Peg or Peggy is the same word as _pig_, and it is generally supposed that the pig was regarded as an incarnation of the "Man in the Oak," _i.e._, Puck or Buck, because the _bacco_ or _bacon_ lived on acorns. There is little doubt that the Saint Baccho of the Church Calendar is connected with the worship of the earlier Bacchus, for the date of St. Baccho's festival coincides with the vintage festival of Bacchus. The symbolism of the pig or bacco will be discussed in a subsequent chapter, meanwhile one may here note that _hog_ is the same as _oak_, and _swine_ is identical with _swan_. So also _Meg_ is connected with _muc_ or _moch_ which were the Celtic terms for _hog_. Among the appellations of ancient Ireland was Muc Inis,[266] or Hog Island and Moccus, or the pig, was one of the Celtic sobriquets for Mercury. The Druids termed themselves "_Swine of Mon_,"[267] the Phoenician priests were also self-styled _Swine_, and there is a Welsh poem in which the bard's opening advice to his disciples is--"Give ear little pigs". The pig figures so frequently upon Gaulish coins that M. de la Saussaye supposed it with great reason to have been a national symbol. That the hog was also a venerated British emblem is evident from the coins here illustrated, and that CUNO was the Spook King is obvious from Figs. 52 and 57, where the features face fore and aft like those of Janus. The word Cunobeline, Cunbelin, or Cymbeline, described by the dictionaries as a Cornish name meaning "lord of the Sun," is composed seemingly of _King Belin_. Belin, a title of the Sun God, is found also in Gaul, notably on the coinage of the Belindi: Belin is featured as in Fig. 58, and that the sacred Horse of Belin was associated with the _ded_ pillar is evident from Fig. 59. [Illustration: FIGS. 52 to 57.--British. From _Ancient Coins_ (Akerman, J. Y.).] [Illustration: FIGS. 58 to 59.--Gaulish. From _ibid_.] Commenting upon Fig. 52 a numismatist has observed: "This seems made for two young women's faces," but whether Cunobelin's wives, sisters, or children, he knows not. In Britain doubtless there were many kings who assumed the title of Cunobelin, just as in Egypt there were many Pharoahs; but it is no more rational to suppose that the designs on ancient coins are the portraits of historic kings, their wives, their sisters, their cousins, or their aunts, than it would be for an archæologist to imagine that the dragon incident on our modern sovereigns was an episode in the career of his present Majesty King George. We shall subsequently connect George, whose name means _ploughman_, with the Blue or Celestial Boar, which, because it ploughed with its snout along the earth, was termed _boar, i.e., boer_ or farmer. With _bacco_ or _bacon_ may be connoted _boukolos_, the Greek for cowherd, whence _bucolic_. The cattle of Apollo, or the Sun, are a familiar feature of Greek mythology. [Illustration: FIG. 60.--Gaulish. From Akerman.]