In a subsequent chapter we shall analyse _goose_ into _ag'oos_, the Mighty _Ooze_, whence the ancients scientifically supposed all life to have originated, and shall equate _ooze_ with _hoes_, the Welsh word for _life_, and with _Ouse_ or _Oise_, a generic British river name. In _huss_, the German for _goose_, we may recognise the _oose_ without its adjectival '_g_'. With the Blind Old Bard of Chios may be connoted the Cornish longstone known as "The Old Man,"[246] or "The Fiddler," also a second longstone known as "The Blind Fiddler".[247] In _because_ or _by cause_ we pronounce _cause_ "_koz_," and in Slav fairy-tales as elsewhere there is frequent mention of an Enchanter entitled _Kostey_, whose strength and vitality lay in a monstrous egg. The name _Kostey_ may be connoted with _Cystennyns_,[248] an old Cornish and Welsh form of Constantine: at the village of Constantine in Cornwall there is what Borlase describes as a vast egg-like stone placed on the points of two natural rocks, and pointing due North and South. This Tolmen or Meantol--"an egg-shaped block of granite _thirty-three_ feet long, and _eighteen_ feet broad, supposed by some antiquaries to be Druidical, is here on a barren hill 690 feet high".[249] The Greek for egg is _oon_, and our _egg_ may be connoted not only with _Echo_--the supposed voice of Ech?--but also with _egg_, meaning to urge on, to instigate, to vitalise, or render agog. The acorn is an egg within a cup, and the Danish form of _oak_ is _eeg_ or _eg_: the oak tree was pre-eminently the symbol of the Most High, and the German _eiche_ may be connoted with _uch_ the British for high. The Druids paid a reverential homage to the oak, worshipping under its form the god Teut or Teutates: this latter word is understood to have meant "the god of the people,"[250] and the term _teut_ is apparently the French _tout_, meaning _all_ or the total. The reason suggested by Sir James Frazer for oak-worship is the fact that the Monarch of the Forest was struck more frequently by lightning than any meaner tree, and that therefore it was deemed to be the favoured one of the Fire god. But to rive one's best beloved with a thunderbolt is a more peculiar and even better dissembled token of affection than the celebrated kicking-down-stairs. According to the author of _The Language and Sentiment of Flowers_[251] the oak was consecrated to Jupiter because it had sheltered him at his birth on Mount Lycaeus; hence it was regarded as the emblem of hospitality, and to give an oak branch was equivalent to "You are welcome". That the oak tree was originally a Food provider or _Feed for all_ is implied by the words addressed to the Queen of Heaven by Apuleus in _The Golden Ass_: "Thou who didst banish the savage nutriment of the ancient acorn, and pointing out a better food, dost, etc."