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the like lias happened. The king of Asliantee has among 

 his glorifying names &quot; Lion &quot; and u Snake.&quot; In Dahomey, 

 titles thus derived are made superlative: the king is &quot; the 

 Lion of Lions.&quot; And in a kindred spirit the king of Usain- 

 bara is called &quot; Lion of Heaven: &quot; a title whence, should 

 tliis king undergo apotheosis, myths may naturally result. 

 From Zulu-land, along with evidence of the same thing, 

 there comes an illustration of the way in which names of 

 honour derived from imposing objects, animate and in 

 animate, are joined with names of honour otherwise de 

 rived, and pass into certain of those forms of address lately 

 dealt with. The titles of the king arc &quot; The noble ele 

 phant,&quot; &quot; Thou who art for ever,&quot; &quot; Thou who art as high 

 as the heavens,&quot; &quot; The black one,&quot; &quot; Thou who art the 

 bird who eats other birds,&quot; &quot; Thou who art as high as the 

 mountains,&quot; cv;c. Shooter shows how these Zulu titles are 

 used, by quoting part of a speech adressed to the king 

 &quot; You mountain, you lion, you tiger, you that are black. 

 There is none equal to you.&quot; Further, there is proof that 

 names of honour thus originating, pass into titles applied to 

 the position occupied, rather than to the occupant consid 

 ered personally; for a Kaffir chief s wife &quot; is called the Ele- 

 phantess, while his great wife is called the Lioness.&quot; 



Guided by such clues, we cannot miss the inference that 

 the use of kindred names for both kings and gods by extinct 

 historic races, similarly arose. If we find that now in Mada 

 gascar one of the king s titles is &quot; Mighty Bull,&quot; and are 

 reminded by this that to the conquering Ramses a like 

 laudatory name was given by defeated foes, we may reason 

 ably conclude that from animal-names thus given to kings, 

 there resulted the animal-names anciently given as names 

 of honour to deities; so that Apis in .Egypt became an 

 equivalent for Osiris and the Sun, and so that Bull similarly 

 became an equivalent for the conquering hero and Sun- 

 god Indra. 



TVith titles derived from imposing inanimate objects it 



