Mœsia, in Greek Μοίσια, is, in Phœnician, the interpretation of the name given to Thrace. The latter means, as we have seen, _ethereal space_, and the former signifies _divine abode_, being composed from the word א׳ש (_aïsh_), whose rendering I have already given, before which is found placed the letter מ (M), one of the _hémantiques_, which according to the best grammarians serves to express the proper place, the means, the local manifestation of a thing. [25] _Voyez_ Court de Gébelin, _Monde primitif_, t. ix., p. 49. [26] This mountain was called Kô-Kajôn, according to d’Anville. This learned geographer has clearly seen that this name was the same as that of Caucasus, a generic name given to all the sacred mountains. It is known that _Caucasus_ was for the Persians, what Mount Merou had been for the Indians and what Mount Parnassus became afterwards for the Greeks, the central place of their cult. The Tibetans have also their sacred mountain distinct from that of the Indians, upon which still resides the God-Priest, or immortal Man, similar to that of the Getæ. (_Mém. de l’Acad. des Inscript._, t. xxv., p. 45.) [27] Bailly, _Essai sur les Fables_, ch. 14. Conférez avec Hérodote, l. iv.; et Pausanias, l. ix., p. 302, l. x., p. 320. [28] _Dionysus_, in Greek Διονύσος, comes from the word Διός, irregular genitive of Ζεύς, the living God, and of Νόος, mind or understanding. The Phœnician roots of these words are ש‎, ‎ יש‎, ‎or איש (_ash_, _ish_, or _aïsh_), Unique Being, and נו (_nô_) the motive principle, the movement. These two roots, contracted, form the word _Nôos_, which signifies literally the principle of being, and figuratively, the understanding. _Demeter_, in Greek Δημήτερ, comes from the ancient Greek Δημ, _the earth_, united to the word μήτερ, _mother_. The Phœnician roots are דמ (_dam_) and מט (_môt_), the former expressing all that which is formed by aggregation of similar parts; and the latter, all that which varies the form and gives it generative movement. [29] Bailly, _Essai sur les Fables_, ch. 15. Court de Gébelin expressly says, that the sacred mountain of Thrace was consecrated to Bacchus. _Monde prim._, t. ix., p. 49. Now, it is generally known that Parnassus of the Greeks was consecrated to Apollo. [30] _Theog._, v. 500.