There is a river Roden at Wroxeter, a river Roding in Essex; Yorkshire is divided into three divisions called Ridings, and in East Riding, in the churchyard of the village of Rudstone, there stands a celebrated monolith which is peculiar inasmuch as its depth underground was said to equal its height above.[465] There is another Rudstone near Reading Street, Kent, and the Givon's Grove near Epsom is either in or immediately adjacent to a district known as Wrydelands. To _ride_ was once presumably to play the rôle of the Kentaur Queen, whether _equine_ as represented in the Coventry Festival or as riding in a triumphal _biga_, _rhod_, _wain_ or _wagon_. That such riding was once a special privilege is obvious from the statement of Tacitus: "She claimed a right to be conveyed in her carriage to the Capitol; a right by ancient usage allowed only to the sacerdotal order, the vestal virgins, and the statues of the gods".[466] That the Lady of Coventry was the Coun or Queen is possibly implied by the _Coun_don within the borough of modern Coventry which also embraces a Foleshill,[467] and Radford. The coins of the Gaulish Rotomagi, whose headquarters were the Rouen district, depict the horse not merely cantering but galloping apace, whence obviously the Rotomagi were an equine or Ecuina people. With their coins inscribed Ratumacos may be compared the coinage of the Batavian Magusæ which depicts "a sea horse to the right," and is inscribed MAGUS.[468] Magus, as we have seen, was a title of the Wandering Geho, Jehu, or Jew, and he may here be connoted with the "Splendid Mane" which figures under the name Magu, particularly in Slav fairy-tale:-- Magu, Horse with Golden Mane, I want your help yet once again, Walk not the earth but fly through space As lightnings flash and thunders roll, Swift as the arrow from the bow Come quick, yet so that none may know.[469] [Illustration: FIGS. 259 and 260.--Gaulish. From Akerman.] The French _roue_ meaning a wheel, and _rue_, a roadway, are probably not decayed forms of the Latin _rota_ but _ruder_, more _rudimentary_, and more _radical_: like the Candian Rhea, the Egyptian Ra or Re, and our _ray_, they are probably the Irish _rhi_, the Spanish _rey_, and the French _roi_.