564 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS'. 



aspects, it is evident that the Tuatha-cle-Danans, who were masters 

 of poetry as well as of enchantments, belong to the same stock as 

 Tydain-tad-Awen, the Welsh originator of the poetic art, and that 

 he reproduces the Indian Yeda, whose relations are with Jadag. 

 We have seen, however, that gwyddoni is the Welsh word answering 

 to Jadag. I cannot, therefore, dismiss from the connection just 

 specified, Gwyddon Ganhebon, another primitive bard, whose name 

 enters with that of Tydain-tad-Awen into the bardic triad, nor 

 Gwyddion, the son of Don, who appears in a similar triad of primi- 

 tive astronomers. According to the learned Davies, Tydain-tad-Awen 

 is Titan,"® while Gwyddion, son of Don, is, like Tages, Sage, son of 

 Genius.-^^" The same writer informs us that Tydain-tad-Owen is 

 solar, and relates to Apollo, and what is more imjDortant, that he is- 

 called Teyrn On, or sovereign of On, which Taliessin identifies with 

 Heliopolis.^^^ Now Davies knew nothing of what some are pleased 

 to call my theory of mythology, which is no theory in reality, but the 

 result, as astounding to myself as it can be to any one else, of 

 legitimate inductive reasoning ; yet had the result been before him, 

 he could not have more completely justified it. With Tydain Ladon 

 is associated, and with A^en the divinities Budd and Bun were 

 woi"shipped at Stonehenge. At Seon of the strong door, Amathaon, 

 another son of Don, is associated with Gwyddion. Seon is identified 

 by Davies with Samothrace,^^^ and Amathaon must, I think, seeing 

 that he and Gwyddion are at times made the same, be Jonathan, the 

 son of Jadag. In Tarw, the bull-demon, Abi-Shur or Taurus should 

 be found. As Patarus, the British legends reproduce the son of 

 Apollo in Bedwyr or Pedrog.-*^^^* Owen, the son of Urien, seems to 

 point to Onam, the son of Uranus or Jerachmeel, and Adur as a 

 progenitor of Tydain-tad-Owen may denote Atarah. The flat stone 

 of Echemeint, called Oarchar Hud, must have relations with the 

 sacred stones of Irish and classical tradition, and, in its epithet 

 Echemeint, Inay preserve the name of Acmon, Achban or Abn-ra. 



Among the names wliich appear in the Arthurian romances, king 

 Pescheur in the Loegrian land, with Gawaine, Galahad the chaste, 



1*9 Davies' Celtic Researclies, 168. 

 150 Id. 174. 



161 Davies' British Druids, 526. 



162 Id. 89, 168, 54. The Gwyllim or prophetic maids at Sfton must be a reproduction of the 

 Sibyls of Curase. Fleidur, son of Porthawr G-odo, the door-keepery may be Peleth. 



I62i; ^ better identification might be Idris Gawr, whose keep, or Cader Idris, recalls Chuter 

 Taurus. 



