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nicknames given by the adherents of the one creed to the gods of the other. 

 The modern name 2 which Petrie records, 1 cannot be cited in 



corroboration of the phallic theory. In the lirst place, it cannot be absolutely 

 proved that the stone so denominated is the genuine original Fal, however likely 

 this may V»e ; and in the second place, that name is clearly nothing more than 

 a piece of rough country humour. 2 Unhewn standi: a may be, and \ei\ 



probably are in many - - substitutes - itues; but there is not the 



Icnce that tin ~-nx phalli, at any rate in Europe. Just as 



Ml. Bli . and Kluicue were the re • oalities of the three 



druids buiied ui h them, and acted under the inspiration of their 



erhuman intelligei 3, so Fal was tl le of the divinity whose 



name it bore. 



Aln . be admise _. stion which might l>e 



le, to the effect th - •' the name 



oft . . t ii. The Mi- Emmanuel! a . whom I 



1 agree with you that a 



apiece of virulent 



eecles utility. I doubt - rd in popular use at all. 



N gin was, and so far as 1 know it lias left no 



• In the other hand, Virbius also 



■ rate. From a phonetic 



poinl mculty in connecting I and 



rare thai the 1 in tl. iginal (it would 



then be like n'r and riginal. The lack of cogn 



mAK t I dh, which in the 



. it, tin- identity would not be | 



in would l>e strongly 

 marked with in which lable might represent 



tat, we have no evidence) it 



a rally happens with the 



ertain conclusion 



' n ,a _ ur \iew : and the other 



points you m- int you in going 



1 - . name 



esealexempleqoeji • d'ane 



-ulti e'Tidemmei.t d aepeut 



•-• a l'appui dc U the*e .jui - 

 men) 



curioua coincidence that we have a stone of Maine at Tetuair, and thai 

 the name Mann. .; „ llh ArjcIa . tet <_ 



