44 See “Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,” vol. xxx. pt. i., 1892, and “New Grange,” by G. Coffey, 1912. 45 It must be observed, however, that the decoration was, certainly, in some, and perhaps in all cases, carried out before the stones were placed in position. This is also the case at Gavr’inis. 46 He has modified this view in his latest work, “New Grange,” 1912. 47 “Proc. Royal Irish Acad.,” vol. viii. 1863, p. 400, and G. Coffey, _op. cit._ p. 30. 48 “Les Sculptures de Rochers de la Suède,” read at the Prehistoric Congress, Stockholm, 1874; and see G. Coffey, _op. cit._ p. 60. 49 “Dolmens of Ireland,” pp. 701-704. 50 “The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria.” 51 A good example from Amaravati (after Fergusson) is given by Bertrand, “Rel. des G.,” p. 389. 52 Sergi, “The Mediterranean Race,” p. 313. 53 At Lökeberget, Bohuslän; see Monteiius, _op. cit._ 54 See Lord Kingsborough’s “Antiquities of Mexico,” _passim_, and the Humboldt fragment of Mexican painting (reproduced in Churchward’s “Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man”). 55 See Sergi, _op. cit._ p. 290, for the _Ankh_ on a French dolmen. 56 “Bulletin de la Soc. d’Anthropologie,” Paris, April 1893. 57 “The Welsh People,” pp. 616-664, where the subject is fully discussed in an appendix by Professor J. Morris Jones. “The pre-Aryan idioms which still live in Welsh and Irish were derived from a language allied to Egyptian and the Berber tongues.” 58 Flinders Petrie, “Egypt and Israel,” pp. 137, 899. 59 I quote from Mr. H.B. Cotterill’s beautiful hexameter version. 60 Valerius Maximus (about A.D 30) and other classical writers mention this practice. 61 Book V. 62 De Jubainville, “Irish Mythological Cycle,” p.191 _sqq._ 63 The etymology of the word “Druid” is no longer an unsolved problem. It had been suggested that the latter part of the word might be connected with the Aryan root VID, which appears in “wisdom,” in the Latin _videre_, &c., Thurneysen has now shown that this root in combination with the intensive particle _dru_ would yield the word _dru-vids_, represented in Gaelic by _draoi_, a Druid, just as another intensive, _su_, with _vids_ yields the Gaelic _saoi_, a sage. 64 See Rice Holmes, “Cæsar’s Conquest,” p. 15, and pp. 532-536. Rhys, it may be observed, believes that Druidism was the religion of the aboriginal inhabitants of Western Europe “from the Baltic to Gibraltar” (“Celtic Britain,” p. 73). But we only _know_ of it where Celts and dolmen-builders combined. Cæsar remarks of the Germans that they had no Druids and cared little about sacrificial ceremonies. 65 “Rel. des Gaulois,” leçon xx. 66 Quoted by Bertrand, _op. cit._ p. 279.