Blair Collection > History of the Celtic language

112 HISTORY OF THE
in Celtic, is Re, a dog, Aug, and the lion or eagle
El; which produce the name of the founder,
Reg\il\is ! Kil, Re, Eph-Ain, its Celtic name, is
equivalent. We have never seen the Rosetta
stone in London, but we see it in the name i?,
S, T, Ro-Esh-Tau — a circle, a man, and a cross
or a dog — with probably their attributes, severally,
if not their history ? This accounts for the name
of Fife, {Ff,) and of that of the beautiful hill
Lsirgo, as also of that of the tattooed worshippers,
Bret3in\(t\\, Alh-a-mch, Horestii, Pehs, &c.
The ideal meaning, indeed, of most appellatives
having relation to religion, moral greatness, or even
beauty, will be found to be Cabalistic. We would
venture here to instance the term Pa^a?«ism. Ar-Ab,
Aphric, Epht, Roinn-Or-Pa, {i.e. the division of
Orusor Aur, and Op.) "Europa,"says Bryant, "was
a deity ; and the name is a compound — Eur-ope,
analogous to Canope, Canophis, and Camphis of
Egypt, and signifies ' Orus Pytho.' " Eur, is but
Aur euphonised, as in Aur-Ghdel, i.e. Argyle.
Ora.cle, Sp2dti, Jupiter, Apolo, Neptune, Phsa-aioh,
Absta.1, Cuspaji, {i.e. tribute, tax, custom ;) E.«/jic,
a bishop, Tar^awachd, i.e. prediction, prophecy.
Tubal, Senaler, a General, " Oran," the sun-priest
of lona, and shall we add the much-disputed thing
confounded on the plains of SKmar, Spt,* are all
* Esh, the man, Op, the serpent, and Tau, the barker-god.
— See under Pait.