[338] Of the Teutonic _Tiw_, Dr. Taylor observes: "This word was used as the name of the Deity by all the Aryan nations. The Sanskrit _deva_, the Greek _theos_, the Latin _deus_, the Lithuanian _dewas_, the Erse _dia_, and the Welsh _dew_ are all identical in meaning. The etymology of the word seems to point to the corruption of a pure monotheistic faith." In Chaldaic and in Hebrew _di_ meant the Omnipotent, in Irish _de_ meant _goddess_, and in Cornish _da_ or _ta_ meant _good_. From the elementary form _de_, _di_, or _da_, one traces ramifications such as the Celtic _dia_ or _duw_ meaning a _god_. In Sanskrit Dya was the bright heavenly deity who may be equated with the Teutonic _Tiu_, whence our Tuesday, and with the Sanskrit Dyaus, which is equivalent to the Greek Zeus. The same radical _d_' is the base of _dies_, and of _dieu_; of _div_ the Armenian for _day_; of _div_ the Sanskrit for _shine_; of _Diva_ the Sanskrit for _day_. Our ancestors used to believe that the river Deva or Dee sprang from two sources, and that after a very short course its waters passed entire and unmixed through a large lake carrying out the same quantity of water that it brought in. The word "Dee" seems widely and almost universally to have meant _good_ or _divine_, and it may no doubt be equated with the "Saint Day" who figures so prominently in place-names, and the Christian Calendar. [339] Hone, W., _Everyday Book_, i., 1118. [340] _Ancient Coins_, p. 3. [341] Lardner, D., _History of Spain and Portugal_, vol. i, p. 18. [342] _Ibid._, p. 13. [343] _Ibid._, p. 6. [344] Macalister, R. A. S., _Proc. Roy. Ir. Acad._, xxxiv., C., 10-11. [345] Mann, L. M., _Archaic Sculpturings_, p. 34. [346] _Wild Wales_ (Everyman's Library), p. 258. [347] Keightley, _Fairy Mythology_, p. 523. [348] Bell's _Travels_, i., 248. [349] _Cf._ Guest, Dr., _Origines Celticæ_, i., 61. [350] Bellot, H. H. L., _The Temple_, p. 12. [351] That there is nothing far-fetched in this possibility is proved by a Vedic Hymn _circa_ 2500 B.C.: "Enter, O lifeless one, the mother earth, the widespread earth, soft as a maiden in her arms rest free from sin. Let now the earth gently close around you even as a mother gently wraps her infant child in soft robes. Let now the fathers keep safe thy resting-place, and let Yama, the first mortal who passed the portals of Death, prepare thee for a new abiding place." [352] Near Land's End is _Bar_tinny or _Per_tinny, which is understood to have meant _Hill of the Fire_.