Odin is also called _As_ or ‘lord’; the Gauls also called him Oes or Es, and with a Latin termination Hesus, whom Lucan calls Esus; Edda, vol. ii. pp. 45-6. The celebrated translator of these invaluable remnants of ancient superstitions, by which alone light can be thrown on the origin of nations, observes that Es or Oes is the name for God with all the Celtic races. So it was with the Tuscans, doubtless from the Sanskrit, or rather from a more provincial tongue, the common contraction of Iswara, the Egyptian Osiris, the Persian Syr, the sun-god. [These words have, of course, no connexion. Syria perhaps derives its name from the Suri, a north-Euphratian tribe (_Encyclopaedia Biblica_, iv. 4845).] Footnote 4.21.20: Which Mallet, from Hesychius, interprets ‘good star.’ [The name Goetosyrus or Octosyrus (Herodotus iv. 59) is so uncertain in form that it is useless to propose etymologies for it (E. H. Minns, _Scythians and Greeks_, 86). Rawlinson (_Herodotus_, 3rd ed. ii. 93) compares Greek αἴθος, Skt. _sūrya_, in the sense ‘bright, burning Sun.’] Footnote 4.21.21: Mallet’s _Northern Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 42. Footnote 4.21.22: [Much of this is from Sir W. Jones, Wilford and Paterson (_Asiatic Researches_, i. 253, iii. 141, viii. 48). Herodotus (i. 216) ascribes the custom of Sun sacrifice to the Massagetae.] Footnote 4.21.23: [The Mughal emperors followed the same practice (Manucci i. 98).] Footnote 4.21.24: In his delight for this diversion, the Rajput evinces his Scythic propensity. The grand hunts of the last Chauhan emperor often led him into warfare, for Prithiraj was a poacher of the first magnitude, and one of his battles with the Tatars was while engaged in field sports on the Ravi. The heir of Jenghiz Khan was chief huntsman, the highest office of the State amongst the Scythic Tatars; as Ajanbahu, alike celebrated in either field of war and sport, was chief huntsman to the Chauhan emperor of Delhi, whose bard enters minutely into the subject, describing all the variety of dogs of chase. Footnote 4.21.25: A hog in Hindi; in Persian _khuk_, nearly our _hog_ [?]. Footnote 4.21.26: Chief of Salumbar. Footnote 4.21.27: Chief of Hamirgarh. Footnote 4.21.28: [On the slaughter of the boar representing a corn-spirit see Sir J. Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, 3rd ed. Part v. vol. i. 298 ff.; Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, 2nd ed. 290 f.] Footnote 4.21.29: He has been the father of more than one hundred children, legitimate and illegitimate, though very few are living. Footnote 4.21.30: