[266] An edifice of this kind, in which the relics of Budha were kept, near Benares, is described by Wilford as about fifty feet high, of a cylindrical form, with its top shaped like a dome.
“Tuatha Heren tarcaintais
Dos nicfead sith laitaith nua.”
That is,
The magicians of Ireland prophesied
That new times of peace would come.
I would point your attention to this stanza, not only as confirmatory of the solution above given for the word Tuatha, but as furnishing another link in that great chain of analogy which I have traced between the names of Ireland and ancient Persia. Haran, in Mesopotamia, is but the prefixing of an aspirate to Eran, the Pahlavi variation for Iran, the original name for that Sacred Land.
[268] General Vallancey was equally ignorant as to the meaning of the additional words De-danaan.
[269] The Lotos was the most sacred plant of the ancients, and typified the two principles of the earth’s fecundation combined—the germ standing for the Lingam; the filaments and petals for the Yoni.
[270] This Puzza is nothing more than our Irish Pish: and, what is miraculously coincident, the title of the enthusiast who annually kills somebody in honour of her, under the name of the goddess Manepa, at Tancput, is Phut, or Buth; that is, the Budh of the Irish!
[271] “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh” (Gen. xi. 24).