Figs. 344 and 345.—British. From Akerman and Evans.
The Jewish conception of The Most Ancient One, the most Hidden of the hidden, reappears in Jupiter Ammon, whose sobriquet of Ammon meant the hidden one: “Verily, Thou art a God that hidest Thyself”. In England the game of Hide and Seek used to be known as Hooper’s Hide,[667] and this curious connection between Jupiter, the Hidden one, and Hooper’s Hide somewhat strengthens my earlier surmise that Hooper = Iupiter.
In the opinion of Sir John Evans “there can be little doubt” of the head upon the obverse of Fig. 344 being intended for Jupiter Ammon;[668] in Cornish Blind Man’s Hide and Seek, the players used to shout “Vesey, vasey vum: Buckaboo has come!”[669]
Fig. 346.—Glass Beads, England and Ireland. From A Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age (B.M.).
Fig. 347.—From A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age (B.M.).
