[CAMPBELL] MEXICAN COLONIES TRACED BY LANGUAGE 247 
There are many testimonies to the love of poetry and music among the 
Guanches, and the same is true of the Peruvians, for whom the Amautas 
composed songs and musical airs; but these were not called amhra or 
amhran, the Celtic equivalents of the Hebrew zimri, zimran, a song or 
hymn. which are virtually the Aymara and Zimrite names. ‘The 
Peruvians termed such compositions haraui, which seems to 
connect with the Basque eresia, an old song. One of their most finished 
productions is the drama of Ollantay, a chief who carried off an Inca’s 
daughter from the house of the virgins of the Sun, and rebelled against 
royal authority until subdued by his brides brother, the Inca Yupanqui. 
His fortress of Ollantay-Tambo, the ruins of which are still shown, was 
taken by the treachery of an officer of Yupanqui, who reproduced the 
actions of Zopyrus the Persian towards Babylon, and of Sextus Tar- 
quinius towards Gabii. This was originally a Celtic story, for, in a 
paper on “ The Celt in Ancient Egypt and Babylonia,” read before the 
Canadian Institute, I have proved that the first Tarquin was Rakem, 
the brother of Ulam, and the father of Tarkhundara, or Tarquin the 
second, whose Gaelic letter is preserved in the Tel-el-Amarna collec- 
tions. The tale has no place in the annals of Yupanqui and his father. 
It is, therefore, a reminiscence of very ancient days, and Ollontay 
is to Ulam, Ollamh, and the Olmecs, as is the Aymara pilpinto, the 
butterfly, to the Welsh balafen. 
Enough has been said to make it clear that, in the beginning of ihe 
eighth century, consequent on Arabian conquests in the west, a mixed 
Iberic and Celtic body of emigrants left the Canary Islands for the 
shores of America. Whether they visited any other part of the eoast, 
or landed on any of the West India islands, before settling in Potonchan, 
the present province of Vera Cruz, we have at present no means of 
knowing. In Mexico, between 717 and 1062 a period of almost three 
and a half centuries, the Cymric Celts, known as Olmecs, had virtually 
no history, although their valour and their skill were alike acknowledged 
by their Iberian Toltec rulers. The great pyramid of Cholula, of which 
there is a Mexican tradition agreeing in many features with that of the 
tower of Babel, was built by them; and it is exceedingly probable that 
all brick and stone structures in Mexico, erected prior to 1062, which 
are not the work of the Malay Maya-Quiche-Huastec peoples, are relics 
of their Cymric art. Alcedo says the Olmecs went south and settled in 
Guatemala, where there are no traces of them. Other records take them 
and the Toltecs away from Mexico, to rule in the mysterious kingdom 
of Tlapallan. But history seems to say that, in 1062, the Toltec and 
Olmec remnants fought their way south through Quiche and Cachiquel 
