* Agdus, Agdistis, &c--I am frequently tempted, after reading a story like the preceding, to search in the Sanscrit lexicon to ascertain if there can be any esoteric signification in the legend that can be explained by that ancient language. Arnobius opens the story with a statement of the remote antiquity of the tale, and how it is connected with the Great Mother. He then tells of a wild district in Phrygia, called Agdus. Stoaes taken from it, as Themis had enjoined, were used by Deucalion and Pyrrha to repeople the world which had been destroyed by a flood. The great mother was fashioned amongst the rest, and animated by the deity; then follows the story given in the text. Now, in the Sanscrit, Agadha signifies a "hole or chasm," and such things have from the earliest times typified the Celestial Mother. Agdistis I take to be a Greek form of Agasti--son both of Mitra and Varuna by Urvasi, said to have been born in a water-jar, to have swallowed the ocean, and compelled the Vindhya mountains to prostrate themselves before him, &c. (Monier Williams' Sanskrit English Lexicon, pp. 4, 6). Themis may be a corruption of Dhamas--the moon, an epithet of Vishnu, Yama, and Brahma; also the Supreme Spirit (M. W. op. cit., p. 448). Deucalion seems readily to be resolved into the dyu or div--holy, and Kalam, semen virile (M. W., p. 211). Pyrrha may apparently be derived from bdra--an opening or aperture (M. W.); also bhdra--bearing, carrying, cherishing, supporting (M. W., p. 700). Atys, described as of surpassing beauty, may fairly be associated with atisi and atisaya--to surpass, excel, exceed; and pre-eminence, superiority (M. W., op. cit., p. 15). Liber, again, who is clever enough to outwit and conquer Agdistis, may, without too strong a stretch of imagination, come from Idbha-- obtaining, gaining, getting; capture, conquest; the rootword is labh--to seize, to take hold of, gain, recover, regain, fcc. (M. W., p. 861, 2). Nana, the mother of Atys the beautiful, has probably come from nanda--happiness, pleasure, joy, felicity, delight (M. W., op. cit. p. 467). In the previous volumes I have referred to the pomegranate-- Hebrew, Rimmon--as an emblem. In the legend which makes Nana conceive by eating this fruit, there are, I fancy, two ideas--one, that the pomegranate is filled with seeds and pulp of a red colour; the other, that in the Greek its name is rota, or roa, which has a close resemblance in sound with reo--to flow or gush. Of the word Midas--the name of him who sought to bring about the union of the opposite sexes by marrying his daughter Nana to Attis or Atys, the most appropriate etymon which I can find in the Sanscrit is in the root math, which signifies to strike fire by rubbing