No, sir, the imposers of this name were too sensible of its value, and too jealous of its use, to expose it to ambiguity. It pourtrayed the sanctity of the occupying proprietors; and lest there should be any misconception as to the _species_ of worship whence that “sanctity” had emanated, they gave _this scene_ of its exercise three other names, viz. _Fuodhla_, _Fudh Inis_, and _Inis-na-Bhfiodhbhadh_[156]--which at once associate the “worship” with the _profession_ of the worshippers: for _f_, or _ph_, being only the aspirate of _b_, and commutable with it, _Fuodhla_--which is compounded of _Fuodh_ and _ila_, this latter signifying _land_--becomes _Buodhla_--that is, Budh_land_.[157] _Fudh Inis_, by the same rule, is reducible to _Budh Inis_, of which the latter means _island_, that is, Budh-_island_;[158] while _Inis_-na-_Bhfiodhbhadh_ requires no transposition, being clear and obvious in itself, as the _Island of Budhism_. Now, “to make assurance doubly sure,” go to _Keating’s History of Ireland_, p. 49, and you will there find “the female deities”--an incorrect expression for the deities worshipped by the females--of the Tuath-de-danaans, to have been Badhha, Macha, and Moriagan.[159] Of these the first needs no exposition; the second I shall reserve for another place, but the third I will here develop. He was the military deity of this “sacred” colony, and a personification of Budh, under the designation of Farragh,[160] _i.e._ _Copulation_; and, accordingly, the Scythians, who incorporated with them, after first dethroning them, adopted this term as their exhilarating war-shout, while under the veil of the epithet was really meant the _sun_, whose aid they invoked to give _strength_ to their _loins_ and _vigour_ to their _arms_.[161] And yet this is the name which _Spenser_ would derive from that of Fergus, king of Scotland! Fifteen hundred years and more before Fergus was born, which, by the way, was not until the sixth century of the Christian era, the Irish basked in the _sunshine_ of their resplendent war-god, who, under another and equivalent denomination, viz. Buodh, abbreviated into _Boo_,[162] and thus with the prefix _a_, implying _to_, or _under the auspices of_--assumed by the different septs as their distinctive watchwords, branched out into the national and spirit-stirring acclamations of _O’Brien_ a-Boo![163] O’Neil a-Boo! etc. etc.; which the early English settlers, who would fain become _Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores_, afterwards imitated: such as Butler a-Boo; Shanet-a-Boo; Grasagh a-Boo; Crom a-Boo, etc.; the last having been that adopted by Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinster, and still retained as the motto of his armorial escutcheon.