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is the same. &quot;We have seen how, among the Zulus, the hy 

 perbolic compliment to the king &quot; Thou who art as high 

 as the mountains/ passes from the form of simile into the 

 form of metaphor when he is addressed as &quot; you Mountain.&quot; 

 And that the metaphorical name thus used sometimes be 

 comes a proper name, proof comes from Samoa; where, as 

 we saw, &quot; the chief of Pango-Pango &quot; is &quot; now Maunga, or 

 Mountain.&quot; There is evidence that by sundry ancestor- 

 worshipping peoples, divine titles are similarly derived. 

 The Chinooks and Xavajos and Mexicans in North Amer 

 ica, and the Peruvians in South America, regard certain 

 mountains as gods; and since these gods have other names, 

 the implication is that in each case an apotheosized man had 

 received in honour either the general name Mountain, or 

 the name of a particular mountain, as has happened in Xew 

 Zealand. From complimentary comparisons to the Sun, re 

 sult not only personal names of honour and divine names, 

 but also official titles. On reading that the Mexicans distin 

 guished Cortes as &quot; the offspring of the Sun,&quot; and that the 

 Chibchas called the Spaniards in general &quot; children of the 

 Sun,&quot; 011 reading that &quot; child of the Sun &quot; was a compli 

 mentary name given to any one particularly clever in Peru, 

 where the Yncas, regarded as descendants of the Sun, suc 

 cessively enjoyed a title hence derived; we are enabled to 

 understand how &quot; Son of the Sun &quot; came to be a title borne 

 by the successive Egyptian kings, joined with proper names 

 individually distinctive of them. In elucidation of this as 

 well as of sundry other points, let me add an account of a 

 reception at the court of Burmah which has occurred since 

 the foregoing sentences were first published: 



&quot;A herald lying on his stomach read aloud my credentials. The 

 literal translation is as follows: So-and-So, a great newspaper teach 

 er of the Daily News of London, tenders to his Most Glorious Excel 

 lent Majesty, Lord of the Ishaddan, King of Elephants, master of 

 many white elephants, lord of the mines of gold, silver, rubies, am 

 ber, and the noble serpentine, Sovereign of the Empires of Thuna- 



