158 Druidism in connection with Wiltshire. 
waters,) they erected a pyramid in honour of her on the very spot 
where they were encamped. This pyramid was called Padma- 
Mandira from the name of the goddess, which signifies a temple or 
palace, and Padmo-Matha (which means a college or habitation 
of students, where she instructed Sharma and his family in the 
most useful arts, and among other things Yascha-Lipi or the wri- 
ting of the Yacshas, a race of superior beings, among whom Cuvera 
was the chief. 
This Padma-Mandira was probably the town of Byblos in Egypt, 
now called Babel, or rather Babel in the first instance, and after- 
wards changed into Byblos by the Greeks. Thus it would appear 
two Babels were founded about the same time, on the banks of the 
Euphrates and the Nile. 
These descendants of Shem thus appear to have colonized Egypt 
and were regarded as Devatas, Elohim, or. Demi-gods, a name also 
given to the Yacshas of the Puranas, who are met with in the 
mountains of India and Ethiopia. They were followed by several 
other tribes, of the same race probably, from Persia or Misr in 
India, the most powerful of whom were the Pallis or Shepherd 
kings, who under the name of Titanes were engaged in continual 
contests with the first colonists the Elohim or Devatas who in- — 
habited Upper Egypt, for two hundred years. After expelling the 
Shepherd Dynasty who occupied Lower Egypt, the Elohim re- 
mained in possession of the whole of that country till they were 
themselves conquered by another body of colonists (descendants of 
Cush the eldest son of Ham) from the east, who gave their name to 
Hindostan, and who after occupying Canaan, compelled the origi- 
nal descendants of Shem to retire into the mountains, perhaps of 
Ethiopia and Abyssinia. The Titanes, or Shepherd Dynasty had 
previously withdrawn from Egypt to Tyre and the coasts of the 
Mediterranean, to whom we shall presently have further occasion 
to refer. 
CHAPTER IV. 
ABRAHAM’S DESCENT, AND CONNECTION WITH CANAAN AND Ecypr. 
“Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood, even Terah the father of 
Abraham, and they served other gods.” 
Abraham is represented in Scripture as having been called by God 
