_Bacon_, radically _bac_, in neighbouring tongues varies into _baco_, _bakke_, _bak_, and _bache_. Bacon is a family name immortally associated with St. Albans, and it is probable that Trebiggan--a vast man with arms so long that he could take men out of the ships passing by Land's End, and place them on the Long Ships--was the Eternal Biggan or Beginning. In British Romance there figures a mystic Lady Tryamour, whose name is obviously _Tri_ or _Three Love_, and it is probable that Giant Trebiggan was the pagan Trinity, or Triton, whose emblem was the three-spiked trident. Triton _alias_ Neptune was the reputed Father of Giant Albion, and the shell-haired deity represented on Figs. 62 to 64 is probably Albon, for the inscription in Iberian characters reads BLBAN. In the East Bel was a generic term meaning _lord_: in the West it seemingly meant, just as it does to-day, _fine_ or _beautiful_. The city of BLBAN or _beautiful Ban_ is now Bilbao, and the three fish on this coin are analogous to the trident, and to numberless other emblems of the Triune. The radiating fan of the cockle shell connects it with the Corn-cockle as the Dawn, standing jocund on the misty mountain tops, is related to the flaming midday Sun. All _conchas_, particularly the _echinea_ or "St. Cuthbert's Bead," were symbols of St. Katherine or Cuddy, and in Art St. Jacques or St. Jack was always represented with a shell. _Coquille_, the French for shell, is the same word as _goggle_, and in England the _cockle_ was popularly connected with a strange custom known as Hot Cockles or Cockle Bread. Full particulars of this practice are given by Hazlitt, who observes: "I entertain a conviction that with respect to these hot cockles, and likewise to leap-candle, we are merely on the threshhold of the enquiry ... the question stands at present much as if one had picked up by accident the husk of some lost substance.... Speaking conjecturally, but with certain sidelights to encourage, this seems a case of the insensible degradation of rite into custom."[275] Shells are one of the most common deposits in prehistoric graves, and at Boston in Lincolnshire stone coffins have been found completely filled with cockle-shells. There would thus seem to be some connection between Ickanhoe, the ancient name for Boston, a town of the Iceni, situated on the Ichenield Way, and the _echinea_ or _concha_. As the cockle was particularly the symbol of Birth, the presence of these shells in coffins may be attributed to a hope of New Birth and a belief that Death was the _yoni_ or Gate of Life.