The ancients supposed that the world was shaped like a bun, and they imagined it as supported by the tet or pillar of the Almighty. It is therefore possible that the Toadstool or Mushroom derived its name not because toads never sit upon it, but because it was held to be a perfect emblem of the earth. In some districts the Mushroom is named "Pooka's foot,"[283] and as the earth is proverbially God's footstool, the Toad-stool was held seemingly to be the stool of earth supported on the _ded_, or pillar of Titan. The Fairy Titania, who probably once held sway in Tottenham Court Road, may be connoted with the French _teton_, a teat; _tetine_, an udder; _teter_, to milk; and _tetin_, a nipple. [Illustration: FIG. 89.--From _Christian Iconography_ (Didron).] [Illustration: FIG. 90.--The Spirit of Youth. From a French Miniature of the fourteenth century. From _Christian Iconography_ (Didron).] It is probable that "The Five Wells" at Taddington, "the Five Kings at Doddington," where also is "the Duddo Stone," likewise Dod Law at Doddington; Dowdeswell, Dudsbury, and the Cornish Dodman, are all referable originally to the fairy Titan or the celestial Daddy. [Illustration: FIG. 91.--From _Christian Iconography_ (Didron).] In accordance with universal wont this Titan or Almighty, "this senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid," was conceived as anon a tiny toddling tot or Tom-tit-tot, anon as Old Tithonus, the doddering dotard: the Swedish for _death_ or _dead_ is _dod_; the German is _tod_. _Tod_ is an English term for a fox, and Thot was the fox or _jackal_-headed maker-of-tracts or guide: thought is invariably the guide to every action, and Divine Thought is the final bar to which the human soul comes up for judgment. It has already been seen that in Europe the holder of the sword and scales was Michael, and there is reason to suppose that the Dog-headed titanic Christopher, who is said to have ferried travellers _pick-a-back_ across a river, was at one time an exquisite conception of Great Puck or Father Death carrying his children over the mystic river. By the _pagans_--the unsophisticated villagers among whom Pucca mostly survived--Death was conceived as not invariably or necessarily frightful, but sometimes as a lovely youth. In Fig. 91 Death is Amor or Young Love, and in Fig. 90 an angel occupies the place of Giant Christopher: the words _death_ and _dead_ are identical with _dad_ and _tod_. [Illustration: FIG. 92.--Figure of Christ, beardless. Roman Sculpture of the IV. cent. From _Christian Iconography_ (Didron).] [Illustration: FIG. 93.--Iberian. From Akerman.] [Illustration: FIG. 94.--From _Christian Iconography_ (Didron).]