The word _inimical_ implies _un-amicable_, or unfriendly, whence Michael was seemingly the Friend of Man. _Maculate_ means spotted, and the coins here illustrated, believed to have been minted at St. Albans, obviously feature no physical King but rather the Kaadman or Good Man of St. Albans in his dual aspect of age and youth. The starry, spotted, or maculate effigy is apparently an attempt to depict the astral or spiritual King, for it was an ancient idea that the spirit-body and the spirit-world were made of a so-called stellar-matter--a notion which has recently been revived by the Theosophists who speak of the astral body and the astral plane. Our modern _breath_, old English _breeth_, is evidently the Welsh _brith_ which means spotted, and it is to this root that Sir John Rhys attributes the term Brython or Britain, finding in it a reference to that painting or tattooing of the body which distinguished the Picts.[276] The word _tattoo_, Maori _tatau_, is the Celtic _tata_ meaning father, and the implication seems to follow that the custom of _tattooing_ arose from picking, dotting, or maculating the tribal totem or caste-mark. [Illustration: FIGS. 65 and 66.--British. From Akerman.] In the Old English representation here illustrated either St. Peter or God the Father is conspicuously tattooed or spotted; Pan was always assigned a _pan_ther's skin, or spotted cloak. A _speck_ is a minute spot, and among the ancients a speck or dot within a circle was the symbol of the central Spook or Spectre. This, like all other emblems, was understood in a personal and a cosmic sense, the little speck and circle representing the soul surrounded by its round of influence and duties; the Cosmic speck, the Supreme Spirit, and the circle the entire Universe. In many instances the dot and ring seems to have stood for the pupil in the iris of the eye. In addition it is evident that [circled dot] was an emblem of the Breast, and hieroglyphed the speck in the centre of the zone or sein, for the Greek letter _theta_ written--[circled dot] is identical with _teta, teat, tada, dot_ or _dad_. The dotted effigy on the coins supposedly minted at St. Albans may be connoted with the curious fact that in Welsh the word _alban_ meant _a primary point_.[277] [Illustration: Fig. 67.--Christ's Ascent from Hell. From _Ancient Mysteries_ (Hone, W.).]