266 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
In the former its phonetic value is a, constituting the first syllable 
in the word Hamath (Hittite Inscription, H. V., line 2). In the 
latter it has the values e, ew, bean being et/ in Aztec. The Aztec 
hieroglyphic for at/, water, takes the place of the bean in the Hittite 
H. V., line 3, showing that ha was the original power of both 
symbols. Pliny (loc. cit.) speaks of religious practices connected 
with the bean among the Romans. It was regarded as impure by 
the Egyptian priests (Herodot. II. 37, Diod. Sic. I. 89), and by the 
Pythagoreans (Diog. Laert. VIIT., 19, 21), who are supposed to have 
derived their lore from Egypt. The reasons for the aversion of the 
Egyptians and the regard of the Romans for this vegetable are his- 
torical. The lunar and bean name tar or hilar was a tribal one, - 
denoting a Hittite family, the Aljarodians of Herodotus and the 
Allurians of the Assyrian monuments who dwelt in Armenia, the 
Illyrians opposite Italy, the Ilergetes and Ilercaones of Spain, and 
the Silures of Britain. TIluro, now Oléron, north of the Pyrenees, 
represents the same word. It was connected by the classical geogra- 
phers with Lapurdum, whence the Basque Lapurta or the Labourd, 
just as Illyria connects with Liburnia, and Allapur with Alluria. 
So also Etruria furnishes Solaria and Portus Liburni, and in Liguria 
we find Ad Solaria and Libarna. When the Lupercalia were insti- 
tuted at Rome, two families were appointed to preside over them, the 
Quintiliani and the Fabiani (Festus, 87). The latter, like the Fabui, 
were doubtless Etruscan Ilars, who understood the rites of the old 
Accadian Lubara, god of pestilence, and worshipped him under the 
twin names Lupercus and Februus. For the connection of this 
ancient deity with Jupiter Labradeus of Caria and the Irish royal 
hero Labradh Loingseach, see my essay on Monumental Evidence of 
an Iberian population of the British Islands, in Trans, Celtic Society 
of Montreal, Vol. 1. 
