Among the monkish loot at St. Albans was an ancient cameo herewith reproduced. This particular jewel was supposed to be of great efficacy and was entitled _Kaadman_; "perhaps," suggests Wright, "another mode of spelling _cadmeus_ or _cameus_". But in view of the fact that Alban means _all good_, it was more probably the picture of a sacred figure which the natives recognised as the original Kaadman, _i.e., Guidman_ or the Good Man.[131] The jewels found at St. Albans being unquestionably Gnostic it is quite within the bounds of probability that the Kaadman seal was an "idol" of what the Gnostics entitled Adam Caedmon or Adam Kadman. According to C. W. King the Adam Kadman or Primitive Man of Gnosticism, was the generative and conceptive principle of life and heat, Who manifested Himself in ten emanations or types of all creation.[132] In Irish _cad_ means _holy_; _good_ and _cad_ are the same word, whence Kaadman and the surnames Cadman and Goodman were probably once one. The word Albon or Albion means as it stands _all good_, or _all well_, and the river Beane, like the river Boyne--over whom presided the beneficent goddess Boanna--means _bien_, good, or _bene_ well. The Herefordshire Beane was alternatively known as the river _Beneficia_, a name which to the modern etymologer working on standard lines confessedly "yields a curious conundrum".[133] The Anglo-Saxon Abbot of St. Albans after having assured himself that the idolatrous books before-mentioned proved that the pagan British worshipped Phoebus, and Mercury consigned them to the flames with the same self-complacency as the Monk Patrick burnt 180--some say 300--MSS. relative to the Irish Druids. These being deemed "unfit to be transmitted to posterity," posterity is proportionately the poorer. Phoebus was the British Heol, Howel, or the Sun, and Mercury, was, as Cæsar said, the Hercules of Britain. The snake-encircled club of Kaadman is the equivalent to the caduceus or snake-twined rod of Mercury; the human image in the hand of Kaadman implies with some probability that "Kaadman" was the All Father or the Maker of Mankind. We shall see subsequently that the Maker of All was personified as Michael or Mickle, and that St. Mickle and All Angels or All Saints stood for the Great Muckle leading the Mickle--"many a mickel makes a muckle". St. Michael is the patron saint of Gorhambury, a suburb of St. Albans, and in Christian Art St. Michæl is almost invariably represented with the scales and other attributes of Anubis, the Mercury of Egypt. Both Anubis of Egypt and Mercury of Rome were connected with the dog, and Anubis was generally represented with the head of a dog or jackal. In _The Gnostics and their Remains_, King illustrates on plate F a dog or jackal-headed man which is subscribed with the name MICHAH, and it is probable the word _make_ is closely associated with Micah or Mike. [Illustration: ANUBIS. FIG. 17.]