The Sun-god (Kan, according to Diodorus) is the Minos of the Egyptians. The hieroglyphics at Turin represent him with the head of an ibis, or eagle, with an altar before him, on which a shade places his offerings, namely, a goose, cakes of bread, and flowers of the lotus, and awaits in humble attitude his doom. In Sanskrit the same word means _soul_, _goose_, and _swan_ [?], and the Hindu poet is always punning upon it; though it might be deemed a levity to represent the immaterial portion under so unclassical an emblem. The lotus flowers are alike sacred to the Kan of the Egyptians as to Kanhaiya the mediator of the Hindus, and both are painted blue and bird-headed. The claims of Kanhaiya (contracted Kan) as the sun divinity of the Hindus will be abundantly illustrated in the account of the festivals. [The above theories are obsolete.] Footnote 4.20.28: I do not mean to derive any aid from the resemblance of names, which is here merely accidental. [Nonīta probably = _Navanīta_, ‘fresh butter,’ a dairy god (Macdonell-Keith, _Vedic Index_, i. 437).] Footnote 4.20.29: When I heard the octogenarian ruler of Kotah ask his grandson, “Bapalal, have you been tending the cows to-day?” my surprise was converted into pleasure on the origin of the custom being thus classically explained. Footnote 4.20.30: From _chha_, ‘six,’ and _tar_, ‘a string or wire.’ Footnote 4.20.31: Strabo says the Greeks consider music as originating from Thrace and Asia, of which countries were Orpheus, Musaeus, etc.; and that others “who regard all Asia, as far as India, as a country sacred to Dionysus (Bacchus), attribute to that country the invention of nearly all the science of music. We perceive them sometimes describing the cithara of the Asiatic, and sometimes applying to flutes the epithet of Phrygian. The names of certain instruments, such as the _nabla_, and others likewise, are taken from barbarous tongues.” This _nabla_ of Strabo is possibly the _tabla_, the small tabor of India. If Strabo took his orthography from the Persian or Arabic, a single point would constitute the difference between the _N_ (ن) and the _T_ (ﺕ). [The Arabic _tabl_, _tabla_, has no connexion with Greek νάβλα, Hebrew _nevel_.] Footnote 4.20.32: