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In the former its phonetic vahie is ha, constituting the first syllable 

 in the woirl Hatnath (Hittite Inscription, H. Y., line 2). In the 

 latter it has the values e, eu, bean being etl in Aztec. The Aztec 

 hieroglyphic for ail, 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 (T,oc. 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. VIII., 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 ilar or hilar was a tribal one, 

 denoting a Hittite family, the Alarodians of Herodotus and the 

 Allurians of the Assyrian monuments who dwelt in Armenia, the 

 lUyrians opposite Italy, the Ilergetes and Ilercaones of Spain, and 

 the Silures of Britain. Iluro, now Ol^ron, 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 pi'eside over them, the 

 Quintiliani and the Fabiani (Festus, 87). The latter, like the Fabii, 

 were doixbtless Etruscan liars, 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. I. 



