In Mid-Wales _ague_ is known as _y wrach_, which means the hag or the old hag; the notion being that _ague_ (and all _aches_?) were smitings of the ugly old Hag, or "awd Goggie". Various indications seem to point to the conclusion that the aboriginal "bedrock" Og or Gog was a Tyrian or Turanian Deity, and that in the eyes of the Hellenes and Trojans anything to do with Og was _ug_ly, _i.e._, Ug-like and _ug_some. In the county of Fife the last night of the dying year used to be known as Singin-e'en, a designation which is connected with the carols sung on that occasion. But _Singin_ may, and in all probability did, mean Sinjohn, for the Celtic _Geon_ or _giant_ was Ogmius the Mighty Muse, and _chant_ing was attributed to this world-enchanter. As already seen he was pictured leading the children of men tongue-tied by his eloquence, and it is not improbable that Ogmius is equivalent to Mighty Muse, for _muse_ in Greek is _mousa_. According to Assyrian mythology the God of wondrous and enchanting Wisdom rose daily from the sea and was named Oannes--obviously a Hellenised form of John or Yan. Among the Aryan nations _an_ meant mind, and this term is clearly responsible for _inane_ or without _ane_. The dictionaries attribute _inane_ to a "root unknown," but the same root is at the base of _anima_, the soul, whence _animate_ or living. Oannes, who was evidently the Great Acumen or Almighty Mind is said to have emerged daily from the ocean in order to instruct mankind, and he may be connoted with the Hebridian sea-god Shony. In the image of the benevolent Oannes reproduced overleaf it will be noted he is crowned with the cross of Allbein or All Well. In Brittany there are legends of a sea-maid of enchanting song, and wondrous acumen named Mary Morgan, and this _incantatrice_ corresponds to Morgan le fay or Morgiana. The Welsh for Mary is Fair, and the fairies of Celtic countries were known as the Mairies,[210] whence "Mary Morgan" was no doubt "Fairy Morgan". In Celtic _mor_ or _mawr_ also meant big, whence Morgan may be equated with _big gan_ and Morgiana with either Big Jane or Fairy Giana. This fairy Big _gyne_ or Big _woman_ was known alternatively in the East as _Merjan Banou_ and in Italy as Fata or Maga. It is authoritatively assumed that the word _cogitate_ is from _co_ "together" and _agere_ "to drive," but "driving together" is not cogitation. The root _cog_ which occurs in _cogent_, _cogitate_, _cognisance_, and _cognition_ is more probably an implication that Gog like Oannes was deemed to be the Lord of the Deep wisdom: Gog, in fact, stands to Oannes or Yan in the same relation as Jack stands to John: the one is seemingly a synonym for the other. [Illustration: FIGS. 46 and 47.--From _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_ (Baring-Gould).]