On the Affinity of the Hiberno- Celtic and Phenician Languages. 79 
It is, however, very remarkable, that although many of the Greek names for the 
same divinity differ from the Roman, yet both being derived from the same Phenician 
source, by different channels, each are significant in that language, and express the 
same, or common, attributes of the given deity, so as to mark their identity with ex- 
traordinary precision. ‘Thus Vutcan means the adroit, or able and intelligent, smith. 
Hepuaistos, one skilled in the effects of heat or fire. Venus, the woman of the com- 
munity, or the courtesan. Mererrix, violent lust or lechery. Adpotire, the produce 
of froth. Mercury, swift cap, or the man with wings on his cap. Hermes, the ray 
of the sun. Baccnus, the lame or staggering drunkard. Avvvooc, the drunken 
man, &c. 
It would be inexpedient, even if time would permit, to fatigue the Academy with 
a collation with the Celto-Phenician of every name to be found in the Greek and 
Roman mythology ; but it is necessary to state that they are found, almost without an 
exception, significant in too remarkable a manner to be mistaken. 
I shall now proceed to state the meaning, in the Celtic, of some of the most re- 
markable of the divinities and heroes of the Greeks and Romans, and commence with 
the most antient. 
Uranus. The most antient of the gods. This name is derived from the sun’s sup- 
posed orbit round the earth. up, the sun; ayy, circle. The ideaof the motion of the 
sun round the earth, his benificent warmth, vivifying and generating powers, naturally 
became the object of early and grateful devotion; and the Greeks worshipped the 
sun, (the Phenician or Tyrian Hercules,) under the name of Ovpavoc, which is nothing 
more than the Phenician una Hellenised. 
Celus. The same deity as Uranus, under another name. From Ceyl, a husband, 
generator, father, progenitor, creator ; soy, of ages. 
Thea, or Tithea—she is represented as the wife of Calus—is merely 4, plenty, 
abundance, riches. Thus*the generator or creator produced all things from his 
abundant power or capability of production. This goddess is also called Zitea, which 
is a compound of a, power, government, rule, design, intention, contemplation, and 
aja, divinity or god. Thus Ceil, the creator, by his power, wisdom, prudence, and 
fore-knowledge, produced Saturn, Chronos, or Time, heaven, earth, and all things. 
Her name of Ops may be from ob, or op, force, or violence, of parturition. Eheu, 
from pe, the moon. 
Saturn, or Chronos. The former of these names is palpably Phenician—it literally 
means tle Lord, ye cjapna; the latter equally so, Time, Cpon. 
The Titans, brothers of Saturn, meant nothing more than the Princes. T), the ; 
Ga, Princes, 
