_This unity_ of the Godhead was what was _religiously_ comprehended under the _Phallic_ configuration of the Round Tower erections; and this, furthermore, elucidates that heretofore enigmatical declaration of the Budhists themselves, viz. that the pyramids, in which the sacred relics are deposited, “_be their shape what it will, are an imitation of the worldly temple of the Supreme Being_.”[266] But if _Magh-abadean_ was the name adopted by them with this _spiritual_ tendency, _Tuath-de-danaan_ was that which pictured them a sacerdotal institution. The last member of this compound I have already expounded. It remains that I develop what the two first parts conceal. _Tuath_, then, is neither more nor less than a dialectal modification for _Budh_, which, according to the licence of languages, transformed itself, otherwise and indifferently, into _Butt_, Butta, Fiod, Fioth, _Thot_, _Tuath_, _Duath_, _Suath_, Pood, Woad; and in the two last forms--of which one is Gothic, and the other Tamulic--admitted a final syllable,--which was but an insignificant termination,--namely, _en_, making _Pooden_ and _Woad-en_; or _Poden_ and _Woden_. In these several variations, and the innumerable others which branch therefrom, while the _sensible_ idea is preserved underneath, there is superinduced another of a more refined complexion. Thus, _Budh_, while it primarily represents the _sun_, its type, the _penis_; and again, _its_ sign, a _tree_, expresses also the attributes of _magic_, _science_, _divination_, and _wisdom_. These were the consequences of that _mysterious_ garb in which the priests invested the _true_ elements of their religion. Being themselves the sole possessors of its inward secrets, and all literature and erudition going hand in hand also therewith, it was so dexterously managed, that a sort of reverential feeling attached, not only to those _qualities_ in the abstract, but to the consecrated _personages_ who were their depositories. Hence, while _Budh_ came to signify _divination_ and _wisdom_, _Budha_, its professor, did a _divine_ and _wise man_; and _Tuath_, being only a modification of the former epithet, _Tuatha_ is the corresponding transmutation of the latter. _Tuatha_, therefore, signifies _magicians_;[267] and so we have the _first_ component of _Tuath-de-danaans_ elucidated. The _second_ requires no _Œdipus_ to solve it, _De_ being but the vernacular term whereby was expressed the _Deity_; and as I have previously established the import of _Danaans_ to have been _Almoners_, it follows that the aggregate tenour of this religious-compound-denomination is _the Magician-god-almoners_, or the Almoner-magicians of the Deity. As from _Budh_ was formed _Fiodh_, so from Fiodh arose Fidhius; and as I have before shown that _Hercules_ and _Deus_ were synonymous terms, and both personifications of the _Sun_, so, accordingly, we find that this _symbolical_ adjunct was reciprocally appropriated to one as to the other.