2. The Chinese account of the birth of Yu (Ayu), their first monarch. “A star[2.6.8] (Mercury or Fo) struck his mother while journeying. She conceived, and gave to the world Yu, the founder of the first dynasty which reigned in China. Yu divided China into nine provinces, and began to reign 2207[2.6.9] years before Christ” [58]. Thus the Ai of the Tatars, the Yu of the Chinese, and the Ayus of the Puranas, evidently indicate the great Indu (Lunar) progenitor of the three races. Budha (Mercury), the son of Indu (the moon), became the patriarchal and spiritual leader; as Fo, in China; Woden and Teutates,[2.6.10] of the tribes migrating to Europe. Hence it follows that the religion of Buddha must be coeval with the existence of these nations; that it was brought into India Proper by them, and guided them until the schism of Krishna and the Suryas, worshippers of Bal, in time depressed them, when the Buddha religion was modified into its present mild form, the Jain.[2.6.11] =Scythian Traditions.=—Let us contrast with these the origin of the Scythic nations, as related by Diodorus;[2.6.12] when it will be observed the same legends were known to him which have been handed down by the Puranas and Abulghazi. "The Scythians had their first abodes on the Araxes.[2.6.13] Their origin was from a virgin born of the earth[2.6.14] of the shape of a woman from the waist upwards, and below a serpent (symbol of Budha or Mercury); that Jupiter had a son by her, named Scythes,[2.6.15] whose name the nation adopted. Scythes had two sons, Palas and Napas (_qu._ the Nagas, or Snake race, of the Tatar genealogy?), who were celebrated for their great actions, and who divided the countries; and the nations were called after them, the Palians (_qu._ Pali?)[2.6.16] and Napians. They led their forces as far as the Nile on Egypt, and subdued many nations. They enlarged the empire of the Scythians as far as the Eastern ocean, and to the Caspian and lake Moeotis. The nation had many kings, from whom the Sacans (_Sakae_), the Massagetae (_Getae_ or _Jats_), the Ari-aspians (_Aswas_ of Aria), and many other races. They overran Assyria and Media[2.6.17] [59], overturning the empire, and transplanting the inhabitants to the Araxes under the name of Sauro-Matians."[2.6.18] As the Sakae, Getae, Aswa, and Takshak are names which have crept in amongst our thirty-six royal races, common with others also to early civilization in Europe, let us seek further ancient authority on the original abodes.