_queen_ is derived by our dictionaries from the Greek _gyne_, a woman, or the Sanscrit _jani_, "all from root _gan_, to produce, from which are _genus_, _kin_, _king_, etc." The word _chen_ in Cornish meant _cause_, and there is no doubt a connection between this term and _kyn_, the Cornish for _prince_; the connection, however, is principally in the second syllable, and I see no reason to doubt my previous conclusions formulated elsewhere, that _kyn_ or _king_ originally meant _great one_, or _high one_, whereas _chun_, _jani_, _gyne_, etc., meant _aged_ one. One of the first kings of the Isle of Man was Hacon or Hakon, a name which the dictionaries define as having meant _high kin_. In this etymology _ha_ is evidently equated with _high_ and _con_ or _kon_ with _kin_, but it is equally likely that Hakon or Haakon meant originally _uch on_ the _high one_. In Cornish the adjective _ughan_ or _aughan_ meant _supreme_: the Icelandic for queen is _kona_, and there is no more radical distinction between _king_ and the disyllabic _kween_, than there is between the Christian names _Ion_, _Ian_, and the monosyllabic _Han_. _Janaka_, the Sanscrit for _father_, is seemingly allied to the English adjective _jannock_ or _jonnack_, which may be equated more or less with _canny_. _Un_canny means something unwholesome, unpleasant, disagreeable; in Cornish _cun_ meant _sweet_ or affable, and we still speak of sweets as _candies_. [Illustration: FIG. 51.--From _The Sepulchres of Etruria_ (Gray, Mrs. Hamilton).] In Gaelic _cenn_ or _ken_ meant _head_, the highest peak in the Himalayas is Mount Kun; one of the supreme summits of Africa is Mount Kenia, and in _Genesis_ (14-19) the Hebrew word _Konah_ is translated into English as "the Most High God". Of this Supreme Sprite the _cone_ or pyramid was a symbol, and the reverence in which this form was held at Albano in Etruria may be estimated from the monument here depicted.[262] In times gone by khans, _cuns_, or kings were not only deemed to be moral and intellectual gods, but in some localities bigness of person was cultivated. The Maoris of New Zealand, whose tattooings are identical in certain respects with the complicated spirals found on megaliths in Brittany and Ireland, and who in all their wide wanderings have carried with them a totemic dove, used to believe bigness to be a royal essence. "Every means were used to acquire this dignity; a large person was thought to be of the highest importance; to acquire this extra size, the child of a chief was generally provided with many nurses, each contributing to his support by robbing their own offspring of their natural sustenance; thus, whilst they were half-starved, miserable-looking little creatures, the chief's child was the contrary, and early became remarkable by its good appearance."[263]