Egyptian, meaning of the name, as the Sekhen. 1 It was
designated the ―Collis Credulitatis‖ or Mount of Belief. It is called
the ―Caislen Credhi‖ by Tighernac (728), which is rendered the
―Castellum Credi‖ in the Annals of Ulster. The Pictish Chronicle,
in recording the assembly in 906, says from this day the hill merited
its name, viz, the ―Mount of Belief.‖ 2 Now the Egyptian name for
belief is ―Skhen,‖ which also means to sustain and give rest. Thus
the Scone Mount is the Sekhen Hill, in a double sense.
The nine maids of the Segon or circular temple have bequeathed
their name and number to some stones standing on the downs leading
from Wadebridge to St. Columb, which are generally called the ―Nine
Maids.‖3 The legend relates that the nine maidens were turned into
stone because they would otherwise keep dancing on Sunday, which
riddle is easily read when we know the nature of the nine, and that
the birth depends upon their established fixity. Other circles of nine
1 Stuart, Sculp. Stones of Scotland, pl. 59.
2 The Coronation Stone, p. 30. Skene.
3 Borlase, Ant. of Cornwall, p. 189, pl. 17, fig. 1.
stones in Cornwall are known as the ―Nine Maidens.‖ In Scotland
we find the Maidin stone or stones.
We have also the Rekh or Rig of Nine Stones. In ―Barthram‘s
Dirge,‖ ―They shot him at the Nine-Stane Rig, Beside the headless
cross.‖1 Near this ―nine-stane rig,‖ in the vicinity of Hermitage Castle,
was the ―Nine-Stane Burn.‖ Also there was the Lady-Well. A most
precious preserve of the ancient imagery this of the nine stones, the
waters, the feminine fount, the pre-Christian cross; we shall see,
directly, the relationship of nine stones to the waters, and the cross
without a head.
We are told in the poem on the Graves of the Kymry that they
also buried their dead on the shore where ―the ninth wave breaks,‖
and here we can arrest the symbol just where it passes into false belief.
The ninth wave and earlier tenth does not mean the sea-wave, but
relates to the reckoning by nine and ten in the time of ten moons
or nine months and a three months‘ inundation, still manifest in the
three water-signs. The water side of the circle was one quarter, and
the nine waves, nine stones or nine maids, represented the nine dry
months of bringing forth. The ninth wave and the tenth, the nine
pins and the ten have their prototypes in the two Collars of Isis, the
Gestator who wears nine Bubu or Beads, whereas the Collar of the
wet-nurse called M ENÂT implies the reckoning by ten water periods of
twenty-eight days each, as Ment (or Mêt, Coptic), signifies number
ten, and Men-t means liquid measure. The cross without a head is
an equivalent symbol of three quarters out of four. So the Put circle
of the nine gods contains three quarters filled in and one quarter left
hollow, . The horse-shoe images and the head-dress of Hathor
likewise typifies the same three quarters of the circle as the nine
stones or the headless cross; the zodiac, minus three water-signs.
The ―Nine-Stone Burn‖ was also represented near Dunstable
(Beds). There is an earthwork near the town called the ―Maiden
Bower‖ and the ―Maidening Burn.‖ The ―Maiden‖ identifies the
nine stones when interpreted. It may be noticed that Dunstable
stands on chalk hills that have been turned into catacombs by
enormous excavations which were made with the most primitive
implements of the Bone and Stone age.
The ―Maidens‖ do not derive directly from the word maid, but from
the nine, which is both Meh and Mâ in Egyptian. The Egyptian
Meh, to fulfil, and Meht, earlier Makht, to be fulfilled, represent the
German M AGD , for the maid, in M ÄDCHEN and in the Gaelic M AIGH -
DEAN , as the one whose period is fulfilled. Makha, to measure, is the
earlier form of Meh and Mâ; and the Makht of the Equinox was the
Meht of fulfilment in the north quarter. The Ten is the terminus;
and the Meh-ten, the terminus of the nine, is equivalent to the
name of the maiden, Makh-ten or Maighdean. These circles were
1 Scott‘s Minstrelsy, ―Barthram's Dirge.‖
the seat of the nine whether as the Meh-t or the Put. Taliesin calls
himself the ―Bard of Budd‖ who conversed much with men, and as
Budd is the Egyptian Put, the divine circle of the nine, Bard of Budd
is identical with the poet inspired by the nine, the nine muses or
maidens of the Budd circles formed of nine stones. In the Gododin1
the bard celebrates the fame of the ―established inclosure of
the band of the harmonious Budd,‖ that is, the Put in the hiero-
glyphics, the nine. This circle of the nine called Put and Mâ (Meh) is
established by Ptah and Mâ in the Egyptian mythology. Ptah is the
framer and Mâ the fulfiller. The circle of nine, it is repeated, is based
on the nine months of fulfilment in gestation, and on the nine dry
months which in Egypt with an inundation made a year.
The ―Maid‖ stones were probably limited to that number, and
Meht is the number nine fulfilled. This name is extant in Maidstone.
The Maiden Stone in Scotland, and the Maiden Castle, possibly
mean the ―Ten‖ (Eg.), throne seat of Meh, the nine. Bridget had
her nine maidens, and in her legend as the Virgin Martyr it is affirmed
that the castle of Edinburgh was called the Maiden after her. But
there were ―Nine Maidens,‖ as at Boscawen-ûn, and three other places
mentioned by Borlase, consisting of nineteen stones, which have been
mixed up with the nine maids. Also the inner elliptical compart-
ment of Stonehenge, within which stood the stone of astronomical.
observation, consisted of nineteen granite blocks. Now we shall see
the further use of the root Meh for nine. Meh (or Mâ) is the number,
and ―Ten‖ has different meanings, as Ten, the throne, seat, place,
division of the nine. Ten is also our English number, 10; Ten, a
weight of 10 Kat, an unity of weight, the ideographic Ten, or sign,
formed of two hands or ten digits.
Meh-ten may be read either the nine total or 9—10, our 19, the
exact number of Maiden-stones at Boscawen-ûn. Now when we re-
member that the Metonic Cycle is a period of nineteen years, at the
end of which the new moons fall on the same days of the year and
the eclipses recur, it is exceedingly strange if it was left for a Greek
astronomer of the name of Meton to discover this cycle, B.C. 432.
The nineteen Maiden Stones in Cornwall, and the nineteen at Stone-
henge, already figured and stood for the Cycle of Meton, or possibly
of Mehten, meaning the number nine-ten.
The stones varied in number according to the nature of the circle or
Caer. The Caer was sometimes a quadrangular inclosure, then it sym-
bolised the circle with four corners, like that of Yima in the Avesta
which had four cardinal points, and was a four-cornered circle.2 Two
of these Caers with four corners, but left open, would be the two
houses of the sun, the lower and upper Caers or courses, and these
would equate with Sesennu the region of the eight great gods. The
circle of nine, whether called a Bedd or Maes How, represented the
1 Song 22. 2 Vendidad, Fargard 2.
nine months of childbirth, and the sun in the nine non-water signs.
There may have been a circle of ten stones, which number, as in
the ten pins and tenth wave, was superseded by the solar nine.
Twelve stones stood for the total of the solar signs, and nineteen for
the Metonic or Maiden Cycle. They range at least up to seventy-two,
the one-seventh of a Phœnix period of five hundred years. The dead
were buried in or around them, but they served the purpose of the
living registers and rolls, and were the figures of the astronomical
chronology.
The reader will gather from this that the Men-an-tols of Cornwall
meant something more than merely holed stones. Ter, the circle,
round, to encircle, of course includes a hole, the Cornish Tol, but is more
than that. Ter, in the simplest form, is time, the mover in circles, tide,
season, limit.
The Men-an-tols were gnomons and dials of time. Max Müller
has observed that a Mn-an-tol stands in a field near Lanyon, flanked
by two stones standing erect on each side. Let any one go there, he
says, to watch a sunset about the time of the autumn equinox, and he
will see that the shadow thrown by the erect stone would fall straight
through the hole of the Men-an-tol.1
The name of Carnac, in Brittany, is the same as Karnak at Thebes,
and resolves, as Egyptian, into Kar-en-akh, the circle of the dead.
It comes to the same thing if we read Carn-Akh, as the Cairn in
English; C RWN , Welsh; C RUINN , Gaelic; C ERN , Cornish, and
C REN , Armoric, denote the Cairn-Circle. Kar is the underworld,
underground; Kar, a chest, sarcophagus or coffin; Karas, a place
of embalmment, a chamber for the mummy. This is the origin of
our Kar-stones, from which so many places are named. It is not
that Carragh (Ir.) merely means a rock. The Car stone is a rock,
but the full form of the rock, as Craig or Carragh, includes the
Car (Kar) of the Akh (Eg.) or dead. In that case the Car-akh
and Car-rekh have the same signification, as both the Akh and
Rekh denote the dead. The Rock is a worn down Caraig or Cleig-
stone of the dead. At Carrowmore, in Ireland, a large number of
sepulchral remains have been found. The unabraded form of the
word is Car-raighea-mora. Mora is a region, land. Kar is the
underworld, the sarcophagus, the hole or passage. But it may be
questioned whether Raighea does not mean more than rock. In
Egyptian Ruka is to hide, to stow away in safe secrecy. We have
the form ruck, to crouch down out of sight. L LYCH , Welsh, a
hiding-place, and LLECH , to lie flat or horizontal, apply equaIly to the
dead and the flat-stone. So interpreted, Carraighea-mora is the region
limited to the sarcophaguses or mummies, of the hidden—that is,
buried, dead. The part of Arthur's Seat called Salisbury Craig was
doubtless a Car-akh Hill.
1 Chips, vol. iii. p. 296.
There is a stone in Aberdeen designated the Craba Stone, and if
we apply this principle of formation to its name, Craba becomes Car-
akh-ba. Ba in the hieroglyphics is the stone or place of the hidden
corse, and ―Car-akh-ba‖ reads the stone or place of the hidden—that
is, buried, dead, the final form of which is the Grave-stone, GRAVE
being a form of Craba, and Craba an abraded Kar-akh-ba. With the
Ba rendered stone there are many Crabas known as Cra-stones. And
as Cra alternates with Crow, other stones are called Crow-stones, or
Clow-stones. In this transformation of Car-raigh into Crow, we come
upon the meeting-place of Rook and Crow, two names of the black
long-lived bird of renewal, adopted in our islands, and named after
the Egyptian Rekh.
In Cornwall the stones with a circular hole, made use of to pass
the children through as a type of new birth, or some kind of cove-
nanting, are called C RICK -stones. Crick-stones, they maintain, were
also used for dragging people through to cure them of various
diseases.1 This offers us another Car-rekh stone. And we must beware
of supposing a compound word like this has but one meaning. In the
Crick-stone the Kar (Eg.) is the circle, the hole, and Rekh (Eg.) signi-
fies to whiten and purify, therefore to heal. A feminine Rekh (Eg.) is
a laundress. The Crick-stone, then, as the Kar-rekh stone, becomes
the hole-stone made use of for purification and healing. As the
Car, Crow, or Craba-stone it was a type of re-birth; the grave itself
was but a hole of passage, the emaning womb of another life.
Kirkcaldy in the full form is probably the Kar-rekh-Caldy, the
circle of the Rekh, who were the Magi, known in Scotland as the
Culdees, or, as Kar-rekh becomes the Kirk, known in the same
country as the stones, and then the kirk, Kar-rekh-Caldy is
the stone circle of the Culdees. Many of the stones are called
Leckerstones, as those near Abernethy, the Liggarstone in Aber-
deenshire, the Lykerstone at Kirkness. This is the reverse form of
Kar-raig, with the L instead of R. Here the name is identical with
that of L ECKERBAD , the place of the purifying sulphur baths.
Rekh (Eg.), to whiten, wash, purify, in connection with the
Crick-stones used for healing, makes it appear probable that the
Rocking-stones were employed as Rekh-ing-stones—that is, stones
of purification. Roke (Eng.) is to cleanse. Mineral ore is ROCKED in
cleansing. The Rocking-stone, says the Arch-Druid Myffyr Mor-
ganwy, was the Yoni-stone; it typified the womb of Kêd, and was
called the Ark-stone. In the Mysteries the initiated entered the
womb of the mother, were cradled and rocked in it, renewed and born
again from it. Rekh (Eg.) means to reckon, calculate, know, and the
oscillating or rocking-stone was also used for purposes of divination.
Mr. Botterell, a Cornishman, wrote to one of the papers some time
ago, and informed the public that a few years before there was a rock
1 Botterell. Max Muller‘s Chips, iii, 292.
in the town-place of Sawah, in the parish of St. Levan, known by the
name of Garrack-zans. This is a dialect form of the Crick and Car-
raig stones. The word zans is a valuable addition. Sans or Snes (Eg.)
signifies to salute, adore, invoke. Sens is to breathe, to breathe the earth,
that is, begin to breathe. Ssen, to breathe, pass, begin, has for determi-
native the slug or snail, an image of the lowliest beginning to breathe
the earth. San is also to heal, prepare, preserve, and save. We have it as
saine, to bless, and save. S AU in Cornish means health, and denotes
healthy. The U and W imply an earlier F, as in save. Sefa (Eg.) is to
purify, and Sawah was the place of healing. San-su (Eg.) would signify
preserve, heal, charm, save the child, as was done in the process of
regeneration and re-birth by passing it through the Kar-rekh or
circle of purification.
In the parish of Lansannan, Denbighshire, there was, according to
Stow, a circular plain cut out of the solid rock on the side of a
stony hill which contained twenty-four seats, and was called Arthur‘s
Round Table. Twenty-four, as the four-and-twenty elders, was a
solar number as well as twelve. The Welsh Llan is a shrine, a sacred
inclosure. Ren (Eg.) is a symbol of inclosing. San (Eg.) means to
preserve and save, also to heal. Nen may be the type and likeness.
TAOURSANAN is the Gaelic name given to the circles of standing
stones. It is read ―Mournful Circles,‖ or supposed places of sacrifice.
The Sanan is one with the Welsh Sannan, and the Llan and Taour,
or Ter, interchange. The dead were buried in these ―Mournful
Circles,‖ and the mournful is extant in the Ter (Eg.), the layer out
and mourner.
The conclusion we arrive at here is that the circle of the Sannan or
Sanan was the place of preserving the dead, and on that account the
other circle through the stone was the symbol of salvation and re-
newal in the doctrinal sense. The transformation and regeneration
postulated for the mummy laid in the womb of earth were applied to
the child and the initiate in the Mysteries, and they were re-born from
the Crick or cloven stone, the Yoni-stone, connected with the circle
of the dead.
Our ancient Menhirs or high stones are named from Men, a fixed
stone memorial or monument, and ―Her,‖ high, over, above. Mena
also means the dead, whence the Minnying-day, or anniversary in
which prayers were offered for the dead. According to the Egyptian
language, the ―Menhir‖ signifies the stone erected over the dead.
The Menhir was a symbol that conveyed a profound meaning.
Men (Eg.) is a name of heaven. The Her (her-t), means the image
of heaven and of hereafter. Her is also the way, the road, to fly
away, leave, go out, ascend. The Menhir was a fixed and lofty
memorial of the higher life.
The Men-Ambers, as they are called, through the modification of
the K sound, were originally Men-Kam-bers, and the word is
commonly spelt Mencamber, or Mincamber, by the Cornish people.
In this form the name explains itself. Men is the fixed memorial.
Khem (Eg.) is a shrine, and the dead; ber (Eg.) is the top of the
obelisk, the roof of the house. Cam is the name for the ancient
earthen mounds and ridges which the Khem (Eg.) as shrine of the
dead (Khema) identifies. The Cam-ber, or roofstone over the dead, is
our first form of the chamber. Camber is also an English name
for a harbour. The Mencambers were harbours of the dead. The
oldest chambers, cambers, shrines, are the Cams, mere ridges,
mounds, burrows, tumuli on the downs. The Egyptians made
some of their cambers and sarcophagi of obsidian, that stone
being named Kamu. The greatest weight, of hugest size, of hardest
stone, lifted to the fullest height, was the fittest embodiment of
their type of Eternal, and this they expressed with tremendous toil
in quarrying, hewing, and heaving heavenward their monuments,
menhirs, mencambers, and piles vast as Stonehenge or the Great
Pyramid.
This meaning of Kam and Khem will account for a place like
Camelot, near South Cadbury Hill, in Somerset. As described by
Drayton,1 it was a hill of a mile in compass at the top. Four deep
trenches with the steepest of earthen walls enclosed about twenty
acres of ground. Egyptian will tell us what for, in the name of
Camelot. Kham is a shrine for the dead, and Ret (lot) signifies to
retain the form. The Ret is also the ascent or S TEPS . Camelot was the
shrine in which the dead could best and longest be preserved. Cad-
bury tells the same tale. It is the bury, barrow, burial-place. Khat
(Eg.) is the corpse, dead body. Khet means shut and sealed; Khat,
the womb, personated by the goddess Kêd. One of the Men-Kambers
is described as being a rock of infinite weight, laid roofwise on
other great stones, so equally poised that a child could move it, but
no man remove it.2 This would be rocked in the Mysteries. Another
enormous stone in Gower was calculated to have weighed thirty tons,
erected as the primary type of permanence. Such was the longing for
life to be continued, as may be read in the various types of permanence,
when we can see through the symbol, whether this be the mummy
type perfectly preserved, or thirty tons of millstone grit elevated and
suspended, or only a shin-bone split and painted red and buried in a
mound of shells.
The immense flat stone was called Arthur‘s Table. The table of
Egypt is the Hept, the sign of peace, offering, plenty, welcome, sun-
set; the table of heaven and of the sun, heaped with food.3 This
was Arthur's Table, and Camelot, the lofty shrine of the dead, was
but this table on a larger scale, round which the gods were figured
sitting at the eternal feast.
1 Poly-olbion, Notes to Song 3. 2 Chips, vol. iii. p. 289.
3 Herodotus, iii. 18.

The stone monuments of Britain are none the less Druidic because
their likeness is found in other lands. They are some of the scattered
remains of the primitive cult, relating to the keeping of time (Teru)
and the preservation ol the dead. They are the dumb witnesses to
the human desire for continuity, which attained such profound and
persistent expression in the Egyptian art of symbolizing the mummy
as the type of self-continuity.
In England the grave was formerly called the ―pytte,‖ and the same
name was given to a well with an intermittent spring; over this well
the enormous flat stone of Arthur was elevated and suspended as at
Kefn Bryn in Gower, where a vast unwrought stone, from twenty to
thirty tons in weight, was supported by six or seven others over a
well which had a flux and reflux with the sea. Here the well and
grave were one in the pytte, as they were in the Grcat Pyramid or
the Masteba of Egypt.
The interior of each tomb consisted of three parts, typical of the
vault and void of the two heavens, and the middle earth or passage
between the two, called by excavators the Serdab. The void was the
well containing the mummies in the underworld. The open chamber
typified the upper world of the future life, where the deceased sat at
the celestial feast surrounded by his friends in his eternal home. When
the friends in the earth-life come to visit their dead and bring their
offerings, these are representative of contributions to the feast; the
life above being the reflex image of the life below. In the passage
between, or the Serdab, was placed the sepulchral image called
the Shebt or double, the type of transformation from the one life to
the other. This had the same significance as the scarab emblem of
Khepr, the beetle, that went underground to make his change, and to
issue forth once more in the shape of his own seed. The Serdab was
the place of Sem-sem or the re-genesis, and the only communication
between it and the rest of the tomb was a small hole scarcely large
enough for the hand to pass through. This usually opened toward the
north, like the entrance to the Great Pyramid. It was the place of
egress from the womb, the Mest of the Masteba, and has its analogue
in the hole-stone of our far ruder and far older structures. Mariette
describes the Masteba as a ―sort of truncated pyramid built of enor-
mous stones and covering, as with a massive lid, the well at the bottom
of which was the mummy.‖1
Our primitive sepulchres were open to the passers-by, as were
the Egyptian Mastebas, in which the friends of the deceased deposited
their offerings or came at times to pray and hold their feasts of the
dead on the anniversary day. The Masteba was the chapel over the
grave or pit, representing the underworld. It contained the table on
which the contributions were deposited.
1 Monuments of Upper Egypt, p. 73.

In the case of Arthur‘s Stone, the slab was the table, and the large
stones still bear evidence of the offerings that were made as well as
the mode of offering.
At Bonnington Mains, near Ratho, there is a cromlech with cups,
bowls, and basins in the cap-stone. The cap-stone is a reminder that
the cap, roof, top, is the Ben in Egyptian, the cap or roof of a monu-
ment. Benen (Eg.) is also a surname of the Horus of Resurrection.
The Benn is the Phœnix, another type of re-arising. The cups were
hollowed on the outside of the covering, the cap-stone, so that, if no
longer filled by friendly hands, they would still catch the rain, a type
of the water of life besought by the builders of these monuments
uplifted towards heaven as their petrified prayer.
Arthur‘s Flat-stone laid over seven others with the well be-
neath corresponds to the most colossal Masteba of Egypt. For
the Great Pyramid is an enormous Masteba, and it contains seven
chambers with the deep well underground. The oldest form of the
pyramid known in Egypt is found at Sakkarah, which has seven steps
like the Babylonian towers. In this form the seven steps correspond
to the seven chambers of the Great Pyramid, which has the mystical
number within instead of without. Arthur‘s Stone was supported on six
or seven other stones. We may be sure the correct number was seven.
In the hieroglyphics the number sevcn is Hept, and the same word
signifies the table of offerings, the H EAP of food, the shrine, the ark,
and peace. The earlier form of Hept is Khept, the Goddess of the
Seven Stars, and it is here claimed that the Seven-Stone, or stone
supported by seven, or the seven-tiered tower, the seven-stepped or
seven-chambered pyramid, represents the birthplace personified by
the genitrix who was Khept in Egypt and Kêd in Britain. From
this it follows that the British Masteba is of an earlier type than the
Great Pyramid of Ghizeh or the more ancient Pyramid of Sakkarah.
The number seven is also connected with the name of Arthur in
the form of seven companions in an ark. One of the Druidic stones
is known as the Seven-Stone. The monument in Llan Beudy parish,
or the house of the ox (sign of the bull), shows that Arthur‘s Table was
identified with ―Gwal y Vilast,‖ the couch of the greyhound bitch,
that is, the couch or lying-in chamber of Kêd. In this place the
flat-stone or table supported by other stones is only about two and a
half feet high. 1 This then was a burial-place that represented a
birthplace, the birthplace of the divine child Arthur, and abode of
re-birth, variously called the Cell of Kêd, Maen Llog, Llogel Byd,
Maen Ketti, the Ark-Stone, and the Stone of Keridwen, known
to-day as representing the womb of the Great Mother.2
The A FT , couch and name of the goddess Aft or Fet, is repeated in
the Cornish V ETH for the grave, and Gaelic F UADH , the bier.
1 Gibson‘s Camden, col. 752.
2 Letter of Myfyr Morganwy.
The Khet or Kat, seat of the mother and her child, bccame our Cat-
stone, often supposed to denote a place of battle. The cat-stone is
the stone of Kêd, the genitrix, and marks the birthplace of her
child, whether Sabean or solar. Cat, the French Chat, is the Egyp-
tian Kat. This seat was the mount of the Great Bear in the earliest
time; afterwards it was turned into the Bekh or birthplace in the
rock of the horizon when the zodiac was formed.
The seat in Egyptian is the Khet, with steps denoting an ascent,
and the Kat, a seat or throne. The latter is a conventionalized lioness,
which was used as a palanquin or portable throne, with considerable
likeness to Arthur‘s Seat. The seat is the feminine abode; the same
words signify the womb, the seat, or Kat of the child. Thus Arthur‘s
Seat is synonymous with Arthur‘s Stone at Kevn Bryn or Arthur‘s
Table, or Arthur's Quoit, as the symbol of the mother, who was the
habitation (Kat or Hat) of the child. Hence the lioness or the
lioness-shaped portable throne was a type of the bearer.
At the foot of Arthur‘s Seat lies Duddingstone. Tut (Eg.) is the
throne, image, or region of the eternal. Tattu was the established
region in this sense. And in Tattu was the rock, the Tser Hill,
the Hebrew Tzer. Duddingstone may be named from the stone of
establishing, the type of the eternal identified as Arthur‘s Seat.
Our word ―dole‖ is the same as the Egyptian Ter. Dole is to
divide or separate, portion, tell, mark out. The Dole-stone is a land-
mark or bourne. Dole is to lay out and grieve. Ter (Eg.) is an
extreme limit, boundary; ter, to indicate; ter, a quantity; ter, erect
a limit; ter, a layer out, or mourner.
Men (Eg.) is a monument, a stone of memorial; Men-a, death, or
the dead; Men-t, a bier; Men, to arrive and rest. These sufficicntly
identify our Dolmens as places of burial, but whereas the cromlechs
may have been cemeteries, the dolmens seem to have been marked off
as more especially individual tombs. The dolmen is, however, the
same word as the Irish T ERMON , and the Toda Dermane, a god‘s
house or residence of gods. Inside the inclosure or Dermane there
was a round tower called a boath, a kind of Pictish tower or conical
temple. ―Round about the Boath,‖ says Marshall, 1 ―there was a
kromlech, and numerous stone kairns dotted about with the outlines
of stone walls on a large scale surrounding all.‖ The Dermane was
also named a Gudi, i.e. temple. Kudi, in Sanskrit, is a house, and to
curve tound. Kudu or Godu, in Toda, is to collect together; Kattu
(Tamil), build, bind, bond; K ETUI (Eg.), a building, a circle.
In Ireland a small piece of ground fenced off round the church
was in some places called a T ERMON . It was land belonging by
sacred right to the church, and to this Termon the criminal and other
fugitives could flee for refuge, and were held in safety for a time when
once within the prescribed boundary. The phrase ―Termon lands‖ is
1 A Phrenologist among the Todas.
common in Anglo-Irish writings. The Termon of course agrees with
the Latin terminus, but that does not explain the right of refuge. The
full significance of the Termon lands and sacred boundary can alone be
found in the fact that it was the dead who protected the living within
their own domain, and that M ENA (Eg.), denotes the dead, and the
T ER (Eg.) is the limit, boundary, the word also meaning to hinder.
The Termon was the boundary-limit within which the dead wer
allowed to hinder the further pursuit of those who sought sanctuary
from justice or from their foes. It was the dead who conferred a right
of refuge, and formed an asylum of their sanctuary to the criminal or
debtor who fled to them for protection from the living, and in this
sense the precincts of Holyrood House were a termon-refuge for the
debtor on Sunday. The Termon is extant in Termon Castle, an ancient
residence of the Magraths, also called ―Termon Magrath‖ in the
―Four blasters.‖ The Magraths were hereditary wardens of the
Termon, and in this we have another allusion to a Termon, founded on
the charge of the dead, the sanctuary of the dead and living, like that
deduced from the name and customs of Caistor church. Dr. Joyce
says the Termon in several places shows the former existence of a
sanctuary. The O‘Morgans were the wardens of Termonornorgan in
the West of Tyrone. Mer (Eg.) is a superintendent, and the Khen
(Eg.), would signify the sanctuary of the dead. The Termon sug-
gests that the tors of Devon, the rock-towers, the natural round
towers or Turagans, may have been early places of sepulture.
Mis Tor is in Devon, and Mes (Eg.) denotes the birth or re-birth of
the dead in the Meskhen and, it may be, in the Mes-Tor. Yes-Tor
and Hessary-Tor (Devon) possibly represent a Kes (Eg.) tor; this
being a burial and embalmment, at which point the Kestor and Kester
would meet, the Tor being the natural mound and type of the later
Kester, Castra, and castle, when the sanctuary and defence of the
dead was turned into a place of defence and offence for the living.
Ketui, in Egyptian, is an orbit, circle, with determinative of house
and plural sign. It is literally Ketui-house built circularly, our
―Ket‘s Coity Houses,‖ Khet meaning in Egyptian shut and sealed.
The Ketui is the Gudi of the Todas, the enclosed temple and place
of burial, exactly as our churches stand in an enclosure amongst the
dead. The Toda enclosure was crowned and typified by the Boath,
the shape of which, as of the Picts‘ towers, is preserved in the ex-
tinguisher. This Boath, God‘s house or residence of the gods, is the
same word as the Assyrian Bit, Hebrew Beth, Scottish Bothie, Egyp-
tian Paut and Pauti, lastly Put, the circle and the company of nine
gods; the hieroglyphic being a circle three-fourths or nine-twelfths
filled in. Some of the stones were called Coits; this name is preserved
in the Quoit or ring. Ket‘s Koity House is the Koity, Coit, or Quoit,
as the circle of the goddess Kêd. This circle of the goddess Kêd was
a reality in spite of the Arkite lunacy of Bryant, Faber, and Davies,
and had its physiological and astronomical prototypes. 1 Khet, in
Egyptian, is the secret, intimate abode. Khat is the womb, the secret,
intimate abode of the creative powers on the physiological plane of
the myth, and in the astronomical or eschatological stage, the
ark, the circle, called by the name of Kêd. Koity fairly represents
the Egyptian Ketui, the circle, orbit, or quadrangular Caer. The
circle Ketui or Coity was the same as the K IBNO -Kêd, the Kafn
(Eg.), or oven, the baking-place of the mother of corn or bread, and
of the ―Pair Keridwen‖ of the Barddas. But, whereas the earliest
type was the cave, a natural formation, the stone circles and enclosures
had to be erected, and Ketui (Eg.) means built. Raising the stone of
the Ketti was one of the three mighty labours of Britain.
Our ―Ket‘s Koity‖ is Kêd‘s Ketui. The Welsh G WAITH (as in
Gwaith Emrys) means work, labour, workmanship, identical with
K AUTI (Eg.), work, labour, especially to carry and to build. Gwaith
Emrys (Stonehenge) is thus an enormous koity-house of Kêd, the
bearer. Also G WAITH (Welsh) signifies the course, turn, or time, and
this is the Egyptian K ETUI , an orbit, circle, or course of time, showing
the relationship of the building to Time as well as to the dead.
Excavations made in the neighbourhood of Ket‘s Koity House showed
that it was a burial-ground full of sepulchral chambers in groups, each
single group being generally surrounded by a circle of stones.2
About five hundred yards from the particular stones called Ket‘s
Koity House is another monument, named the Countless Stones,
and there are indications that the stones in this neighbourhood were
countless. Ket‘s Koity House is but a perverted form of Kêd‘s Koity
Hows, the hows or circles of Kêd, the Great Mother. Even without
the name of the goddess, the words ―Khet,‖ to be shut and sealed,
―Ketui,‖ a circle of stones, an orbit, still suffice to identify the H OWS
as the enclosures of the dead.
Khent, in the hieroglyphics, is a garden, and the English Kent
is still called the Garden of England. Kent is our south land, and
Khent is the name of an unknown part of Egypt, but it was ob-
viously one with the south, the way of the Inundation and source
of fertility. Horus, as Lord of the South, is designated the Lord of
Khent.
In the Annals of Rameses III., the king, in an address to Ammon,
says, ―I made thee a grand house in the Land of Khent.‖3 This is
mentioned as one of the four quarters along with the north, east, and
west. The Grand House in the south erected by the Kymry appears
to have been represented by ―Ket‘s Coity.‖
Both in Egyptian and Welsh, Ked or Khet signifies the enclosure.
And this is applied also to Emrys, as Gwath Emrys or the enclosure
of Emrys, which is Stonehenge. The name of Emrys is yet extant
1 Davies, Myth. 402. 2 Wright, Wanderings of an Antiquary, 175.
3 Records of the Past, vol. vi, p. 26.

on the spot, though transformed into Ambrose in the re-christening. It
is also known as the Circle of Sidi and the structure of the revolution,
that is, of the celestial bodies. Res, in the hieroglypliics, means raise
up, watch, with the ideograph of the heavens. Am (Eg.) signifies to
discover, find out. Am indicates a residence with a park or paradise,
that is, an enclosure. So interpreted, Gwath Emrys may be the en-
closure of the watch-tower, observatory, or the stone of astronomical
observation.
Hor-Apollo1 tells us that the scribes of Egypt have a sacred book
called A MBRES , by which they decide respecting any one who is lying
sick whether he will live and rise up again, ascertaining it from the
recumbent posture of the patient. In Egyptian, A M -(P)-RES would
read ―to discover the rising up,‖ and this would equally apply to
the celestial bodies. One wonders whether our Emrys, Ambres, or
Kambers, may not include the rocking-stones raised up (res) for
purposes of divination or discovery. Am, to find out, discover, has
an earlier form in Kem, with the same meaning.
Another of the three mighty labours of the Island of Britain was
building the work of Emrys, later Ambres. Dinas Emrys was the
sacred place in Snowdon. Emrys is said to have been a sovereign at
the time when Seithenhin the drunkard let in the Deluge. A
character in the British mythology, a supposed prince, who fought
with Hengist, was Emrys or Ambrose, called the president and
defender of the Ambrosial Stones.
Stone-Henge is the Stone-Ankh, the living-stone. As the vocabu-
lary shows, we have the English equivalent of the Egyptian Ankh.
Ankh, to clasp, to double, is imaged in our hank of thread, a double loop
tied or crossed in the middle. Hank is to tie. A Hanger is a fringed
loop appended to the girdle for the small sword, and the Egyptian
Ankh was used as the buckle of a girdle. The Ankh symbol was the
ideograph of life, and united in one form the cross and circle.
This Ankh sign is the original of Stonehenge; every upright and
horizontal stone made the figure of the cross all round the circle
itself: that was the Ankh. It was built of stones: that was the stone
Ankh. The stones were of the hugest size and the most enduring
that could be found: this made the stone Ankh a colossal image of
eternal life. Ankh, the living, was also preëminently applied to
the departed. Such is the signification of Stone-Henge, read by
Egyptian. The fact that hang also means to suspend, and these
stones were partly suspended, may be thrown in. Stone-Henge was
a topographical and typical form of the Ing, enclosure.
In Welsh, A NG denotes the open capacious place for holding and
containing, it may be embracing, which agrees with Ankh (Eg.), to
clasp. The stone-hank has its analogues in the Persian K ANIC , or
temple, and Y ANICK , a grave; Y INGE, Zulu Kaffir, a circle; Chinese
1 i. 38.
Ying, a sepulchre; Italian Conca, a tomb or burial-place; Ying,
Chinese, a kind of bracelet; Y ING , Chinese, a kind of necklace;
I NGU , African Ako, a circlet of beads; K UNK , African Dselana, a
bracelet; K HEUNG , Chinese, a stone bracelet; C INGO , Latin, to
environ or surround.
It is quite possible that the horseshoe and circle of foreign stones
within the outer circle of Stonehenge represented the earlier temple
belonging to the Great Mother and her starry son. If the triliths
surrounding-the inner ellipse were, as some authorities affirm, seven
in number, they would form the perfect figure. If there were only
five of them, the ten uprights would still illustrate the Sabean-lunar
reckoning, which was superseded by the solar nine. The outer range
would represent the temple of the sun. Thus we have the Emrys, or
Stone of Observation; the nineteen stones of the luni-solar cycle, the
seven triliths (or ten uprights) corresponding to the seven stars, or
the planetary seven, with the outer circle representing the addition of
the later solar reckoning. The development of the Cult will account
for the two periods apparent without implying two different races of
builders. We may take the disk-shaped barrows of the Bronze age, for
instance, to be typical of the solar circle, the latest of three, stellar,
lunar, and solar, corresponding to the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and
Bronze periods.
Stone-Henge or the Stone-Ankh was the great national tomb-
temple. Sir Richard Colt Hoare counted 300 tombs round Stone-
henge, within twelve square miles, and in Stukeley‘s time 128 were
to be seen from a hill close by.1
The Cursus or course at Stonehenge into which one of the avenues
leads is called the ―Y STRE‖; it is half a mile from the temple itself,
and consists of a course ten thousand feet or two miles long, enclosed
by two ditches three hundred feet apart.2 The Y STRE is mentioned
in the ―Gododin,‖ a poem ascribed to the bard Aneurin. It has
been already shown that the S TER (Eg.) is the couch of the dead.
The word means the dead-and-laid-out, to lie on the back, be laid
out together, and is determined by the lion-couch of the dead. The
Yster is either the Ster uncompounded or a worn down form of the
Khi-ster or Kester. It has been assumed that the Sters, of which
there are many in Caithness, as in Stemster, Shebster, Lybster,
Ulbster, Seister, Scrabster, Thurster, are derived from the Scan-
dinavian ―Saetr,‖ the name for a farm. The Egyptian ―Ster,‖
however, has now to be taken into account.
This meaning of Ster (Eg.), to lay out, the place of laying out, and
of the dead laid out, renders unnecessary the assumption that
three out of the four provinces of all Ireland, Ulster, Munster, and
Leinster, were named as settlements of the Norsemen, from the seat
or dwelling called a Saeter, as a farm or homestead. They were
1 Archæologia, xliii. p. 305. 2 Maurice, Ind. Ant. vol. vi. p. 120.
neither laid out nor settled nor named by the Scandinavians. The dead
were the first laid out, and their burial-place was the primitive Ster.
The first minister was probably the Mena-ster as the layer out of the
dead, the Minster being the later place of laying out on the couch.
Munster may derive its name from the place of the dead, the com-
monest starting-point of the living. Leinster would thus be the
Llan-ster, the enclosure of the laid-out dead, which afterwards became
the church as the Llan. This, of course, is not the only possible mode
of naming the province. Ster is to lay out. Set is the Egyptian
name of a nome, and the r (ru) means a mark of division, which in
the Stour is a boundary river, and still the three Sters are independent
of Norse naming. The oldest spelling of the name of L EICESTER
shows that the place was the K ESTER of the L EIC , or laid-out dead.
―M ANCHESTER ‖ is probably a kester of M ENA (Eg.), as in M INSTER ,
the ster of the dead.
The Stool, the lowly seat or rest for the feet, is an extant form of
the Ster, couch. The redstart is the redtail, which is long and
stretched out, as it is in ―Start point.‖ From this Ster, latter end,
comes the stern of the vessel. In one instance it is the tail of the
bird, in another of the vessel, and in another it applies to the end
of life. And from Ster, to lay out, extend, &c., we probably derive
the ster terminal in maltster, seamster and webster.
The ―Ster,‖ as the act or place of stretching out the dead in
burial, has particular significance when we call to mind that the men
of the Stone age, Palæolithic and Neolithic, did not lay out their
dead, but buried them in a sitting and contracted posture, with bent
thighs, their heads resting on their arms, and faces turned towards
the daylight world beyond the mouth of the cave. Instead of laying
out the dead, the cavemen folded them somewhat in the manner
of Peruvian mummies, and left them in an attitude the exact opposite
to those of the Ster. The tomb being founded on the womb, this will
at once suggest that the contracted crouching posture was adopted in
imitation of the fetus, and the dead sitting in their caves were arranged
according to the likeness of the child in the womb.
The reader has but to refer to the ground-plan of the chamber in
the round cairn at Camster, Caithness, 1 to see the likeness to the
uterine type. The figure is that of the vagina and womb, which
exists in a more conventionalized form in the hieroglyphic Kha ,
the ideograph of the Khat, the belly and womb, and Kha was the
name of the Adytum of Isis, formed on the feminine model. Khem
(Eg.) is the shrine, and Ster means laid out, dead.
The ―Ster‖ of Caithness alternates with the name of C AS or K EISS ,
as Sinclair Cas, Dunbeath Cas, Rerriedale Cas. Kas (Eg.) is the
burial-place, the coffin, and denotes embalmment and burial, and in
Berriedale Cas we seem to have the proof that the Cas has this
1 The Past in the Present. Mitchel, Fig. 51; see also figs. 48 and 49.
meaning. The Welsh Cas occurs in Cas-Llychwr (Loughor), where
there is a Roman altar. The Gaelic ―Cos‖ is a hollow scooped out
of the hillside for a kind of dwelling, a very primitive habitation, as
it may also be made in a tree.
The tree was an early kind of coffin. This type of the Great
Mother, who personified the tree of life that bore the child as the
branch, was likewise made use of in death and burial, and a scooped-
out tree, a ―Cos,‖ would be the Kas (Eg.) coffin. The Kas is the
lowly dwelling-place of many languages, always traceable, like the
Khem or Khen, to the birthplace. It is the K HEPSH (Eg.); G USA ,
M‘barike; K OSOA , Guresa; the Q UISSE or C OISSE of the French eu-
phemized as the thigh, and as the hip in the Gaelic C EOS and Latin
C OSSA . The Kas is represented by the Latin Casa or hut-house, as in
the Casa Santa at Loretto; the C OSH , English, a cottage; C EIEZ , French
house, home; also C HOSE, peculiarly applied; Q UESSA , Quiché, a
nest; G AZA , Persian, small hut; K HUSS , Arabic, house of reeds; S AS ,
Romany, nest; S OZ , French Romance, an enclosure. The KAS , as
burial-place, supplies the names of Egyptian cities, as in K AS -verver
and K AS -kam, opposite to Antæopolis, therefore on the western side
of the Nile, the side of the tombs. Kas-khem denotes the funeral
shrine. Kesslerloch is the name of a cavern of the cavemen near Thay-
ingen, Switzerland. Cayster was a name of the ancient plain upon
which Ephesus was built. That is Keph-ster, Kak-ster, or Kas-ster,
the Ster of the Sanctuary. Keswick is a K AS re-named as a wick;
there was formerly an oval at this place containing forty stones. At
Cissbury, on the South Downs, near Worthing, there is an ancient
British camp which was also used by the Romans. It is excavated
with regular shafts and galleries. There is another at Chisbury, in
Wiltshire. These have nothing to do with the Saxon Cissa. The
Bury as in Mena-bury Hill (Herts), near Aldbury, does but repeat
the Ciss or Kes, the burial-place. No doubt the excavating for flints
and iron-stone led to the formation of some of the chambered tombs.
The C HEESE-wring at Liskeard is a Kas-ring, or circle of the dead.
The Wring is a place where cider is made, and not inappropriate for the
place of the dead who were transformed into spirits. So the Egyptian
name of the sanctuary Kep also means to ferment and turn into
spirit. The Cheese-wring is a mass of eight huge stones, rising to the
height of thirty-two feet. They have now the appearance of nature‘s
handiwork alone, like the rocks at Brimham, in Yorkshire, probably
on account of their extreme age. Sufficient time has never yet been
allowed for a true judgment in the matter.
In the language of Wordsworth:—
― Among these rocks and stones methinks I see
More than the heedless impress that belongs
To lovely Nature‘s casual work ; they bear
A semblance strange of power intelligent,
And of design not wholly worn away.‖
Also, at times, the names of these stones are very arresting. One
of these groups, supposed to be the effect of some convulsion of the
earth, is named ―Kilmarth‖ Rocks (Scotland). Of course the marth
may denote the old word mart, for wonderful. But the stones erected
or hewn by human hands belong to the dead, who, in Egyptian, are
the Merti. Kar-Merti signifies the circle or underworld of the dead,
and this was kept by the dog Dos-M ARTH , the British K ERBERUS .
From Kas (Eg.), the funeral, to embalm and bury, comes Kast
(Eg.), the coffin, the enclosure of the body. This is our Kist, and
Kistvaen. F ENNU (Eg.) is dirt or earth; English, fen, mud, mire.
The Kist-vaen would thus be the burial-place underground, or the
earth-coffin.
Considering the importance of the burial-place as the point of
impinging on the earth, the centre of the living group from the
Llan up to the city, it is extremely likely that the Russian
Gostinoi-Dvor of every large town is derived from Kas (Eg.), to em-
balm and bury, and Kast, the coffin or burial-place. This would
account for its universal character as the bazaar, the meeting-place,
analogous to the church amid the dead, the sacred place of meeting.
We have the ―Cos‖ as the tree-coffin; the Kistvaen as the earth-
coffin; the Cas-Llychwr of the Welsh burial-mound, the Casses of
Caithness, and in the Mount of Belief at Scone, the ―Caislen Credhi,‖
where the word ―Caislen‖ includes the Llan, enclosure, of the Kas,
coffin (Eg.), funeral and burial, identified with the Mount of Belief.
It was at a place named Keiss, in Caithness, that the burial-mound
was discovered near the harbour, containing the implements of stone
and bone belonging to the Palæolithic age. Rude sepulture had there
been given to human bones supposed to have been previously split to
obtain the marrow for eating.1 We now claim the mound at Keiss
as a most primitive form of the Kas (Eg.) or Kester, a place of
preservation for the buried dead.
Castallack Round was an ancient circle, destroyed of late years,
like so many others yet to be grieved for in vain. It stood in the
parish of St. Paul‘ s, Cornwall. Kes-ter-rekh, or Kes-ter-akh, the
Egyptian equivalent, shows the Kester of the dead, and as Lack
denotes stone, the Castallack is the stone circle of the laid-out dead.
Roskestal is another name containing the Kes-ter, the circle of the
dead. At Roskestal was one of the Garrack-zans, as at Sawah.
Ross adds another Egyptian eletnent to the rest. Res means to raise
up, to watch; Ras, the south. The Castallack Round opened with a
doorway to the south. And there in the south, the place of the
summer solstice, where Khepr made his transformation in the sign of
the Crab, the Egyptians had located the land of eternal birth, which
the sun reached on the 30th of Epiphi, our Midsummer, the year
began anew, and the spirit was ―at peace in its place, full at the fourth
1 Prehistoric Remains of Caithness, S. Laing and Professor Huxley.
hour of the earth, complete on the 30th of Epiphi,‖ and the person of
the spirit (Eg.) was then in presence of the gods.1 ―He has his star,
or shade (or soul) established to him, says Isis, in heaven at the place
where the goddess Sothis is. He serves Horus in Sothis. He
becomes as a shade, as a god among men. He has engraved a palm
on his knee, says Menka [or Maka, Irish Macha]. He is as a god
for ever, reinvigorating his limbs in Hades.‖2
This theology was known to the Kes-tel builders. Ros-Kes-tal is
the raised circle of the embilmed or buried dead. The burial-place
was lifted up, as it were, in the arms of the mother Earth, and the out-
look turned south to the land of eternal birth. The pathos expressed
on the face of these early ideas, when we have lifted or seen through
the veil of symbol, makes the heart ache.
One thinks the divine consciousness must surely feel a parental
love for this our world and all its creatures in it, if only for the up-
ward yearning of humanity in its infancy, the touching appeal of
these primitive ideas and emblems in which the early men portrayed
their deep unquenchable desire to nestle nigh and nigher to the ever
living heart of all! And, as death was one of the first, profoundest
teachers of man, it would be ghastly strange indeed if it had nothing
to reveal after all, as the unknowers assume to know and assert, but
a death‘s-head horribly agrin, as the type of the eternal, and this
universal abode of life, were but a vast, hollow, eyeless skull, with no
sensorium of consciousness within.
The prose Edda also says, ―At the southern end of heaven stands
the palace of Gimli, the most beautiful of all, and more brilliant than
the sun,‖ possibly because it was pre-solar.
One name is frequently repeated in connection with the stones in
the forms of Rath, Roth, and Rut. Rath-Kenney, Meath, is the seat
of a cromlech. There is one also at Ratho in Midlothian. At Rothie-
may, in Banffshire, there are remains of a stone circle. In Rudstone
churchyard, there is a fallen monolith which once stood twenty-four
feet above ground, and has been calculated to have weighed forty
tons. Ruthven in Forfarshire, Ruthin in Denbighshire near which is
the ―hill of graves,‖ Ruthwell, and many others of the same name,
are all places where the stone monuments are found. With the inter-
change of the letters R and L, it still holds good as at Lethham Grange,
and Linlathen. Indeed, the Lothian Hills themselves, with the
numerous remains and hut circles on their summits, appear to derive
their name from the same origin.
Rat (Eg) is a stone, a hard stone, a carved stone; the word means
to engrave, cut, plant, to RETAIN THE FORM . To retain the form was
the object of the stone hewers and carvers. Mummifying was a mode
of retaining the form. Burial in high places, in dry ground, in stone
coffins and beneath stone covers, was intended to preserve the form.
1 Ritual, ch. cxl. Birch. 2 Rubric to ch. ci., Ritual, Birch.
The Rath-mounds were chosen or made artificially, and circumvallated
for the purpose of protecting and retaining the forms of the dead.
Also the writing of the name of the deceased on the gravestone is an
individualized mode of doing what was formerly done en gros.
This naming may be followed by the aid of Ren or Lin (Eg.), to
name. Thus a name like Linlathen indicates the place of the stones
(Rat or Lath), which retained the form of the dead in the mounds and
the tumuli, or their memory in the mass, ages before the individual
was separately distinguished by the name cut on his own tombstone.
One of the largest carved rocks found in Northumberland is called
the Rowtin-Linn Rock. It contains fifty or sixty ring-cuttings and
over thirty cup-cuttings—to quote the phraseology of Sir James
Simpson. Rowtin-linn as Rat(en)-Kenn—the linn here retains the
double N, and represents the form of renn, to call by name—denotes
the carven stone of naming. The mode of naming is of course
symbolical or hieroglyphical, and is ancient in proportion to its rude-
ness. If they aspired to an individual record, they had not in those
times the means of securing it, but there was a general record at the
centre of each group of people, or appointed place of burial.
Some of the stone buildings of our goddess of the north were of the
same simple, rude, massive type as was the temple of Buto or Uati.
There was a Druidic stone at Locmariaker reputed to weigh 260
tons. These enormous stones were raised up and supported on other
stones, and one of them in Cardiganshire was called the flat stone of
the Giantess. The ―Maen Ketti‖ shows that the one of the ―three
mighty labours of the isIand of Britain,‖ called ―lifting the stone
of Ketti,‖ refers to these suspended stones.
Herodotus observes, ―Of the oracle that is in Egypt, I have already
made frequent mention; and I shall now give an account of it, as
well deserving notice. This oracle in Egypt is a temple sacred to
Latona, situated in a larger city, near that which is called the
Sebennytic mouth of the Nile, as one sails upwards from the sea.
The name of this city, where the oracle is, is Buto, as I have already
mentioned. There is also in this Buto a precinct sacred to Apollo
and Diana: and the temple of Latona, in which the oracle is, is
spacious, and has a portico ten orgyæ in height. But of all the things
I saw there, I will describe that which occasioned most astonishment.
There is in this enclosure a temple of Latona made from one stone
both in height and length; and each wall is equal to them; each of
these measures forty cubits: for the roof, another stone is laid over it,
having a cornice four cubits deep. This temple, then, is the most
wonderful thing about this precinct.‖1 The temple of Latona made
from one stone is the type of the ark of Kêd; and as the one was an
oracle, so doubtless was the other. It represented the birthplace,
and the place of new birth, and was conscquently used by the Druids
1 B. ii. 155.
and diviners as the place of consultation and for the utterance of
their teachings.
The next most wonderful thing to the oracle of Buto seen in Egypt
by Herodotus was, he tells us, the ―Island of Cliemmis,‖ situated in
a deep and broad lake near the precinct in Buto. ―This is said by the
Egyptians to be a floating island, but I myself saw it neither floating
nor moving, and I was astonished when I heard that there really was
a floating island. In this, then, is a spacious temple of Apollo, and
in it three altars are placed; and there grow in it great numbers of
palms, and many other trees, both such as produce fruit and such as
do not. The Egyptians, when they affirm that it floats, add the
following story. They say that in this island, which before did not
float, Latona, who was one of the eight primary deities dwelling in
Buto, where this oracle of hers now is, received Apollo as a deposit
from the hands of Isis, and saved him, by concealing him in this
which is now called the floating island, when Typhon arrived, search-
ing everywhere, and hoping to find the son of Osiris. For they say
that Apollo and Diana are the offsprings of Bacchus and Isis, and
that Latona was their nurse and preserver; in the language of Egypt,
Apollo is called Orus; Keres, Isis; and Diana, Bubastis. Now, from
this account, and no other, Æschylus, the son of Euphorion, alone
among the earlier poets, derived the tradition that I will mention, for
he made Diana to be the daughter of Keres. For this reason they
say that the island was made to float. Such is the account they
give.‖1
We also have an island of Buto, and the account furnished by
Herodotus affords us the means of comparison and identification of the
island in the north which was described by Hecatæus and reported
for us by Diodorus Siculus in his chapter on the Hyperboreans.2
He tells us there is a British island opposite the coast of Keltica,
lying to the north, ―which those who are called Hyperboreans do
inhabit. They say that this island is exceedingly good and fertile,
bearing fruit twice a year. They feign also that Latona was born
in this island, in regard whereof Apollo is adorcd above all other
gods. The men of the island are, as it were, the priests of Apollo,
daily singing his hymns and prayers, and highly honouring him.
They say moreover that in it there is a great grove or precinct, and
a goodly temple of Apollo, which is round and beautiful with
many rich gifts and ornaments, as also a city sacred to him, whereof
the most part of the inhabitants are harpers, on which instrument
they play continually in the temple, chanting forth hymns to the
praise of Apollo, and magnifying his acts in their songs. These
Hyperboreans use the proper language of the Greeks, but they are
especially joined in league of friendship with the Athenians and
Delians, for they say that certain Greeks came in times past to them,
1 Herodotus, ii. 155. 2 B. iii. ch. xv.
and in their temple presented divers sumptuous gifts inscribed with
Greek letters, whereupon one of them, named Abaris, passed into
Greece and confirmed the amity which a long time before was con-
tracted with those of Delos. Now they which command in this
city and preside in the temple are Boreades, the progeny of Boreas,
who hold the principality by succession.‖
The name of the Boreades would seem to have travelled still further
north and to be extant in the Hebrides. It has been erroneously sup-
posed that the island was England, but it is self-identified by name
and the mythological scheme as Bute, one of the seven isles of Bute-
shire, the namesake of Buto, both being sacred to Latona and Apollo.
Bute lies off the Keltic coast of Scotland, as the Kelts or Gaels were
then reckoned. Moreover, it has in Arran the twin island, which was
called Chemmis in Egypt, and was known as the floating island.
Aren is an Ark-Island, Aren being a name for the ark, therefore it
represents the same floating island of the ancient symbolism. Also
the seven isles of Bute are a form of the sevenfold seat of the god-
dess of the north and the seven stars.
The Irish goddess of wet or moisture is one with Uat by nature, and as
the divinity of Buta-faun, the temple of Buta, the present Buttavant,
in the county of Cork, she is likewise identical with Buto. Buta-
fane is the temple of Buto; the goddess was known to the Irish as
Be-Baiste, and Peht, a form of Buto, was the divinity of Bubastes.
Moreover, B ITH or P EITHO is a name of Venus in Gaelic, and
Buto is the Egyptian Uati, Goddess of the North, a humanized
form of Khept, British Kêd, whose name of Wen or Vcn, in Kerid-
wen and Ogyrven, represents that of the Greek Venus, and Irish
O INE.
A floating island was an early form of the ark, a means of crossing
the waters mentally or actually before boats were launched or bridges
built. This constituted the land of life in the deep, the Ankh-land or
Inch. Herodotus describes the floating island called Chemmis (the
shrine of birth) in the lake at Buto, in which Latona saved Apollo
when pursued by Typhon. That island was the Ankh-land. It was
on account of this origin that the natural floating islands of the lakes
were objects of great reverence and religious regard.
The tree-cofin, the boat scooped out of the tree, the Wrn (Aren)
Cwch, Coracle, or ark, the cave in the mount, the beacon hill, the couch
of Kêd, the bed of Tydain, the seat or quoit of Arthur, the ship of the
earth, the Kak sanctuary or Skhen shrine, the Kas and Kester,
Tom and Tun, stone cell and cromlech, Kistvan and Ket‘s Coity
House, the Roundago, Mencamber, Kibno, the circle of the nine
maidens, of Anoeth, of Sidin, Cor-Kyvoeth (Stonehenge), or Camelot,
were each and all types of the mother to whose bosom the dead
were committed for burial and re-birth; to these may be added the
Island of Bute.
The Druid Bedds, circular sanctuaries, sacred to Tydain and Kêd,
were cemeteries, as Beddau are graves. In those formed of nine stones,
the tomb was just the womb. The bed in English is the uterus. This
was the Egyptian Put, the divine circle of the gods; and the bed of nine
stones was its ideograph. Thus the dead were returned to the place of
birth to await their transformation. This was why they were the
enclosures of Kêd, the great mother, who took them to her bosom
again as the nursing mother of eternal life.
A remarkable cluster of names occurs in the Duke of Hamilton‘s
grounds in the Barony of Mawchane, in Lanarkshire, with their Lands
of Carsbaskat, the Cross of Netherton, and the Moat-hill or Seat of
justice in the Haugh. Lan-ark is the Ark-enclosure. Ark (Eg.),
Orch (Welsh), denote the end. This was the enclosure of the dead.
Nuter (Eg.) is divine. Tun, the lofty seat. The Makhen or Makhennu
(Eg.) is the bark (ark) of the dead. The Kars (Eg.) is the place of
embalmment and burial, bas (Eg.) means to hide and protect, transfer or
transfigure, and Kat (Eg.) is the womb or the circle of reproduction.
The Haugh in the Norse Haugr, the Hag-pen, the Hogh, Hawk-law,
How, and Hoe, were funereal mounds and enclosures of the dead. The
Hag in Northumberland is the womb, prototype of the Hag-tomb.
The Kak is the old church. The Moat Hill is a most ancient form
of the Egyptian Hall of the Two Truths or Maāt. The goddess Mâ
presided in the Maāt-Hall. Her name in the hard form is Makh, the
Irish Macha. Now, there is a great mound in Westmeath, the Mound
of Moate, called Moategranoge, a name derived by tradition from the
young Grace or Graine, who was said to be a Munster lady. Dr.
Joyce refers her ladyship to the same origin as the Milesian princess,
who, according to the legends, took on herself the office of Brehon,
and from this moat adjudicated causes and delivered her oral laws to
the people.1 This Moate we claim as the Irish Maāt or Macha, who
was goddess of justice and lawgiver in the Maāt-Hall of the Two Truths
in Egypt. The various moat hills were her seats, one being in the
Hamilton grounds. The Ham (Hem) is the feminine seat and abode,
and the original tenure of the Hamiltons, it may be inferred, was based
on guardianship of the sacred ground belonging to the dead, the same
as that of the wardens of the Irish Termons and the lord of the
manor of Hundon in Caistsr.
The Irish Sidh is an abode, habitation, cave in the hill, and sub-
terranean palace of the spirits as fairies. The ―Wee folk, good folk,‖
the supernatural beings are called Men of the Sidh. The Banshu is
the Bean-Sidh. The Sidhean is a fairy mount. The ancient name of
the Rock of Cashel, and of several other fairy haunts, was Sidh-
Dhruim. Rocks, mounts, and mounds wherein the dead were buried,
are especial forms of the Sidh. There is an ever-famous Sidh at
Ballyshannon, Donegal, where William Allingham enshrined the
1 Tour in Connnaught, by Cæsar Otway, p. 55.
―Wee folk, good folk,‖ in an immortal lyric. The ―airy mountain‖
is the Sidh Aodha Ruaidh, a great resort of the fairies. It is a hill
now called Mullagh-shee, the hill of the Sidh or fairy palace. It was
lately found to have been a sepulchral mound; recent excavations
have shown that it contains subterranean chambers. This was the
burial-place of Aedh-Ruadh, father of Macha of the golden hair, his
ark of the waters.
Sidh is also applied to the spirits themselves, who are called THE
Sidh. S IDHEÓG means a fairy spirit. This, however, may be the
spirit (Akh, Eg., is a spirit and the dead) of the Sidh. But the
immediate point is this. In Egyptian the Irish Sidh is represented by
Shet, a name of the chest, box, sarcophagus, another hiding-place of
the dead. The Shet is also a space, closed, secret, and sacred; a
void, the tomb; all that is mystical and mysterious in relation to
burial is expressed by the word Shet, English shut. Shetu also denotes
a kind of spirits, the spirits of wine. One sees how the hill of the
dead would be transformed into a primitive kind of spirit-world, the
home and haunt of mysterious beings, the palaces and mansions of
the glorified dead.
On the sculptured stones of Scotland there is a representation of
some fragments1 of stone coffins from Govan, of which no account
is given. Two of these are tortoise-shaped, and one especially is
marked in a manner to suggest that it is a symbolical or conven-
tionalized tortoise in stone. The tortoise is Shet (Eg.), an ideograph
of the mystery and secrecy expressed by the word. There is a
―Chapter of Stopping the Tortoise‖ (36) in the Ritual. It had then
become an emblem of evil in the world of the dead.
If we are right respecting the direct Egyptian origin of our institu-
tions and ideas, it is certain that our teachers, say in the second stage,
that of the Keltæ, must have inculcated their horror of the body‘s
returning to the elements by the way of the worms, which amounts
to an agony at thought of it, as expressed in the Book of the Dead.
At Chysauster, in Cornwall, there were a series of caves and ex-
cavated passages, which have been destroyed within living memory.
The name of these tells us in the old tongue that they were places in
which the mummy was preserved. Ki (Eg.) is the ground-plan of an
abode, and means an inner region; Khi is to screen, cover, protect;
Sau is the mummy; Ster is laid out together, laid on the back, with
the image of the mummy laid out on the lion-couch of the embalmed
dead.
In almost every case where excavations have been made, it has
been proved that the stone circles were places of sepulture: Knock-
many Hill at Clogher, Tyrone, when opened, was found to contain
sepulchres chambered in the rock. This may perhaps account for
the name of the numerous Irish K NOCKS , as the gathering-places of
1 Stuart, pl. 134.
the M ENA or Dead. C NUCH in Welsh means to join together, and
represents the Egyptian A NKH . In English the C NAG is a knot, or
cluster; K NOGS are nine-pins; the K NOCKING -place is one of general
resort. The K ANK , Persian, is a temple; the Y ING , Chinese, a
sepulchre; Italian, C ONCA , the tomb. The K ANK or K NOCK is an
earlier form of A NKH or H ENGE, applied to the hill before the stones
were erected on the plain.
There is a hill in Renfrewshire out of which issues the River Kart;
the ―Kart Waters,‖ a synonym of the ―Black Kart.‖ Kart in
Egyptian means the silent, stealthy, black as night. This makes it
feasible that the name of the hill, the ―Staick,‖ is likewise Egyptian.
―Stekh‖ signifies to embalm, hide, to escape notice, lie hidden, make
invisible. This, therefore, looks like a burial-ground. Hills were, of
course, the dry places in our climate. Also this meaning of Stekh,
the concealed place, may perhaps identify the origin of our ―Stocks‖
as places hidden in nooks or by greenery. Woodstock was the place
of the famous maze or labyrinth which may have been a primitive
Stekh, as the place of concealment that secured the sanctity of the
dead.
In a Charter of King Athelstan, dated in 939, printed by Kemble,1
there is a description referring to Avebury, one portion of which is
called ―C OLLAS Barrow.‖ This, in Egyptian, would be ―Karas‖;
where we find Karas is the place of embalmment; ―Karas,‖ the
funeral and embalmment. The Karast is the mummy, the preserved
body, our corse. The meaning of Kars or Karas lives in our kerse,
to cover a wall with slate; clize, a covered drain; and a close,
Cornish clush. C OLLAS Barrow answers to the Egyptian Karas,
the place of preservation for the dead. The same description of
Avebury mentions the Hack-pen, taken by Stukely to mean the ser-
pent‘s head. But if this be Karas Barrow, the burial mound, then
the Hag-pen is the Hag, How or Kali, the sanctuary, and Pen is the
mount; Ben (Eg.), the height.
In Hebrew the K ARAS is the belly or paunch, used as a vulgar
expression for the }fb, or womb. In the Mishna it signifies the preg-
nant womb, and the mummy of the dead in the Karas was the image
of the child in the womb; a fetus of the future life. In another
spelling C HARAS (srj) is identical with the Egyptian Karas, as the
clay-place; also the sense of earth, earthy, plaster, to be sticky,
agrees with Karas as the term for embalming the mummy and
embedding it in the earth.
The coating of the body with ochre, which preceded the Egyptian
Mum or pitch-plaster, is implied in the Hebrew Charas. Still another
variant of the same word, as `rq, yields the boards of the Tabernacle,
which was an image of the womb and tomb in one; the C OFFIN , as the
final form of the C EFN , K AFN , C ABIN , or K IBNO of the bringer-forth.
1 Codex Diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici, v. p. 238, No. 1120.
The temple of Classerness, which stood in the Western Isles of
Scotland, contains the Karas (Eg.), the place of burial and embalm-
ment, in its name. Ser (Eg.) means the holy place; Ness is the pro-
montory or jutting of land. The ―Roundago‖ says the same thing
more briefly. Ren, to name, is to ring round, whence round (ren-t),
enclosed; and the Akhu are the dead. There was a Roundago at
Kerries, and Karas in Egyptian again identifies the place of embalm-
ment or burial. Kerries corresponds to Collas Barrow at Avebury, and
to Classerness. C RESS well Cave, where the oldest traces of design
and drawing on bone have been found in Britain, is probably a form of
the Karas, the place of embalmment and burial. The carved bones,
reindeer horns, and ivory, like the Jade stones, were early forms of the
Fé and the inscribed tablet or papyrus buried with the dead; these
are now represented by the tombstone erected over the dead.
The ―Kaer of the Gyvylchi,‖ in Snowdon, was a form of the en-
closure of Kêd. The Initiate, speaking of the mysteries, exclaims—
―I shall long for the proud-wrought Kaer of the Gyvylchi, till my
exulting person has gained admittance. It is the chosen place of
Llywy, with her splendid endowments. Bright-gleaming she ascends
from the margin of the sea. And the lady shines this present year
in the desert of Arvon, in Eryri.‖ 1 Llywy was a form of Kêd; the
branch and token of the egg belonged to her, she presided over
the mystical transformation.
Gavr-Inis is the name of a cromlech. Inis means an island, and
the dead of Memphis were conveyed to the Island of Tattu, in the
Nile, there to await their change and transformation, whereby they
were established for ever. This change is called after Khepr. And
in the cromlech of Gavr-Inis we have a form of the island, the ark
amid the waters, in which the dead awaited their resurrection.
In Egypt the beetle (Khepr) was the type of transformation and
resurrection, as were the Druidic egg and branch in Britain; both
egg and beetle showed the same change, and the beetle is found
in the barrows. In Egypt the beetle was observed to settle on the
banks of the Nile just before the Inundation, where the soil was
moist and doughy. On this its eggs were laid in a pile and the
earth heaped over them in a round mound; then it excavated and
dug out the earth beneath, and thus shaped a sphere or ball of mould,
with its eggs enclosed. Now the waters were beginning to rise,
and it was a long way from the place of safety at the rim of the
desert sand. But Khepr was equal to the emergency. Turning
round and fixing the inward-curving hind-legs to the two sides of
the ball, somewhat like the ironwork of the garden-roller, except
that Khepr was both handle and operator in one, the rolling began
by the beetle pushing backwards the ball revolving on the axis
of his legs. At the edge of the sand and beyond high-water mark of
1 Song of Hywell, Davies, p. 284.
the COMING tide, Khepr ceased to be a roller, and turned sexton. He
dug down half a yard or more into the dry, pushed in his little world
of future life, and then buried himself along with his seed to wait the
transformation of the chrysalis. In inscriptions at Bab-el-Muluk and
Abydus, Khepr is distinguished as the scarabeus which enters life as
its own son; a type that dispensed with paternity, and belonged
to the time when there were only the mother and son, and the son
was established in the place of the mother, as he was in the person
of Khepr-Ptah. ―They say,‖ observes Clement Alexander, 1 ―that
the beetle lives six months underground and six above.‖ This
is the type of the sun in the six upper and six lower signs.
Watching the works and ways of Khepr the Egyptians conferred on
the beetle the honour of being the symbol of transformation into new
life. In Egypt they could bury beneath the soil without fear of damp.
But in the north they learned that the chief dry places for the dead
whom they desired to preserve would be the high places.
The first K HEP , or Koff of K HEPR , where the transformation
occurred, was the womb; next the cave or C EFN , then the caer
of G YVYLCHI , and the cromlech of G AVR -Inis. The final form is
the C HAPEL , the lady-chapel, as it is still designated, which, in
Cornish, is the female Cheber. The French C IBOIRE, is the pyx;
the Hebrew Q EBORAH , Hindustani K ABR , Swahili K ABURI , Arabic
K ABR , and Malayan K UBR , are names of the sepulchre. The C AFELL ,
Welsh, is the choir or chancel; the Gaelic and Irish C AIBEAL is a
burial-place; the Latin C APULI , a bier; the Hindustani and Turkish
KIBLA, a shrine, and a quarter of the heaven. Womb and tomb are
synonymous, and in Irish K OEAILLE means pregnancy; the K EBIL
is a midwife, and in Gothic K IPURT signifies birth.
Gyvylchi, in Wales, is identical with Kabal, or Gebail, names of
Biblos, where the genitrix had her Kep or sanctuary. The myth
identifies the scenery, and Gyvylchi is the high earth of Gebail or
Kabal, and one of the four supports of heaven. Khibur, the Egyptian
name of Hebron, is the same mount in mythology. Cyverthwch
is the name of another place in Eryri, the Cliff of Cyverthwch.
The Druidic Kyvri-Vol, near Gower, is the ark or chest (Vol) of
Kyvri. The Egyptian imagery shall be identified past doubt.
The Kep (Eg.), a concealed place, sanctuary, abode of birth, is
our Cave. The Messiah is born in a cave of the rock or mountain.
The cave of the Peak in Derbyshire is likewise called the Keb, a
name for the Peak. The Kep or cave was the type of the birthplace,
the feminine abode. Hence the cave of the mountain is the sanctuary
of the Great Mother, in the Keb of the Peak, as well as in Gebail,
Khibur, or Hebron. Kep (Kêd) or Kheft, the Typhonian genitrix,
was represented by the Khepsh, or hinder thigh, the thigh constellation.
Now when Typhon was degraded in this country, as in Egypt, it was
1 Stromata 5.
the devil, and to show how definitely the Egyptian imagery was
imprinted on our land, the Keb or cave of the Peak, the symbol of
the Khep, as hinder part, hinder thigh, is known at this day as
the ―Devil‘s Arse.‖
Avebury or Abury was a form of the mount, but reared by human
hands. It is certain to be a type of the Kep, the image of Kêd, and
therefore the earliest form will be Kaf-bury. Af (Eg.) has an earlier
form in Kaf. The bury in this shape is explained by burui (Eg.),
the cap, tip, roof, supreme height, which has the same meaning as
Ben, determined by the pile, obelisk, or pyramid; the Hag-PEN being
a part of Avebury. Af and Kab (Eg.) mean born of. Av-bury is
the lofty birthplace. The Barddas call it the Pile of K YVR - ANGAN .
It was also a form of the Ankh, that is, a symbolic image of life
associated with the idea of transformation or transfiguring, a typical
place of re-birth for the dead laid out together (Cyvr), also used
in the Mysteries for the enacting of the doctrinal drama. The
builders were imitating the beetle in burying their dead as the seed
of future life, waiting in a dry place for the resurrection, and the
receptacle was representative of the Kept or Ked, the Egyptian
Meskhen.
Cor-C YFOETH was a name of Stone-Henge, and in Welsh C YFAWD
means to rise up; C YFODI may be rendered the Resurrection. Abury
being a work of the builders, the name can be glossed by G OBER ,
Welsh, a work, operation, deed; G OBERU , to work; G EPHURA ,
Greek, a mound of earth; K EBER , Cornish, C ABIR , Welsh, a rafter,
roof-work; C EIBRAW , to joist, lay on rafters; C IVERY , English, a
compartment in a vaulted ceiling; K ABARA , Persian, a beehive.
There are writers, who like Goldziher in his Mythology of the He-
brews, have imprudently characterized the system of British Druidism
as a modern imposture and perversion of Christianity. But the truth
is there is far more in it even than has ever been claimed by the
Barddas. When the matter is tested by the comparative method, this
will be proved.
The chair of the bards was a great symbolic institution, the
chair of Keridwen. This is an identifiable type. The chair was the
Hes or As of the genitrix in Egypt. Hes, the chair, is likewise the
Egyptian name of the singer, the bard, and means to praise, applaud,
celebrate. Tut is to unite together, a ceremony, typical, and Put
is the divine circle of the gods; the Put circle of nine in number.
An earlier form of the circle is that of F UT, the four cortlers, the
quadrangular Kaer. H ES - TUT- FUT, the celebration of the singers in
the quadrangular Kaer, the circle of Kêd, gives us the EISTEDDFOD
continued, in keeping with its original character, to the present time,
as an annual gathering of singers and reciters with the seat (Hes) in
the circle. The Eisteddfod is a living link with Stonehenge, the Stone
of Eseye, and with Egypt. Further, as S ILL is an old English name
for the seat and throne, equated by the Egyptian Tser for the
temple or palace; Ser the seat and rock of the horizon; it is pro-
bable that Silbury Hill is a form of the ―Seat of the Throned
Bards,‖ who were likewise the lawgivers.
The language of the chair was personified in Kadeirath, the son of
Saidi. Kadeir is chair, and in Egyptian att or ―uti,‖ is a name for
speech, utterance, language, the Word.
The typical teacher of Druidic lore, Taliesin, characterizes his mys-
tical utterances by the name of ―Dawn y Derwyddon.‖ 1 Dawn, in
Welsh, is the Lore; Dawn y Derwyddon, the lore of the Druids. The
Tan or tannu, in Egyptian, further identifies the kind of learning; Tan,
measure, extent, complete, fill up, terminate, determine: Tennu,
lunar eclipses; Tennu, reckon, each and every amount. Thus the
Druidic lore consisted in reckoning up each and every one of the
circles and cycles of time. This is described as ―The study of the
Circle, the Circle of Anoeth.‖
―I know,‖ sings Taliesin, ―what foundations there are beneath the
sea. I mark their counterpart each in its sloping plane,‖2 that is in
the lower signs, the nether part of the circle of Anoeth. This circle
as Solar was called the precinct of Iôr, or the year. ―Iôr, the fair
quadrangular area of the great sanctuary,‖3 is the equivalent of the
four-cornered circle of the Zend Avesta, made by Yima.
The stones of the circles are sometimes called D AWNS -MEN , and
this title was perverted into dance-men, and the dancing men of
legendary lore. Finally the dawns-men and dance-men were con-
verted into Danish men, and the Danes take the place of the Dawn
made plural in Dawns.
This Dawn is Taliesin‘s Dawn y Derwyddon, the Druidic lore. The
Dawn-Men are the Stone-Memorials of the Druidic lore, the know-
ledge of the time-circles registered in the stones. That they localized
the circle of Anoeth in these islands is shown by the name of the
parish in Scotland where the Stone of Kirckclauch was found,4 which
is Anwoth. An (Eg.) also means to speak, hear, listen. W OTHE (Eng.)
means eloquence. Anat (Eg.) is the stone-circle. An-at is the circle
of repetition. ―I require men,‖ says the god Hu, ―to be born again,‖
―RY ANNET.‖
The heaven was divided in two halves, sometimes represented
by Nupe above and Neith below. Nupe (or Pe) bends over the
earth and rests on her hands and feet in the form of a half-square,
equivalent to the half-circle, and this figure was conventionalized. A
stone in the Edinburgh Museum of Antiquities shows a figure that
corresponds to the upper half of the heavens, represented by Nupe
as the upper hemisphere, or by the human figure conventionalized into
2 Song of Cuhelyn, 6th century. Davies, Myth. p. 314. Ib. p. 52.
3 Davies, 315. 4 Stuart, Sculptured Stones¸pl. 123.
mere line. A cross within the enclosure intimates the place of
the equinox, the division of the two heavens, where the sun entered
the upper one. Here was the ―Hall of the Two Truths,‖ whose
duality takes so many forms. Here was the region of Tattu, the
eternal. One sign of this was the wheel or cake symbol of the orbit,
which became the ancient wheel-shaped Theta of the Greeks. Thus
the letter Theta with cross and circle combined repeats Tattu or
Teta, the established region in the zenith. This same sign is found
on the Scottish stones. It is the especial emblem of the equinox as
the place where the circle of the year was completed and renewed.
Two such cakes or wheels denote the double equinox, as in
the Hebrew \ylbd-tb (Beth Diblaim), the house of the double
cakes or circle, and other forms of doubling. Har-Makhu was the
solar god of this double horizon, with its station at the place of the
equinox.
Now it is claimed by the present writer after long study, that the
little house of the double-cakes, disks, or circles found on the sculp-
tured stones of Scotland, 1 is the Hall of the Two Truths in An
or Tattu, the solar birthplace, and that the image of the Two
Truths and dual circle is what is commonly termed the ―spectacles
ornament.‖
This is sometimes represented across the little house of the two
circles as in plates 15, 17, 33 (Stuart), and at others by the double
disk. In either case the double circle is crossed by the crooked
serpent or the Z-shaped figure. The Egyptians placed their equinoxes
up in the zenith and their solstices low down on the horizon. The
place of the equinoxes was a mount, and if we imagine an enormous
plank laid across the top, on the ends of which two figures ride up
and down at see-saw, we shall be able to realize their scales as they
ascended and descended north and south. This see-saw of the sol-
stices in the scales or balance of the equinox is necessitated by the
one being in the zenith, the others on the two horizons. The seesaw
on our stones is the serpent or Z-figure oscillating across the
double disk of the Hall of Two Truths. This can be shown. One
name of the figure of the double horizon is Tset. Tset is the ser-
pent (Tet), and this serpent Tset becomes our Zed. Thus the serpent
and the Z are equivalents as on the stones. The Zed or serpent, then,
belongs to the double horizon north and south, its head and tail are
solstitial; these go up and down across the dual disk, which is there-
fore the Egyptian equinox in the zenith.
The serpent depicted in plate 37 of Stuart‘s Sculptured Stones
from the monument at Newtown is the basilisk, the goggle-eyed or
spectacled serpent, which is the especial warder of the gateway of the
path of the sun. 2 In keeping with this character it is portrayed
1 Stuart, The Sculptured Stones of Scotland, 2 vols.
2 Sarcophagus in Soane Museum.
with four wings, which represent the four corners of the earth. It is
also depicted under the name of Hapu with four heads. And again,
on the same sarcophagus, it appears in a fourfold form as Apt, having
four figures on it. Apt is the name of the four corners, and the
basilisk is the serpent of the four cardinal points, that is, of the
solstices and equinoxes, therefore, of the circle of the year.
Another basilisk on the same monument is three-headed, and it
represents the trinity of father, mother, and son, or Osiris, Isis, and
Horus which is perfected and completed in. the conjunction at the
time of the vernal equinox. The typical serpent of the Egyptian
monuments has the same signification on the Scottish stones.
The Sweno stone, supposed to commemorate the defeat of Sweno,
is to me the Shennu stone. Shennu (Eg.) is the circle of time con-
sisting of two halves (Shen or Sen). Shen also means the brother
and sister, the male and female halves. These figures are portrayed
on Sweno‘s stone (plate 18, right hand), and on plate 20 the two
figures are bending over the child born at the place where Osiris, Isis,
and Horus met in ―Shennu‖ at the crossing.
The hall of the double disk is found on stones at Tyrie and
Arndilly. Both Dilly and Tyrie correspond to Terui (Eg.), our Troy,
the circumference and limit of the whole, consisting of the two times
called Terui; which is also a form of Sesennu and number eight, the
total as the Ogdoad, like the eight in the ark, here represented by
A RN .
At Bourtie (plate 142, Stuart) there are two stone-circles, the two
disks of the drawings. There is also an eminence called the Hawk-
Law. Two cairns were opened about fifty years ago. In each there
was a stone coffin enclosing two urns of hard baked clay. 1 The
name Bourtie answers to Per-ti (Eg.), the dual circle and double
house in An.
A rock on Trusty‘s Hill, near Anworth, Galloway, has the double
disk and Z-sceptre. The equinox is in line with a conventionalized
fish, and there is a sign pointing expressly at the fish. The Worth
is an enclosure, and An we claim as the solar birthplace, the
celestial Heliopolis. An also means a fish in Egyptian, and here
the equinox is in An; the monument in Anworth.2
When the solar birthplace was in the Fishes, it was represented by
the genitrix in the shape of a mermaid who brought forth the child.3
Now the well-known symbols of the Mermaid are the comb and the
glass. These are frequent on the Scottish stones. The comb and
mirror are depicted on the ―Maiden Stone,‖ which thus becomes the
Stone of the Mermaiden Goddess, half woman, half fish, the Derketo,
Atergatis and Semiramis, who was represented in Britain as the
mother Kêd, our Keto.
1 Stuart, p. 42, and plate 132, fig. 3.
2 Plate 97, Stuart. 3 Hermean Zodiac. 4 Plate 2, Stuart.
The comb represents puberty, the first of the Two Truths in the
mystical sense. At this period the maiden bound up her hair for the
first time with the comb, plaited, knotted, and snooded it, according to
Egyptian usage. The mirror is the type of reproduction, like the eye,
which is likewise figured at the place of the vernal equinox. This was
the symbol of the other of the Two Truths. Both were united in the
mermaid or fish-goddess, or yet earlier water-horse. But where is the
mermaid herself? She is represented by the elephantine monster
of these drawings. This figure accompanies the equinoctial imagery
of the double-disk in plates 2, 22, 24, 34, 39, 47, and 67 (Stuart).
The same figure accompanies the crescent or semi-circle in plates
4, 10, 40, 47. It represents the goddess of the Great Bear, whose type
in Egypt was a monster cornpounaed of hippopotamus, crocodile,
the Kaf-ape, and lioness.
The monster of the stones is the same ideograph as the Mare
with feet fettered fast around the cake-type of Tattu, the eternal, or
depicted full gallop on other of the coins or amulets of Cuno-Belin.
Hippa, the mare, is but a more European form of Kefa, the female
water-horse.
The monster is the Scottish version of the conventionalized Bear,
portrayed by the Welsh as mare and boat and bird in one image.
In either case the object was not to imitate nature, but to com-
pound an ideographic symbol. It happens that the spectacles-shaped
double disk is found on the Assyrian monuments, as a form of yoke,
and is said to denote A FOUR - FOOTED ANIMAL TRAINED TO THE
YOKE . Our word yoke and the Latin Jugum are forms of the
Egyptian Khekh, the balance and the place of the equinox. The
Roman Jugum appears as a kind of cross. 1 Thus the cross, the
balance, and yoke, are types of the equinoctial level, the crossing,
and the word Khekh names all three. The Jugum as the top or
ridge of a mountain also corresponds to the Kekh of the horizon or
height. In Eskimo, Kek is the boundary; Kakoi, in Japanese, means
to enclose, clasp, fence round, and the four-footed animal trained to
the yoke is our mare with fettered feet, and the monster whose
tethered turnings round denoted the earliest year, that of the Great
Bear. It was by aid of the Great Bear that the early observers
determined the equinoxes and solstices. The Chinese say when the
tail of the Great Bear points to the east, it is spring; to the south,
it is summer; to the west, it is autumn; and to the nbrth, it is
winter. This was the constellation of the bringer-forth of the child
as Sut, the Dog-star, in the pre-solar time.
The bird is often found on the stones, and on one of them2 there
is a form of the boat, with a paddle in the forepart.
1 See pp. 481, 482, Trans. Bib. Arch. vol. vi. part ii.
2 Plate 85, Stuart, St. Orland‘s Stone, at Cossius.
The fish appears on the Edderton stone,1 and again on the Golspie
stone,2 accompanying the symbols of the equinox. This can only
indicate the colure in the sign of Pisces.
On the Mortlach stone,3 two fishes are portrayed, and they are
joined together like the two of the zodiac. There is a figure of the
Ram beneath, as if superseded by the fishes. Further, plate 118
shows a ram-headed figure over the fishes, or twin-fish, also an
inverted human figure. This read hieroglyphically—the inverted
figure is among the hieroglyphics—signifies the reversal of the signs,
and says the colure has left, or is leaving, the sign of the Ram for
that of the Fishes. The imagery is on the cross of Netherton, which,
in Egyptian, means the divine seat; this seat was denoted first and
foremost by the cross of and at the crossing. It was at this point
the hero Horus overcame the Akhekh dragon of darkness, the
Typhonian type of evil. And on the Golspie stone,4 the hero is por-
trayed fighting the battle of Horus against Typhon, which terminated
at the spring equinox.
At the place of the equinox was the double holy house devoted to
Anubis, the double Anubis who may be seen biformis, back to back,
at the crossing in the planisphere of Denderah. We know the Druids
made use of the ape in their imagery, and this was one form of
Anubis. This double Anubis as dual ape appears in plate 63.5 The
duality is curiously expressed in the way they are twined and inter-
twined together. The same twins are apparently intended in plate 45,
from the Kirriemuir stone.6
When the Great Mother was first typified by the bear, or water-horse,
Typhon, Sut was her son, and his type was the Dog-star. As Apt
she is expressly called the Great One who gave birth to the boy.7
The boy in Britain was Bcli, the star-god, and Belin, the solar Baal.
And in one of the archaic sculpturings,8 the so-called 2-sceptre is
drawn with the double disk in a boat-shape figure, like that of the
Hindu Meru, with the seven heavens at one end, and the seven hells at
the other, on the north and south poles. The dog‘s head is appended
to one end of the balance. It is repeated in fig. 34.8 The dog is
obviously at the head end, that is, in front, the south; the north being
the hinder part, represented by the loop or tie of Typhon, and this
points to the Dog-star, the announcer of the solstitial year. Thus we
have the mother and son, Sut-Typhon, as Great Bear and Dog,
among the earliest of all the Sabean types figured in the heavens.
Every type found in cluster on the stones connected with the cross
ideograph of the equinox shows the astronomical imagery in the
eschatological phase. The great mother, the sun-bird, the mirror,
comb, serpent, and hall of the double disk, all denote the resurrection
1 Plate 15, Stuart. 2 Plate 34, Stuart. 3 Plate 14, fig 1, Stuart.
4 Plate 31, Stuart. 5 Stuart. 6 Stuart.
7 Birch, Galley, p. 41. 7 Simpson, p. 170. 9 P. 171.
or reproduction of the sun-god and the soul, and so proclaim and
prove the monuments to be memorials of the buried dead.
Evidence of what may yet be called the Druidical cult, maddening
as is the name to some, is not limited to the monuments, but survives
in the names of places where the stones have been destroyed. So
long as they stand, our hills will talk in the primeval tongue, and while
Helvellyn lasts, its name will prove it to have been the seat and
scene of the worship of Kynvelyn, the British Belin.
The present work has been partly written on ancient Druidical
ground. The author was born in its neighbourhood, and has lived in
the heart of it for many years; born in the shrine of Belin, at G AMBLE,
which may be rendered the Khem of Baal. This is shown by the
Bulbourne river, and the ancient city of that name. An old distich
of the district says:—
― When St. Alban‘s was a wood,
The ancient city of Bulbourne stood.‖
Bulbourne was the boundary of Baal.

If it be objected that the word Gamble is an English name for the
leg, my reply is the leg (hinder) is the especial hieroglyphic of the
genitrix, who was herself the shrine of Baal.
The Druidic ground is chiefly on the Chiltern Hills, at the corners
of three counties, Herts, Bucks, and Beds.
There are three Hoes, Ivinghoe, Totternhoe, and Asthoe. The
seat or throne of Kêd is extant as the Ten or Den of Gad, divided
into the larger and lesser Gaddesdens in accordance with the dual map-
ping out. The Den or Dun is a division as well as a seat, following
the Egyptian Tena, to divide, separate in two, and Nettle-den is the
lower den, the nether of two (so a jakes is a nettle-house), like the
Neter-Kar. The Dunstable crows are both black and white.
At Dunstable we have the Maiden-ing burn or bourne, possibly
both in one. P YTTE-S TONE implies the stone of the intermittent
well.
Ashridge Park was anciently in two divisions, and one of these, the
south-eastern, was always stocked with fallow deer, the northern with
red deer.1 These were as true symbols of the two halves of the solar
circle as the white and red crowns of Egypt.
There is a tradition that the San Grael was at Ashridge, the house
of the Bonhommes. Skelton, in his Crown of Laurel, speaks of ―Ash-
ridge beside Barkanstede, that goodly place to Skelton most kind,
where the Sang Royall is, Christ‘s blode so red.‖
Ashridge House has its legend of the cross, because it stands at the
crossing. It stands in two counties, and is so completely divided that
during the time the present writer dwelt in its neighbourhood a
sudden death occurred, and a coroner‘s inquest ensued. The doctor
1 Lipscombe, Hist of Bucks, vol. iii. 447.
chanced to mention that the man had died in another room; this
was in the next county, and another coroner demanded.
Here, then, was the crossing, the topographical and symbolical
analogue of the astronomical crossing of the equinox, with the Hall
of the Two Truths, an image adopted by the religion of the Cross.
Hence followed the token of the crucifixion in the presence of the
San Grael.
My conclusion respecting the meaning of ―Ashridge‖ which has
nothing to do with the ash tree, is that it represents the mountain-
ridge which is preeminent in the Welsh Esgair; Gaelic, Eisgir; Irish
Aisgeir or Eiscir, that is, the ridge of hills and mountains; the rocky
ridge, Ysger in Welsh, being the rock or stone, which is repeated in
Asgr-ridge, or Ashridge. This is the Egyptian Skaru, the name of a
fort; the Assyrian Ziggurrat, a tower; the Hindustani Z IARAT or
Shrine. The fort or place of defence is recoverable in the Welsh
Y SGOR , a circular entrenchment. As the Greek E SCHARA , it is an
altar for fire-offerings, and in the Hebrew hrkza (Azkerah) it also
relates to sacrifice and memorizing. In Egyptian, As is the seat,
throne, sepulchre, sacrifice; Kheri means the victim bound for sacrifice.
The mountain was the first altar, and its caves supplied the earliest
tombs. The word as Eskar has also been adopted by geologists
for the isolated heap left by the ice or water at the foot of the
hills or on the plains. In accordance with a common principle of
compounding and, it may be, of interpreting names, the Ridge does
but translate the Aisgr.
The name of the ancient mother Kêd is extant at Cheddington,
earlier Kettington, the ten (high seat) of the Ing of Kêd. Kêd-tide
is an old name for Shrovetide. We have also the river Gad. Wad‘s
Combe (vulgarized into Ward‘s) and Wad-Hurst (as it is written in the
old maps) are probably forms of Gad, or Kêd, and in the Hurst or
wood of Kêd the greater part of this work was prepared.
Monybury Hill is a portion of the table-land of Gad (Gaddesden),
and thus we may have our Gad and Meni on the same ground. The
―Gallows‖ Hill, Welsh G WALAS , means the Couch or Bed on the
high table-land, which was the lair or birthplace of Kêd. One of
the hills next to Gallows Hill is still called Steps Hill. Cadr-Idris
is said to have had 365 steps cut in it. The hill at Cheddington is cut
in three vast coronal-like tiers, most distinct still, although it has been
ploughed over for ages. The early men cut indelibly whether they
worked in adamant, sienite, limestone, or only in the earth itself. Their
seals and impressions were worthy of the divinity whose name, Khet,
means to cut and to seal.
These three steps are ranged towards the sunrise, a triad of tiers
corresponding to the three solar regions, the upper, mid, and lower,
found in all the mythologies, and with the three ranks and symbolical
colours which were apparently disposed in the same way as in Egypt;
blue for the highest rank, white for the second, and green for the
lowermost; blue for Ammon in the height, green for Num in the deep,
and white for Khem on the horizon (to judge by white as the colour
of Khem-Horus); and these three are the chord of colour found on
the Druidic glains. ―We find some of them blue, some white, a third
sort green, and a fourth regularly variegated with all these colours.‖ 1
On these three tiers or steps of gigantic heaven-ward stride, we may
conjecture the Druids stood in their triple ranks at sunrise, and on gala
days in front of a stone temple, crowning the Hill of Kêd, toward
which these steps ascended. In the hill named ―Steps‖ Hill, close
to Gallows Hill, there is a vast ravine or gorge, not a natural forma-
tion, not the work of the elements, and unaccounted for as the work
of human hands. But the name of the hill itself suggests the clue;
it is the S TEPS Hill, and at the head of the ravine is the place, scope,
and height required for an ascent of steps as at Cadr Idris. This
hill leads up to Gallows Hill, the highest of all, otherwise known as
the Beacon Hill. With the strange ravine and ascent of the Steps
Hill we may compare the Egyptian Feast of the Dead, which was a
festival of the steps and of the valley, or of the ascent from the valley.
We cannot but associate the Gallows Hill with the Gwal of Ast,
the couch or seat of Kêd; Ast being one of her names, as Gaddesden
the ten or seat of Gad (Kêd) is close at hand, and not far off
is Asthoe, the hoe of Ast, and near by is Aston; also with the
Gallicenæ and the Gwyllion of the Druidic mysteries, a plural of
Gwyll or Gwely, the Gwal or Gwalas being the couch, ark, circle of
Kêd, formed of the nine stones; the Nine Maids that stood in a circle,
still represented by the circle trodden indelibly round the top of the
Gallows Hill; the nine damsels who warmed with their breath the
cauldron of Kêd, and the Nine Gallicenæ, the Galli of the Shen (Eg.),
circle, the Welsh Sêon. These were the British muses, identical
with the daughters of Mnemosyne in Greece, and the nine who at-
tended Osiris in Egypt. And at Dunstable—an ancient seat of the
C ATIEUCHLANI —we have the Maiden-Bourne or Maiden-ing-burn.
There are no stone remains in all this region now, nothing but
the cloven and circle-showing hills, and the imperishable records of
the past preserved in names. Hills and ridges like these are not so
easily carted away. There are three Commons on this portion of the
Chilterns, and commons are religious remains; the last relics of
general property in land under the Druidic system of government,
which was primally the land of the dead, the Khem-mena (Eg.) a
common place of the dead, being earlier than commons for provisions.
In one of the songs of poor old Merddin, the Caledonian Druid,
who uttered the death-wail of the ancient cult, he exclaims, ―How
great my sorrow ! How woful has been the treatment of Kedey‖—a
familiar name of the Mother Kêd. ―They‖—the opponents—―land
in the Celestial Circle, before the passing form and the fixed form,
over the pale white boundary. THE GREY STONES THEY ACTUALLY
REMOVE ,‖—as if the mournful fact were too pitiful 1 for credence!
Now let us turn to the lands of the living.
An old distich says,
― By Tre, Ros, Pol, Llan, Caer, and Pen,
You may know most Cornish men.‖
These are prominent names of places after which the family or com-
munity were named. The Llan is an enclosure in Cornish, also a
church, the latest form of the sacred enclosure. In Persian the Lân is
a yard. There are close upon one hundred Llans extant in the
village names of Wales. And Dr. Bannister has collected 300 proper
names in Cornwall based on Llan. This, in the hieroglyphics, is the
Ren, the name and to name. The ideograph is the Ren, ring, an
enclosure, a cartouche, for the royal names of the Pharaohs. We
have the far more primitive Ren-enclosure as a Ran, the noose or
band of a string, and in Ren, to tie up. With the participial terminal
ren is ren-t, the enclosed and named, and that is the formation of
the enclosure named, a primitive mode of getting on the land.
One form of land is the ground between the furrows in the ploughed
field. Land is that which is enclosed and named or Ren-t. The
Run-ring for cattle was an early Llan, and the Ren sign is a noose
for holding cattle by the foot. The orbit of that run was a primitive
llan, and the payment made for it was R ENT .
The same antiquarian has collected 500 Pens, named from the
headlands, the Scottish Bens. Ben in Egyptian is the height, the
point, cap, tip, roof; the Ben-ben is a pyramidion. In the same list
of names there are 400 ―Ros‖s; the Ros is a rock or headland, a
natural elevation, which would be seized upon first for its position.
It is the same at root as the Irish Lis, and English Rise.
There are 1,400 townlands and villages in Ireland having names
beginning with Lis. The Lis is a raised place; it may be the natural
or made mound turned into an earthwork. In the Book of Ballymote
the Rath is used to denote the entrenchment of the circle, and the
Lis is the space of ground enclosed. The Lis was sometimes
enclosed within several raths or entrenchments. The Egyptian Res,
to be elevated, raised up, to watch, be vigilant, best explains the
nature and meaning of the Lis, as place of outlook within the
protecting circle, before towers and fortifications could be erected.
The Welsh and Cornish Trevs, Trefs, Troys, or Tres, are pro-
bably the Egyptian Rep or Erpe. The Tre is understood to mean a
homestead. The Erpe or Rep (Eg.) was a temple, a sacred house.
With the article prefixed, this is T-rep, answering to Trep, and
many of the Treps were certainly religious foundations. In Egyptian
1 Davies, Welsh Arch. vii. p. 48.
we find the Taru, a college; Terp, the rites of Taht, a name for
literature; and Teru, for the circumference, the Troy. The Teru is a
modified form of the Tref.
Dr. Bannister has collected 2,400 Cornish proper names beginning
with Tre, and there are a thousand Tres as places. This is the
Egyptian Ter, Teru, and T-erp. Ter signifies all the people, the whole
of a community dwelling together. The dwelling may be beneath
the family roof-tree, whence the Tref (Tre) as the homestead, or it
may be a village, as in the Dutch Dorp and English Thorpe. The
habitation may be added to the Ter by the Pa (Eg.), a house, abode,
place, or city, whence the Terp, Tref, Thorpe. Without the T (the
article The) the Rep or Erp is an Egyptian temple, the house of a
religious community. Thus we have Ter (Eg.), the community, and
in Craven, Trip denotes the family and the herd, while the worn down
form of Tre in Cornish means the homestead, dwelling-place, en-
closure. The Erp (Terp) is the religious house. In Holstein the
Tref or Thorpe is called the Rup without the prefix.
In the Scilly Isles there were vast monumental remains in
Borlase‘s time, especially in an Island named ―Trescaw,‖ from
whence, according to Davies,1 a graduate in the Druidical school was
styled Bardd Caw, one of the associates. Cuhelyn ab Caw was a
British Bard of the sixth century. The songs of Keridwen were sung
by the chanters of Caw. The plural Caw is found in Kaui (Eg.), a
herd or band.
Trescaw, then, was a foundation of learning. The Caw is the
Egyptian Khau or Kaf. The Khau as a scholar is implied by the
Khauit being a school, a hall of learning with cloisters or colonnades.
The Khau (Eg.) is a dog, and the priests of Kêd were dogs, i.e.
Kenners or knowers; the dog being a symbol of the knower with the
Druids as well as in Egypt. The full form of the Khau is the Kaf
ape, the Cynocephalus, a type of Taht, the Divine Scribe; also of the
priests and of letters.2 With us, too, the shepherd‘s dog, the knower,
is designated a Cap; a Cap being synonymous with a master or head.
Hence the symbolic cap of the scholar. In Egyptian the Skhau is
the scholar and scribe, from Skhau, to write, writing, letters. So in
English for the Caw we have the scholars, and Trescaw, otherwise Ynis
Caw, was the island of the scholars. This was one of the Scilly Isles.
The name of Scilly identifies the school. Skill means to know, to
understand. The Scilly Isles repeat the name of Ynis Caw, the island
of the scholars; which suggests that the Tre in Trescaw is a modified
Tref or Trep, as T-rep (Eg.) the temple or sacred house, and that
scaw may represent the Skhau (Eg.), to write, writing, letters, the
scribes and scholars. The Ys in Welsh was added to augment and
intensify words, and this would make Caw Yscaw. Thus Ynis Tre(f)
scaw would be the island of the Druidic ―Erp,‖ a temple of the
1 Myth. p. 165. 2 See Hor-Apollo, i. 14.
scholars; the school implied by the later name of the Scilly Isles.
The Tref as family became the Irish Treabh and English Tribe.
We have a group of counties, or hundreds, anciently known as
Sokes, in Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, and Wessex. Our Soke is the
Egyptian Sekh, a division, to cut out, incise, to memorize, remember,
depict, represent, rule, protect. The Sekh is a division mapped out,
marked off, cut out. The British Soke was the territory on which
the tenants of a lordship were bound to attend the court. Also the
S OKE of a mill was the range of territory within which the tenants
were bound to bring their corn to be ground. The word ―Sekh‖
has many meanings. It is a variant of Uskh for water, the earliest
of all natural boundaries and divisions of the land. Sekh, to cut out
and divide, has the meaning of share. The right of socage is the
right to a share, held in later ages on varying terms. For example,
in the Manor of Sevechampe, Domesday 1 records that there were
four sokemen; one of these held half a hide, and might sell it;
another held one Virgate, and could not sell it without leave of his
lord (Elmer); the third and fourth had right of sale. King Edward
had sac and soke over the manor. In Egyptian ―Suskh‖ means free
to go, have the liberty. As sock and suck have the same meaning,
the Soke is a companionship, the basis of the Soke (guild), and the
primeval socage was the freedom to graze cattle in a certain division,
still extant in the right of common pasture, accorded to the company
who held the land on the communal system. The earliest socage
was so simple that it may be described as a right of suck or succour
at the natural fount of life, the breast of the great mother of all, from
which the children were not yet forcibly weaned, as they had not
parted from their birthright and heritage. The socage then became a
franchise, the parent of that liberty, freedom, frank-pledge, or what-
not, now conferred by the honour called the freedom of the city. The
primitive socage belonged to common ownership, the later to lord-
ship, when the ownership was made special and several, with the right
to levy soken, that is, toll. Port-Soken Ward, in the City of London,
means a municipal district having the privilege of levying soken or
toll in the shape of port-duties. Applied to territorial division on the
large scale, the Sekh gives us the plural Sex, our four counties. In
Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, and Wessex, we have a complete system
of the territorial sokes, arranged according to the four cardinal
points, and named in Egyptian. Uas is the west, a name of western
Thebes. Wes-sex is Uas-sokes, the west divisions. Wessex was
Hampshire. Robert of Gloucester calls Hampshire Suthamtshire,
and Sut-amt in Egyptian is south-western. Both Sut and Su signify
the south, and in Sussex, Wessex, and Essex the English follows the
parent language in dropping the terminal T. Sussex is the south
sokes, and on the same principle Essex is the east sokes.
1 Lib. Domesday, fo. 141, No. 36.
Ast, to be light, answers to our east. In this chart Middlesex is
to the north. The northern boundary of the zodiac as well as of
Egypt was called Mat in the oldest records. Mat signifies the mid-
middle division, which was the north-east quarter of the compass.
Thus we have a circle of the sokes, with London seated on the water
in the right position to represent the solar birthplace in Mat or An,
the celestial Heliopolis. It will bear repeating that Sussex county
was divided into six parts called Rapes, each of which had its river
and castle. Now as the castle is but a later Kester, it looks as if the
original Rape may have been the Egyptian religious house called the
Rep or Erp, just as the Sekh or Uskh was also the Hall of the Two
Truths. Sus (Eg.) means six, and whether intended or not, Sussex
reads the Six Sokes. A religious foundation connected with,the dead
is at the base of all our living institutions that are deep-rooted in the
past.
Our Sters, as before shown, are the resting-places of the dead.
The hieroglyphic ster is variously compounded in the Min-ster, the
ster of the dead; the Kester (Ke-ster) a house, region, land, inside
place for the stretched-out dead; and with the Kaer or enclosure of
the dead. The Chesters are also known as the Kaers. Portcestre
was formerly called Kaerperis, Gloucester was likewise Kaerglou,
Winchester was formerly called Kaerguen, which shows that Win is
the modified Guen. Guen answers to Khen or Khennu (Eg.), the
sacred house, hall, or sanctuary. Thus Guen-chester is the sanctuary
of the buried dead, who were shielded and sheltered in the Chester.
Khen, the sanctuary, also signifies to alight and rest, and Khen-khe-
ster (Eg.) is the protected resting-place of the laid-out dead. The
Glou in Gloucester takes the place of the sanctuary in Guen-chester.
Its equivalent Kheru (Eg.) means a shrine, house, sanctuary, or cell,
so that the significance is the same in both, Kher and Khen are
determined by the typical quadrangular enclosure, and the Kaers
were called quadrangles as well as circles. G LOU has the V sound
in G LEVUM , and Kheru (Eg.) has the equivalent in Kherf, a first
form, the model figure, or type of the Kher; it denotes the chief,
excelling, surpassing, sacred. The Egyptian Kar is a hole under-
ground, and with the terminal F for ―it,‖ we may obtain the grave as
the equivalent of Kherf, a first form, a model figure, whilst Glev
(Glevum) in Gloucester is really synonymous with Kherf, and grave,
the inner place of the dead. In Cirencester both names are united,
and Kar-en-khe-ster (Eg.) is the enclosure of the Chester or protected
place of the buried dead, unless we read the word Chester as com-
pounded from K AS (Eg.), burial, and TAR , the circle or to encircle.
We have both forms in Caistor (church) and Ros-Kestal.
As burial-places, the Kaers, Khesters, and Minsters acquired their
greatest sanctity, and for that reason were adopted and continued as
places of Christinn worship and rites; for churches and cathedrals.
Deep digging beneath and round some of the Chesters and Minsters
would reveal many a glimpse of our pre-Christian, pre-Roman, pre-eval
past, buried alive and still calling dumbly for rescue.
The Caers preceded the shires. And Nennius enumerates thirty-
three Kaers as,the names of ancient British cities, and as Kaer is the
hard form of Shaer, it is evident these Kaers became our Shires.
Kart (Eg.) means dwelling in . The Karrt is a name applied to the
dwellings of the damned in Hades. With us the S forms the plural
instead of the TI in Egyptian. The Egyptian Kars were the lower
places from the south as they were in Wales, and in the mapping out
of England the shires, or kars, are the lower counties. We have the
meaning preserved in another way. The lower is also the left hand,
and the Car-hand is an English name for the left hand. When the
Druids plucked the magical plant with the left hand, that was on the
night side, and the transaction belonged to the lower world.
We owe the words weal, wealth, weald, to this same origin in the
Kar or orbit, the enclosure. Wealhcyn is not derived from the word
Welsh as a name of race. That had a common origin in the Kar, gower,
gale, or weal. For example, hemp, the halter, is called Welsh parsley,
and the cuckoo is the Welsh ambassador, because the one makes the
noose round the neck, the other makes the annual circle, each being
a form of the Kar or weal. In the same way the whelk is named
from its spiral circles. To welke is to wax round like the circle of the
moon, and the Ring-dove is also called the Wrekin-dove, Wrek and
Welk being synonymous. Wales and Corn-wales are on the borders
of the land; they are the outermost counties lying where they look as
if conscious of being the first Kars enclosed from the common waste.
Next comes what used to be known as the Wealhcyn or the Wreakin,
as the word is found, in Shropshire. Wealhcyn does not mean
Welsh-kin; it is applied to the land as in the Wreakin, not to the folk.
Cornwall, was one of the two Wales. Somersetshire and Devon were
the Wealhcyn. Khen (Eg.) means within, inner, interior. The
Wealhcyn are the interior or more inward of the Kars, Shires, or
Weals, i.e. an inland Wales. The people may change, but names
are ineffaceable.
The inner Wales leads to the suggestion that the name of Corn-
wall is derived from Kar-nu-male. Nu (Eg.) signifies within, and
Kar-nu-kar reads ―Kar within Kar,‖ or the inner of the two Kars
called Wales. Cornwall was formerly Cornwales. Thus we begin with
Wales the Kars the lowermost counties, the west being the way to
the underworld, and Cornwall was anciently known as one of the two
Wales. Kar-nu-wale is- Wales within, and the Wealhcyn is a still
more interior Wales. In this way we see the advance inland from
what looks like a point of commencement in Wales.
One name of Wales known to the Barddas, is Demetia. Seith-
wedd or Seithin Saidi is represented as being the king of Demetia
or Dyved. 1 Dyved, later David, is a typical name of Wales, the
land of Taffy. Temti (Eg.) is the total of two halves, the plural of
Tem, a place corresponding to the dual Wales. In the old maps
Demetia is called Dyved. This, in Egyptian, indicated a figured
point of commencement, from Tef (Tep), the first point of beginning.
Tep, however, as commencing point, would by itself apply equally
to Dover. But the Tepht (Eg.) is the opening, gate, abyss of source.
The Tepht answers to the lower Kars.
This name of D YVED as the Tepht is illustrated by the ―Davy‘s
locker‖ of our sailors, the bottom of the sea, which is the mythical
Dyved or Tepht, the place of the waters of source, the pit or hole of
the serpent, where the evil Deva or Typhon lies lurking. The Druids
figured this underworld, or Nether-Kar, as the place from whence
the visible world ascended, and as the place of the evil G WAR -
THAWN . Cornwall, formerly called West Wales, was also known as
Defenset, and its people were the Defæsetas. Tef-nu (Eg.) is Dyved
within, the secondary form of Dyved or Wales. Here is a double
Tef as point of commencement analogous to Demetia and Wales.
In a map of Britain (597) carefully collated from local maps and
from Dr. Guest's researches by the author of the Norman Conquest,2
we find four counties named Sets; these are Defenset, Dorset,
Somerset, and Wiltset (later Wiltshire). These four counties should
constitute a land once inhabited, mapped out, and named by
Egyptians, for the ―Set‖ is the old Egyptian name of the Nome, a
portion of land measured off, divided, and named, i.e. nomed. These
are the only four Egyptian Nomes named as Sets in the island.
Defenset, in accordance with its name, comes first after Dyved or
Wales. Dor-set (in Egyptian, Tur-set) means an extreme limit of the
land, the frontier, the very heel of the foot or foothold. Dorset is
the frontier nome at an extremity of the land. Somerset is the
Water-Nome. Su is they, them, or it. Mer (Eg.) is the sea. Somerset
is the Sea-Nome. Wil-set, when equivalented in Egyptian, will be
Hir-set, the upper nome. Hir is upper, over, above, high, uppermost
boundary. The full form of ―hir‖ as a place-name is hirt, and this
may account for the T in Wiltshire. Hert was afterwards applied to
the shire of the uppermost boundary of our shires. This goes to
show that Wilts was once the uppermost limit of Egypt in England,
as the highest of four nomes or Sets.
Our Set is the Egyptian Set or Sat, from Sa, ground, which, with
the participial T denoting the Sa is measured or cut off, becomes the
Sat (as we say, sawed off).
The Sa (Sa-t) has the meaning, in measure, of one-eighth of a
quantity of land.3 Now, if our ―Sets‖ were divided and named on
this principle, they would correspond also in number, and there ought
1 Davies, Myth. p. 197. 2 Vol. i.
3 Denkmäler, iv. 43; iv 54, a.
to have been eight. There are four Sa-t or Sets in England and
―D YVED ‖ in Wales. Now Dyved signifies a measure of four. We
have it in the English tofet, tovet, and tobit, a measure of four
gallons. Four gallons to one tofet is equal to four divisions of Dyved.
Moreover, the Egyptian Aft denotes the four corners, and Teb is a
quarter, a place. Dyved was as surely the other four divisions as that
four gallons make the tofet, and although they are not extant by
name as the other four ―Sets‖ they may have been four Kars, which
they were. In the old map we still find Gower, Caeradigion, and
two Caerleons. These are four Cars, answering to the four nomes,
called Sets. Moreover, four Kars survive as counties in Wales,
Cardigan, Carnarvon, Glamorgan, and Carmarthen. ―Four Caers
there are, stationary in Britain; their governors are agitators of fire.‖ 1
The Egyptians divided the circle of the heavens into upper and
lower. The lower contained the Kars. The lower half was to the
north, the Kar-Neter, the Kar divided from the upper half by the
equinoctial line running east and west. Set was the south in Egyp-
tian; the south was the upper country, and our four Sets are in the
upper country towards the south.
On the monuments these two halves or houses of the sun are figured
as two quadrangular enclosures with an opening, as two houses named
―Iu.‖ And in the Druidic writings, the Caer is sometimes designated
a quadrangular enclosure. Two four-cornered enclosures give us the
eight regions of Sesennu, as well as the twofold division of the total,
Temt, Demetia. The map shows this scheme made geographical on
British ground. The four Sets are the southern and upper half of
the whole. At the edge of Dyved, close to the dividing water, is
Gower, answering to the Egyptian Kar, the lower and divided Kar-
neter, our nether Gower. This Kar is denoted in the hieroglyphics
by the sign of a half-heaven, because the Kar-neter was but the sun‘s
course for half the round, the lower, northernmost half that begins with
Gower.
The Kar or Kart is a course in Egyptian, an orbit or measure; in
this case the sun‘s course through the lower half of the divided heaven.
Two Kars in the hieroglyphics read Kar-ti; the ti duplicates the Kar,
and the determinative of Kar-ti is two half-heavens. Karti, then,
abrades into Kart, the total orb, in English the garth, girth, garter, or
quart. The Egyptian Kar-ti, the plural of Kar, have various forms as
orbits,holes,passages,enclosures,prisons,showingtheywereenclosures
of whatever kind, and the Welsh Caers were known as fenced en-
closures. Karti is the exact equivalent of Wales. Four Kars in Dyved
would complete the eight required to make the unit of the Sat of eight
―Sa‖s. Four ―Sa‖s or Sets and four divisions as Kars, make the total
of Dyved, as in Egyptian Tebt, the measure, which in one form is equal
to our bushel, in another it is a table, with which we may compare the
1 Kadair Teyrn On, 4.
Round Table, in another a sarcophagus. The Teb or Teb-t, as an
unit of measure, was variously applied as dry, liquid, and land
measure. Also we find the ―Sa,‖ divided into one-sixteenth of a
measure of land, as in England the Tobit is subdivided and differs
in different counties.
The division of eight, however, is primary, and the look of the
whole thing is that the land of Dyved was the twin-total, afterwards
divided into eight nomes, four Caers in Dyved, and four in Defenset,
Dorset, Somerset, and Wilset considered at the time to be the TWO
LANDS of Wales; Devonshire being called West Wales. Wales is
Gales, Kars, Gowers, the plural of a course or total. That total
being Egyptian was twinned, the lower and. upper Kars, the two
Kars, Gowers—Gales, Wales.
The two Tebs in Dyved and Defenset, if designated in Egyptian,
would be Teb-ti, the dual Teb, as Teb-ti, a pair of sandals; and we
find that the ―Tebti-pehu‖ was an Egyptian name of the 12th nome
of Upper Egypt, meaning the Water Nome 1 of the double division.
Tibn-ti, the double Dyfen, appears on the monuments.2 Our two
Tebs or Tebn, Dyved and Defu, form the double division of the
water nome just as does the Tebti-pehu of Egypt. Also, Dyfen
as the one-half of the whole, is extant in the Welsh Dobyn, a
half-pint measure. This total, these two halves, these eight nomes,
four to the south and four to the north, yield the eight regions of
Egyptian mythology, and an Egyptologist would expect to come
upon the Sesennu or eight great gods of Egypt. These also were
known to the Druids; they were the eight persons in the ark, assumed
by Bryant to be Noah and his family.
Taliesin sings:—―A song of secret significance was composed by
the distinguished Ogdoad, who assembled on the day of the moon,‖
that is, on Monday, the day of Taht, the lunar deity, lord of Sesennu.
They assembled, and ―went in open procession; on the day of Mars,
they allotted wrath to their adversaries; on the day of Mercury, they
enjoyed their full pomp; on the day of Jove, they were delivered from
their detested usurpers; on the day of Venus, the day of the influx,
they swam in blood; on the day of Saturn (lacuna); on the day of
the sun, there truly assemble fine ships.‖3 Skene's version is somewhat
different, still the E IGHT are there.
In the Ritual, where the solar imagery has become eschatological,
and has to be read backward to recover the primary meaning, the
solar (or spiritual) place of re-birth is in An, the On of the Hebrew
writings. In this region we find the Hall of Two Truths in which ―a
soul is separated from its sins.‖ One name of the hall, is the Uskh,
the water-place, the limit, the division. The Uskh Hall has for
determinative the three feathers, corresponding to the three feathers
1 Pierret, Tebti. 2 Maspero.
3 Ancient Poem, Welsh Archæology, p. 74.

of Wales, and Lazamon, in his Brut, tells us that, when the good
Belin had made the burgh of Caerleon, he called it ―Caer-usk.‖ The
ex and usk of our water-names sometimes permute, as do husk and
huck, for a pod; and as before suggested, Oxford with its Uskhs
(halls) is not merely the water-ford, but represents that crossing of
the boundary where we find the Uskh Hall in An.
The crossing is preserved by name in the Ex, X, or cross sign.
Exan is a name of Cross-wort and the Ex-ford is the ford of the
crossing where the water and the Hall of the Two Truths are found
in the solar circle. The Uskh-Hall is extant in the Esking, a name
of the pentice or sloping roof.
Caer-leon, which had belonged to the Sabean naming, was changed
by the sun-god Belin the Good, i.e. Nefer-Baal, into Caer-Usk.
The quadrangular Caer of the Kymry is the four-cornered Kher of
Egypt. This was the shrine of religion, the cell of the priest, the
oracle of the divine word. The Kymric Caer or Car passed out
as the Gadhaelic Kil and English Cell. There are 1400 Kils in
Ireland, a considerable number in Scotland, and some in Wales.
These were not founded, although they were adopted, by the Christian
missionaries, the cuckoos who did not build their own nests. The
Kirbys are the places of the ancient Kirs and Kils, which were
there ready to be re-named.
The suggestion now to be made is that the four Sets and four Kars
of the double Dyved were a localization of Sesennu, and that this
region was the probable place of the first landing, colonization, and
naming of the Egyptians in Britain.
In British fable, Devon is one of the heroes who came into the
island with Brute, our Pryd. He is famous for chasing a giant to
a vast pit EIGHT lugs across; the monster, in trying to leap the chasm,
fell backwards and lost his life. The giant is a type of the vast, the
unmeasured; Devon is the mapper-out and measurer; hence, when
Brute portioned out the island, this fell to Devon‘s-share.
― And eke that ample pit, yet far renowned
For the great leap which Devon did compel
Coulin to make, being eight lugs of ground,
Into the which returning back, he fell.‖1
A lug is a measure of land, as is a league, it is the log or reckoning,

Egyptian Lekh, of various lengths, as a pole, a sea-mile, or three miles.
The mythical pit represents the Kar (Eg.), and it is the pit of eight
―lugs‖ across. Devon, according to Spenser, is followed by Corin,
who gave the name to Cornwall. These answer to the double Kars
or Wales. Devon, being a mythical name, applies equally to Dyved,
and the eight lugs correspond to the eight Sets and Kars.
But we can bring this naming of the two lands, according to the
1 Faery Queen, ii. 10, 11.
Egyptian imagery and mode of expression, to a yet finer point than
in the double Caers of Wales and Cornwales with the four Sets and
four Caers on either side of the water. It will be suggested that the
landing-place was in Menevia, now called St. David‘s. In Dyved
we find the seven provinces of Sut-Typhon. Dyved from the Ap
or Af is primal. This Ap enters into Menapia as the primordial,
ancestral district. Not far from this point and place of landing is
Cardigan Bay. Into this runs the Tefi, named like the land, as the
first of the rivers of Dyved. Its water is the line of division between
North and South Wales. Here then is the lesser and prior form of
the dual circle of two halves; in Egyptian, this is Karti, and
Karti-gan is Cardigan. Khen (Eg.) means to alight, rest, a sanctuary,
and a C ENTRAL apartment, or dwelling-place. And the central dwel-
ling-place in the double orbit of north and south, the Karti, still
bears the name in Cardigan.
We may venture a little further inland. The first of the shires
distinguished from the Caers and Sets is Shropshire. Shrop, Scrob,
or Salop, are all derived from Kherp (Eg.), the first form, model
figure. The first division, called a Shire instead of a Caer, would be
Kherp- (Eg.) Shire, or Kherf-Shire, and in this county the name is
extant as that of the river Corve. Moreover we see the people of
inner Wales pushing farther in, as the first inhabitants of east
Shropshire known in the pre-Roman times were the Cornavii.
The Romans called Salisbury, or Sarum, Sorbidunum, i.e.
Kherp-dun, and the name in connection with Stonehenge on the
Plain shows that here was the sovereign sanctuary the Kherp,
the first, consecrated, excelling, surpassing, ruling seat (dun) of
worship. So in Coptic the Egyptian Kherp becomes Sorb. The
same root is represented by the royal name of Corfe, and the Glev
of Gloucester.
This word Kherp is the most probable original of the name of
Europe, answering to the first quarter named in the north. This
important root will be elaborately treated in the ―Typology of
Naming.‖ Meantime it may be reiterated that Kherp means first
in form or any other condition of being. The Kherp is the king as
first person; the prow of the vessel as fore-part; the paddle as
primary means of propelling. It is the first castle as Corfe, the
first shire as Shrop, and will equally apply to Europe as the north
land discovered by the Kymry or Khafitic race.
Kherp meant to paddle and steer, at a time when both were one,
and Europe, the isles of the Gevi, were the first lands steered for,
therefore the Kherp, whence Europe. This also is the most probable
origin of Albion. Aristotle mentions the islands of Albion and Ierne
four hundred years before Julius Cæsar is supposed to have named
the land in Latin. ―Beyond the Pillars of Hercules is the ocean
that flows round the earth. In it are two very large islands called
Britannia; these are Albion and Ierne.‖1 The name is not derived
from Albus (Lat.), the White. The ancient inhabitants are called
Albiones. Uni is the Egyptian name for inhabitants. The Kherpi-
uni (Albioni) would be the first people of the isle, as the Kherp.
Such a derivation may be followed farther north to the land of the
Lap (Kherp), the first who prowled or paddled to that region.
The various names of Ireland, Eiri, Eri, Eriu, Heriu, Ieriu, Iveriu,
Iberiu, Greek Ierna, Ptolemy‘s Iouerna, Mela‘s Iuverna, and the
still earlier Hibernia, all point to a typical name corresponding to the
form Iberia, and Ib, Iv, and Hib all meet to unify at last in Kheb or
Khef, the name of the genitrix. This name, first applied to the north
by the Sabeans to denote the hinder part of the heavens, the cave of
production, when the dog-star determined the south to be the front,
was extended to the west, the Ament in the Solar reckoning, and the
Kheb, or Sabean north, became the solar west. Hence there is a god-
dess Kheft, who is lady of the country, or heaven, the lady of the
west, the place of going down of the sun and hinder part to the
east, the front, reckoning by sunrise. Now the persistence of the
―Iu‖ in the variants Eriu, Ieriu, Heriu, Iveriu, and Iberiu (the N
in Erin and Hibernia, is later) leads me to think it may be the
Egyptian ―Iu,‖ which is dual and duplicates. Thus Kheb-er-iu
would be the Twin, secondary or duplicated division (er) of the
Kheb quarter, in short, the western Kheb, and secondary to the
north in accordance with the solar reckoning. K HEB - ER - IU read as
Egyptian is the secondary Kheb, which was the western the solar
Kheb, whereas the northern was stellar,2 and Ireland is still the typical
―Land of the West.‖
With the restored readings (no primitive word begins with a vowel),
Kherp-ion (Albion) and Kheb-eriu (Ireland) will also yield the first
and second in another sense, and in the order of Albion and Ierne
(Aristotle), the final Great Britain and Ireland.
Romana was one of the native names of the island of Britain.
Rumena in Egyptian signifies the extent of, extending as far as, the
limit, or thus far. So read, R OMANA would be named as the farthest
point of land. THULE is another name, which read as Egyptian
corroborates that of Romana. Tur (Eg.) is the extremity, boundary,
frontier, land‘s end, as in Ultima Thule, or the D HUR of the Butt of
Lewis.
In the accounts preserved by the Triads one of the three names
given to Britain is ―Glas Merddyn,‖ or the green spot defended by
water; that is, the green island. Mer or Meru (Eg.) is an isle. Mer
and mer-t are names of the sea, the water-circle. Ten means to be
cut off, divided, made separate; or Mert is the water, and ten the seat,
an early form of the Tun. Mert-tun (Welsh Dyn) yields the island as
the sea-surrounded tun.
1 De Mundo, s. 3. 2 Vide section i. pp. 14, 15, 16.
England, we are assured, is named from the Angles. But one begins,
not without reason, to doubt everything currently taught concerning
our past. To the people of Brittany this country was their A NCOU -
land; the land of souls, to which the spirits of the dead crossed
over by night on the A NCOU -car, as the souls of the Norse heroes
passed to Britinia, the White Island of their mythology. Ankow in
Cornish is death; but in Brittany the Carr-au-Ancou is the soul-car.
The Egyptian word ―A NKHIU ‖ is a name often used for the departed,
and in the inscription of Una the coffin is called the HEN EN A NKHIU ,
or chest of the living. In the German mythology and folklore England
is a land of spirits, and when the R EVENANT visits her mortal lover,
nothing is more common than for her to hear the bells ringing, or
the spirit-voices calling for her in England. But this could hardly
be because some people called Angles once landed in the isle.
Of course it is not the land we know, that is meant, but the name
of England the island and England the spirit-land have a common
origin. They are identical, because in Egyptian Ankh is the word
for life. Ankh-land was the land of life in mythology localized by
name in England. And for the people on the mainland the white
island beyond the waters was blended with the Ankh-land that lay
on the other side of the waters crossed by the souls in death.
England is thus treated as the land of life, or souls, and a similar
thing occurs when Homer sends Ulysses to consult the dead in the
north, the country of the Kimmeroi.1
Khema is Egyptian for the dead, and R UI , the isles. These were
astronomical, and belonged to the underworld in the north, where the
sun travelled in passing from the west to the east, and the Isles of the
Kymry are located geographically in the same direction. There is
another cause for this confusion or interfusion. England, according
to the Roman report, was looked upon from the continental side as
the supreme fount of Druidic lore. If , as is more than probable, the
Egyptians made this their earliest seat and permanent centre, if this
was the island first lighted up, the beacon first kindled to shine across
the waters as an intellectual pharos to the mainland in the dark
night of the past, the fame of the geographical England would also
help to blend it with the mythical Ankh-land. Moreover, there are
reasons for thinking that this was literally the land of the dead (or
spiritual living), used as such for the burial of those who belonged to
the Druidical religion, and that to cross the waters for burial was a
typical custom, a symbolical ceremony, whilst our island was the
favourite funeral ground, an ark amid the waters, the Ankh-land that
was the Ark-land.
Ankh-land is an Egyptian compound as Ankh-Ta, the name of
a quarter in Memphis. Ankh-taui is the double land of life, or the
land of death and new life. Between the two lay the water that was
1 Od. b.x. and xi.
crossed in death, and this passage was represented in the ferrying of
the mummy over the River Nile. Britain and Brittany were the two
halves of this water-divided land of life. And according to Egyptian
ideas, the dead would be carried to the other side for the resting-place
across the water. THIS would be the Ankh-land to THAT, and Brittany
to Britain. Thus we find the Ankh-land there in Anjou and Angevin.
The name of England as the typical land of life is illustrated by the
mummers or guisers of Derbyshire, who perform a play of St. George.
The opponent of the hero is Slasher, a type-name for the fighter.
The equivalent of Slash is found in Sersh, an Egyptian name of a
military standard. Slasher is slain, and it is the part of the king of
England to restore the fallen Slasher to life again. 1 The monarch
explains that he is the king of England, the greatest man ALIVE
(Ankh).
―When Hempe is spun, England‘s done,‖ says the ancient distich.
Bacon, interpreted this as a prophecy signifying that with the end
of the reigns of Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, and Elizabeth,
whose initials form the word Hempe, England would be merged in
Great Britain. Such prophecies belong to the hieroglyphics. Hemp
is synonymous with the hank as the hangman‘s noose. The noose
is the Ankh. The goddess Ank wears the hemp on her head; the
Ankh (hank), loop of twisted hemp or flax, was the sign of living;
when this (as hemp) is spun out, the Ankh-land is done. This seems
to be an allusion to the living and to the land of life.
When Bede calls his countrymen the Angli, it does not seem probable
he should mean that the people of the island were Angles because of
three boat-loads of Norse pirates having landed in Thanet, who were
followed by hordes of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles. The British people
could not have become the Angli in that sense any more than they
had become Romans. Procopius, in the sixth century, mentions the
A NGILI of Brittia, opposite to the mouth of the Rhine. Had Britain
then received its type-name from the continental A NGLES ? The
A NGILI , I NCH - ILI , ENG - ILI , were the islanders. Ankh is an ethno-
logical or topographical name in the Texts as ―Ankh, native of a
district.‖2 That district would therefore be Ankh-land. The dead
of Memphis rested in Ankh-ta, the land of life. The eternal region was
represented by an island, the Island of Tattu amid the waters of the
Nile. Ankh-ta is Ankh-land, and as an island or Inch-land that was
England in Egypt. Lastly, England has been the Ankh-land ever
since it was named Inis-Prydhain by the Kymry. Inis and Inch (as in
Inchkeith) are identical with Ing, Eng, or Ankh, and the island is
the Ankh-land, the Inch-land, Ynis-land, or England, because it was
the island and the land of the I NGS , which name was afterwards
turned into Angleland.
It has been suggested that the Euskarian or Iberic E TAN , as in
1 Dyer, p. 469. 2 Select Papyri, 108, 1.
Maur-ETAN -ia, Lus-ETAN -ia, Ed-ETAN -i, Cos-ETAN -i, Lac-ETANI ,
Carp-ETANI , Or-ETANI , Turd-ETANI , and many others, is contained
in the name of B RITAIN . The present writer sees in the E TAN a form
of the Tun, as circle or enclosure. Aten or Uten (Eg.) means
to form the circle, and Huten is the circle. The exact equivalent of
Etan is U TAN (Eg.), later Etan, the name of a consecration, sacrifice,
offering, and libation. These were made in the Tun, as the seat and
circle of the dead. Uti (Eg.) is the name of the coffin and embalm-
ment. H UDUN in Arabic is burying; and as all the chief type-names
for the dwelling-place are derived from the place of sepulture, the Etan
is not likely to be an exception.
The ancient Britons also called the country Inis-Prydhain, the Isle
of Prydhain. Nennius derives the name of Britain from Brute, whom
we identify with Pryd or Prydhain, the youthful sun-god of the Britons.
But it appears certain that Britain was inhabited by the men of the
River-drift type in the Palæolithic, if not the Pleistocene age, before
Britain was broken off from the mainland to become an island, and
it happens that an English word B RITTENE means to divide, to
break off, divide into fragments. In Egyptian Pri or Prt signifies the
thing or act in process, visibly appearing, bearing off, and running
away; Tna is to divide, separate in two halves. At one time the
water-way was a mere F RITH , and P RIT, P ART, or B RIT is equivalent
to Frith; T EN , as in tine and tint for one-half bushel, is the
Egyptian T ENA , to bc made separate or T WAIN . As we have seen,
this principle of naning the land visibly divided and made separate
was applied to the Isle of Thanet; and the Brittany on one side
of the Channel and Britain on the other are geologically known
to have been divided in two; the names are there in accordance with
the fact as if to register it, and prove that they had been one,
whilst Brittene in English and Prit-tena in Egyptian agree in showing
they were named as the land that was known to be, was manifestly,
even visibly broken and separated in twain, Britain and Brittany,
then, we take to have been named as the broken and divided land;
as the visibly-divided land, or as the land in the process of visibly
dividing, separating, and becoming two.
So in a thousand ways and things, myths, rites, customs, folklore,
superstitions, words, names of places, and persons, dead Egypt, so
called, is yet living in Britain, and has but undergone her own
typical transformation which the rest of the world considers to be
death.
SECTION X.
TYPE-NAMES OF THE PEOPLE.
H ERE, it is submitted, is direct positive evidence of a remote

pre-historic time as interesting to us as deciphering the cuneiform
or hieroglyphic inscriptions or exploring Palestine. Speculative
dreaming over a far-off past which never had a present has nothing
to do with these facts of language; these names applied to things,
places, persons; this total system of mythology. The present
writer did not begin as one of those poor pitiable ―Keltomaniacs‖
who had been poring till purblind over their reliquary remains
of a past which they could not prove, still holding fast to their
faithin the preciousness of what they clasped in their hands or
enclosed in their heart of hearts, and who, when they shyly showed
their treasure in the light of the present, were told their diamonds
were but charcoal, and the look of faith and wonder in whose yearning,
dreamy eyes was met with the scorn or the simper of superior know-
ledge, until they felt the increasing light of to-day did but serve to
make their folly all the more definite. Such a one was M YFYR
M ORGANWY , who lately died as Arch-Druid of Wales. He was
certainly in possession of the ancient cult more or less, which has
never been altogether extinct in this country. He adored the sun-
god Hu as his saviour, and assembled the brethren at the time of
the winter solstice to celebrate the coming of his Christ to bruise the
serpent of Annwn, that seed time and harvest might not fail. He
maintained to the last that Jesus was Hu, and the Christian system
a corruption of Bardism.1 Not as one of these did the present writer
begin, and not as with them is the matter going to end.
We shall now turn with increased interest to the Roman and Bardic
reports concerning the learning of Britain. Those stern Roman eyes
hard as granite, out of which the British battle-onset had so often
struck the fire-flashes, like the granite broken all a-sparkle, have in
1 Letter in the Western Mail, March 12, 1874. See also the letter at the end
of these volumes.
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them an arresting lingering look almost of wonder as the writers turn
to speak of the barbarians into whose faces they had peered so often
under the battle-shield, and whose souls they had never penetrated;
whose past history they had never fathomed up to the time of leaving
the island in a last retreat.
―The Gauls,‖ says Pomponius Mela, ―have a species of eloquence
peculiar to themselves, and the Druids are its teachers. These pro-
fess to know the size and form of the earth, and the universe, the
motions of the heavens and of the stars, and the intentions of the
immortal gods. They take the young nobles of their tribeunder their
tuition, and teach them many things in secret. Their studies last a
long time, as much as twenty years, in the caves, or the depths of the
forests. One of their tenets which has transpired is the immortality of
the soul and the existence of a future state; which inspires them with
much additional courage in war. As a result of this doctrine, they
burn and bury with their dead all those things which were adapted for
them when living. In former times they carried their accounts with
them to the grave, and their claims for debts; some of them would
even burn themselves on the same funeral pyre with their friends, that
they might be with them in a future life.‖ 1
―Bardism,‖ says the Barddas,2 originated in the Isle of Britain.
No other country ever obtained a proper comprehension of Bardism.
Three nations corrupted what they had learned of the Bardismof the
Isle of Britain, blending it with heterogenous principles, by which
means they lost it: the Irish; the Kymry or Armorica, and the
Germans.‖ Beyond the Barddas are the Druids. ―This institution,‖
says Cæsar, ―is thought to have originated in Britain, and to have been
thence introduced into Gaul; and even now those who wish to become
more accurately acquainted with it generally repair thither for the
sake of learning it.‖
It is not necessary to notice the customary explanations of ancient
names as Roman or Norse, because, if the present reading of facts be
true, they are to a great extent superseded. Our land was mapped
out and named and trodden all over ages before the Romans and
Norsemen came, and their bloody hoofs did but little to obliterate
the deeper footprints of the earlier men of a peaceful invasion.
It is beginning to be felt more and more that the effects of military
conquests on the life of the land have been vastly exaggerated. Such
conquest does not sink very deep; although it makes a great show on
the surface, it melts into the earth like a snowfall and passes away.
The re-conquest by the conquered begins at once. This is especially
illustrated by the conquests of the Turk. It was so more of less with
the Romans in Britain. No such Romanization occurred as that
which is advocated by one class of writers, except in the Codification
of the laws. No tabula rasa was ever made by the Romans, or
1 Pomponius Mela, iii. 2. 2 The Barddas, Williams, pref. p. 27.
they would have remained; nor by the Norsemen, for they were
incorporated and absorbed. Both fertilized the race that fed on
them and flourished.
Arnold of Rugby gave utterance to a false cry in English literature
on the subject of Kelt and Saxon; he was unwearying in his glori-
fication of the Saxon and depreciation of the Kelt. This cry was
lustily echoed by his followers, and has often been re-echoed by the
present writer in the most frequently demanded of all his lectures,
that on the Old Sea-Kings. That cry has been a common bond even
between the historians Froude and Freeman. Nevertheless we have
been falsely infected with a shallow enthusiasm respecting the Saxon
element, and were almost entirely ignorant of what might be signified
by the words ―Keltic‖ and ―Kymric.‖
The Kymry and the Keltæ clung to the soul which their names had
covered on the surface, and their roots had ramified below. The race
was as ineffaceable as the names. The conquerors brought a fresh
infusion of life and a wash of new words and later letter-sounds, but
the older elements remained. Men might come and men might go, the
race went on for ever. The Loegrians of England coalesced with the
Saxons from the Humber to the Thames, and must have mainly
supplied them with wives, as the mothers of the amalgam.
Of course the present mode of diagnosis does not enable us to get
beyond the namers, or to distinguish between the Cave-men of the
Palæolithic tribes and the men of the River-drift. These have to
be left in th elump as the Kymry, the race of Kâm or Khebma, the
ancient genitrix of the north first named in Æthiopia. If there
had been a pre-linguial race that crawled out over Europe from the
warm African birthplace, language could not tell us. At present,
however, there is no reason to suppose there was. The Cave-men
answer to the Kafruti, whose representatives in Herodotus are the
Æthiopian troglodytes.1
The Kep (KKef) in Egyptian is the concealed place or place for
concealment, the Kafruti of Africa were Cave-men, and language
reproduces in the Isles the Kep, Coff, or cave, whether as the womb
of the mother or the earth, which was primally personified in Africa
by the Kheb-Ma or Mother Kheb, the hippopotamus. And on the
other line the Khebm abrades into the Kam type, as in the Cwm,
Coomb, Quim, Camster, or Camelot. The men of the Neolithic age
as stone-polishers can be identified with the Karti (Eg.) or Keltæ;
also the men of the Hut-circles, Weems, Picts-houses and holes in
the ground, the Karti, are doubly identified, because Karti (Eg.)
means holes underground as well as other forms of the Kar, Caer,
or circle, including the dual Wales and Corn-Wales.
Their representatives are still extant in the interior of Africa, where
Stanley found them living in the subterranean habitations of Southern
1 B. iv. 183.
Unyoro, described by him as ―deep pits with small circular mouths,
which proved on examination to lead to several passages from the
mouth of the pit to more roomy excavations like so many apart-
ments.‖1 The nearest approach to a Hottentot village is still to be
found in a group of beehive houses in the shealing of the Garry of
Aird Mhor, Uig, Lewis.2
The Egyptian Kar is a hole underground, the Kil. The hole
becomes a cell, and the cell a shrine, in the KHER, that is, the KHA-RU
or uterine outlet. With the P suffixes, this makes the word K HERP ,
a first formation which on one line is the C RIB , on another the grave.
The entrance and circle of the Cair at C LAVA constitute the womb-
shape, and CLAVA represents the Kherp, that is, the Kha-ru or feminine
cell, which becomes the G RAVE, or, in another type of the abode,
the Crib.
The Karti, or men of the huts and holes, are known to have
been spinners and potters, weavers and corn-men. A spindle-
whorl, fragments of pottery, and a weaving-comb have been found
among their relics. Dr. Blackmore discovered the cast of a grain
of wheat in the clay which had formed a part of the cover of one
of their pits. Also, two concave stones for crushing corn and making
meal have been found.3
The earliest beings who issued forth from the dark land with
Egypt for the M EST - RU (Mitzr), the outlet from the birthplace,
were doubtless plack and pigmean people. They left their nearest
likeness with the Akka and the Bushmen, and these have their
fellows, more or less, in the little black or very dark people of
various lands. They are extand in the short-statured type of the
North. The anthropologists bear witness to the primary pigmean
people of the Isles who preceded the Keltæ. The name of the
Kymry testifies to the black complexion. Also the Irish preserve
two appellations which have been traced back from territorial to tribal
names; one of these is the Corca DUIBNE, the other the Corca
O IDCHE . Both were black people at first; the one dates from
darkness, the other from night. So, in the African Mandingo, D IBI
is the dark; TOBON , in Mantshu Tartar, and TUFAN , in Arabic,
signify the dark night. Not only does D UIBNE denote bblack,
it also identifies the Typhonians, the children of Tef, goddess of
the Great Bear, and the celestial black country of Kush, whose star
is yet extant by name as Dubhe in that constellation. Also, as the
first Goddess of the North was followed by Uati, so the Oidche or night
people seem to echo her name; Uat being a modified form of Khebt,
and the Corca Oidche are the people of night.
In Scottish folklore the Picts (Pechs) are the little men, on their
1 Through the Dark Continent, v. i. p. 432.
2 The Past in the Present, p. 64. Dr. Arthur Mitchel.
way to become Pixies or wee-folk altogether. This tends to connect
them with the small dark people of the Palæolithic age. Here
language may have preserved an ethnical note, for the name supplies
a type used for things minified and small as in the Pixy and Pigmy;
Pigwiggin the Dwarf, and the Pykle or Pightle, the small enclosure.
The seven holes underground (Karti), or seven caves; seven
provinces, or seven nights, or seven stars, may not be of much avail
ethnologically or topographically, but they have their measurable
value in the astronomical allegory, as will be seen when all is put
together again, and then we shall find that the heavens are a mirror
to the pre-historic past of men.
The British beginning was pre-solar and pre-lunar. It was the
Sabean beginning on the night side, and the dating from the dark,
the mythical abyss common to the oldest races in the world. Cæsar
says: ―All the Gauls assert that they are descended from the god Dis,
and affirm that this tradition has been handed down by the Druids.
For that reason they compute the divisions of every season, not by
the number of days, but of nights; they keep birthdays and the
beginnings of months and years in such an order that the day follows
the night.‖1 The British in like manner kept the same reckoning,
according to the first form of time in the Jewish Genesis. They
reckoned by star-time and dated from the darkness. They were the
children of Seb, who in the older and dual form is Sebt, and in the
oldest Khebt. In the hieroglyphics the star, as Sef (Seb), is the sign
of yesterday and the morrow, the star of the evening and the morning
that constituted the first time. They were Sabeans by birth.
Hence their claim to be the children of Dis. The Latin Dis is the
Egyptian Tes. The meaning of wealth, as that which is derived from
the depths of the earth, will not help us. But the Tes is the Hades,
the depth, the abyss itself. This is the British Dyved (Tepht) of the
seven regions. In the Druidic mythology there are seven provinces
of Dyved called the patrimony of Pwyll, over which Seithwedd Saidi
was the king. Seithwedd implies septiform, and these seven pro-
vinces are synonymous with the seven caves of the Mexicans, Quichés,
and other American races, from whence the migration started in the
dawn of creation.
Latterly we hear a good deal of the Eusks or Euskarians, a
black-haired pre-Keltic race, short of stature, supposed to have left
remains in the Basque, the Laps, and among the earliest peoples of
Wales and Ireland. The Basque call themselves the Euscaldunac.
The Eusk name, whatever its origin, is perpetuated on all the waters
of Europe, and this in all its forms is traceable to Egyptian.
Sekh or Uskh is an Egyptian name for water. Uskh and Sekh
interchange, and the Uskh-ti or Sekh-ti are the mariners of Egypt.
The Sekth is a barque of the gods, very archaic, as it represents the
1 B. vi. 18.
lotus, one of the earliest arks of the waters; the still earlier one
being the Irish O RC , the uterus. The Uskh was a large broad boat
of burthen, on which the Egyptians moved their armies by water.
Uskh also means to range out far and wide. Thus we have the
water and the bark, the mariners and the voyagers, all named in
Egyptian; also the Uskh people who went out on the Uskh, in
the Uskh, rowed by the Uskh, in the Uskh range as far as the
migration extended.
In Cormac‘s Glossary the ancient form of the name ―Scot‖ is
Scuit, and signfies the wandering. Sailors are the wanderers of the
waters. In Egyptian Khet means to navigate. With the S, the
causative prefix to verbs, we have the word Skhet, the vessel, ark, or
boat. The Skute is an English name for a wherry, and the Scuit, or
the wanderer, or sailor, corresponds to the Egyptian Sekht, the mariner.
The word Scot, therefore, may render the Uskht, as the wanderer of
the waters, as well as being the name of Sekht, who was the ark per-
sonified, the primitive bearer of gods and men. Us (Eg.) has the
same meaning of a large, extensive range. Ukha is a name of the
bark, and means to seek and follow. These are variants of Uskh, and
will therefore include the Ugrian name, the Esquimo, the Ostiak,
Uzbek, Osage, Oscan, and others, according to the ethnological data.
If to this name we add the masculine article (Eg.), P, P-uskh yields
the Uskh, or Basque. Also, just as Uskkh and Sekh interchange in
Egyptian, so another name of the Basque people is S IK ani. And if
the Egyptian feminine article be added to Uskh or Sekh, we have the
TOSK , and the TSHEK , the native name of the Bohemian tongue,
whilst THE Oscan becomes Tuscan.
The Cangia is a native name of an Egyptian vessel. And the
Cangiani once inhabited the promontory on the Minevian shore
opposite Mona. 1 Menevia or Menapia denotes a primal place of
anchorage, and here the Cangiani name preserves that of the
Egyptian vessel, the Cangia, Chinese Junk, as the oldest form of the
Kennu or canoe, also surviving in the S EGON (S-khen) of Segontium,
near Carnarvon, the chief city of th Cangiani.
The Finns call themselves the Quains. In the hieroglyphics the
Khent sign also reads Fent, and the Khennu or Khenit are the
navigators, sailors, pilots; the men who paddle a canoe. Khen means
to navigate, transport, convey by water. The Khenit are equivalent
to our Khenti of Kent, who were called the Kymri. The Khen as
seafarers may also have had an especial territory (Tir) in Cantyre,
as well as in Kent and Segont.
Phanes is said to have been found as the supreme divinity of
the Finns.2 If so, this suggests the derivation of their name from
the same original as that of Pan and Fion, or the Fenians. That
1 Richard of Cirencester, b. i. ch. vi. 25.
2 Recherches sur l’anciens Peuples Finois, p. 66.
original, according to the present reading, being An, the Egyptian
Anup or Sut-Anubis, God of the Dog-star, our Baal. An, Âan, and
Khan (as in the Cynocephalus) are interchangeable; also the Ben
and the Fenek are types of the dog-headed divnity, and F AN or
F ION , Pan or Phanes, are forms of the same name. The finns also
worshipped the Great Bear as a goddess named O TAVA , Tef being
the Egyptian Typhon represented by the Great Bear. They have
the great hill Kipumaki answering to the mount of the north, the
Khep of Khebt. On its summit was the large flat stone of Kêd,
surrounded by other large stones; in the middle one there were nine
holes for the burial of diseases. The goddess who collected the
diseases and cooked them did to in a vessel corresponding to the
Pair or Cauldron of Kêd. Her name of K IVUTar seems to be a
developed form of Kheft.
The goddess of healing is named S UONETAR , and the invocations
addressed to her are called the Runas of SYNTY , i.e. of regeneration.1
San (Eg.) means to charm, heal, restore, and save.
The Finns belong to the so-called Chudic or Shudic races, and
the name identises them with Sut of the Dog-star, the son of the
Typhonian genitrix and first form of the male god in heaven. In
Egyptian the name of Sut, Suti, Sebti, is a deposit from Kheft, the
name of the north and its goddess. The Shudic races are also those
who went northward, but Shudic is secondary to the Khafetic or
Japhetic name, and if the modification had taken place before the
migration occurred, then the people so named would be secondary
also, following the Khafetic or Kymric race. Still, the modification
of Kheft into Chud or Shud may have been wrought out in Europe
and the race may belong to the original people of the north.
The early inhabitants called Britain the Island of Beli, that is
Baal, who, as Sutekh, the child Sut, is identifiable with the Saturn of
Plutarch, who was bound in one of the British Isles. The people
of the star-god Beli are one in mythology with the Finns of Phanes,
Fenek, An, or Anup. The ―Chronicles of Eri‖ assert that long
before the Kelts left Spain, the god ―Baal had sent the blessed
stone Liafail‖ to their ancestors with the instruction as to its proper
use. This points to the Keltæ coming by land from Egypt to Spain,
and thence to Ireland, and at the same time distinguishes between the
Keltæ of Keltiberia and the earlier Kymry. According to the present
view, Baal is Bar, the son of Typhon, or Sut-Anubis, who took shape
in these islands as the Sabean Arthur, son of the Great Bear. The
stone is the seven-stone of the druids,2 the stone of the seven stars.
One of the stones, the Syth-stone, bears the name of Sut, i.e. the
Sabean Baal.
There was a people known to the geographer Ptolemy whom he
calls the Epidii. He mentions the island of Epidium, lying between
1 Kalevala. 2 Myfyr Morganway.
Scotland and Ireland, and designates the Mull of Cantyre Epidion
Akron. The Epidii may very well represent the Khefti. Also, in
Egyptian, Kheft passed into the later Buto (Uati), and the isles of
Bute may also represent the modified form of Kheft. They are
seven in number, and as Hepta is seven in Greek, and Hept in
Egyptian, it seems probable that the seven isles of Bute were the
Epidium of Ptolemy, and the Epidii an extant relic of the Khefti,
named after the Goddess of the North and the seven stars of her
constellation.
A circular enclosure at Dunagoil, in the island of Bute, is called
the Devil‘s Cauldron, in which rites of penance were performed. One
part of the purgatorial pains consisted of sleeplessness; the penitents
being thrkatened by the priests with eternal punishment if any one of
them went to sleep. To prevent somnolency, they were provided with
sharp instruments for the watchful to keep the unwary awake. Also in
the burial-ground of the church the sexes were not allowed to mingle,
but were interred apart until after the time of the Reformation. 1
These facts show the Devil‘s Cauldron belonged to the goddess Kêd,
and that her rites survived to a late period. Her cauldron had to be
watched for a year and a day under the strict injunction that the
boiling was uninterrupted for a moment. The penitents were keeping
Keridwen‘s watch, and the dividing of the cauldron in two halves was
also imitated in the separation of the sexes in burial.
Kheft (Eg.) came to signify the devil in Egypt, and here the
cauldron of Kêd had become the devil‘s.
The Epidii are in the next stage of naming to the Japhetic race,
descending from Kheft or Ked. The same name apparently enters
into that of the Menapii, a people of Ireland also mentioned by
Ptolemy. Dublin is supposed to be on the site of the ancient
Menapia. Pliny likewise designates the island of Mona or Man by
the name of Menapia, by mistake apparently, as Menapia was the
name of the mainland-point of the promontory of Segont. Also
Menevia is the old name of St. David‘s. Apia and Evia are modifica-
tions of Khefi or Kêd. The old genitrix as Teb seems to have
retained that form of her name in Dublin. In Egyptian Men sig-
nifies to warp to shore, arrive, and anchor; it also names the harbour.
Api (Eg.) means the first, chief, ancestral. So derived, Menapia or
Menavia names the place of the first arrival, anchorage, and harbour,
on whichever coast it may be found, and the Menapii would be the
primordial inhabitants, whether in Wales, Ireland, or elsewhere.
The tradition of the Bards, now to be listened to with more respect,
is that the first colonies came forth seeking a place where they could
live in peace, and that they fled from a land which they could not
possess without warfare and persecution, whereas they desired to do
justly and dwell at peace amongst themselves. So they came across
1 Encyclop. Brit. 8th ed., article ―Bute.‖ 2 Hanes Taliesin.
the ―hazy sea,‖ from D EFROBANI . Defrobani agrees with Tapro-
bane, a name of Ceylon. Did they mean they came across the hazy
sea from Ceylon?
Here we have to distinguish between the celestial and geographical
naming. Tep is a particular point of all commencement in the my-
thological astronomy, the beginning of movement in a circle, the
starting-point. Ku is the outlet, gate, mouth. Tepru means oral
commencement. Tepru is also a name of Tabor, a mount of the
birthplace. Hen is the supreme height, the roof. Tep-ru-bani was
an initial point in the solar circle, without going back for the moment
to the earlier circle of Tep, the Great Bear.
The old writers, in their stories of voyages and the strange crea-
tures to be met with in the East, often speak of the mermaid; a being
half fish, half wornan, that was to be met with off the coast of Tapro-
bane. The Mermaid of the zodiac is the original of this, and is still
to be found in the north-east or Taprobane, the sign of the Fishes,
the lofty outlet or Bekh of the beginning. That is the celestial Tapro-
bane, which may have various geographical applications. It happens
that we have another name of Ceylon amongst us. The island is
likewise known as Serendib. Serendib is the place where the Hindus
locate Paradise, the place of beginning. Hence Adam‘s peak is found
in the island. When Adam was cast out of Paradise, say the legends,
both Jewish and Arabic, he fell and found footing on the island of
Serendib; Eve on Djidda.1
Adam is Atum (Eg.), who was the lord of this place and point of
commencement in An (the fish) or Serendib. In the Samaritan
version of the Pentateuch the name of Serendib (bydnrs) replaces
that of Ararat.2 These can be identified as one according to the
mythos. The Teb or tep is the point of commencement in the
circle for Noah or for Adam, and it is the Tap in Taprobane, the
Def in Defrobani, the Teve in Teve-Lanka, another name of
Ceylon, and the Dib in Serendib. Tep (Eg.) denotes the upper
heaven, the top, and the Tepht is the lower. The Ser or Tser was
the rock of the horizon; another name for the Tep Hill. This rock,
the Ser-en-Tep, was at the initial point, where the solar ark rested
in the birthplace of the beginning. From this exalted height
we must descend to note a most trivial application of the word and
signification of Ser-en-Tep or Serendib. It is a well-known threat,
the meaning of which is entirely unknown, for our peasantry to
promise a boy a ―S ERENDIBLE good drubbing,‖ and this, which has
been perverted at times into a ―seven-devil good drubbing,‖ is sup-
posed to attain the highest point in thrashing. This is Serendib in
England. It is also hieroglyphical. One ideograph of ―Ser‖ is
the arm with the sceptre of rule grasped in the hand, typical of the
arm of the Lord (Osiris), put forth in the person of Horus, the
1 Weil, Legends, p. 14. 2 Gen. viii. 4.
Messiah son, at ―Ser-en-Tep,‖ each time the sun crossed the
equinox of spring. The lifted arm and the topmost point are to
be realized in our ―serendible good drubbing.‖ This descent of
the mythical imagery to such common use serves as a kind of gauge
for the length of time demanded for its transformation.
The Ser or typical rock of Egypt, and of the Hebrew writings,
whence came the living stream, was likewise the place where
precious metals were found, and the word ―Ser‖ is determined
by the Tam, that is, gold sceptre; Ser signifying things of a golden
hue, and this Ser, the typical rock of old, still survives with us by
name. The Tzer becomes the rock, ―Sela,‖ for the first time in the
Hebrew writings, Num. xx. 8, and in the lead mining districts of
Cumberland the beds of rock which contain the ore are called ―Sills.‖
The Sil proves that we had the Ser rock of the beginning.
Taprobani or Defrobani may have also been a type-name of Egypt.
There was, according to the poet Dyonysius, a Taprobane situated
in the Erythrean, that is, the Red Sea. Tep was a city consecrated to
Buto (still earlier Tep), goddess of the north. Tep-ru-Benn identifies
the point of comniencement in the land of the pyramid and palm, if
it was meant for Hav. They say they came across the ―hazy
sea‖ from the land of Hav. Hav in Welsh and Kheb in Egyptian
is the name of corn: Khebu a crop of corn; and they were led
forth from the land of corn by Hu, the god of corn. Kheb is the
name of Lower Egypt, and Kep of the inundation. Hence we may
infer that Defrobani and Hav, if geographical localities, were names
of Egypt. Atum (Adam) of the peak in Taprobane or Serendib was
the great god of On or An (Heliopolis) in Lower Egypt, and Irish
legends assert that the migration proceeded from A NALD , or An,
the old.
A people deriving from Taprobane claim to come from the first and
loftiest point of commencement. In the celestial allegory this means
the circle of Tep or Khep, the Great Hear. If topographical, it is
neither Taprobane of Ceylon nor the Red Sea, any more than the
heights (Ben) of Dover. They would claim to derive from the high
lands in the country of Kam and Kush.
The divine names belonging to the myths-are easily traced and
identified in almost any language or land. But the names which have
become ethnological and topographical for us are now more difficult
to determine. Emigrants from Africa would not forthwith become
Kymry and Kelt, Gadhael and Pict. The nearest to an ethnological
link between Egypt and the isles appears in the name of the
Kymry preserved by the Welsh. Kam is a name of Egypt and of
the black or dark people. A relic of the ―darkness‖ of Kam may
be traced in the meaning of ―Gammy‖ which the tramps apply to
their A RGOT as the dark language, or lingo used for keeping dark.
The sons of Kam were doubtless very dark when first they came.
Martin, in his Itinerary through the Western Islands of Scotland, says
the inhabitants of the island of Skye mere at that time for the most
part black.1 Doubtless that is over-coloured, but all who have travelled
in the isles and in the remotest parts of Wales and Ireland have met
with the old dark type, which has been greatly modified by admixture,
but is not yet extinct.
On the Egyptian monuments the dark people are commonly called
the ―evil race of Kush,‖ but when the Ethiopian element dominates,
the dark people retort by calling the light complexions the pale
degraded race of Arvad. And, in the ancient poem called ―Gwawd
Lludd y Mawr‖2 the detestation of the dark race for the light breaks
out in a similar manner.
―The Kymry, flying in equal pace with ruin, are launching their
wooden steeds (ships, the ―H ORSES of Tree‖) upon the waters. The
North has been poisoned by depredatory rovers of pale digusting hue
and hateful form, of the race of Adam the Ancient, whom the flight
of ravens has thrice compelled to change their abode and leave the
exalted society of S EITHIN .‖3 Here it is claimed for the Kymry that
they belong to the dark race, the pre- or ante-Adamic race; the
children of Sut, the Druidic Saturn. It is the conflict of the dark and
light races, such as is said to be found in the cuneiform legends of Crea-
tion. The meaning can only be measured by the mythos which will show
that Adam the ancient is the red man, so to say, versus the sons of
Kam; and whereas the lighter complexions, and later Solarites, the
world over, prided themselves on being the children of light, the
Kymry date from the dark, and prefer it to the hue of the white men
who come to proclaim that they belong to the fallen race of Adam.
This preference was expressed long after the Roman period of
occupation.
Indeed, it would seem that in the England of our day either the
growth of beard is visibly changing the face of the people or else the
ruddy, fair-haired, light-complexioned Norsemen, who once came to
the surface in these islands and floated for some centuries as the crown
and flower of our race, are being gradually absorbed by the primeval
dark type just as the foam of a troubled sea flashes white awhile
and then merges once more in the dark depths; as if the more
ancient hue had included theirs for colouring-matter and still asserted
its supremacy.
Kam is a typical name for Egypt, and in the hieroglyphics ―ruui‖
means islands. The Kam-ruui might thus be Egyptians of the isles.
But we can do better than this on behalf of the Kymry. And first
of the word itself. We are told nowadays by the Latinizers of
language that the Kymry are the C IMBRI and C ARIBROGES . Why
not Comrogues? This can certainly be honestly derived from
―Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief,‖ ergo the Kymry were
1 P. 194. 2 Welsh Arch. p. 74. 3 Davies, Myth. p. 569.
the Comrogues or Combrogues, whose language, we may infer, is
the Combrogue!
Zeuss1 gives the oldest recorded form of the word as that in the
Codex Legæ Venedotianus, where it appears as Kymry, plural,—Ruui
(Eg.) is plural for the isles,-Kymru, for the country, and Kymraeg,
for the language. Kymry corresponds to the Kimmerians of the isles,
the north, and the darkness, or the black skin, the Kimmšrioi, Kimmerii,
of which the ground form is said to be Kymr. But there is another
possible reading, according to which the Kymry need not have named
themselves from Kam or Egypt. Gomer (rmg) is the discoverer of the
isles as the first. The Welsh philologists understand the word Kym
to mean the first. The Scottish Kimmer, a young girl, is a first
form, and Chimp (Dorset) means a young shoot. Kimr, in Keltic,
denotes the first in might, as the warrior, and the word appears to
enter into the name of the Druidic god known among the Gauls as
Camulus. This agrees with Kern (Eg.), to discover; Kem, an instant,
first in tirne; Khem, the shrine of the first Horus; Kham, matter,
body; Kam, the black; all forms of the first. Moreover, the Egyptians
came in the course of time to call the barbarians the ignorant,
the savages, the aborigines, K AM - RUTI , and these preceded the
cultivated Rut of Kam, or Egypt. Kam or Kern (Eg.) means to
discover; rui (Eg.) denotes the isles; and the Kem-rui would be the
discoverers of the isles. Here we might utilize the typical Gomer.
Gomer, in the book of the generations of Noah, was the son of
Japhet, whom we identify with Kheft, the north, and the first of those
amongst whom the isles were divided in their lands.2 So far, so good;
but we have further to find the meeting-point of the Kyrnry and
the Kabiri. According to Stephanius of Byzantium,3 the Cimbri
or Cimmerii were called Abroi. Ap (Ab) is the first, the ancestral,
head, and with the rui (Eg.) for the isles, the Ab-rui are the first
islanders. Abrui is an abraded Kabrui, and Kabrui (Eg.) means the
island-born. The Hebrew word Gevi (ywg), rendered gentiles, relates
Gomer to the ancient mother Khef and to the north, and the
children of Khef were the sailors, the Kabiri, the later Abroi, hence
their oneness with the discoyerers of the isles, the Kymry. Abaris,
the Hyperborean mentioned by Herodotus,4 was the hero of a story
that the writer declined to relate as belonging to the Hypernotians,
or one of those tales which are told only to the marines. Abaris
was said to have carried an arrow round the earth without eating
anything. Abaris personifies the Abaroi or Kabiri, the sailors,
and his arrow may have been the mariner's compass. The
story was probably told of the Kabiri, who sailed round the world
by the aid of the arrow that pointed north. In Egypt only can
we find the starting-point of both the Kymry and Kabiri, as one
people.
1 Vol. i. p. 226. 2 Gen. x. 3 De Urb. 4 Book iv. 36.
The ancient genitrix of the human race in Africa is named Kheb-
ma, as before explained, and this word modifies into Kheb and Kam,
as names of Northern Egypt. The Ari (Eg.) are the children, sons
(a plural of Ar, the son), companions who take one form as the seven
Kabiri, answering to the seven sons of Mitzraim, i.e. Kheb or Kam,
originally Khebma, the place or the mother, Kheb. The letter Y in
Kymry is not a primate; it represents the F, as guilty is the earlier
guiltif; so that the original form of the word is K FM -ry, and K FM
corresponds to the Hebrew \wj, which we find at last in K HEVMA or
K HEBMA , the hippopotamus and the type of the land of Kam, the
Typhonian genitrix, whose children are the Kamari or the Kabiri.
They are the Ari, or children of Kam, the black Arians. The
earliest records of the past were entrusted by the primitive people
to the keeping of the heavens, and it is therc they have yet to be
deciphered and read in the primal hieroglyphics. The Kamari or
Kabiri in India, Wales, or Scotland, are the children (Ari) of Kam,
Kfm, or Khebm, the old hippopotamus goddess of the north pole,
who bore the Kabiric seven. These, wherever found, date from the
first formation. If the Y at the end of the word implies the K, then
we have the Ari in an earlier form as the rekh (Eg.) or race instead
of sons, and the Kymraig are the race of Kam, Kvm, or Khebm, the
hippopotamus-goddess, the typical abode of birth, still extant in the
C WM . The Laps, who call themselves the S ABME, are the same
people by name, as the ethnologists are now beginning to suspect
them to be by race. In Egyptian the Kuti are the race or rekh,
and, as we have seen, Khem-ruti is the Egyptian type-name for the
uncivilizcd and savage race.
These then are the representatives of the earliest Ruti of Africa,
the Kafruti, Kamruti, Kvm-ruti, or Khebm-ruti, who went out to
become the Sabme-ruti of Lapland, and the Kamruti, Kamari, Kam-
rekh, or K YMRAIG , or Kymry of Wales.
The traditions of the British bards may be precipitated into some
form of solid fact when we can once evaporize the mythic matter
which held them in solution. These tell us that the colonizers came
across the ―hazy sea,‖ considered to have been appropriately named,
from the land of Hav. Hav in the old Welsh, as in Irish, would be
Ham. Ham is modified from Kam. In Egyptian we have the origin
of this permutation of M and V, and there it is M and B, as in Num
and Nub, these permutations are made visible in the hieroglyphics
by which more than one phonetic value is obtained from a reduced
ideograph. If we take the permutation of the V in Hav with B, this
gives us the land of Hab.
A modified form of Kheb is found in the name of a land that lay
below the second cataract, called the land of Heb. ―I entered
the land of Heb,‖ says Su-Hathor, ―visited its water places
and opened its harbours.‖ This was in the time of the Second
Amenemhat, Twelfth Dynasty. That may have been the Welsh ―Land
of Hav,‖ with the name so ancient as to have then become thus
modified from Kheb!
The land of Hav we know as Kab, and it has been shown how the
two names of Kam and Kab are interchangeable on account of an
original name Khebm or Kvm (\wj) Welsh Cwm. We can illus-
trate the modification in Welsh by the name of the Gipsy. There
is no need to assume that the name of Gipsy is a corruption of
Egyptian. Further research will teach philologists that language
never has been tampered with in the past as it is in the present.
Kheb is the hieroglyphic form of Egypt. Si is a son or child. Kheb-
si, the child or descendant of Kheb, Kab, Kab-t, Egypt, is our Gipsy.
And in Welsh the Kab has not only been modified into Hav, it has
lost the H in AF or Aiftess, a female Gipsy, whilst keeping the
meaning, and Egypt is known as Yr Aipht.
We begin with Kab, the inundation, that which is poured out on
the ground. Kheb is to be laid low, be low; Kheb is Lower Egypt.
Khept is to be extended on the ground, to crawl, sit, or be prostrate
on the ground. Kaf and Hef also signify the same thing, to squat
or crawl. Hef is the name of things that go, squat, or crawl on
the ground, as the viper, snake, caterpillar, worm, and a squatting
woman. Af is the sun in the lower hemisphere, the squatter and
crawler. See how this survives in English. The Eft crawls on
the ground. The Have1 is the slough of a snake, cast on the ground.
The Hoof and Hoff (hock) are parts next the ground. Ivy or
Alehoof creeps on the ground. Haver is the part of the barndoor
close to the earth, whilst the Hovel squats near to the ground, and
in Welsh the Gipsy is still the Hav or Af, as the squatter on the
ground; this proves how closely language has likewise kept to
the rootage in the primary stratum. Aftess or Aiphtess is in Welsh the
female Gipsy,—T being the sign of the feminine gender in Egyptian—
whilst in the Scotch name for Gipsy the earlier ―Hfa‖ has modified
into ―Faa.‖
The Gipsy, as the child of Kheb, is named from Lower Egypt, and
from the hippopotamus goddess who became the British Kêd, the
Mother of the Ketti. We are only using the Gipsy name, however,
as a camera obscura in which we can see the backward past.
Kheft is modified on the one hand into Aft and on the other into Kêd,
from which it is proposed to derive various names of the people of
Britain. Whatsoever after-applications the names derived from
Kêd may have, the Khefti or Japheti are the people of the north,
the hinder part of the whole circle. These are named from the
north and the Goddess of the North, who was Kheft, or Aft, Welsh
Aipht. The original name is extant among the Finns in their
goddess Kivutar, whilst the accent on the E in the name of the
British genitrix Kêd denotes the missing consonant.
Javan was one of the sons of Japhet,1 and the earlier name of the
Akhaioi who became Hellenized, is Achivi; also Koivy is a name of
the Hellenistic languages. These, too, were the sons of Kheft, the
genitrix, and mother of the Gevi or gentiles. In the modified form
we have the Khuti, the Chudic or Tschudic races in general, who
were the first to cross Europe, the quarter of Kheft or Japhet.
These issued forth as the Khefti or Gevim of Genesis. The Gutium
of the Assyrian astrological tablets, who are synonymous with the
Gevim, must have belonged by name to the Khefti or Kheftim,
whence the Gutim. In the modified form of the name we have the
Ketti, Coti, Catini, Gadeni, Cotani, Catieuchlani, and others. With
these must be classed the name of the Goth.
This secondary stage of the name corresponds to that of Gwydion,
the British Mercury, Sut-Anubis, the son of the Mother Kheft or
Kêd, as if these were the children. The first of the sons of Kheft
were the Kymry (Gomer) of the isles. In Nennius the descend-
ants of Gomer (or the Kymry) are the Galli, and he derives the
Scythi and Gothi from Magog, the second son of Gomer, as the
Kymry in the second degree. Kheft then, modified into Khêd, gives
us a type-name for the Ketti of these isles. Khêd, the Great
Mother, is for ever identified with the ark of the waters represented by
the revolving Bear. The seven stars of that constellation are the
seven Kabiri, the primordial navigators. The people who came
into the isles could only come as navigators in post-geological time.
These named in Egyptian are the Ketti. Khet means to navigate,
sail, go by water, or with the current towards the north. Thus the
Ketti are the sailors, the sons of Kheft, goddess of the north and the
Great Bear, the Mother Kêd. The isles must have been discovered
by the Kymry, and these therefore were the Kheti of the north,
the Chudic people in general, an early branch of whom came into
Britain.
We are told by the Barddas that one of the three mighty labours
of the island of Britain was lifting the stone of Ketti. This was in
building the circles or arks of Kêd, which again relates them to the
Ketti as the builders. Callimachus,2 identifies the Keltæ as the
Keaton.
The Atti-Cotti are mentioned by Ammianus.3 Jerome also speaks
of the Atti-Cottos. Concerning two ancient Keltic tribes, the
Scoti and Atticoti, he says: ―The nation of the Scoti have no
wives (each man for himself), but, like cattle, they wanton with
any woman as their desires may prompt. I, as a young man, have
seen the Atticoti eating human flesh.‖
Atai (Eg.) is the chief, superior, noble. The ―Ara-Cotii, famed
for linen gear,‖ are celebrated among the first great founders of the
world who ploughed their pathways through the seas in the dim
1 Gen. x. 2 H. in Del. 172. 3 xxvi. 4; xxvii. 8.
starlight of the past, called the ―distributors of men and countries
when there arose the great diversity.‖ The Kheti, in Egyptian, are
also the weavers, from Khet, the loom, and to weave. Thus the Coti
may be the sailors, builders, and weavers, under the one name derived
from Kheft.
Moreover, Kep or Kef, the goddess of the Great Bear, the ark of the
seven Kabiri, survives in the Kef, the cabin, skip, skiff, and
ship, each a name of the water-vessel called after the water-horse.
The Coti or Ketti, then, we identify with the Abroi or Kabari, the
sailors, and both with the discoverers of the isles, the Kymry. Their
fame as weavers agrees with Khet (Eg.), net, or woof, the later
form of knitting being to weave.
Kêd or Kud abrades into Hud. In Egyptian Khep is mystery.
Khept was the goddess of mystery, or the mysteries. Cibddar, in
Welsh, is the mystic, or son of mystery; and the land of Hûd is a
name of Dyved. The cell of Kêd is found under the flat stone of
Echemaint; and this cell under the flat stone is called elsewhere
Carchar Hûd, the prison of Hûd, the mystery. Carchar, the plural
of Car, is Karti (Eg.), a name of prisons, the Kars, below. The
cell of Kêd and Hûd identifies Hûd as the modified form of Kêd
or Kûd, and Hûd, the mystery, is the equivalent of Kep (Kheft),
the mystery, in Egyptian, and the Kars of Had in the mysteries
correspond to the Kars of Dyved in Wales, called the land of Hûd.
Hûd as a name of Kêd gives us the feminine Egyptian form of
Hu, and we recover the genitrix and her son in Hu and Hûd.
Hudol, in Cornish, is a magician, as the son of Hûd. Now, another
Welsh name for the Gipsies is ―Tula Abram Hood‖; that is, the
people of Abram Hood. In Egyptian Tula (Turu) means a whole
people, a community. In Ab-ram we havc another form of Kab,
Hab, Af, Hef, the word for squatting on the ground. Rem, in
Egyptian or English, is to rise up and remove. Af-rem is squat and
go, as is the Gipsy fashion.
Another reading is possible however without going to this root. The
Gipsies call themselves the Koma, their language the Romany, and
in Egyptian, Rema is the express name for the natives of a country,
and a people who called themselves Rema in Egyptian would mean
natives of Egypt. If for Ap we read Kab, then Tula-Kab-Rem-Hut
is the Hut people who were natives of Egypt. The Gipsy name of
Hood, again preserves that derived from Kêd, in the form of Hud.
Hu was the son of Kêd, and the people of Hu are the Hut or Hood,
the children of Kêd. So Kheft became Uati in Egypt. The son
Hut (Eg.) is corn, or the seed of Kêd (cf. the kid), and the priests of
Kêd were called Hodigion, bearers of ears of corn. Hod is corn in
Welsh, and Hut in the hieroglyphics.
A still more curious connecting-link in relation to the word ―Hut‖
is supplied by the statement of the Lee tribe of Gipsies, who told
Barrow that their name in Egypt signified an onion. In this country
they had identified it with the Leek, which modified into Leigh, and
lastly Lee. Now in Egyptian the onion is ―Hut,‖ and they were of
the ―TULA -A PH -R EM -H UT,‖ who were the Hut by name, which,
as the Lees said rightly, is the Egyptian name of the onion. Hut,
the onion, also means the hot; Rekh (Eg.), the equivalent of Leek,
signifies heat, and Leek modifies into Lee. Moreover, the onion is
worn in the hat by the Welsh, and the Egyptian Hut is both onion
and hat.
This forms a further link in the chain which connects the Gipsies,
Egyptians and the primitive people of our islands, by name.
The Hodigion were an order of priests. The magic wand of
Mathonwy, which grew on the bank of the River of Ghosts, was
called the Hudlath by Taliesin. This was the staff of the Druidic
priests, also named the Hud-wydd. Wydd is wood cut from the
tree of life, the Egyptian and English ash. The Hut staff is a mace
in the hieroglyphics, and the determinative of the onion; it is ap-
parently headed with an onion. This sign would therefore be equi-
valented by the onion worn on the head, in the hat, of the Hut.
From time immemorial there has been a Gipsy encampment near
Kelso, at a place called Yetholm, where the Gipsy king Lee died a few
years ago. This was the holm, the land deposited at the confluence
of two waters, the location of the Hut. Yeth and Heth permute
in the names of the Cwn Annwn, or hell-hounds.
The Gevi, or gentiles, of Genesis are the heathen, and the Hut
give us the name of the Huthen, or Hethen, the worshippers of Hu
and the children of Kêd, who were our ancestors.
We have now got the Khut, Coti, or Ketti, in the modified form of
the Hut or Huti. Meantime this had occurrcd. The beginning was
with the Great Mother, who bore her Sabean son as Khut (or Sut,
the Dog-star); in later ages she bore the solar child, whose name is
Hu. Kêd and Hu are the Great Bear and Sun. The moon was
also adopted as a type of the genitrix. Huti (Eg.) is the sun and
moon joined together in the Hut or winged disk. Thus Kêd and
Arthur, or in Egypt Sut-Typhon, were first-as will be demonstrated;
the moon was second, and the sun was last. Now with the Hut
and Huti we have the blending of lunar and solar astronomical
mythology, and the modification of Khuti into Huti is the replica of
the Ketti people becoming the Hut.
When we first hear of Somerset, a tribe of the Hedui are dwelling
in the east of the shire. This word has the Egyptian terminal ―Ui,‖
which also means the proper, good, genuine. The Hedui are the
proper or true Hed, i.e. Hud or Hut. They are also the people of
the upper half of the circle, the south-eastern part. Hut (Eg.) is the
name of this upper region, and of the white crown. Hutui is the
upper and right-hand half of the whole.
Hut is white and light. On the western side are the Cimbri or
Kymry; they are on the dark side of the circle, and Kam (Eg.)
means black; the west is the Ament. The Hedui thus claim to
belong to the primitive people who derived from Kêd, Kheft, or
Japhet. In either sense the nomenclature is Egyptian.
The Hedui of England became the Gaulish Aedui and the Irish
Aedh. This is traceable. The Gaulish Druids looked to England as
the chief seat of their religion. Both Hedui and Aedh meet in one
divine name—and these divine names are alone primordial—that of
the god Hu, whose title, as the son of Kêd, was Aeddon, the British
Adonis. The priest of aeddon was named after him as the Aedd.
―I have been Aedd,‖ says Taliesin, describing the transformation of
the deity from one character to the other, as it was represented in
the Mysteries. At (Eg.) is the lad, and in our English, ―Jack‘s the
lad,‖ the meaning is enshrined. Jack (Kak) was the god in the
dark, Hu in the light, and Taliesin, having just passed through the
change, says, ―I am now Taliesin,‖ or the radiant one, i.e. Hu.
The origin of the Aedui and Hedui and their relation to the sun-
god, who, as the child, was the still earlier Sabean fire-god, are shown
by the word Aedha, Greek A ITHOS , Latin A EDES , and its connection
with warmth, fire, or light; also with the Hindustani I D , the solar
festival at Easter, and with O D , the Akkadian name of Shamas, the
sun-god.
The Irish ecclesiastics of this name are countless, which shows it
was of a sacred type. It is rendered-Aidus by the Latinists, and by
the English it takes a return curve, and is always rendered Hugh,
the hard form of Hu. Mac-Hugh, or Magee, is the final shape of the
son of Hu. Cathair Aedhas is the stone or circle of Hu, and the
son of Hu is an Aed in the English church, as Bishop Magee.
The god Hu and his followers, .the Hut and Hedui, are solely
responsible for the ―Jews in Cornwall,‖ of whom tradition tells. The
Hut with the S terminal instead of the T would become the Hus, as
children of Hu. Hu or Hiu becomes Iu. Iu (Eg.) means to go forth, as
did the son of the mother called Hu and Iu. The Ius are the Jews.
The story is that Jews migrated to Cornwall, and worked as slaves
in the mines; this is continually repeated in Cornish books. But
if the Jews were ethnological, they would still be thk Hut of Wales,
who were called Hus or Ius. The Hebrews only got there by an
edict of language, through the sound of the letter J. The name is
not ethnological. Old smelting-houses are still called ―Jews-houses‖
by the Cornish people. This offers the right clue.
Hut, in Egyptian, is the white, whether metal or other substance.
Hut is the name for silver, as the white metal. The white metal,
Hut, rendered silver, most probably includes tin, so inseparable is Hut
and the white thing, the image of light and of the white god Hu.
But that does not matter here. Huel is the Cornish name of a
tin-mine. This relates the tin to Hu, the white god, and Hu with the
terminal is Hut. Hut being white is also that which is whitened.
Iua (Eg.), for instance, means to wash, that is, to purify and whiten.
This process applied to smelting and refining ore, making the black
tin white, is Iua in Egyptian, and the refinery is the Iua-house,
or Jew-house, singular; Jews-houses, plural.
This derivation of the Jew-house from Iua, to wash and whiten, is
corroborated by the fact that the smelting-house is also called the
white-house, and white is Hut (Eg.). White represents an earlier
Quhite in Gaelic; and Chiwidden, in Cornish, is the white or Jew-
house. The Egyptian Hut, for white, had an earlier form, as Khu
is light, and Akhu is white, and with the terminal these are Khut and
Akhut. Chi-wid-den, however, rendered Khi-hut-ten (Eg.), might
mean the white house as the place of beating and spreading out thin,
to whiten or make the White, and Khi-hut-tahn is, literally, the house
of white tin.
The Chiwidden, or white house, is the smelting, refining, beating,
whiting house; and for discovering this process Chiwidden was
placed in the Christian calendar of saints. Chiwidden, as person,
can also be derived from the white god Hu. The white god and
the white substance have one name as Tahn, the Repa, and Tin.
Chi-hut-tahn is the young sun-god, the heir-apparent, who is the
white ruler, the Iu or manifester, who was Hu in the character of
Aeddon or Prydhnin.
This appearing youth also turns up in Cornish hagiography as a
companion of Chiwidden, called St. Perran, who landed in Cornwall
at Perran-Zahuloe with a millstone tied round his neck.1 Per-ran (Eg.)
signifies the appearing, manifesting youth; it has the same meaning
as Per-t-Han (Prydhain) and again as St. Picrous (of the crossing,
where the eye of Horus or the Tahn is found in the Egyptian
planisphere), who was also credited with the discovery of Tin or Tahn.
Kiran in the legends equates with Piran.
The spelling of the name of Kiran called the saint will enable
us to clinch the meaning. Kir or Kar (Eg.) is the course, and
An (Eg.) means to repeat, appear the second or another time.
Kiran is the great saint who in his old age went to Cornwall to
die. Cor-an (kg.) is the repeated, secondary circle or Cor, and
he is undoubtedly the Corin or Corineus who was fabled to divide the
island of Albion with Brut in the time of the giants.2
Market-Jew is one of the many names of Marazion connected with
the legend of the Jews in Cornwall. We have identified the Jew
with Iua, to whiten and purify; the market hyphened with it shows its
relation in Egyptian, but not by making Market-Jew the Jew‘s Market.
Khat (Eg.) is the name-of a mine and a quarry. Mar is a region,
1 Hunt, Popular Romances of Cornwall.
2 Geoffrey‘s History, b. i. ch. xvi.
a limit, a street. Mar-Khat-Iua is the region, the limit, of the mine
and smelting-houses. Market-Jew, then, is a name of the place
solely associated with the mining and smelting of the famous tin.
Different names of Marazion tell the same tale.
Mara-Shen (Eg.) is the water-limit and the land‘s end, as place
of turning-back.
Mar-Kes-Iu, the form used by Leland, Mar-Kys-Yoo used by
William of Worcester, and the other spellings, Markesiow and
Marghasiewe, correlate with the Iua or Jew in this way. Mar is
the region, land-limit, bank, as it is likewise the water-limit; Khes
is to ram, beat, pound, found, and if we keep to our determinative
Iua to whiten, the Mar-Khes-Iua is the water-region or land-limit
of the foundry and refinery of Tin.
Norris1 says it is a rule without exception for words ending with
T or D in Welsh or Briton, if they exist in Cornish, to turn the T or
D into S. Thus the Hut become the Hus, Ius, or Jews in Cornwall.
The Jews vanish and leave us the Hus or Hut, the worshippers of Hu
and children of Kêd.
Mother and son are typified by the minc and metal. Kheft, the
hinder quarter, the north, the underworld, the well of source, is also
˛ ˛
the mine. Kheft was the mine itself abraded in Khau t and Kha t
(the Eagle or accented A having been an earlier FA), the mine, the
quarry; and the white metal, the Hu, was the child of the womb, the
Kêd, Kheft, Khaut. Kheft, the mine, still survives in the S HAFT.
The Rut in Egypt were the race, the people, mankind. And the
word lives in the English Lede for people and mankind. It is a
type-word in various languages of the same value as Rut. In the
names of places we have the land of the Rut, in Rutlandshire,
Redruth, Ruthin, Rutchester, Ludershal; the City of Lud, in London,
and Ludlow. Then there are the Laths and Ridings.
The county of Kent is divided into five ―laths‖ for civil purposes,
and these are subdivided into hundreds. The lath is supposed to
come from the Saxon gelathian, to assemble. But the Kymry and
the ―Rut,‖ as the Egyptians called themselves, are more likely to
have brought the name of the lath, especially as the Rut is a
symbolical figure of five—the sign of five steps corresponding to
the five laths of Kent; and as the Rut image is the determinative
of the word Khent, the south, so the country of Kent is in the south
of England.
We have the earlier orthography of the lath and leet in our rides,
ruts, and ridings for divisions; rod-knights, or reding-kings; rate, to
govern, rule; rede, to counsel or advise, and the Irish raths. The
laths and leets were relics of the Rut, the race par excellence as the
people of Egypt, whose name of the Rut, the first, from the root
of all, is retained in our word rathe, for the earliest. The Triads
1 Cornish Drama, Vol. ii. p. 237.
speak of the Brython from Lydaw (Britanny), who were of the
original stock of the Kymry. Both the name of Brython and Lydaw
tend to show the relationship. Gwydion is called the great purifier
of the Brython. 1 In later times the Brython from abroad are
distinguished from the primitive Kymry as one of the cruel races
that afflict them.2
Now an early name of Britanny is Lydaw. Au (Eg.) is the plase
or country. Lydaw or Rut-au then is the land of the Rut, the ancient
race. Rut and Lud are interchangeable, but Rut is the oldest form.
So the Rutuli of Italy are probably older than the Latin name. Also
Rhodez in Rovergue was the place of the ancient Ruteni; Rennes, of
the Rhedonis; Rouen, of the Rothomagi.
The Scotian Fir da Leith, rendered the men of two halves, is from
the Egyptian Rut, to be divided, the men who separated from the
parent stock. Rut (Eg.) means to be several, repeated. These were
the Fir da Leith. In the coal country a Leite is a joint or division
in the coal, Scottish L ITH and Gaelic L UTH for a joint; that is the
sense of the divided Leith. The lathe is a division of a county, and
the lath is made by splitting.
We learn from the 10th chapter of Genesis that Mizraim (Egypt)
begat Ludim. There were various branches from the Rut in Egypt
which spread in Africa, Asia, and Europe under the one name. In
a sepulchral inscription at Thebes the Ruten or Ludim are described
as the people of the ―Northern Lands behind the Great Sea.‖ This
name may have included the people of Lydaw, Britanny, and Britain.
The range of Tahtmes III., Seti I., and Rameses II. was immense both
by land and sea. ―I have given thee to smite the extremities of the
waters; the circuit of the great sea is grasped in thy fist,‖ is said by
the god to Tahtmes. ―I have given thee to smite the Tahennu, the
isles of the Tena‖—the divided, cut-off, remote people. ―The chiefs
of all countries are clasped together in thy fist.‖3
The oldest names of the children are derived from the motherhood.
The Ruti bear the name of Urt, the greatest, chief, first, and oldest;
the Egyptians of Kheb. The Auritæ or Kafritæ included two
names of the Typhonian genitrix. The Ketti we derive from
Kêd, who, as Kheft, named the Japheti. This naturally enough sug-
gests a divine origin for the Picts and Scots, who were the Kymry
in Scotland. The Welsh bear ample testimony to the fact that the
Picts were of the race of the Gwyddyl (Gadhael), whom we call the
Kymry of the second degree, that of sonship. It is well known that
Ireland was, so to say, the first Scotland, or country of the Scot. In
ancient records Scotia means Ireland. In the fabulous history of
Scotland it is said that a daughter of Pharaoh named Scota was
wedded to a Keltic prince, and these were the progenitors of the
1 Taliesin, ―Cad Goddeu.‖ 2 Taliesin, ―The Sons of Llyr.‖
3 Tablet of Tahtmes III. Records, vol. 2 pp. 27-8.

Scots. We are told by Hesychius that Venus was worshipped in
Egypt under the name of Scotia; by which he means Sekhet (or
Bast), called the goddess of drink and pleasure. Venus is a general
name for the genitrix, and Sekhet, also identified with the element
of heat, is one of the two characters of the Great Mother. The Irish
Bridget will help us to recover Scotia in the isles, in Ireland first and
Scotland afterwards.
One part of the process in converting the Irish was to take their
ancient deities, the devil included, and transform them into Christian
saints, and as saints they have figured in the calendar ever since.
Thus the mythical Patrick appears to be identifiable with the god Ptah;
not but that there may have been a priest of Ptali named Patrick.
The Rekh (Eg.) is the Mage, wise man, priest, and there may have been
one or many Ptah-rekhi, the priests of Ptah. Patrick, or Ptah-rekh
is probably the hard form of the Paterah known as a Druidical title.
Attius Paterah, the friend of Ausonius, was a Druidical Paterah or
Patrekh in this sense ; he who was said to have been S TIRPE S ATUS
D RUIDUEN G ENTIS A RMORICÆ ,1 and the companion of Dyved.
When the original Patrick landed in Ireland, the country was ruled
by Niul of the Nine Hostages, who may possibly be a form of the
Welsh Ner, Budd Ner. Budd answers to the Put circle of the nine
gods, which was represented by the Bed of Tydain, in Tad Awen, the
father of the nine British muses. Ptah was the fratner of the Put
circle of nine in the solar reckoning, and division of the dry period.
It is not necessary to claim the sacred title of Budd as denoting a
form of Ptah, but we certainly have Ptah as the ―old Puth.‖ The
title of Bûdd is written Vytud and Vedud by Cuhelyn, and it is also
assigned to the goddess Kêd. Now, in the hieroglyphics, Fut, the
earlier form of Put, signifies the circle of four quarters which preceded
the Put circle of the nine gods.
Nial of the Nine denotes the second of these two, and this was th
order of things when patrick came to Ireland. Also, there is a
character that figures in ―Hanes Taliesin‖ as ―Bald Serenity,‖ a
form of Ptah, who is pictured as bald or wearing the close-fitting
skull-cap, the sign of baldness. Bald Serenity had his abode in the
middle of a lake or mere. Ptah carries in his hands the Nilometer
sign, the emblem of serenity, as lord of the waters. Ptah was the
former of the egg, and a daughter of ―Bald Serenity‖ was named
Crierwy, the ―token of the egg,‖ also the manifestation of the egg.
The Pudduck is a frog, and Ptah was in one form the frog-headed
deity, the biune being whose likeness was reflected in the two-
fold nature of frog on land and tadpole in the water. Budd
seems to be the British Buddha, and both are probably derived
from Putha, so that Pat may be the living representative of Ptah.
Patrick is said to have been christened Succath or Socher by his
1 Auson. Prof. iv. and x. 2 Davies, Myth. pp. 116, 118, 189.
parents. The Sekht (Eg.) is the ark of Sekari, and Sekari is a title
of Ptah; Ptah-Sekari is the Ptah of the Sekhet or ark, the silent
or mummy form of the god. Paterah was the companion of Dyved,
or Hu, the solar Tevhut, who was the son of Ptah.
Patrick was accompanied by St. Bridget, she whose fire was in the
keeping of nine maids, and surrounded with a fence of a circular
form, the Put circle of the hieroglyphics, the divine circle of the
nine gods; ―Put‖ being the name of number nine.
Nial of the nine hostages looks like the ruler of the Put circle
of nine gods who was Ptah in Egypt. If historical, he would be affi-
liated to that system of reckoning by the solar nine, which includes
the partition of China into the nine divisions of Yu.
Sheelah-na-Gig is sometimes called Patrick‘s mother, sometimes
his wife, and is an Irish form of the Great Mother. Sheelah‘s day
is March 18th. Sheelah as the mythical mother is known by the
figures called ―Sheelah-na-Gigs,‖ very primitive and plain in their
meaning. These were portrayed over the entrance of ancient
churches, and formed in one particular part a hieroglyphic Ru, the
typical mouth or C TEIS which Sheelah pointed to as the door of life.
Kekh (Eg.) means a sanctuary, in English a church; the Chech is
a stone chest, kist-vaen or cromlech, and the birthplace supplied the
type of the burial-place . This gave appropriateness to the Sheelah-
na-Gigs being portrayed as the way of life over the church-door.
Sherah (Eg.) means source, the waters of source. Serah (Eg.) is to
reveal and exhibit. Sheelah-na-Gig may mean the revealer of source
in the sanctuary and birthplace. Sheelah is a goddess of drink and
pleasure, as was Bast (Eg.), who exists as the Bebaste of the Irish
mythology; therefore it may be inferred that Sheelah the revealer and
Bebaste are identical. Sher (Eg.) means to breathe with joy, which
the Irish do on Sheelah‘s day, and the shamrock worn on Patrick‘s,
the previous day, is drowned in the last glass of whisky on Sheelah‘s
night to her immortal memory. Further, Sheelah-na-Gig ought to
enable us to read the name of Bridget. Ket is the womb, the birth-
place personified in Kêd. The Sheelah-na-Gig exhibits the Ket.
Brid is a name of Prydhain, the child. Brid-get may therefore be a
personification of the mother of Brid, Brute, or Prid, the manifester as
the solar son.
In Scotland Bridget was known as Scota; she is called Scota by
various writers.1 Scota, the wife of Patrick, adds to the likelihood
of his being the god Ptah, for Sekhet was the consort of Ptah, the
mother of the solar son,—the Egyptian Pridhain or reappearing
youth,—and she, like Bridget, was the goddess of fire.2
The month of Choiak was sacred to Sekhet and her festival. In
the sacred year this answers to our October-November. And in
1 Jameson, History of the Ancient Culdees, p. 109. See also Vallancy, Coll, Hib.
pp. 200-251; and Nimrod, vol. ii. pp. 639-645. 2 ib. 189.
the Roman calendar the principal festival of Bridget is celebrated on
the 7th of October.1
The Scottish Scota, Bridget, once identified through Patrick with
the Egyptian Sekhet, ought to help us still farther north. For
Sekhet was a name of the lioness-headed, goddess Pasht, Pekht, or
Peht. The consort of Ptah takes two forms as goddess of the Two
Truths of the north and the south. As goddess of fire in the south
she is lioness-headed; as goddess of moisture in the north she is
cat-headed ; the one is named Sekhet, the other Pasht, Bast, Pekht,
Peht, or Buto. Buto, in the north, is the cat-headed form of the
genitrix, and B AUDRONS , the Scotch name for a cat, retains that of
Peht or Buto, the cat-headed goddess. Butha is also an Irish name
of the moon.
The Irish goddess of moisture is called Be-Baste; that is, Bast or
Pasht of Egypt; and Scota (Bridget) is the fire-goddess, that is, Sekhet.
These are the two divine sisters in the Ptah Triad, the plural form of
the genitrix. The gist of all this is that the names of the Picts
and the Scots meet in this goddess, who is Pekht in one form as the
divinity of the northern frontier and Sekht as the mistress of fire in
the south.
If we were to derive the Sgiot or Scot from Sekhet the goddess,
then the Sgiot-ach of the Scotch probably comes from the Akh (Eg.),
meaning the illustrious, noble, honourable sons of Sekhet (Scota), who
is recognized on the monuments as the goddess of pleasure and drink,
ergo of whiskey, the fire-water; spirit and fire being synonymous in
the symbolism of the Two Truths.
The Scotch were anciently called Cruitnich, the Corn-men, the culti-
vators of corn, and the word Cruitne is extant as the name of a place
called Cruden. Sekhet is an Egyptian name of corn. We hear of the
Picts and Scots as the painted men, and Sekht signifies the painted. The
Gaelic Sgod, a dweller in woods and forests, answers to Se-khet (Eg.),
field and forest. The Picts and Scots are generally coupled together;
Pekht and Sekhet will enable us to make a geographical distinction.
Pekht denotes the hinder, the northern part. Peh (Eg) is the
rump. The Pukha was the infernal locality of the under-world.
Pick-a-back is a pleonasm of hindwardness. Pest (Eg.) is the Pes, the
back, and in Gammer Gurton’s Needle we read, ―My Gammer sat down
on her Pes.‖ Pes, Peh, Pekh are forms of one word, back. The Picts
therefore were the people of the hinder part of the land, the Egyptian
symbol for the north. Khebt has the same meaning, and in Kent a
Gipsy (Kheb-si) is still called a Pikey. The Peak in Derbyshire has
been shown to be a type of the hinder part, and in the Saxon Chronicle
the men of the Peak are called Pecsætan. They, too, were Picts
according to the naming from the north, the genitrix Pekht being a
later form of the Goddess of the North who was the earlier Kheft.
1 Roman Martyrologie according to the Reformed Calendar, by G. K., 1627.
Suâ, the south, is an abraded Suka, and with the terminal T, Sukat is
synonymous with south. The Scot was localized as the southerner of
the two.
Pasht and Sekhet are a form of the twin-lions of the equinox
facing the north and the south. Our Pash or Pasch of Easter is
named after the goddess who presides at the place of the equinox,
the Pekha, in her dual form. The Pekh or Bekh was the solar birth-
place at the time of the vernal equinox.
The western equinox is represented also by her name, although the
date is now belated. The Monday after the 10th of October is called
Pack-Monday; on this day bears were baited, and dogs were whipped.
Formerly a number of cats used to be burned to death on the Place
de Grève, Paris, in the Midsummer fire of St. John. The cat-headed
Sekhet was the Egyptian goddess of fire. The bear was a type of the
ancient outcast mother as well as the dog, both having been symbols
of Sut-Typhon. Poke-day in Suffolk is when food is divided and
portioned out among the labourers. Pekh (Eg.), is food, and to
divide.
Pekh appears to have left her name in the county of Buchan. Her
image survives in the red lion of Scotland, red being the colour of the
northern, the lower crown, and of the female lion represented by Pekht.
The wonderful temple at Bubastis was made of red granite. Bede
wrote the name of the Picts as Pehtas, and in Egyptian Pekht became
Peht.
The twin lioness (or the lioness and cat), as Pekhti, represents
double might and vigilance; Pehti means vigilant and foreseeing.
This meaning is modified in our word peke, to peep, pry, and peer
into. Pekht was the watcher, and in one of her two forms she must
have watched from ―Arthur‘s Seat,‖ Edinburgh, where the dim outline
of the lion is not solely drawn from imagination, although the work of
man has been almost effaced by the work of time. It is obvious too
that this was Sekhet, the goddess of fire, known as Scota (or Bridget),
who tended the fire with her nine maidens, at Edinburgh, the maiden
castle.
M AI (Eg.) is the cat-lion, ten is the elevated seat, the throne, which
in the hieroglyphics is lion-shaped. And Edinburgh was the maiden
city, ergo not only the circle of the nine maidens of Scota, but also
the seat of the cat-lion.
The M AI is also the lion rampant of Scotland, and has its tail
between its legs and thrown over its back.
Lastly, in the arms of England the lion and the unicorn are united
in a common support, and the unicorn is a type of Typhon, the one-
horned, the Ramakh (hippopotamus or rhinoceros), called the my-
thical unicorn, the ancient Kheb or Kheft of Egypt and the Kêd of
Britain.
In the eastern part of the territory of the Rhobogdii, in Ireland,
says Richard of Cirencester, 1 was situated the promontory of the
same name; their metropolis was Rhobogdium. Rru (Eg.) is a
name for the children. May not these Rhobogdii have been the Rru
as children of Pekht, the dual lioness? Pekht in the form of the twin
lions, also named the Rhiu, was seated on the rock of the horizon
called the Ru as the place of the lions or Pekhti.
The Rru-Pekhti should be the children of the goddess Pekht, un-
less they called themselves descendants of the Pekhti. Either way the
promontory of Rhobogdium repeats the Egyptian imagery.
Bast, the goddess of drink, has given us some names connected with
drinking. To booze is to drink deeply. A bussard is a great drinker.
A basking is a drenching. The bush was a symbol of drink at the
alehouse door. Afterwards the wooden frame of the signboard was
termed the bush. Grose says buzz, to buzzer one, signifies to
challenge a person to pour out all the wine from the bottle into his
glass, and to drink it, should it prove more than the glass would
hold. It is said to a person who hesitates to empty a bottle that is
nearly out. To buzz is to empty the bottle, and the buzzard is the
coward who refuses. Bes (Eg.) is the inundator or swiller.
Bast as goddess of pleasure is our divinity of bussing. To buss is
to kiss, conjoin; to baste is to tack together. To Bast we owe the
bastard. To bask is pleasure. Baskefysyke2 is a name of fututio.
Bagford mentions an image that once stood at Billingsgate. The
porters used to ask the passers-by to kiss the same, and if they re-
fused, they were bumped on the seat against it. He calls it a post, and
intimates that it represented some old image that formerly stood there,
perhaps of Belin. Bagford adds, ―Somewhat of the like post or
rather stump was near St. Paul‘s, and is at this day called St. Paul‘s
Stump.‖ This is probably alluded to as the B OSSE of Billingsgate in
―Good News and Bad News.‖
― The Water-workes, huge Paul‘s, old Charing Crosse,

Strong London bridge, at Billingsgate the BOSSE.‖3
The B OSH is a figure, the Egyptian P ESH a statue.

We can recover the BOSSE as the seat of Bast.
Besa (Eg.) is a name of the seat or of seats. Pest (Eg.) is the
back, spine, seat. The Bessy who was Bast made a special symbol, of
the cow‘s tail. The gate of Belin, the birthplace of the son, was
represented by the BOSSE or Bast, the hinder part, and those who
would not BUS her in front were bumped behind.
Pekh, the goddess of pleasure, is possibly invoked in the expres-
sion, ―an‘ it please the Pix,‖ i.e. if Pekh please, for she was terrible
at times; in the character of Sekmet she was the punisher of the
1 B. i. ch. viii. 11. 2 Cokwold‘s Daunce, i. 116.
3 By S. R., 1622; Brand ―Kissing the Post.‖
wicked. Her name is sacred as that of the Pyx, the vessel in which
the host, mass, or consecrated wafer, is kept. The pyx is an emblem
of the womb, and Pekh, later Bekh, is the birthplace, where the bread
was BAKED . Mesi (Eg.) is a cake, Mes-t is the womb, and Mes means
to engender and generate the child; the pyx with the bread in it
represents the mother and child; but the mother signified by the
name of Pekh, the goddess of Pasche, of bussing, of pleasure and
drinking, is the old cat-headed Puss or beast. Kissing the P AX after
the service, according to the Ritual of Rome, is a survival of kissing
the Bosse-Image of P EKH as the goddess of the Easter crossing.
The fairy is a diminutive of early deity, and Pekh also survives in
the form of a fairy, as the Piskey or Pixy of Devonshire and Wales.
A man who is glamoured, it may be with drink, is still said to be
Piskey-led; the goddess of drink thus protects her followers, or plays
the devil with them, as the Puck or Pouke.
The lioness-headed Pekh (Pasht), who was both Pekht and Sekht,
mother of the Pict and Scot, was one of the very ancient deities of
Egypt, but not the oldest.
The Goddess of the North and of the Bear is the most ancient
form of the genitrix, first, oldest, and chief, as her names declare. She,
as the present writer contends, passed into the form of Uati as God-
dess of the North, who had her sanctuary at Dep (Tep, the first), at
the extremity of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, and who, as Uati
the dual one, bifurcates into Pasht and Sekht of the solar myth. Sekhet
also has the title of Urt, the great goddess, who had been Ta-Urt.
The secondary stage of the lioness goddesses is well shown by the
two lions that draw the car of Kubele, the Great Mother, the Kheb
of Egypt.
There may be some sort of gauge in this naming. If the ethno-
logical titles follow the order of the divine dynasties, then those who
claim from Kêd are primeval, whilst those who date from Pekht and
Sekht of the lioness type are in a second or a third degree of descent
from the beginning. This assimilation to the divine order is likely to
afford some guidance in seeing that the Pict and the Scot were off-
shoots from the Kymry of Britain, who claimed to be the children
of Kêd. Thus, when we meet with the Atta-Coti in Scotland, and
know that Atta (Eg.) is the father and typical ancestor, it looks as
though the Atta-Coti still claimed in another country to belong to
the original race of the Ketti. The Catini, or Gadini, may likewise
have claimed descent from Kêd.
Here for example is an illustration by which the tentative tentacles
appear to hold fast in another bit of anchorage in the heavens. We
are told there was a Scottish tribe during the Pictish period named
the S ELGOVÆ , in the West of Scotland, their western boundary being
the river Dee, and their southern limit the Solway Frith.1
1 Encyclop. Brit. 8th ed., article, Scotland.
Selk also is an Egyptian goddess who was connected with one of
the four quarters, as she is found conjoined with the four genii;
which quarter is shown by the scorpion borne on her head. Selk
means the scorpion, once the sign of the western equinox; and Serkh
is the hole, the opening of the Ament in the west. The Selgovæ
were the people of the western quarter. Afa (Eg.) means born of.
Selk-afa is born of Selk. Her name is also found in Sark. Selk (or
Serk) is a goddess of Dakheh, in Nubia,1 the Dog-star was sacred
to her, which takes her back to the primal motherhood. The name
of Dakheh reminds one that Bridget was said to be a daughter
of Dakha.
The Picts disappeared in so mysterious a manner because they
never existed in the distinct ethnological sense supposed.
The Kymry were the first known people in Scotland; they pre-
ceded the Pict, Scot, and Gael; the appearance of the Picts in
the north of the country is strictly connected with the disappearance
of the Kymry, and will account for it. The disappearance is but
the submergence of the name of the Kymry in that of the Picts
and Scots. The Kymry being the original race that inhabited
Scotland, bifurcated into the Picts and Scots. The Picts vanished,
and the Scots‘ name spread over the land. In India we find the
same thing occurs under the same names. Dr. Bellew3 has recently
called attention to the fact that in Afghanistan large sections
of the Afridi people and the family of the Khan of Kelat are
called the K AMARI , whilst the inhabitants of the ―Pukhtún-khwá
country‖ are designated Pacts and Scyths, the equivalent for our
Picts and Scots. The name of Pukhtún-khwá, rendered by Egyptian
from Pukht, divided in two, and Ka, for country, recognizes
that division north and south of the bifurcating race, as in Scotland,
and as in the land of Egypt. Here, then, are the Kymry in
India, as in Scotland, dividing into the people of the two lands (of
Egypt) called North and South, whence the Picts and Scots. Ari
(Eg.) denotes the companions, fellows, the family, as in Kabiri,
the Seven ―Ari‖ of Kheb, the goddess of the Great Bear. The
Pict and Scot, or Pact and Scyth, follow and correspond to the
division of the heavens by north and south when the solstices only
were marked and reckoned by, and the Great Mother was represented
by the two divine sisters, who in one system were Pekht and Sekht
of the lioness type of the genitrix. We need not, therefore, be sur-
prised to meet with the Logari of Logar in India answering to the
Logrians of ancient Britain. For Dr. Bellew also finds the Logari,
whom he parallels wit.h the British L OEGRWYS . The Logari (Rekhari)
1 Wilk. pl. 55. 2 Vallancy.
3 The Races of Afghanistan; being a Brief Account of the Principal Nations

inhabitating that Country. By Surgeon-Major H. W. Bellew, C.S.I., late on special
political duty at Kabul. (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, and Co.)
are the Ari, children, fellows; and Rekh denotes the race, or the
people of a district. The race of K HEFT or Kêd may also be
found in India in the C HEDI , a very ancient people who lived in
Bundelkhand, and were famous for their close attachment to ancient
customs, laws, and religion. In both directions the naming must have
been carried out from one source, which was the land of Kam, \wj, or
Khebma, as only by the Egyptian mythology and language can the
facts be interpreted. It is this unity of origin in Egypt that has
created the glamour concerning the lost ten tribes who have been
discovered in so many lands, including Afghanistan. There is a
common source for the people, the mythology, and the naming. The
A FRIDI folk, found in India at the head of the Kamari, the Pacts
and Scyths, may now be claimed as a form of the Auritze, Afruti, the
primal Kafruti of Africa, and the brotherhood of the Kamari, Kabiri,
Abroi, and Kynlry goes back to the unity of the black race.
Before Cæsar landed in Britain, the people of Dorset were known
as the Morini and the Durotriges. The Morini (in Egyptian Mer-
uni) are the inhabitants of the water-region and the land-limit. Ter
(Eg.) is the extremity of the land, the frontier. The T adds the
article the, and Rekhi signifies the people of a district. The Teru-
trekhi or Durotriges are the people of the district on the water-frontier
at the limit of the land. Rekh (Eg.) gives us a type-name, but one
somewhat difficult to utilize. For the Rekhi may be the architects,
builders, metallurgists, refiners, time-keepers (Druids), teachers of
various arts and sciences. They are the magi, the learned, the
knowers, and experts.
Richborough, at the navigable estuary of the river forming the Isle of
Thanet, yields the Borough of the Rekh. Buru (Eg.) is the high place.
Here was the Roman haven of Rutupia and the Urbs Rutupiæ of
Ptolemy, described as one of the chief cities of Kent, and commonly
supposed to have been one of the first Roman stations in England. The
name proves it was one of ihe first Egyptian stations. Ru is the gate,
road, way. Tepi means the first, the point of commencement, and from
this initial point proceeded the Watling Street or Way, the Ru which
as primary is in Egyptian Rutupi. The castle of Rutupi on Rich-
borough Hill is said to exhibit a more perfect specimen of Roman
military architecture than is found elsewhere in Britain. But is not
that owing to the Rekh (builders) who preceded the Romans?
Rutupi is not only the point of commencement for the great road,
as Tep is the sacred hill, also written Tepr, i.e. Thabor, our Dover.
The hill of Rutupi stood by the bay,—whence the Romans procured
the famous oysters mentioned by Juvenal, 1 —which is now mere
marsh-land. As Teb (Eg.) is fish, and Ru a pool, R UTUPI may also
denote the oyster-bay. It is not necessary to prove too much, but
such is the fundamental nature of Egyptian naming.
1 ―Rutupinove edita fundo.‖
Ragæ, the chief city of the Coitani, was a name of Leicester; thus
Ragæ and Leic permute in the Ster or Kester of the Leic or Rekh.
The Logi also inhabited the north-east part of Sutherlandshire and
the south-east of Strathnearn. A people named the Regnai, Ptolemy‘s
Rhgnoi , were in possession of Sussex and Surrey before the Romans
came and were powerful enough to maintain a kind of independence
afterwards. Tacitus mentions their king Cogidubnus as a faithful ally
of Rome. Regnum, the modern Chichester, was the capital of the
Regnai. Rekh-uni (Eg.) are the native Rekh. As the Rekh were,
amongst other things, masters of the art of smelting, and as the
Weald of Sussex was famed from time immemorial for its ironworks,
it is possible the Rekh in this instance signifies the workers in metal,
the Regnai being of the old race (Rekh) of Knowers.
But we can get in a little closer. The Rekh is the brazier and
smelting-furnace. Nai is the Egyptian plural. The Rekhnai, the
plural Rekh, signifies the smelters, and furnace-men. Khekh-tebn
(Eg.), the equivalent of Gogi-dubnus, is the ruler of the division or
circle.
Creklade or Greeklade, not far from Oxford, is famed in ancient
traditions as the place to which certain Greek philosophers came with
Brute. Drayton remarks that the History of Oxford in the Proctor‘s
Book and certain old verses1 affirm this, and that both Creklade and
Lechlade (the physicians‘ lake) in this shire derived their title from
these Greeks and Lechs or Leeches. Once we get the Greeks and
Brutus out of the way, we can better interpret the obscurities of
tradition. Our Lechs are the Egyptian Rekhi, the learned, the wise
men, the mages, the men of science, physicians and astronomers,
builders and metal workers. Rat, the equivalent of our lade, a place,
means a place, to plant, make fast. Lechlade, i.e. Rekh-rat, is the
settlement of the Rekh. The Roll-rich stones, in the same county,
mark another place of the Rekh. Rer is a circuit, circle, to go round.
The stones formed a circle of the Rekhi, who were also masons,
builders, and religious teachers in Egypt.
The name of Crek classicized into Greek is probably derived from
Kha, a book-place, an Altar, and Rekh. Kharekh would naturally
abrade into Crek, and be as naturally read Greek. Creklade
is thus the college of the Rekh. The magi of Egypt are the pure
wise spirits and intelligences. And the Rekh exists with us as the
Rook, a name for the parson. The Rekh, the pure wise spirit, has
for determinative the Rekh bird, the Arabic Roc, a mythical bird.
The Rekh is the Phœnix, the ancient bird-type of transformation.
This Rekh becomes our ancient and wise bird, the rook. Thus we
have the Egyptian Rekh in several forms.
At Caiplie, near Fifeness, in the parish of Kilrenny, Scotland, there
is a cave with sculptured walls. The name Caiplie is modernized from
1 Leland. ad. Cyg. cant. in Iside.
Caip-lawchy. The Egyptian equivalent will be K EP -R EKHI , and
Kep is the concealed place, the hidden sanctuary; Rekhi, the wise
men, pure spirits, knowers, the mages. ―Kar-rennui‖ signifies the
astronomers as namers of the star-courses, from Kar, a course, an
orbit, and renn, to name. Another of these caves is found at
Dysart, which name in the same language reads Teb-sart, the cave
or place of the sowers of wisdom and science. In the name of Rugby
we probably have the Bi (Eg.), a place of the Rekh, the learned.
Leighton-Buzzard is a town near Ashridge. Leigh-ton denotes the
―ten‖ division, seat of the Rekh. The Buau (Eg.) were chiefs,
heads, archons. Ser is to arrange, organize, dispose, distribute,
amplify, augment, conduct, console. Sart is to plant, grow, sow the
seeds of wisdom and science. The Buau-sart were the chief ministers
and officers of the Rekh, Leighton being the centre of a settlement,
the boundary of a shire. Rickmersworth introduces another name
of the Rekh of Egypt in the Mer, plural Mert. The Mer was a
monk, a person attached to a temple. Mars-worth is possibly the
worth, a nook of land belonging to the Mert, in the English plural
the Mers. Thus Rickmersworth would be the enclosure of the Rekh,
the wise men, mages, pure spirits, who lived the monkish or Mer life,
and whose sanctuary, park, pavilion, a retired nook, was at Marsworth,
and Kickmersworth. In Domesday, however, the name appears with
the Egyptian masculine article prefixed as Prick-mare-word, that is,
―The-Rick-Mer-worth.‖ P-rick-mer-worth was held by the abbot of
St. Alban‘s. St. Alban‘s held the manor in demesne, and this may give
another meaning to the Mer. The Mer is a superintendent, overseer,
governor; Morien, a name given to the builder of Stonehenge by the
Welsh Barddas may have been the superintending Mer in this sense.
The ―Fomorians‖ is one of the Irish typal names of the race. Fu-
meri-uni (Eg.) are a large number of inhabitants inclosed and
governed, equal to a claim of being civilized. Moor Park is at Rick-
mersworth, and Park in Egyptian is Hert, our worth, a nook of land
enclosed. Rekh-Mer might signify the prefect, superintendent of the
Rekh, who was modernized into the abbot of St. Alban‘s, and if so,
the Hert would be his place, as park, garden, pavilion, whence Moor
Park.
The time came when the Welsh specially distinguished England
as the land of the Rekh. Lloeger is the name for England known to
the Barddas. The Britons divided the island into Lloeger, Cymru,
ag Alban. When shut up in Wales, that district constituted three
regions, called Gwynedd, Pywys, and Dehenbarth, which were distri-
buted into a number of Cwmmwds, Trevs, and Cantrevs. But in the
first Triadic division England is Lloeger. ―Lloegyr,‖ says Lady Char-
lotte Guest, ―is the term used by the Welsh to designate England.
The writers of the middle ages derive the name from the son of
the Trojan Brutus, Locryn, whose brother, Camber, bequeathed his
name to the principality. But from another authority, that of the
Triads, we learn that the name was given to the country by an
ancient British tribe, called the L LOEGRWYS .‖1 Lloegrwys is a form
of the Logrians of Lloeger.
This brings us to the original type-name of the Rekh or Lekh,
which may afterwards indicate the calling, but primarily it means
the Race (it is the same word), as the descendants. Just as the Irish
Laegh is posterity, or L UCH , offspring; L UCHD , Gaelic, people.
Cormac Mac Cullman2 derives the OrBRAIGE as the descendants
(raige) of Orb or Orbh, RAIGE meaning posterity or race. O‘Dono-
van, in his commentary on this, says:—―Orbh was the ancestor of
the people called Orbraigh, who were descended from Fereidhech,
son of Fergus Mac Roigh, King of Ulster in the first century.‖
The Irish Orb here represents the Egyptian Kherp, to be first, chief,
principal, royal, consecrated. The Orbraigh were the royal race.
The Lloegrian race of England were the posterity of the Kymry,
corresponding to the Logari of Afghanistan as the race, the descend-
ants of the Kamari and Afridi. The primeval unity of the Lloegrians
and Kymry in race and religion is acknowledged in the Gododin3 by an
address to the universal goddess Kêd, ―O fair Kêd! Thou ruler of
the Lloegrian tribes.‖ The Lloegrians were one in religion after they
were divided by new ethnological lines of demarcation in Britain.
Lloeger rendered by Rekh-r means the division of the Rekh. All
we can say of them further is to repeat that they include the magi,
the metal-workers, the builders, the doctors.
They gave us the Rike, the master, the governor; the Leech, the
Laghe-man (lawyer), the Lake (player and actor). The Lace-maker
and Lacking (fulling), Lake and Lockram (kinds of linen), Leach
or purified brine in salt-making, Leches for cakes, and the Loker or
carpenter‘s plane, are named after them.
The Scottish Picts‘ towers are called Brochs, and as these are
built in contradistinction to the caves and holes, it may be the Rekh
(Eg.) enters into their name. The Rekh is an architect and builder.
The Pa (or B) denotes a house. The P-rekh would be the house that
was built, and the Brick would be named in the same way as the
means of building. Further the Rekh is the furnace, and the brick
is burnt. So read, the P A - REKH would be the burnt house, and the
Brock may not only have been the erected house but also the
vitrified fort.
The Rekh (Eg.) as people of a district apparently supply the
English Ric as in Cyneric. This became a kingdom in the German
Konig-reich, but the earlier Cyneric was derived from the Rekh or
people of a district who were of kin and formed the gens. The
Bishopric is now the only word with this ending in ric, meaning rule
and sway. But is the ric compounded with bishop identical with the
1 The Mabinogion, p. 210. 2 Glossary, ninth century. 3 Song 25.
ric in Cyneric? Not necessarily. The Relthi (Eg.) are various. They
are certain people of a district, and may be a religious order, as the
magi, the knowers or men of learning. The ric of the bishop may
therefore denote his sway and.dominion over the Rekhi or the rooks.
But as the Rekh or people of a district are also the race, mankind,
at first in the gens, and then generally, the ric becomes secularized,
and Cyneric and Bishopric are two distinct forms of the Rekh.
The origin of the S HIP , as in fellowship, can be traced far beyond
the verb SCAPAN , to shape. Ship is no doubt akin to shape, but there
is an earlier source for the word. The Sep (Eg.) were a body of
persons belonging to a religious house. The Sepa was a district, a
country. This in the earlier form is our scape in landscape; S HAAB ,
Arabic, a large and noble tribe; S ZCZEP , Polish, family, tribe, race;
S IBBO , A.-S., race or relations; S UBA , Hindustani, a province.
Skab (Eg.) means double; to Kab is to double and redouble.
The Sheb image of the second life is the double. Whence the Kab
(Kab-t) is a family. With the S prefixed, this is the Skab, Shab, or
Ship, as a companionship or fellowship, from the redoubled fellow or
companion; this is the German Schaft, equivalent to Kabt, a family.
In Hebrew the tribes are Shebt. This was the Sept, as the English
clan, race, or family, that proceeded like the seven stars from the
common genitrix. S HEFT (Eg.) means order, and a section; Z EPPET,
Circassian, foundation and groundwork; S HEBT, Hebrew, tribe or
tribes; S AFEDD , Welsh, the fixed state; S AFT , Scotch, a rest, peaceful;
H EPT, Eg., peace, number seven, and the ship; S EPTUM , Latin, an
enclosure; S APTI (Eg.) to construct, wall in.
The Sept in Swahili is the Kabila, like the Arab tribes of that
name; in Turkish the Kabile is a clan, tribe, or Sept. The Gbalai
in Gbandi is a farm. The Zincali Chival is a village, the Latin
Cubile, a bed, a place of repose. The Welsh Gefail is a smithy; the
Swahili Cofila, a caravan; the Cornish Ceible and English Coble, a
barge or flat-bottomed boat; Malayan, Kapal; Irish, Cabal, a ship;
Gaelic, Cabail; Kuff, German, a kind of vessel, with a main and mizen
mast; Evu, Adampe, canoe; Uba, Ibu, a canoe; Abies, Latin,
ship; Kufe, German, tub; Keeve, Scotch; Cuve, French; Kufa,
Polish. An old tub is a nick-name for the sailing vessel.
The root of the matter in relation to the ship and number seven
is that the first ship in a double sense was the constellation of the
seven stars, the Sept or Kabt of the Kabiri, and all forms of the
name lead back to them, and to the genitrix Khebt or Khepsh. Seb-ti
(Eg.) reads five-two, or seven, and this companionship of the seven in
heaven was copied on the earth in the Sept, Schaft, and the Ship of
the companions, or companionship.
M ACCU , M AQVI , and M ACWY are different forms of a word fre-
quently found in the Ogham inscriptions of Wales, as in M ACCU -
Decceti, M ACU -Treni, M AQVI -Treni. In the Irish and Gaelic Mac
it has come to signify the child, the son of. But the individual is
not primary; the gens, tribe, or clan is named first, and the word
ending as Mac can be traced backwards. Maga, Cornish, is to
feed and nourish. M AG , Welsh, to breed, nurture, rear, and bring
up; M AEG , English, a kinsman or blood-relation; M AIKA , Hindustani,
kindred, relations, the mother's family. And in the Irish Book
of Armagh1 Maccu or Mocu has the force of gens or clan, and inter-
changes with the word Corca, people, in M OCU -Dalon and Corca-
dallan; M OCU -themne and Corca-temne; M OCU -runtir is rendered
by the phrase, ―de genere runtir.‖ Magad (Welsh), a brood, follows
Magu, to breed, and Magad is identical with the so-called Anglo-
Saxon M AEGETH for the family, tribe, people, which is the Egyptian
Mâhaut, earlier Makhaut, meaning the clan, family, COGNATE,
with especial reference therefore to the motherhood. The Magad,
brood, and Makhaut clan of blood-relations, belong to the earliest
sociological types, hence in the Quiché language Machu means very
old. In Zulu Kaffir, Makade denotes a very ancient thing, and in
Arabic M AHKID is root-origin. The Maccu or Makhaut is the clan,
gens, family, or community, and the Mocu-Druidi or Maccu-Druidi
were the Druidic clan, family, community. The M OCU -runtir was
the clan that had their cattle (run, Eg.) in common; ter being the
whole people, all. Dallan seems to be the same word as runtir,
reversely compounded. In Ar-magh the name is localized, and as it
is on the hill, the Ard may be the Egyptian ascent, and as Art is also
the ceremonial type, Armagh may denote the place of a religious
family, the Makhau, on the height. Possibly the Vi in Maqvi may
stand for the Egyptian Fu or Fi, meaning numerous, and as the Welsh
QV passes into or comes to be equivalented by the letter P, Magvy is
the later mop and mob; the mop being an assembly of servants at a
fair waiting to be hired; the mob, an indistinguishable multitude, yet
represents the many, the common family or Makh. The fact and
relationship of the Makh is shown by the ―M AGBOTE ,‖ a fine for
murdering a kinsman. It also exists in the Magdalen, an asylum,
whilst its hieroglyphic sign is extant by name in the mace. Every
early name shed by the human being has been applied elsewhere in
the animal kingdom or in other domains. Thus the societary phase
represented by the Maegeth in English and the Mahaut (Makhaut)
for the clan in Egyptian is now represented by the M AGGOT, which
bears the name and continues the type of the Makhaut as an indis-
tinguishable swarm or multitude, that bred like maggots, and were
massed under a clan-name, a Mac-something or other. Moreover, the
human Makhaut or maggots worshipped a god of the same status as
their own, a maggot deity—the same process of naming applies to
the divinities as well as to animals, reptiles, or insects—and in the
C ROM -C RUACH the Irish adored the maggot-god. Crom in Irish
1 9, a, 2; 13, b, 2; 14, a, 1.
means a maggot, and O‘Curry says the name of the celebrated idol of
the Gadhael signifies literally the ―Bloody Maggot.‖ But if we
render it the maggot of blood, we obtain a kind of synonym for the
M AKHAUT, which was a family, or clan of cognates founded solely on
the tie of blood, originally on the mother‘s side. The motherhood of
the family under this name was doubtless represented by the Irish
goddess Macha, the Egyptian Makha, who holds the two vases in
her hands, or Meh, a name of Hathor, the habitation. This naming
of the family, the place, and the person had been applied in various
lands. The mother and her emblem typify the abode. In Kaffir the
Mâi or M AKI is the womb; M AGA , Tasmanian, the mons Veneris;
M AGA , Fijian, the same; M AKAU , Maori, the female; M ACHHA ,
Khaling, the old woman; M AKU , Timbuktu, the womb: M KE,
Swahili, the female as producer; English Make, German MAGD, and
Egyptian M EHT . In Swahili the Makao is the abode; in Hindustani,
the Macka is the M ATERNAL mansion; Magha, Sanskrit, a
typical house; MUK, Akkadian, a building; MOGHA, Sanskrit, an
enclosure or fence; M AHA or M AKHA (Eg.), a sepulchre, an en-closure;
M UKHDAA , Arabic, a storehouse; M OK , African Penin,
a town; M OKI , African Murundo, a town. M ÁS or M AUCE, in
Irish, euphemized as the thigh, in the name of Más-reagh, in Sligo,
is a form of the Maccu, abode. Má-a‘-Riaghna, near Antrim, the
thigh of the queen, identifies the Más with the Egyptian M ES -T,
the place of birth, the womb, and with the imagery of the Bear and
Thigh constellation. From the Maccu as the family or clan is then
derived the Mac now prefixed to names with the understood mean-
ing ―son of,‖ whereas primarily it signified the clan. The C LAN and
M AC are acknowledged to be synonymous by the sacred keepers of the
Clan-Stone in Arran, whose family name was C LAN -Chattons alias
M ACK -Intosh. 1 Thus Mac-Donald was the Maccu or Mâhau, the
family or clan of Donald, and this is still indicated by the style
of the Macdonald, who is Donald of the Maccu named from the
uterine abode itself, whence the Magad-brood and the Makhaut-
clan; hence also the personal title, as in the Swahili M KUU , a
chief, a great man; the M EKK , in African Senaar, a king; M AKH ,
Akkadian, supreme; the M AKHT (Eg.), a mason and the explorer
of mines; the Irish M OGHAIDE, a husbandman; the Japanese
M IKADO , an emperor, and the M AC in the Highlands, who is still
the great man.
Typology explains the nature and cause of conservatism in the
matter of names. The ―O‖ prefix is still the sign of the mother-
circle, whether extant as the Irish O‘ oF O‘Brien, the Japanese ―O‖
of titular honour; the Maori ―Ouou;‖ Egyptian Uau; Fijian A H ,
a prefix and title of respect; and various others. The O circle is the
hieroglyphic deposit of the Hoe, Hoh, Haigh, and Khekh, the circles
1 Martin, Western Islands, p. 225.
of many languages, as the Ega, Akkadian, crown; Aukhu (Eg.),
diadem; Hak (Eng.), enclosure; Khekh (Eg.), a collar; Kak, sanc-
tuary; Chakka, Hindustani, circle; Khokheye, Circassian, circle;
Kekee, Swahili, a bracelet; Cokocoko, Fijian, beads; G OGY , Craven,
and Kok, Basque, an egg; a name which on every line of language
may be traced to that circle represented by the Irish O G , the virgin
(mother) of the beginning. The O‘, like the Mac, is an ideographic
sign of descent on the mother‘s side, from the time when the
children did not know their own fathers.
The name of the Gadhael is derivable from Kâd, the mother. Hel,
Har, or Ar (Eg.), is the son. This can be corroborated by the symbolic
branch. The mother and son were represented by the tree of life
and the branch, the Welsh Pren and Egyptian Renpu. One form of
the tree of life is the Ash ; an ancient name of this tree is the Kit.
Ash-keys are called Kit-keys. Kit-Mut is a name of the Egyptian
Great Mother, our Kêd. The ash is one of the few trees on which
the mistletoe branch can be found, but very rarely. The mistletoe
was the Druidic Pren or branch, and Guidhel is one of the names of
the mistletoe, which was especially venerated at the time of the
winter solstice. Guidhel, the branch, is Hel or Har, the child of Kêd
whence Al, Welsh, for the race. Thus the Guidhel is the son or off-
spring of Kêd; if we apply this ethnologically, the Gael is a branch
race of the Ketti (or Kymry), acknowledged to be so by the name,
and whereas the Ketti are directly named from Kêd, the tree herself,
the Gadhael are named after the branch as the offspring. The earliest
form of the name Guidhel is Gwyddyl. And Gwydd is the wood or
tree of the branch race, that became the Gael of Ireland, and
afterwards of Scotland.
The W in Welsh often has to represent an earlier F or V; con-
sequently the name of the Gwyddyl, in the Welsh form, preserves that
of the Al, the race (in Egyptian the sonship) of Kheft. Gwydd, for
example, is the Welsh goose, and Kheft (Eg.) is the typical goose or
duck of the genitrix, whose names (Kheft and Aft) it bears. The
Gwyddyl are also identified and denounced in later writings as the
distillers and devils, and in Egyptian the name of the old mother
denoted the mystery of fermentation, and Kheft supplied a type-word
for the evil one, the devil, the English Q UEDE.
Tradition affirms that five Firbolg brothers divided Ireland between
them. The name of the Firbolg people is usually said to mean the
big-bellies, and Bolg is an Irish name for the bellows, which are called
after the belly. It is possible that the early people were pot-bellied
like the soko and gorilla, on account of their diet. It is also con-
ceivable that the term big-bellies might be a nickname employed by
the men of a later cult to describe the worshippers of the G REAT or
enceinte mother. In Hebrew, glp (Pelg) denotes an image of
fulness and inflation, or bulge. But this is not a primary appellation
applied to a race. The Irish Bolg are identical with the Hebrew
Peleg in another sense. The Fir-bolg are the five brothers who
divided Ireland between them, and are probably a form of the five
kings in the astronomical allegory who came between the flood of
Noah and the conquest of Abraham, in which interval we find Peleg.
In Akkadian and Assyrian PULAGU and B ULUGU mean division, but,
as we see in the Hebrew Pelg, this may be a family division, the
tribe, kindred, or gens.1 The dividers of the earth made the divisions into
which the first families were formed. Thus the Swedish B OLAG signifies
partnership and the Icelandic F ELAG , the M ABK - FELAG was an asso-
ciation, a community of men. In Arabic we have the B ALAK for a
crowd; in Turkish, the B ULUK is a number of persons, as a military
company; also the German, Russian, and Polish P ULK : Persian, FAY -
LAK ; Lithuanic, P ULKAS ; Greek, P HALAGGOS ; Gaelic, B URACH ;
Sanskrit, V ARGA . The one root supplies the English B ULK ; German
V OLK , a mass of men; Danish F LOK , a company; English F LOCK ;
Norse, F LOKK ; A.-S. F YLC , a company; Hindustani, F IRKA ; Latin,
V ULGI , the common herd; Spanish, VULGO ; Italian, V OLGO ; and
English, F OLK . All these have one origin and retain the meaning of
the division as a distinct body of men associated, so that the flag is
the type as a military sign, and the name of it preserves the same
word. These, then, it is contended were the Fir-Bolg. They may
have worshipped the great mother, and so supplied a nick-name,
for the prostitute is still known as the B ULKER . Oldham, in his
Poems, speaks of the ―B ULK -ridden strumpet,‖ who is so-called
from being used by the B OLG or B ULK , the whole body of men.
The Bulker is the namesake still of the Greek Pallak…j2 the
concubine who, in Egyptian temples, was the divine consort, the
Latin P ALLACA or P ELLEX , a harlot, a strumpet, and Hebrew
`glp (Pilegsh), the concubine, woman of the court, or prostitute.
She represents the earliest status of the woman as consort of the
company, the M UT and M ORT , who was once the great mother. The
Hebrew glp likewise denotes this intercourse in common.
B ELAWG (Welsh) means apt to be ravaging ; B OLOCH is disquiet;
the Scottish P ILK , English F ILCH , is to pilfer, B ILK to defraud, and
B ILEIGH , to bely. Words often conspire, so to say, to give a bad
character to the oldest names of the people.
In the African Galla, B ULGU is the name of the cannibal, and in
Irish Folgha meant bloody. The Scottish B ELGH , or B ILCH , is the
monster. And so the Firbolg got a bad name. But they have left
us the B ILLY for a brother, a term of endearment because the Bolg
was a brotherhood or family, gens, or division; also the F ELLOW , a
companion, the W representing a G, as the felly or felloe of a wheel
stands for F ELLICK . Moreover, the burgh is a deposit of the Bolg,
as the general enclosure of the clan, also the Park for animalsand
1 Judges v. 15, 16, the LXX, Pesh, Targum. 2 Herod. i. 84.
the Net of that name for enclosing the fish, 1 and the Paroch,
later Parish. The Burgh or Borough is related to the tithing by ten
over which the Borsholder presided, as Borow in Old English is
tithing, and the tithe is a tenth. The No. 10 is Per in Akkadian,
Fer in Dselana; Fura, Yula; Fura, Kasm; Fulu, Malagasi; Fulu,
Batta; Pulu, Atshin; Blawue, Basa; Puluh, Malayan and others;
the Fir-B OLGS were probably founded on the division by Ten, which
was the base of the hundreds and counties.
The Hebrew type-word is apparently compounded from Pu (Eg.) to
divide and rekh (lekh), relations, people of a district, the race. The
Pu, Fu, or Bu (Eg.) also signifies the belly, i.e. the womb, as birth-
place. From this, the Bu-lekh or Bolg are the people of the womb,
who descended on the mother‘s side when the individual fatherhood
was necessarily unknown.
As an Ethnic name springing out of the fellowship, the Bolg of Ire-
land is the same as that of the Belgæ and the Bulgars. All three
represent the Folk-name of those who date from the division and
discreting of the undistinguishable herd, as well as the earth on which
they settled, no matter where they dwelt at first, before the B ULK
was as yet subdivided into individual families and whilst the woman
still remained the Bulker. The existence of a Belgian tribe or people
with a language nearly akin to the Irish has been recently proved by
the G LOSSA M ALPERGA , disinterred by Leo, which may, perhaps,
supply an Ethnic link between the Belgæ and the Firbolgs.
The Irish traditions report that the Round Towers were erected
by the ―Tuath-dadanan,‖ who were opposed in their work by the
priesthood of the Firbolg, which led to a religious war.2 They
have been described as an early race of conquerors from the
N ORTH of Europe. It happens, however, that TUAITH is an Irish
name of the north, and for the left hand. TIEVET is also a form of
Tuath, as in Tievetory the hill-side north. In the hieroglyphics, the
north, the lower of the two hemispheres, is first the Tepht (Eg.) and
next the Tuaut (Eg.), and this was the Welsh Dyved of the seven
provinces in the north. Tena (Eg.) means to divide, turn away, and
become separate; ani (uni) are the inhabitants. This tends to show
that the Tuath-da-Dana-an were emigrants from the north, whichever
country it may have been. It happens also that the Tuaut of the
north is the domain of Ptah the builder and establisher, and one of
his titles is Tatanen. Ptah-Tatanen typifies the eternal with a round
pillar, which, as a fourfold cross is the emblem of stability, and of
the four corners. Tatanen means the Nen, type, image, statue; and
tata, the head of ways, or, as we say, the cross-roads. The round
tower, with its four windows, one to each quarter, is a similar ideo-
graph, and it raises a suspicion whether the Tuath may not have
been named from the north quarter in connection with the word
1 Hollyband, 1593. 2 Vallancey, Collectanea vol. iv. preface, p. 51.
Tatanen or Dadanan, as indicator of the four of which the Tuath was
one, just as we have the Tuath in Cross-THWAITE, in the Vale of
Keswick. And if Patrick was a Mage of Ptah, it would explain
why he was also called C OTH -raige, rendered ―four-families,‖ not
because he was the property of four masters, but because of the four
corners, the Irish Ceather, which in the Manx Kiare (number four)
equates with the quadrangular Caer of the Welsh. Cothraige denotes
the four-cornered circle, as do the Tat and Round-Tower.
The Tuath-dadanan were reported to have descended from Neme-
thus, a native of Nem-thor, or Nemethi Turris; to have learned magic
in Thebes, and waged war successfully against the Assyrians. They
were led into Ireland by Nuadhah, the silver-handed.1 Now Ptah was
the son of Nem, the god of Thebes. Nem-tes is Nem himself; the
type of Nem; Nem-ter, the bourne or boundary of Nem, which was
that of Thebes. Nnu is Antennze, feelers, and may have been the
hand; huta is silver, Nnu-huta, the silver-antennzd or handed. Thus
the descent claimed from Nem himself by the Tuath-Dadanan is
exactly that of Ptah-Tatanen in the divine dynasties of Egypt, and
no record of this descent of Ptah from Num was above ground out
of Ireland until the present century. This increases the likelihood
that Path-rick, the priest of Ptah, was the Mage of the god himself,
whose name is thus pronounced in the Irish Path-rick.
If so, this will be the British Budd called by the Welsh the
Victorious, who as Ptah is the Establisher, the Budd of the ―Estab-
lished enclosure,‖ and who becomes in English the ―Old P UTH .‖
Ptah-Ur the old Ptah is one of the characters of the god.
The Egyptian ―Ka‖ type, cultus, kind, supplies the terminal ―Ch‖
to our adjectives, by which nationality is designated as Welsh, Scotch,
Dutch; this as in the Irish ―Corca‖ and in Greek was hard originally.
Strange as it may look, the word Welsh is the same as Corca, or Kar-
Ka, the type of the Kar, whatsoever that may mean. But unless we
know what it does mean we cannot know what ―people‖ may be in-
cluded under that name.
Corca for people is Egyptian. Kar is native inhabitant and Ka the
type of person or function. But Kar is essentially the lower, the
nethermost, that is really the earliest. Corca as a type-name then
belongs to the Kar, and in this case it may be from Wales. The
Corca and the Welsh are synonymous in this sense.
Possibly the Irish type-name of C ORCA for the people is derived
from the Kar type in another way. Kar (Eg.) denotes the cultivator
of the soil, as in the name of the G AR dener, corn, and the crop.
K ARKA (Eg.) means to prepare, and the word will also read Kar, food;
Ka, to create, or Kar, to cultivate, and Ka, the food. Thus C ORCA
may denote a form of the corn-men, the Cruitneacht of Scotland, the
1 O‘Flaharty. See Wood‘s Inquiry respecting the Primitive Inhabitants of
Ireland. 2 Gododin, Song 22.
Scoti (Skhet, Eg., corn), the Hut or Hud of the Land of Hûd, in Wales.
C OIRCA , in Irish, K ERCH , in Armorican, and C EIRCH , in Welsh, are the
names of oats, and the C ORCA may have been the oat-men, who
probably preceded the wheat-men, the oat being a cereal nearer to the
grasses: The Keltx as the Karti were already known to the Monu-
ments. Karut signifies natives, inhabitants, aborigines, and Karti is
but a variant of Karuti, which as previously shown is a modification
of Kafruti, and the Karti or Keltæ are finally the Kafruti of Africa.
An ancient name of Babylon was Kar and the people are the Karti
or Chaldees. The Egyptian name of Babylon is Kar. Kir is a
supposed Hebrew name of Babylon. 1 The meaning of K IR or Q IR
as that which embraces and encloses, hence a wall or a circle, also
agrees with that of Bab (Eg.) the circle, enclosure, and to go round.
Inscriptions of Assyrian Monarchs designate the whole land as Kaldi,
and the inhabitants as the Kaldiai. They also are the Keltæ from the
original Kafruti on another line of migration and development.
So old was the word Kart for stone-polishing in Egypt that it was
reduced to ―HERUT ,‖3 meaning to polish stone, and as an illustration
of the Kelt axes, hatchets, and knives, it may be pointed out that the
word herut also means to arm for war. It is noticeable that these
stones are confounded or mixed up with thunderbolts. In Shetland
the Kelt stones are called thunder-bolts. But is not this because the
lightning also kills ? The Kelt-stone was polished for killing, and the
supposed safety on the spot where the bolt has fallen may arise from
the Kelt being a type of protection and defence, for which reason it
was interred with the dead.
The Taffies are among the first people in the world. Tefi or tepi
(Eg.) means the First. Tef is the divine progenitor, who came to be
called the Father, but the female Tep is first. Af the flesh, the one born
of, the Eve, Mother of all flesh, is primordial. With the article pre-
fixed Af or Eve is Tep, the Typhonian genitrix, and the Taffies are
her children. The British have their Duw Dofydd, a male god like
Tef the Divine Father, and through him the Jewish David has been
foisted upon them. But their descent is from Teft, the Egyptian
Tepht, the source of all, the mother of all, who as place was Dyved
of the seven provinces, and as person was the Goddess of the Seven
Stars. Teft and Kheft are interchangeable names of this old genitrix.
The rhyme of
―Taffy was a Welshman,
Taffy was a Thief,"
recovers an Egyptian word Tafi, worn down to Tai, and Taui, mean-
ing to steal, run off with. And shall the ancient mother Tef, Teft,
Tâui, be confounded with and merged into the Hebrew David? Let
language forbid. This shall not be so long as a child has its toffy, or
1 Amos, i. 5, and ix. 7. 2 Strabo, p. 735.
3 Select Pap. 35, 8.
the sailor his tafia, and the ship its taff-rail, or the caged skylark its
divit, or lovers have their tiffs, and married folk their duffle; so long
as daffin and tiffin continue and taff-cakes are made with Taffy—Taf
(Eg.) is to carry, bear-riding on his goat, and there is a Dobbin
to carry a sack of corn, or a painter to daub, or a dove to croon, or
a devil to frighten, or a Davy Jones‘s locker for a seaman to send to,
the name of the ancient mother thus memorialized in English must
never be lost in that of the Jewish David or the Christian saint.
It has been already suggested that the Welsh David was identical
with Tebhut (Eg.), in which we have the Hut, corresponding with the
name of the solar race, of Teb. We shall find the chief type-names
of the people are derived from the Great Mother; the Ketti and
Gadhael from Kêd; the Fenians from Fen, Ven, Wen, Oine, the Irish
Venus; Taffy, from Tef (the same as Kêd), which makes it all the
more probable that the Manx people are the childrcn of the genitrix
Menka, or Menâ.
Menka (Eg.) is the goddess whose name may be read Mâka, and
who is the Irish Macha who bore the twins of mythology. The
Manx arms consist of three legs in a circle doing the wheel, each one
being a counterpoise to the others. In the hieroglyphics a counter-
poise to a collar is called a M AANK ; the counterpoise is also the
determinative of the nurse's collar, named the Menâ. The accent
shows an abraded sign, which we restore by reading Menka.
Taliesin, speaking of one of the mystical characters, says, ―I have
been M YNAWG , wearing the collar. I hold the splendid chair of the
eloquent, the ardent Awen.‖ 1 The goddess Menka represents the
Two Truths, implied by the collar and counterpoise which bear her
name. She is a rare form of the genitrix, and must be most ancient.
Menka means to form, fabricate, create; and she was the feminine
creator to whom the work of creation was assigned before the father-
hood was impersonated. The Manx counterpoise tends to identify
the Manxmen, as named after Menka. We have the manger, a
horse-collar. Menka, to create and form, is extant in the saying,
―We were all M UNG up in the same trough,‖ i.e. in creation. The
word mingled is a deposit. Manx is modified into Man, as the
name of the island. One of its names is Inys Mon, the island of
the cow. The cow Mon will identify the wet-nurse of mythology, as
Menâ or Menka, the goddess of the Menâ-t, the outcast shepherds
of Egypt.
The Menka deposited the Monk, the Isle of Man as Monæ was an
especial religious sanctuary. The word Ma-ank also reads Mother-
king, or, I, the Ruler. Now the Chickasaws at one time had a king
whom they called the Minko, and the succession was hereditary on
the mother's side.2 This points to the female Rex, or mother-king
(Ank). One particular clan whose hereditary king was on the
1 Davies, p. 419. 2 Schoolcraft, Res. i. 311.
mother‘s side, called themselves the Minkos. The same meaning
may have entered into the Manx name as the children of Menka
for their right of primogeniture still extends to females as well as
to males. So the Guanches of the Canary Isles, when discovered by
the Spaniads, were found to be living under the government of
―Menceys,‖ who were chiefs subordinate to one head.1
The Chickasaws were divided into six clans, namely, the Minko,
Sho-wa, Co-ish-to, Oush-peh-ne, Min-ne, and Hus-co-na. And when
the chiefs thought it necessary to hold a council they requested the
king to call one. The king then sent out runners to inform the people
of the time and place at which the council was convened. This
council of the six clans summoned by the Minko is identical with
that of the six sheadings summoned by the Manx. The island is
divided into six districts called sheadings (sheth is a separate division,
in Egyptian, and in Hebrew, sheth is Number 6) under the juris-
diction of the Court of Tynwald.2 This court sits for the summary
trial of offences for breaches of the peace and misdemeanours. It is
still called holding a council. The Court of Tyn-wald sits in Douglas
every fortnight; and ―tna‖ is a fortnight in Egyptian.
Wald, by permutation, is wart, ward, or word, and in Egyptian,
Uart means the foot, leg, go, fly; that is, word sent with all speed by
means of the foot-messenger or runner. Thus the Tynwald was the
council summoned fortnightly by the runner. The Manx judges
are still designated Deemsters, and, in the hieroglyphics, ―tem‖ or
―tma‖ means distribute justice, make truth visible, satisfy. Anciently
the Manx coroner was termed a ―moar.‖ The Egyptian ―Mer‖ is
a superintendent, and to die. Further, the ―mer‖ is superintendent
amongst five as the ―Mer-tut,‖3 and the Manx coroner was also the
sheriff‘s officer of a court which had four bailiffs, and he, too, was a
superintendent of the five, named the Moar. In the North of England
a farm-bailiff is a Moor, whilst the superintendent of the town-walls in
Chester was a Murenger. The Mayor is perhaps derived from the
Egyptian Maharu, the hero, to whom the collar of gold was awarded.4
The collar of gold is a part of the insignia of the English Mayor.
Still mayors are superintendents, as the French M AIRE DU P ALAIS .
All lands, Dutch and Welsh, is a phrase used to express the whole
world; and the whole world thus resolved in two halves is according
to the Egyptian pattern. But Theod, a people, and Welsh, strange
or outlandish, are not primitives of speech. Dutch is the Egyptian
Tut with the type-terminal (KH , Eg. type), and tut, tat, tata, denote
the upper of the two, the head, chiefs, princes. Tut is the mountain,
our Tot-(hill). The Welsh are the people of the Kar, or Well, the
lower half of the whole. This symbolical and philological distinction
was then assumed by those who bore the name of the Upper, the
1 Ethnol. Journ. N. S. vii. p. 107. 2 Encycl. Brit. Isle of Man.
3 Lepsius, Denk. ii. 22. 4 Records of the Past, vi. p. 7.
Teuts, Teutons, or Dutch, who looked down on the Welsh people of
the underworld, the Kars, as the lower. Ethnologically, the loftiest
means the latest, nearest the surface, the upper stratum; and the
lower is the earliest. It should be ―all lands, Welsh and Dutch.‖
The Irish Aithech-Tuatha, who are usually identified with the Atti-
Cotti of the Roman writers, constantly found to be warring against
the dominant races during the first centuries of our era, are rendered
by Dr. O‘Connor as the giganteam gentem, and were looked upon by
O‘Curry as the rent-paying people. 1 The name read by Egyptian
is Aat-hek-tata; aat, is house, abode; hek, to rule; tata, heads, chiefs,
heads of ways; the established heads of houses, or the equivalent
of rent-paying people. Atai means chief, superior.
The name of the Pheryllt often occurs in the ancient writings.
They are the legendary wise men of Wales. In Hanes Taliesin, the
goddess Keridwen prepares her cauldron of inspiration and the sciences
according to the books of the Pheryllt. An old chronicle quoted by
Dr. Thomas Williams afirms that the Pheryllt had an establishment
at Oxford, where we find the Uskh Halls, the temples of learning,
prior to the University founded there by Alfred.
The Pheryllt have the reputation of being the first scientific men
and teachers of arts, more particularly those connected with fire.
They are supposed to have been the earliest metallurgists and
chemists. The name of Pheryllt, in its earlier form, is Phergyllt,
and Gyllt answers to Karrt, the Egyptian furnace; the double R
even is repeated in the double L. Per or Pra (Eg.) means to show,
cause to appear, exhibit, reveal, manifest, explain, and is a form of
the word fire. Those who did this by means of fire might very well
be the Perkarr-t, Phergyllt, or Pheryllt, the fire-furnace men, or
metallurgists.
It is not necessary to derive the name of the C ULDEES , who
formerly occupied the C ILS or C ELLS in Scotland, Wales, and
Ireland, from that of the Keltæ race, or Karti, the stone-polishers.
They were a kind of monkish priesthood, having especial relation-
ship to the dead. This primarily applied to the covering, burial,
and preservation of the mortal remains. The Gaelic C EALL is both
a cell and a church; the C ILI , is a burial-ground or a churchyard.
The English G OALE is a sepulchral tumulus or barrow, and the Cell
is a religious house. The C EL , in Welsh, is the corpse; C IL , Irish,
and C IALL , Gaelic, mean death. C LEITH , in Gaelic, is to conceal,
hide, keep secret; C LEITHE, Irish, is concealing and keeping
secret. How early this is applied to covering over may be seen by
the African Padsade name of the loin-cloth, the K ULOTO , the Irish
C EALT, and Scottish K ILT; Welsh G OLAWD , a covering or envelop-
ment; Hebrew G ALAD , and Javanese KULIT , a skin; an early form
of covering and clothing; Irish C LOTH , a veil or covering; English
1 Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, v, i. Intro. p. 23.
C LOTH and C LOTHING . The clergy are still called the C LOTH ;
they were the first coverers of the dead, as the Mena-ster is the
layer-out of the corpse. The French C OLLET is a clergyman.
The C ULPEE was a C OLLET, Hebrew tlhq, the preacher, but in
especial relationship to the covering and concealing of the dead, the
stone-circles and the stones. C LETHY or C LUDDU in Cornish is to
bury. The Irish C LUDH is a burying-ground; the Gaelic C LADH a
churchyard; the C ALLAID , Gaelic, a funeral wail; the A.-S. G ILD ,
service, worship; Greek K ELADEO , to invoke, call, celebrate; French
C ULTE, worship; Hindustani, Arabic, and Turkish K HULD , being
perpetual, in perpetuity, or eternal. The Egyptian K ART was the
chest of the preserved mummy. The K ARAS was the burial-place;
the K ARAT, a key, bolt, lock. Our K ARAT or C ULDEE kept the
enclosure of the dead, as at Kirkcaldy. In Egyptian the KA
is the religious minister, and RAT means to retain the form,
plant, and to beseech, which describes the office of the C ULDEE .
Teru, to invoke and adore, is also the name of the layer-out and
mourner of the dead. This is one of the most important meanings
of the root TERU , the Cornish DERUW, and Irish Draoi, the Druid.
Also Teru, to mourn, is the English D ARE, to grieve; Gaelic TUIR , to
rehearse with mournful cadence. The Gaelic TOIR is a churchyard,
and in Cornish D AIAROU means to bury; the English THUREI is a
grave. The earliest religious service was rendered to the dead,
and this was the office of the Culdee, who continued the work of
the Druid, which was taken up and carried on by the Christian
priesthood.
The Irish Corca-Tened were a form of the fire-people or workers
in fire. The sons of U SNAGH or U ISNEACH , also called Usnoth,
were another. It was at Usnagh (Uisneach), in Ireland, that the
Council of all the provinces met annually and the new fire was
lighted that was sent over all Ireland. This identifies the name with
fire. As a people, or clan, the sons of Uisneach are especially dear to
Gaelic tradition and song, for the sake of the hero Naisi and the
woman Deirdre, the fatal beauty of mythology.
The Three Sons of Uisneach are possibly a form of the solar Triad,
or Trimurti. Hence their three domains and their booths of three
divisions. If so, Naisi the hero and eldest of the three, will be the
same representative of the sun in the lower regions as the Nasi,
whom we shall find in the Hebrew mythology; one of three Adonim.
N AS (Eg.) signifies fire and flame. The N ASR is the fiery Phlegethon,
and Naisi, in connection with the three brothers Uisneach, would be
the solar god of fire.
It seems more than probable that the D EIRDRE or D ARTHULA , who
was the Keltic Helen, the fatal B EAUTY of the sons of Uisneach, was like-
wise the Direte of the British coins or talismans; a name of Kêd, who
has been identified with Taurt of Egypt. Darth-ula as TAURT-U RA is
the first, oldest Bearer. TA - URT- RRE would be the first, oldest, chief
Bearer of the children as Goddess of the Great Bear, the Spark-holder
or Mother of Fire, and D EIRDRE is connected with the vitrified forts.
The ancient Spark-bearer is named KAR-tek, and G AR -drei is a
local variant of Deirdre‘s name at Ballycastle, opposite R AGHERY
Island, Ireland, where there is a rock still called C ARRAIGH U IS -
NEACH . This appears to connect the C ARRAIGH name with the
smolten rock from R EKH (Eg.) the furnace, fire, heat. If we divide
the name of Deirdre as D EIR -dre (cf. Kar-drei) and D EIR is taken to
represent Taur (used without the terminal T), D REI as synonymous
with T ERUI ,—the Egyptian form of Troy of the Seven-circled Centre
or Sesennu, found in the Kef of Troy at Cov-en-try, the place of the
Goddess of the Seven Stars and her son Sut-Baal, before the Solar
Triad of the sons of Uisneach was established,—Deir-dre is then
TAUR , the Great Mother of TROY . Hellen is the Renn (t) nurse of
Har the Renn, and in one version Naisi and his two brothers are
called the sons of Uslinn; Us (Eg.) meaning to produce, become
large, swelling, and Lenn (renn), to nurse, be the gestator as the Lenn,
or producer of the L ENN . Mythologically the matter is so ancient that
to all appearance it must have gone from Wales to Ireland in the
stellar form, and from thence to the West of Scotland in the solar
stage as a comparatively modern reproduction.
So much for the mythical aspect. As an ethnological entity the
clan of the sons of Uisnzach are credited with being an offshoot of
the Irish Gadhael, who migrated from Ireland into the West of Scot-
land, and settled in the region round Loch Etive, where they left a
number of vitrified forts or mounds. They were rock-smelters.
Many rocks are easily melted into vitrified masses, but of course the
time was when it was a thing of wonder. The workers in fire,
whether as vitrifiers, metallurgists, or makers of fire-water, were looked
upon as magicians, and we find the direct descendants of the Kymry
denouncing the Gadhaelic fire-people as smelters, distillers, and devils.
The ―Rocks of Naisi‖ and the ―Wood of Naisi,‖ still found in the
neighbourhood of Loch Etive, become significant in relation to the
smelters when we know that Nasi (Eg.) is fire. For the Wood
(birch-trees) was famous fuel for the furnace, and the iron made with
its charcoal still fetches, in Glasgow, four times the price of coal-iron.1
This wood of Naisi, the C OILLE N AOIS , in Muckairn, was the earlier
coal.
Dun Mac-Uisneachan, on Loch Etive, shows the seat of the sons
of Uisneach, whose names are connected with the vitrified forts.
Us (Eg.) means to create and produce, large, extended; EN is by,
and Akh is fire. Us-en akh reads the creators and producers by means
of fire. Further, the Egyptian has the terminal T in Akht, fire. This
would allow for the variant found in Usnoth or Usnath as a modified
1 Loch Etive, p. 75.
form of Usnaltht. But there is more than the vitrified mounds con-
cerned in the name and nature of the Uisneachan. We know
that in the time of the Bronze age in Britain cremation was first in-
troduced by the Solarites, the men of the worship under which the
barrows were made in the shape of a disk. 1 The vitrifiers were
also workers in bronze, and they burned their dead and placed the
ashes in urns. Now, in Egyptian, U SH means to consume, destroy
by fire; Y SU , Welsh, to consume; Y SSU , Cornish, to burn. A SH , in
Hebrew, is fire; O ZO , in the African Hwida; U ZO , Mahi; W OZI ,
Pika, and W ASHA , Swahili, to set on fire; U SH , Sanskrit, to burn;
U SHA , burning, scorching. The word is likewise applied to reducing
by means of fire, as U SHM (Eg.) signifies a decoction and the essence;
U SHM is to grind down and devour. This U SH would explain the
name of the U IS or Us-neach as the vitrifiers and producers of the
forts, by means of fire, with another meaning for the Akh, or Akht.
These are the dead, Ush-en-Akh would denote the cremationists.
Us, than, meaning to consume or reduce by fire, applies to cremating,
vitrifying, and distilling (Ushm, Eg., being the essence, the decoc-
tion). The Akh or Akht are the dead; E N (Eg.) is ―of the,‖ and the
Ush-en-akh (or Ush-en-altht, whence Usnath) would be the destroyers
or consumers of the dead by fire. In the name of Dunstaffnage, a
castle, built in later times in the neighbourhood of Loch Etive, we
may find corroboration for this reading. Dun is the seat, the royal
seat, of the Gadhaelic kings and chieftains, and S TEF (Eg.) means to
melt or smelt, to purify and refine with fire, whilst N AGE also re-
presents the ―EN - AKH ‖ as in U ISNEACH . The name of Uisneach
derived from Ush, to destroy by fire, would be most perfectly
realized if the people were so designated because they burned their
dead; a horrible practice in the sight of the men of the older
faith. This would be sufficient cause for giving a bad character
to fire itself, whether in the fire-water (whisky) or the element which,
consumed the dead, hence the ―distillers and devils‖ applied to the
Gadhael.
If we may judge by the only living representatives of the Palæo-
lithic men in Europe, the Eskimos, the sole surviving people known
to show a total lack of reverence for their dead, the earliest emi-
grants into Europe took little, if any, care of their dead. No inter-
ments have yet been proved to belong to the Palæolithic period.
Thus they would not have the very first stake in the soil afforded
by the feeling for their buried friends. They drifted over the earth‘s
surface without any permanent ground ties. They continued the life
of nomads up into the Arctic Circle, and wandered about the world
all over Europe, through Asia Minor and India, in a far larger range
than that of their successors, whose increased culture and acquirements
enabled them to add agriculture and fishing to their hunting, as
1 Dawkins, Early Man in Britain.
means of subsistence, whilst the respect for their dead helped to tether
them down to the soil where they took root and founded on the spot
their earliest civilization. The first emigrants from the primeval
home were of necessity wanderers over the earth, and that was how
the earth was peopled at first. But with the burial of the dead and
the cleaving to them still, came the more or less permanent settlements
grouped about the graves as a fixed centre of civilization. The caves,
kasses, caers, long barrows or disk-shaped tumuli, mounds, cromlechs,
tombs, and temples, all tell the same tale in unbroken continuity.
The difference in the range does not therefore imply a difference in the
race. Thus it appears probable that the prime incentive to form a
settlement and take a fixed rootage in the earth originated in a cling-
ing to the burial-place, as if the nomads were first laid hold of by
the dead hand, and retained by the skirts, in the locality which made
an irresistible appeal to them with the voice of their loved and lost
crying ―Stay with us and protect us in our helplessness.‖ One
seems to see this in the Skhen or Khen (Eg.). The Skhen is a shrine,
and the name signifies to alight and rest, place, dwell, be in sanctuary,
a sanctuary, to institute and establish. If the meaning of Sekhen
be summed up in a word, it means to settle; the determinative
being a water-bird. Khen, Khenen, and Sekhen are interchangeable.
We have the Egyptian Khenn, the religious sanctuary in Caer-Conan,
the ancient name of Conisborow, situated upon the high lands of the
river Don; here the sacred place on the rock, the Kester, was con-
verted into a later fortress or castle.
Khennu (Eg.) is to believe, and the word means to lean on, rest, be
sustained. It may be divided into Khen, to carry, transport, image,
and nu, divine, or heaven. So Nahb, another name of belief, means
to sustain. Thus Khen-nu is divine sustenance and heavenly trans-
port in the sense of carriage and conveyance, rest and settlement.
The Cangiani are thus traceable to the Kenners, whether we call them
believers, knowers, or primitive settlers. Khen and Sekhen permute,
and the people of Caer Segont become the Cangiani. Ki (Eg.)
denotes the land, region, or abode; uni or ani, the inhabitants. Thus
the Cangiani are the inhabitants who first settle in the Sekhen
enclosure, which was a religious foundation, because a sanctuary of
the dead, also found at Scone as the ―M OUNT OF B ELIEF ,‖ and
the word Khenn acquires another relationship to the dead as if
through them the primitive men first laid hold of the other world as
well as made fast their earliest foundations in this. Caer Segont, the
Segontium of the Cangiani, answers to the Egyptian Skhent, that is, the
Sekhen, shrine, or sanctuary. The Skhent is the double crown, emblem
of the Two Truths, and of the established circle. Caer-Segont is the
resting-place, the established Khen or Sekhen; a foundation in the
Caer or sacred circle, hence a sanctuary, one of those circles, for
example, to which the living debtor can still flee and find protection
with the dead, although he does not know that it was on their account
the right of refuge was conferred.
We might cross-examine other witnesses to the Egyptian origin
of the Kymry in ages incredibly remote. For example, ―That
was formerly Sut,‖ we are told, of the two gods. And this conversion
of Sut into Tet has its analogue in the hieroglyphics, where
Tset is the earlier form of Tet. The Deep is Tset or Set, and
the rock is Tser or Ser. A syllabic Tes passes into the phonetics as
both T and S, and thus divided, we obtain Set or Tet as the bifur-
cation of Tset. The snake Tet must have been a Tset. This double
sound of TS or TZ is lettered in the Hebrew Tzade, x, which looks
as if it figured the snake with a dual head, or T and s in one. In
Hebrew it expresses the strongest sibilant, the hiss of the snake.
The snake Tet, then, was an earlier Tset, and survives as the Hebrew
Tzade and English Zed. This double sound of the TS also divides in
the same way in Æthiopic and Arabic. It is very rare on the monu-
ments, where it leaves an accented T in the snake, supposed to have a
similar value to the Coptic Djandja, J or Dj. This latter letter, how-
ever, introduces another phonetic link. It is identical with the hieratic
form of the crocodile's tail used as a Ka in Kam. Ka modifies into Sa
with the same sign. Thus we have the Sa, Tsa, and Ka, the Ka being
first of all. At present, however, we are concerned only with the
Tsa, Tes, or Tzade, which divides visibly into the letters T and S. This
Tes survives in Assyrian, Hebrew, Ethiopic, and Aramaic, as a repre-
sentative of the S. Also, DZ in Mpongwe, TS in Setshuana, DZ in Ki-
Swahili, DZ in Ki-nika, represent the S. The Semitic Z is convertible
at times with D, or rather the Z and D interchange; the Hebrew Zeh
(this) is Da in Chaldee; the male, Zakar, is Dekar. The Egyptian
form in Tzer appears to explain that the root of both is a compound,
and this bifurcates again, and offers a choice in the process of sound-
shunting. By this process the Egyptian Tser or Ser, the rock,
becomes Tser, Tor, or Tyre. C H in various languages of Eastern Asia
is the modern equivalent of T. TS, in Chinese, sometimes stands for
the European S, and the Chinese S is T in Cochin-Chinese. The T
often precedes the S, and is aspirated. In several languages of
Eastern Asia the CH is equivalent to T. Before the ―E,‖ in Latin,
G changes to ―DJ ,‖ whilst in French we get back to ZH , and in
Russian me find the primitive TS . Tzar is purely the Egyptian Tser.
The Egyptian Tes interchanges with Tsh, which is probably the
earlier sound, as in that we have the ground tone of the Mongol and
Arabic DJ and English J , French ZH , Latin DJ , and G , the English and
Sanskrit CH , where we pass back again into the K . The origin of all
this lies at the foundation of language, and has to be sought for in the
clicks, where we cannot follow it at present. But the point is that
this TS , TZ , TSH , or, DJ is a living sound to-day with the Welsh, and
one they have been unable to exchange for the later representatives of
this primitive of speech. Mr. John Rhys, in a report as inspector of
schools in the counties of Denbigh and Flintshire, remarks on the
total inability of the Welsh children to master the sounds of J and
CH . He says their inability to pronounce these leads them to read a
sentence like ―Charles and James got a shilling each for finishing the job
which they had begun,‖ ―Tsyarles and Dsyames got a silling eats for
finicing the dsyob whits they had begun.‖ In some parts also the
Carnarvonshire habit of giving a sputtering pronunciation to a final
dental is not unusual, while the U of North Wales, which resembles
the German U, is frequently substituted for the English I. Thus the
sound which had almost died out of monumental Egypt, the TS or TSH
of the snake and the bolt hieroglyphics, is perfectly preserved in
Wales, still claiming kinship with the clicks of Africa. According to
this pronunciation, the cherry would be called the Tsherry, and that is
the Egyptian name for the red. It is not known that they had the
cherry-tree; but TSHRU is the red crown, red calf, red land, gore, red
blood, red tree. The substitution of the U for the I is also notable,
as in the hieroglyphics the I has in it an inherent U, and interchanges
with U. The Egyptian u is the English I. Tef and Kef are inter-
changeable names of the same goddess who became our Kêd, and
the equivalent TV and QV both pass into the later P, (B) of Welsh. Also,
as already pointed out, the QV of the Ogham is composed of five digits
or one hand, and in the hieroglyphics Kef is the hand. The hieroglyphic
language must be studied before the ―glossic‖ of the English can be
perfected. For instance, the Cornish and other pronunciations of tin
make use of an aspirate, which the Egyptian Tahn for tin, mill explain.
Also the aspirated P of the Gaelic still represents the ideographic P EH ,
which in one form is the lioness, in another a water-fowl making the
visible ―P EH ‖ with the open bill, both denoting the expulsion of
breath, or aspirate.
The S (Eg.) is the causative prefix to verbs, and in Welsh, words
are augmented and intensified in meaning by help of a prefix, YS .
The sounds of the ―I‖ in English are related to the Egyptian I,
which has the U inherent in it; and as the U became E, the I also
implies an IE, as well as IU. Sounds representing diphthongs tell us
of the ideographic stage of language and its complex types, out of
which the simpler phonetics were finally evolved.
Some of the Scottish antiquarians seem inclined to consider, in
direct antithesis to the reputed wise man, that there is nothing OLD
under the sun, and to set the facts of survival in battle array against
the evidence for evolution.
Dr. Arthur Mitchel, who has done good work for the stones and
other Scottish antiquities, has recently shown us how, in its hiding-
places of Scotland, in nooks and corners, and the far-off solitary isles,
the past survives in the present so persistently as to make him suspect
the evidence for an immense antiquity. He finds the stone whorl is
still in use; still manufactured for the spindle. In other places it is
out of use and knowledge, and has become an object of superstition
and mystery, called an ―adder-stone.‖ But this, so far from severing
a link with a remote past, establishes a new one; for the ―adder-stone,‖
or Glain of the Druids, was a bead perforated to be strung like the
beads worn by the Africans as Gree-grees, or charins; and the whorl
is a bead also, fixed on the spindle. The same type persisted in the
beads worn on the pins of our Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire makers
of hand-lace. Anything circular and perforated for use was typical,
and was preserved on that account, as well as for use. A very
early Glain, which might have also been used as a whorl, was a joint
of the backbone; joints of the vertebræ in Welsh are G LEINAW
C EFN , and these are still worn as amulets by some races. In
the hieroglyphics the vertebral column, the U SERT , is a sceptre of
sustaining, and sign of maintaining power. The fact of the whorls
being called A DDER -S TONES identifies them with the ancient system
of symbolism, which included the beads and the serpent; and
by that system must these types be adjudged. Lateness of per-
sistence and reproduction of the type is no evidence whatever
against its antiquity; on the contrary, it is only the most ancient
type that does persist in this way, whether in race or in art, and the
strength of its persistence is some measure of its age. Dr. Mitchel
found a boy in the act of shaping a whorl for his mother‘s spindle with
a pocket-knife, and the stone used, a soapstone, or steatite, is called
K LEBER -stone in Scotland. This name of the stone has something to
tell us of the past: it is the stone named for its being easily carved.
K LEB is interchangeable with C ARVE and G ROUPE, to sculpture in
English; G RAF , Gaelic, to engrave; C EARFAN , A.-S., to carve; C ER -
FIAW , Welsh, to form, model, or carve; C ARPO , Latin, to carve;
J ARUB , Arabic, a hewn stone; and the whole group of words are
derivable from the Egyptian K HEREB , or K HERP , that which is first
in form or formation. Kherp means the principal, foremost, surpass-
ing; to form, model, and figure. Khereb, the form, and to figure is
primal; this, in K LEBER , is applied to the stone that is easily wrought
into shape. Here the name agrees with the type, and both come
from the beginning. The people who still continue to make whorls
in Shetland are not responsible for this type-name of the stone, which
goes back to the Stone age in Africa, and the names of the stone-
polishers as the Kara, or Karti; the cylinder as a K ARU -K ARU , the
circular thing as a KAR, to which word the F adds it or him, whence,
the Kherf, or carver, and the KLEBER-stone. The whorl was not
turned into an adder-bead and amulet in less than a century.1 It
always was an amulet by virtue of its being one of the hole-stones or
Kar-stones, as were the jade ring and perforated axe, the bead or
adder-stone, and was religiously preserved for use on that account.
1 Dr. Arthur Mitchel, The Past in the Present, p. 156.
Dr. Mitchel appears to me continually to confound the rudeness of
the later copy with that of the earlier type; rudeness of structure or
of workmanship is primarily a proof of great age, but no guidance
whatever to the time of the latest reproduction, and it is useless to
adduce the lateness of the copy against the antiquity of the type.
Nor, as against the doctor‘s suggested conclusions, is the evolutionist
bound to believe that the prehistoric man was a brainless being, or
that the cavemen of Europe were specimens of the primitive man and
the missing link. We know they were not.
The troglodytes were found by Dr. Mitchel dwelling in the caves
of Wick Bay in the year 1866, but that can afford no argument
against men having lived in caves in the Palæolithic age, possibly
fifty thousand years ago. The Kaf, Coff, Kep is the place born of,
the cave of Mother Earth, or the womb. And from this it can be
gathered that the K AFRUTI and KAFFIRS were the Cavemen. The
accented â in Kârti for caves, holes underground, excavations, shows
the full word to be K AFRUTI , and the Kâr is the K AFRU or Kâ-ru,
literally the Earth-Mouth, or, in the human form, the Uterus. The
evidence for the past is of various kinds, and in this case these caves
of Wick and their dwellers could never be confused with those of
Duruthy. The steel pocket-knife, needle, button, or something equiva-
lent, would be found to continue the story, even though the stone
whorl and clay graddan were also there. We have now to take into
consideration the evidence of the namers.
In Lewis, at the extremity of the Western Isles, they still make the
rudest pottery now produced in the known world in the shape of the
C RAGGAN . It is made of clay by the hands of woman, the first
shaper; it is dried and then filled with burning peats, and set to bake
with burning peats all round it. Now in Egyptian Ka is earth, of
which the vessel is made; the R EKH is a brazier-furnace, and K HAN
signifies the hollow utensil for containing and carrying, the English
Can. The Craggan is the can made of earth burnt in the furnace.
The Craggan is a cooking vessel, and the Karr (Eg.) is an oven; Akh
is fire, and Khan the carrier. The Karr-akh would be a fire-oven,
and with the KH modified into H, this would be the Karh, or K ARAU ,
Egyptian names for the jar, with the sign of cooking by fire, or of
distilling. Khan is also a name of water and other liquids; thus the
Kara-Khan would be a water-jar, as a Craggan. The Craggan is as
rude and simple as anything made from the beginning of pottery
that would stand fire and hold water, and it is thus a true type of the
beginning, even though in point of time the beautiful K ARHU of
Egypt comes between. The type is the test of antiquity, not the
time in which it was last repeated. Language shows that the word
J AR is the later form of Kar, and the Egyptian K ARHU , of an earlier
Karkh, found in the C RAG -gan, and no English J AR -can will ever be
called a C RAG -gan; hence the name and the type must be taken
together. This testimony of language is infallible and final, if we
can only get the other facts rightly adjusted.
The wild Irish do not thresh their oats, says Fynes Moryson, but
burn them from the straw, and so make cakes of them.1 According
to Martin, the ancient way of dressing corn in the Western Isles was
the same. He says2—―This was called G RADDAN , from the Irish
word Grad, signifying quick.‖ But the Egyptian K RRAT, the furnace,
offers the likelier explanation; and as T ENA is to separate, corn
separated by the furnace-fire would be K RRAT- TEN , or Graddan.
Karr and Krrat are both used for the furnace or oven.
In Shetland corn is still dried or roasted by rolling hot stones among
it. The corn is then ground and made into cakes called ―B URSTIN ‖
bread.
Dr. Mitchel looks upon the roasting as an accident occurring in the
process of drying the corn. Let us see what language says. TIN is
fire, and the corn is dried or roasted with fire. The Egyptians likewise
made B URS or P URS for food, as some kind of cake. The reader
need go no farther than Dr. Birch‘s Dictionary3 to see that P ER (Eg.)
is corn, the commonest of type-names for corn, as B ERE (barley), B AR ,
Irish, corn; Hebrew, B AR ; Arabic, B URR , for wheat; B AERI , African
Gobura, oats; P ERI , Krebo, beans; B ORA , Hindustani, beans;
P OIRES , Norman, peas; P ARE, Maori, corn; P URON , Greek, corn;
P ARE, Hindustani, corn; F AR , Latin, corn; P URA , Sanskrit, some
kind of grain; V ORA , Sanskrit, a pulse; V RI , Sanskrit, rice. P ER
(Eg.) is corn, and P ERS , a cake, food, made from it; the S in Egyptian
adds the thing made from P ER , whence P ERS ; TIN adds the fire, and
we have the P ERS - TIN , or B URS - TIN , as a name applied to the cakes
(Eg. Pers) made from the roasted corn, most probably at first because
it could be the more easily crushed.
We are not left without some sort of time-gauge for the immense past
belonging to the people of the isles whose going forth is chronicled as
the first thing after the flood of Noah.
In the stream-works at Pentewan, relics of human life and occu-
pation have been found forty feet below the surface, and several feet
beneath a stratum which contained the remains of a whale (Eschrichtius
robustus) now extinct. In a stratum of still earlier date, a wooden
shovel and a pick made of deer-horn were discovered at the Carnon
stream-works.4
The name of ―P OCRA ‖ has been preserved at Aberdeen by means
of a jetty and a rock. It is unreadable as it stands. By making it
―Bocna,‖ a meaning is assigned to it in Gaelic, as the river mouth.
There is a tradition, however, on the spot that the two rivers, Don and
Dee, which now debouch at a considcrable distance apart, once joined
their waters at the foot of Broad Hill before they were poured into the
1 Description of Ireland. 2 P. 204.
3 Egypt’s Place, vol. v. p. 464. 4 Arch. Journ. v. xxxi. p. 53.
sea. The P OCRA Rock is off the mouth of the Dee. The Dee in Wales
rises from two heads, and is the dual river. Ti (Eg.), and English
twy answer to the twofold or dual river. The Dee is the dual one, as
the two founts form one river. But the river with the same name off
Aberdeen is not a double river that becomes one. Nevertheless, the
local tradition declares that it was once the double river that ran
into one, but that the land has been so far eaten away by the sea that
the Dee was divided fiom the Don. If we may read the name of Don
by the Tun (Eg.), it will corroborate the tradition. Tun means to be
divided and made separate, literally to be cut in two halves. But did
the Dee and Don once unite in a single stream called the double river?
The local tradition affirms that they did, and says further that the
Pocra Rock stands at the spot where the banks were broken and the
waters united to run seaward in one stream. P EKA (Eg.) is to be
divided; Pekha, division, separated in twain. And R UA is to rush
swiftly and come near. P EKH - RUA would signify the confluence of
the divided waters; or, still more forcible, ―R UAU ‖ is the bank of
a river; Pekh, to divide, sever, make a hole, gap, chasm. P EKH -
RUAU in Egyptian signifies the place where the two rivers ran
together through the broken bank, and rushed in one channel to
the sea.
Thus far Egyptian corroborates local tradition. To judge topo-
graphically from present appearance, it must be many thousand years
ago since the Dee and Don debouched as one river.
One name of St. Michael‘s Mount is ―Careg Clows in Cows,‖ or
―Careg Clowz in Cowse,‖ accepted by Cornishmen as meaning the grey
or hoar rock in the wood. On this, and a popular tradition, has been
based a theory that the name was given when the mount formed part
of the mainland, situated in a wood, some twenty thousand years ago,1
in the era of the mammoth; a fact which, if established, would be in
keeping with that age.
It is certain the Mount was at one time conjoined to Marazion
Cliff. Equally certain that a people ignorant of geology have never
ceased to assert that the Mount was formerly connected with the
mainland; also the tradition was not a geological theory. Camden,
Carew, and Drayton, called the Mount ―Careg Clowse in Cowse.‖
But Carew likewise writes the name ―Careg Cowze in Clowze.‖ The
Grey Rock may be got out of Ca-reg by aid of Kaui (Eg.) grey,
crepuscular, and rock.
The Egyptian word for wood is Khau, it is also written with the
terminal T, Kauit. That is the Keltic Cuit, Welsh Coed, Armorican
Koad, English wood. We have it in English as cow; the wood-pigeon
is a cow-prise, and it is the law of the Cornish language in such a case
to change the T into S. But an entirely different rendering of the
name is now proposed.
1 Pengelly, On the Insulation of St. Michael’s Mount.
As we have seen, the crick and craig stones in the ultimate form of
the name, are Kar-rekh stones, in two cases, of birth and burial, of
purification and concealment underground, and may be so in the
present instance. Careg is not merely a rock. Kar is a rock, and roke
denotes a vein of mineral ore. These are both in English. Rekh
(Eg.), which means to hide, to purify and refine, is also the name of
the furnace or refinery. The Kar is found in a variety of forms im-
plying underground, and being inclosed. Kar is the sarcophagus,
or tomb, evidently applied to mining, for the plural Karti includes
passages, holes, prisons, and C ATARACTS of water underground.
Karrekh (Eg.) reads the refinery of the mine. We have the name in
Carrick. The Karas (Eg.) is the Kar where the precious thing is
preserved, as the mummy. Kar is to encircle round, enzone, con-
tain, possess, imprison; A S the precious thing. From this come
our killas, kollus, close, argil and clay, the Kar in which the
A S , the precious thing is inclosed, embedded, imprisoned or karast.
Gold is named from this Kar, with the T terminal, Kar-t that which
has been Karr‘d; Karr‘d includes the incarceration in the earth and
the passage through the furnace, when it is Karred (charred and
orbited), our gold.
It has been overlooked by all that we have a word ―close‖ in
English with a special sense of metal inclosed in minerals. The
matrix of clay or other argillaceous slate in which the metals gold
(clay-slate is the main matrix of the gold found at Ballarat), copper
or tin are embedded, is named ―K ILLAS ,‖ the Cornish miners calling
it ―K OLLUS .‖ The word is identical with the Sanskrit Caras, and
Persian Charas, for a place of confinement, a prison. Also in the
North ―C OWS ‖ is the technical term for slime ore, that is the ore
still mixed with mud. Khas (Eg.) signifies a rude and miserable
condition. Hes is dirt; Ush, mud. Khus, to pound, ram, beat
with a mallet. Khus is a valuable variant-for Cows; the one names
the stuff, the other the process. Khusing, or stamping and pounding
the C OWS , is one of the most promincnt of the processes. The
stamps used are a kind of wooden pestles, these are attached to
―cams,‖ and Khem (Eg.) means to bruise, crush, break into pieces;
the cams being used for the pounding.
C LOWZE is a dialect form of Kallas, Kollus, and Close; the proper
mining and geological term for the special clay-slate in which tin is
found.
This sufficiently indicates the meaning of ―Clowze‖ and ―Cows.‖
Kleuz and Kloz are found in Armorican as names of the inclosure or
tomb, the Egyptian Karas, Hebrew crj, Persian Charas. We may
note how this root Kal (Kar), enters into mining operations. Kal, the
hard, is peculiarly a mining term. To G ALE a mine is to have the
right of working it. Galuz is an old word for smooth or bald. Clys-
mic is cleansing by washing. Clevis is draught, or Cop metal. Clash is
to bang and beat. To crush is to squeeze the slime ore; Crazziled
means caked together; to calcine is smelting.
The ―in‖ may be the Cornish Y N or an. En, Egyptian, is our in
and also reads of, by, from, from the. We are now in a position to
determine the order of the C AREG , C OWS , and C LOWZE, which will
further decide the preposition En.
We know the nature of Cows and Clowze in relation to the Careg.
We know the mineral ore was got from the Clowze in the earthy
condition of Cows (slime ore), it follows that the true reading is
Careg-cowse-en-clowze, the Kar-rekh of the Cowse from the Clowze.
Not that it matters for the present purpose if we read it Careg-Clowze,
for the fact is that form is yet extant as the name of a tin-mine,
at St. Austell, abraded into ―C AR - CLAZE‖ mine, Cara-Clowze being
the modified Careg-Clowze. Car-Claze is a mine so shallow that
for a mile in circuit it is open to the day. In this the ―Clowze‖
or Kollas, the matrix of the metal, is a soft, decomposed granite—the
Mount, be it remembered, is an outlier of granite adjoining the slate
on the landward side—not the clay-slate; still the mine is Car-Claze.1
This points to an abbreviation of Careg (cowse in) Clowze. Careg-
Clowze then, in the simplest, latest form, is the metal-inclosing rock,
and a title still holding good at St. Austell is valid at the Mount
of St. Michael. If we were to take cowse for wood it would still be
the mine Car-Claze, Careg-Clowze, or Kar-rekh Clowze in the wood
at St. Michael‘s Mount.
It would not be necessary even to insist on the Kar in Kar-rekh,
as Kha is the mine, and, with the terminal article, the Kha-t, the
Kha, is the belly, the quarry, or a mine. Ka also denotes an inner
region of earth or land. So that Ka, Kha, and Kar come to the
same thing, the mine. Rekh signifies to burn, whiten, purify by
heat. The Rekh is the Egyptian brazier or portable furnace. So
that the Car-claze, or Ca-reg-clowze mine at St. Austell is named both
as the mine and refinery of the Clowze, Close, or Kollus, the karas
in which the tin was inclosed. And the complete name intrusted
to the keeping of the Mount, which is now only a rock in the modern
sense, appears to be recoverable as ―Ka-rekh-cows-en-kallas.‖
The mine, the refinery, the cows, and the kallas. This means all
that has been claimed for the Hoar Rock in the wood; it tells
us the furnaces, the White-houses of Marazion, once stood at the
Mount, and there took the Cows, the slime-ore extracted from the
Kallas, in the Ka or Kar, and purified it by fire (rekh),—except the
length of geological time to be reckoned. This will be lessened
because, if the mine lay between the Mount and Marazion Mound,
the land would be so honeycombed by mining operations as to
greatly hasten the work of the water when it once broke in.
Ictis was a name of the Mount known to the Greeks. Diodorus
1 Encycl. Brit., Mines, 8th Ed.
says1 the inhabitants of the promontory of B ELERIUM , the people who
wrought the tin, melted it into the form of astragali, and then carried
it to an island in front of Britain, called ―Ictis.‖ To this island,
which was left dry at low tide, the tin was carted from the shore, and
then transported by traders in ships. The island of Ictis is generally
admitted to be the Mount; this was one of the few probabilities of
Cornewall Lewis. ―What‘s in a name?‖ The richest deposit of all
the past. Names are the matrix, still inclosing the precious thing
we are mining for. Ictis in Greek is a weasel, a ferret, or some form
of the miner. Iko denotes the stamping of the tin-workers, to smite
together at a blow. So does the Latin Ico. Ictus, Latin, is a thrust.
Ikt Heb, a fiery furnace. Akh-ta (Eg.) is to make splendid by
blasting with fire. We have no form in Ikt, but Ikh is represented
by Khi, meaning to ―beat-beat.‖ And Ukh is to seek, ukhs to create,
mould by pounding. Ukh, a column, probably signifies to be fixed,
as does Uka in Maori. Tes (Eg.) is the enveloped form and inner
self of a thing. These go to show that Ictis was named as the place
where the ore was extracted, pounded, refined, and shaped into metal.
Camden2 calls the Mount ―Dinsol olim.‖ In ancient times it had
been known as D IN -sol. This, at first sight, looks like the Din, the
high seat of the Sun, which is worth bearing in mind. In Egyptian
Tahn is tin, and Sel is the rock.
This would yield the tin or metal rock, for other metals, one sup-
posed to be bronze, were called Tahn. Sole is English for the bottom
vein in the lode of a mine. Thus Din-sole may be the seat of the
deep mine, and as before said, in the lead-mining districts the beds
of rock which contain the ore are named sills, whilst Ser (Eg.) is some
golden colour like butter with the Tam Sceptre of gold for determi-
native. Here again we must strike light by the aid of another title
of the Mount which will be a determinative for both. ―TUMBA ‖ was
an ancient name of the Mount called the Careg cows in Clowz.
So says William of Worcester in his diary. Max Müller has en-
deavoured to show that the name of Tumba belonged originally to
the Mount St. Michael of Normandy, and was transferred with
certain Christian lrgends to Cornwall. Tumba was applied to the one
Mount as early as the tenth century, and very possibly applied
to the other from ten to twenty thousand years ago. For these
reasons: Ba is an Egyptian name for the mine; Tum signifies the
metal, whether tin or gold, or both; Tumba is the tin mine or the
gold mine. Tum is Sol and gold at the same time.
The full form of the name for gold in Egyptian as in Hebrcw is
Khetem, and it means the shut and sealed, the thing most preciously
preserved. Tam is abraded from Khetam, it is gold and the sceptre
sign of rule, the M sometimes permutes with N, and tin is called both
tahn and atam. The tahn is also a kind of bronze which may have
1 Lib. v. c. xxii. 2 Britannia, p. 72. 1586.
been made of tin mixed with gold. It is known that gold and tin
are near allies. The earliest tin sent from Victoria contained a
considerable quantity of gold.
Aur, our ore, is the Welsh name for gold. This implies that the
first ore known in Cornish was auriferous. The name is not derived
from the Latin Aurum, but both are from one original, which, as before
suggested, is found in Afr, i.e. A UR . Afr (Eg.) is fire, and means
to burn, therefore to smelt, and the ore is for smelting; the Aur, that
which has been smelted.
The mine that lay between the Mount and Marazion Cliff, which
has since caved in, subsided, and been washed away, was possibly
worked for gold, and Tumba may have been the name of it as the gold
mine, before it was worked for tin as Dinsol. Where it exists, gold is
the most self-discovering and easily perceived of minerals. It is quite
within the range of the credible that Tumba contained both gold and
tin. The Welsh triads represent the Princes as riding in cars of
wrought gold. It has been discovered that the Romans worked the
Gogofau Mine, near Pamsant, in Carmarthenshire, for gold. Indeed
the name of Gogofau, rendered by Egyptian Khu-Kefau, the hidden
or lurking glory, points to the gold. Kiu (Eg.) also is the precious
stone. Gold is occasionally discovered at Combe Martin in lumps as
large as a pigeon‘s egg. There is still a small proportion of gold
found with the alluvial tin in Cornwall.
Herodotus had heard there was a prodigious quantity of gold in
the north, although he was unable to say how it was produced. The
Druid priests were designated by the title of Wearers of the Gold
Chains.1 The gold chain was a note of nobility. The root of the
word noble, Nub (Eg.), signifies gold. The shield of the chief Druids
was a circle of gold. The beautiful torques worn by the Irish chief-
tains were of gold. The torque of gold is often alluded to by the
Barddas. Aneurin states that in the battle of Cattraeth there were
three hundred threescore and three wearers of the golden torques.
Quite likely the Ancient Britons were not such poor naked savages
as they have been painted. Tumba could hardly have been dis-
sociated from gold or the god Tum in the Egyptian mind. Tum was
the setting sun, the ―sun setting from the land of life,‖ in the west,
as god of the Ba, or Rau the Void. In the under-world the gold
was located, hence Vulcan, the goldsmith of the gods. As the
lower sun‘s domain began with the autumn equinox where the sun
entered the six lower signs, Tumba was the hill of the setting sun,
and with its B A of Tum, the mine, an image of the western hill of the
Amentes. In carrying on the Egyptian mythology Michael was put
in the place of Tum, the judge of the dead. He is represented with
the scales. The scales in Egyptian are named Makhu, and Makhu-
El is Lord of the Scales, primarily the equinox. From this relation
1 Welsh Arch p. 212. 2 Rit. ch. xv.
to the autumn equinox comes our Michaelmas. Tum, however, keeps
his place in the name of autumn, and the Bau is expressed by our
word toom, empty, void. Tumba, as a mine (Ba), was a type of
the under-world of Tum; the Ba of Tum faced the divinity of the
setting sun going down due west, and from the Ba of Turn, in the
under-world, came the Tumba and the Tomb. It is here that Din-
Sol comes in as the solar seat. As the Pocra Rock standing out to
sea off Aberdeen tells its tale of the juncture or dividing place of the
Don and Dee, and supports a tradition so ancient that it remains oral,
so these names of the Mount Dinsol, Ictis, Tumba, and Careg Clowse
each and all affirm that the mine and mining were once at the Mount
itself, which must then have been on the mainland many and many a
thousand years ago.
It has already been shown how tlie name of the Ruti, in Egypt,
was derived from the earlier Auruti, and this again from the earliest
Kafruti; and how, on another line of modification, the name of the
Karti was also derived from that of Kafruti. Thus we have three
stages of the name answering to three phases of the people. Lan-
guage is a mirror which has registered all that it once reflected. And
if we may now trust this mirror so often found to be true, if we may
follow language as our guide a little further—and it is one of the most
unerring guides and one of the last left us—we may trace the migration
to Europe, and within the Isles by name in these three stages: First
came the Pigmeans with the cave-and-ape-name the Kafruti, or Kam-
ruti, the typical uncivilized and ignorant men of the later Egyptians.
This name is preserved by the Kymry whichever way it be read. The
plural terminal, if Egyptian, may be U or UI , or ruti, and if the RY be
taken to represent rekh, that is the race. So that Kymruti and
Kymraig, whence Kymry and Kymru, are the race of Kam, Kym,
Kvm or Khebma.
The forms of Kafruti, Khefti, Japhti are followed by the Kêtti, Epidii,
and others. These were the children of Kheft (K&d), the ape and
hippopotamus mother, whose portraits they retained in the ape of the
Druids and the monster of the Scottish stones. They must have
come out black and short of stature from the interior of Africa, not
merely from Upper Egypt, but from the general land of Kush, or the
black people, whose complexion is retained in the name of the Corca
D UIBNE and C ORCA O IDCHE of Ireland and the K YMRY of Wales.
According to Egyptian thought the Karti name belongs to lower
regions. The Karti are the circles or hells of the lower world. The
Karti people in Egypt are like our people of the shires, the lower lands
in relation to the South, or to Equatorial Africa. This does not
limit the Karti to the lower of the two Egypts known to us, but
possibly to the two Egypts as the Kars in relation to the still higher
land. At this stage, according to the analogy, came out the Keltæ
of Iberia and the Isles, the Kaldi of Rabylonia and others, their
namesakes. Karti (Eg.) is the name of the masons, the cutters, and
carvers of stone, including the polishers. This serves to identify the
Keltæ race with the workers in stone who spread out into many lands.
Lastly, the Ruti in Lower Egypt are the men of the monuments,
who have shed their prefix with much that it typifies and tells us of
their past. We find the three stages followable in the North. The
Kymry and Kabiri equate with the Kamruti and Kafruti of the
birthplace; the Keltæ answer to the Karti. The Rutennu, the
Latin, Lettic, Lithuanic and our own Ludite names correspond to that
of the Ruti. The sense attached by the later Egyptians to the name
of the Ruti as the race, the men, has been preserved in the English
Lede and Lithe for a man and the type-name for the people. Also
the Loegrian name denotes the race, descendants, in-relation to the
parentage, whether called Kymric or Keltic.
The earliest names of locality and dwelling-place must be sought
for under those of the genitrix Khebm, Kefa, Kheft, Kêd, Tef, Teft,
Tep, Teb, and Aft. These will identify the Cave-dwellers, the people
of the Cwm and Weem, Cefn and Ked-Ing; of the points of com-
mencement (Tep, or Tef), Menapia, Dyved and Devon, whence the
Taffies, who derived from the primeval pair called Dwyvan and
Dwyvack, whose descendants peopled the Island of Britain, and who
are topographically represented by the double land Dyved and
Devon, or Wales, and Corn-Wales. The Caers, Kils, Gales, Wales,
Corn-Wales imply the Chart of the Karti or Keltz, the earliest map-
ping out and inclosing in the Llan, the Tun, the Ster, Set, Trev,
Cantrev, Peel, Pol and Parish, Rath and Lis, Hest, Haigh and How.
The first places as dndlings were found in the Hill-caves, the Kep,
Cefn, Ceann, or Cwm; the second were formed as holes underground
or circles on the height; the third were built. To these correspond
the Kymry, Keltz and Loegri, the men of the three Ages, Palæolithic,
Neolithic, and the Smelters (Rekhi). In this third stage we find the
Brithon, and the question ariscs whether this ethnical name is not
distinct from that of B RITTENE as the broken off and separated
land? The Brithon apparently derives from Prydhain, the youthful
Solar God. Hain or Han (Eg). means the youth who was imper-
sonated in Pryd, the appearing, manifesting god. The Britten
separated from Brittany became the Isle (Inch) of Prydhain. Inis
Prydhain is the Brithon‘s Isle, and the Brithon is the third in place
and degree following the Kymry and the Keltæ. The first phase
mythologically considered was Sabean, when the gods consisted of
the Great Mother and her son as Sut, and Britain was the Island of
Beli, the Star-God of fire and representative of the Seven, the
Belerium of Diodorus. The second phase was Sabean-Lunar with
Gmydion-Taht as the son of the mother Kêd. The third was
solar with Hu elevated to the Fatherhood and Prydhain for his
son, when the Isle was given to Prydhain as the Brithon‘s Isle.
Hu, the Sun-God, as Tydain-tad-awn, the British Apollo and father
of Inspiration, is designated the third of the chief regulators. The
Solar God as sovereign of On (An) supplies the third profound
mystery of the sage, who is the third deep wise one.1 To the
first cycle belong the Kymry; to the second the Gwydelic or
Gaelic race; to the third the Hedui, the Aedui, and the Brithons,
as the facts are reflected in the mirror of mythology and language.
These three degrees are at the bottom of the triads. ―What are the
names of the three Caers (inclosed circles) between the flowing and
the ebbing tide?‖ asks Taliesin. These were the Sabean, Lunar and
Solar circles of time. The same speaker claims to have been in the
court of Llys Don, or Cassiopeia, queen of the celestial Æthiopia
before Gwydion was born. That is the circle of the Great Bear;
Gwydion being Hermes, Sut-Taht, the Sabean-Lunar type of time.
The Triads say that there were three social tribes of the Isle of
Britain—the nation of the Kymry, the RACE (AL ) of the Lloegrwys
and the Brithon. These have been looked upon as three successive
invasions of three different peoples. But they were the social tribes
of the Isle, domesticated and indigenous. The Kymry were natives
of Wales and Cornwales. The Lloegrwys were the developed
race (Rekh, Eg.), the English equivalent of the Gadhaelic race
in Scotland and Ireland. They were both the children, the race
of those who derived from Kêd. The Brithon is third. He had
also been living in Lydaw or Brittany. The series and sequence
can be followed as regularly as in the later succession of Roman,
Saxon, and Norman. The facts were registered in the Triads; the
three Awns of Gogyrven, the feminine and earliest form of the Word
and mistress of letters, the goddess Kêd, who still talks to us with her
ten digits in the Oghams, over the graves of the buried dead, like
one that invented a language for those who were born deaf and
dumb.
1 Cadair Teryu On.
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BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS

BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS

[A note: in the present e-text a few footnotes giving references have

Inscribed by the Author

NICHOLAS FABYAN DAW

II. COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF ENGLISH AND EGYPTIAN WORDS. 49

III. HIEROGLYPHICS IN BRITAIN . . . . . . . 83

IV. EGYPTIAN ORIGINES IN WORDS . . . . . . 135

V. EGYPTIAN WATER-NAMES . . . . . . . 180

VI. EGYPTIAN NAMES OF PERSONAGES . . . . . . 208

VII. BRITISH SYMBOLICAL CUSTOMS AND EGYPTIAN NAMING . . 249

VIII. EGYPTIAN DEITIES IN THE BRITISH ISLES . . . . . 311

IX. EGYPTIAN PLACE-NAMES AND THE RECORD OF THE STONES . 379

X. TYPE-NAMES OF THE PEOPLE . . . . . . 444

EGYPT ! how I have dwelt with you in dreams,

BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS.

pp. 46, 47. Bunsen, Egypt’s Place, vol. v. p. 719.

3 Records of the Past, vol. ii. p. 3.

1 Max Müller, Academy, 1874, p. 548.

Ptah reigned . . . 9,000 years.

After this, says Eusebius,2 ―came a series of reigns down to

3 De Mysteriis, viii. 5, ix. 7.

calculations of an eminent mathematician. The following is the official reply to my

―ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH, LONDON, S.E.,

―July 23rd, 1877.

IN his Treatise of the ―New Manneris and the Auld of Scottis,‖

The shoot or RENPU is carried in the hands of Taht, the god of

1 Brand, May-Day Customs. 2 Dyer, 133.

3 Wilkinson, Thebes, p. 62.

3 Turner, Nineteen Years in Polynesia, p. 245.

1 Brewer, Phrase and Fable¸p. 291.

3 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society¸v. 18, p. 391.

3 Sir J. E. Tennant, Notes and Queries, 1852, vol. v. p. 121.

1 Grimm, D. M. 1222. 2 B. i. 40. 3 B. i. 9.

1 Brand, ―Magpie.‖ 2 Plutarch, ―of Isis and Osiris.‖

1 B. i. 53. 2 Brand, Harvest Home.

― A bee begat me not, nor yet did I proceed

3 Gayton, Festivous Notes on Don Quixote, 1654, p. 218.

3 Letter in Notes and Queries, October 20, 1871.

1 Description de l‘Égypte (1809). 2 Rit. ch. 99.

1 Egyp. Rit. ch. 17.

1 Choice Notes, p. 107. 2 B. i. 96.

1 Pengelly, Kent’s Cavern: a Lecture, p. 5.

1 April 8, 1871. 2 Roby, 1st series, vol. i. 23.

THE comparative vocabulary in the second section furnished evi-

1 Ant. and Cleop. ii. 2.

3 Birch, Eg. Ritual, ch. 79.

―I cannot speak in terme,

ERME, to grieve, to lament, is one in English with REM, to moan,

can be explained by the Egyptian T ER and T ERT. T ER

4 Schoolcraft Res. ii. 199.

THE author of Rude Stone Monuments appears to me to darken

The goging or cucking-stool moved up and down in ducking the

D OVE rendered by Egyptian is T EF or T EB . T EF signifies dripping,

The word A KER was explained by the early lexicographers by

alludes to the water-bourne. In Wiltshire we have the river B OURNE.

AK (Egyptian), the liquid mass of the celestial height. AKH, water.