_Note._—The Turanian or rather Altaic affinity of the Akkad, referred to at page 109 above, appears to have been established by M. Lenormant, who states that their name means “Mountaineers,” from _Akkad_, a mountain. It is possible, however, that the word may have had a more primitive signification. As the name of a country and not of a people, Akkad did not come into use until the Assyrian epoch, “When the Accadian had become a dead language, and the tradition of the real meaning of the word was consequently quite lost.” (_Chaldean Magic and Sorcery_, p. 404.) As to the aboriginal Arab people referred to at page 117, it may be mentioned that M. Lenormant (_Hist. Anc. de l’Orient_, 9th Ed. I. t. prem. p. 313), points out that the name, Adah, of the mother of the two sons of Lameckh, who were chiefs of pastoral races, is only the feminine form of that of the people of Ad. FOOTNOTES: [227] _Adonai_, “Our Lord,” was converted by the Greeks into _Adoneus_, as a synomym of Pluto, _i.e._, _Dis_. (King’s “Gnostics,” p. 101). Through his name, _Sandan_ or _Adanos_, these deities are connected with _Hercules_, and hence with _Ares_ (Mars). [228] _Le Mythe de Votan_, by H. de Charencey, 1871, pp. 95, 103. Gautama was only the last of the Boudhas, and the identification of Woden is therefore not necessarily with Gautama. Dr. Brinton, “in order to put a stop to such visionary etymologies” as those which connect Votan with Wodan and Buddha, derives Votan from a Maya radical (_American Hero-Myths_, 1882, p. 217). It must be noted, however, that the Maya meaning of Votan (heart _fig._ spirit) closely agrees with that of Wodan (mind) and Buddha (knowledge). [229] M. de Ujfalvy has found that even the purest Iranian type of Central Asia is brachycephalic. CHAPTER V. THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN.