Ked, or Ket, was originally (in all probability) the moon. Kits Cotty 
House, at Aylesbury, had probably the same double purpose of tomb and 
sanctuary. 
The temple of “ the White Lady ” (Cerid-wen), consisting of a tumulus 
and ruined walls, is held sacred by the tribes of the Kirghis, and it is 
said that no animal ever entered its sacred precinct and lived. — See Atkinson, 
Upper and Lower Amoor, p. 151. 
(I.) 
Copper and iron were the earliest metals known, or brought into use by 
the human family ; but till comparatively recently, iron was too scarce and 
of too costly manufacture to take its legitimate place of utility in reference 
to the ordinary uses of civilized life. In Egypt it was long an article of 
luxury, and in the neighbouring nations we are informed of a similar state of 
things. Thus, whilst the Philistines bound * Sampson with fetters of copper, 
the Canaanites had chariots of iron (Josh. xvii. 1C). A bow of steel is 
* We read at a latter period, that Zedekiah met with like treatment 
from the King of Babylon. 
