[381] Much, mugh, mughsaine tra ainm sain delias do dheadh (Cormac’s Glossary).
[382] The locale of that boar, as well as the mystery of its meaning, which Plutarch transmitted in his allegorical war between Osiris and Typhon, is now no longer ambiguous (see p. 327).
[383] I have before explained that the serpent Pyth-on means the seduction of sensuality—Pith itself signifying yoni, the boat, or serpent, the final on being nothing but a Greek termination.
[384] Isa. liii. 7.
[385] “The gods,” said the Budhist priest to the Catholic bishop before alluded to, “who have appeared in the present world, and who have obtained the perfect state, niebau, or deliverance from all the evils of life, are four, Chanchasam, Gonagom, Gaspa, and Godama” (Syme’s Embassy to the Court of Ava).
[386] I shall give you my definition for this word by and by.
[387] 1 Cor. xv. 51.
[388] It will be perceived, that I do not mean this to be an exact copy of the Knockmoy Crucifixion—or vice versâ.—The general idea is, what I mean to substantiate, and the identity of design cannot well be gainsaid. This remark applies also to the kings about to be introduced by and by.
[389] “We saw,” says Colonel Symes, alluding to the imperfect shell of a Budhist temple, in the Burman Empire, “several unfinished figures of animals and men in grotesque attitudes, which were designed as ornaments for different parts of the building” (Embassy to the Court of Ava).
[390] 1 Cor. i. 12.