When “Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill and under every tree,” the object was Bal, and the pillar (the lingam) was his symbol. It was on his altar they burned incense, and “sacrificed unto the calf on the fifteenth[2.6.109] day of the month” (the sacred Amavas of the Hindus). The calf of Israel is the bull (_nandi_) of Balkesar or Iswara; the Apis of the Egyptian Osiris [80]. =Sacred Trees.=—The ash was sacred to the sun-god in the west. The asvattha (or pipal)[2.6.110] is the ‘chief of trees,’ say the books sacred to Bal in the East: and death, or loss of limb, is incurred by the sacrilegious mutilator of his consecrated groves,[2.6.111] where a pillar is raised bearing the inhibitory edict. We shall here conclude the analogy between the Indo-Scythic Rajput races and those of early Europe. Much more might be adduced; the old Runic characters of Scandinavia, the Celtic, and the Osci or Etruscan, might, by comparison with those found in the cave temples and rocks in Rajasthan and Saurashtra, yield yet more important evidence of original similarity; and the very name of German (from wer, _bellum_)[2.6.112] might be found to be derived from the _feud_ (_vair_) and _foe-man_ (_vairi_) of the Rajput. If these coincidences are merely accidental, then has too much been already said; if not, authorities are here recorded, and hypotheses founded, for the assistance of others [81]. ----- Footnote 2.6.1: Query, if from Mogol and Aghuz, compounded, we have not the Magog, son of Japhet, of Scripture? Footnote 2.6.2: The other four sons are the remaining elements, personified: whence the six races of Tatars. The Hindus had long but two races, till the four Agnikula made them also six, and now thirty-six! Footnote 2.6.3: In Tatar, according to Abulghazi, the sun and moon. Footnote 2.6.4: De Guignes. Footnote 2.6.5: Sir W. Jones says the Chinese assert their Hindu origin; but a comparison proves both these Indu races to be of Scythic origin. [Yadu was son of Yayāti, and Haya was Yadu’s grandson, not son. The comparison of Mongol with Hindu tradition is of no value.] Footnote 2.6.6: [For the Mongol genealogy see Howorth, _History of the Mongols_, Part i. 35. Abu-l Fazl (_Akbarnāma_, trans. H. Beveridge, i. 171 f.) gives the names as follows: Aghūz Khān, whose sons were—Kūn (Sun); Ai (Moon); Yūlduz (Star); Kok or Gok (Sky); Tāgh (Mountain); Tangīz (Sky)]. Footnote 2.6.7: Naga and Takshak are Sanskrit names for a snake or serpent, the emblem of Budha or Mercury. The Naga race, so well known to India, the Takshaks or Takiuks of Scythia, invaded India about six centuries before Christ. Footnote 2.6.8: De Guignes, _Sur les Dynasties des Huns_, vol. i. p. 7. Footnote 2.6.9: Nearly the calculated period from the Puranas. Footnote 2.6.10: