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Celtic Parisii of Gaul and Britain; and from his grandson Bedan, the 
Patinians of Assyrian history, the Bithynians of Asia Minor, and later 
Pitanati and Boduni. The name of Bedan is associated with that of his 
father Ulam in an ancient Babylonian document, which ascribes to an 
oriental monarch sway over Padan-Alman and Guti; and the connection 
still survives in Bodonhely in western Hungary, where Celts once dwelt. 
In modern Swabia, the city of Ulm is a memorial of the ancient 
Olmecs, and the grand duchy of Baden conserves the name of Bedan. 
In classical days Ulmum lay to the north of the Perso Lacus in Pannonia, 
which conserved that of Peresh. This was in the country of the Celtic 
Bou. It is hard to penetrate the disguises which the Greek language 
put upon foreign terms at times to give them Hellenic significance. Its 
Trojan cycle of tradition was founded on genuine historical facts and 
personages. Dardanus was once a living reality, Zereth or Zarthan, the 
ancestor of Dardanians, Sardinians, Turdetani, and Toltecs, of 
Cherethites, Cretes and Kurds. Tros belonged to his race, but Ilus the 
second was an intruder, a Celtic or Sumerian Ulam who entered the 
Turanian royal house by marriage; and the name of his son Laomedon is 
a clumsy contraction of a Turanian Ulam-Bedan, inverting, with genuine 
Turanian perversity, the Celtic Bedan-Ulam or Bedan, the son of Ulam, 
who is also Phaethon, the son of Helios. Thus in ancient times were the 
Ulamite Sumerians and the Dardanians or Zerethites allied, and so 
through centuries of wandering they remained, until, at last, from the 
Fortunate Isles they found their way to a Mexican home they called 
Potonchan after their eponymous Celtic hero Bedan. The traditional 
Olmecs were the Celtic branch of this union, but there is no evidence 
that they ever exercised regal authority in Mexico. They, rather than 
the Canarian Telde or Toltecs, seem to have been the ingenious 
mechanics, and especially workers in stone, for the Celt was ever a mason 
and a cooper, while the northern Turanian was but a rough carpenter 
and piler of earth heaps. 
There is no record of the motive power that impelled the people of 
the Canaries to cross the Atlantic, but it is not far to seek. The time 
of their arrival in Mexico was that of Arabian conquest in the west of 
Africa and Europe. The Berbers were finally subdued in 709, and the 
Celt-Iberiarfs and Goths of Spain in 713. By this time the Arab, origin- 
ally timid of the water, had become a seaman, and Moslem fleets swept 
the Mediterranean. They also ventured along the Atlantic coast, but 
whether they ever found the Canary Islands is a matter of conjecture. 
If they did not, pagan Berber fugitives, putting the sea between them 
and the sword and Koran of the Arabian, no doubt reached their shores, 
