Among the Basques of Spain _jaun_ meant lord or master; in British _chun_ or _cun_ meant _mighty chief_,[107] whence it is probable that the name Tarchon meant _Eternal Chief_ or _Eternal Lord_, and this anonymity would accord with the custom which most anciently prevailed at Dodona. "In early times," says Herodotus, "the Pelasgi, as I know by information which I got at Dodona, offered sacrifices of all kinds and prayed to the gods, but had no distinct names and appellations for them, since they had never heard of any. They called them gods (_theoi_) because they had disposed and arranged all things in such a beautiful order."[108] The eternal Chon or Jonn of Etruria may be recognised Latinised in Janus, the most ancient deity of Rome or _Jan_icula, and we may perhaps find him not only in John of Cornwall but among the innumerable Jones of Wales. The Ionians or Greeks of Ionia worshipped _Ione_, the Holy Dove, whence they are said to have derived their title. In Greek, _ione_, in Hebrew, _juneh_, means a _dove_, and the Scotch island of Iona is indelibly permeated with stories and traditions of St. Columba or Columbkille, the Little Dove of the Church. The dove was the immemorial symbol of Rhea, and it is highly probable that it was originally connected with the place-name Reculver, of which the root is unknown, but "has been influenced by Old English _culfre_, _culver_, a culver dove or wood pigeon".[109] In Cornwall there is a St. Columb Major and St. Columb Minor, where the dedication is to a virgin of this name, and on the coast of Thanet the shoal now called Columbine, considered in conjunction with the neighbouring place-names Roas Bank and Rayham, may be assumed to be connected with Rhea's sacred Columbine or Little Dove. A neighbouring spit is marked Cheney Spit, and close at hand are Cheyney Rocks. There is thus some probability that Great Cheyne Court, Little Cheyne Court, Old Cheyne Court, New Cheyne Court, and the Kentish surname Joynson have all relation to the mysterious ruin "Trojans or Jews Hall". [Illustration: FIG. 10.--From _Nineveh_ (Layard).] [Illustration: FIG. 11.--From _The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_ (Dennis, G.).] Fig. 11 shows the Goddess of Etruria holding her symbolic _columba_, in Fig. 10, the same emblem worshipped in Assyria is being carried with pomp and circumstance, and Fig. 12 shows the columba, _tur_tle, or _tor_tora, being similarly honoured in Western Europe. "Throughout the Ægean," says Prof. Burrows, "we see traces of the Minoan Empire, in one of the most permanent of all traditions the survival of a place-name; the word Minoa, wherever it occurs, must mark a fortress or trading station of the Great King as surely as the Alexandrias, or Antiochs, or Cæsareas of later days."[110] [Illustration: FIG. 12.--From _The Everyday Book_ (Hone, W.).]