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CELTIC LANGUAGE. 181
of day ; hence, perhaps, Bel, the sun, because the
introducer of day, the quickener: rather Ab-El ?
Be\ was the great deity of the Celts, and it is
remarkable that Herodotus (Ub. i. cap. 181,) calls
the tower of Babel Atog ^acuoX 7sou, i.e. the temple
of Bel, the sun, precisely our own term ^^ Deis
Bhaol" i.e. to go round with the sun; a charm-
phrase. That the builders of Babel fell out about
their symbohc gods, we have, in our opinion,
internal evidence. Names, in ancient times, were
descriptive. Nimrod's father's name was Cush,
which is resolvable into Cu, a dog, and Esh, a
man, the man-dog : his own name is written by
some, Nebrod, an oracular name. In the theo-
logy of the Phoenicians and Chaldeans, according
to Sanchoniatho, a writer senior to any Greek
author, we have it as the cause of the confusion, a
war having risen between Cronus and Titan. Now
Cronus, is the moon, or priest of that luminary ;
and Titan is the " Barker" or " Tau-hut," or the
planet, or planet-priest, The auxiUaries of Ilus,
who is the same with Cronus, were called Elocim.
Titanides were the ofFspring of Cronus by Rhea,
i.e. of the sun-symbol, by the moon or planet-symbol.
Auranus, again, was the father of Cronus. Ogyges
was a king of the Titans. The iìrst kings were
Chaldeans, and their first king was Evechius (root
Eph?), who is known to us by the name oiNebrod
(Ain Ob?) What are we to make of all this