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140 HISTORY OF THE
efFeminized, galUna, a hen. At all events, herein
is found the primary idea oigallan, i.e. a courageous
person, more particularly coupled with the idea of
protector of the fair sex,
lulair, the eagle. No combination of letters
can produce a truer reflection of the note of this
noble bird than iul. He utters it in quick succes-
sion, thus, " iul^ iul." The eagle was a divinity in
Egypt, and afterwards with those who spread from
Egypt. We have all heard of the ^^hird of Jove."
This term is a corruption of the Hebrew rnn'' leue^
or /ei-e, or le and /«?, our English word Jehovah.*
It becomes us now to examine how the eagle came
to be a god. Tlie eagle, or hawk, was con-
sidered a second Tau, barker, or messenger of the
gods, and for the following reason, viz.. The
appearance of the dogstar, as already described,
was accompanied by a strong, cold wind from the
north, cabalistically called Te-Esh^ or Etesian,
perhaps, also, Aur-Oug-El, Euroclydon. The
* The Highlanders in their invocation of the Deity say yie-
yie. In Egypt when inhabited by the Aborigines, the wor-
shippers of Eph, all their great Fels, or feasts were ushered
in by an invocation of the Deity ; these invocations Pluche
gives as follows, " lo Baeche, Hevoe Basche, lo Triumphe,
lo Paen," and with the following comment, " This word lo
lov, Jevoe, levoe, is the name of God, and signifies the
author of life, He that is." If the reader can find no argu-
ment still, he is unwilling to be convinced.