The case was exactly _opposite_ with respect to _pish_: I mean so far as the alteration of two of its letters is concerned. _Pith_ is the _usual_ method of pronouncing that term: nor is it, except when followed by a _d_, that it assumes the other garb. But as _dh_, in the former instance, was commuted into _th_, so _th_, in this latter, is still further into _sh_; therefore, instead of _Pith_-de-danaan, we make it _Pish_-de-danaan. To screen those two ligaments of _sexual_ familiarity from the peril of profane and irreverent acceptations, all the investiture of _magic_ was shrouded upon them. The vocabulary of _love_ and of _religion_ became one and the same: _mystery_ and _enchantment_ were identified, and the _negotiations_ of the earth, and the _revolutions_ of the heavens, were blended with the _witchery_ of _amative sway_. In this universality of domain, no one of those dear _helpmates_ had a greater portion of honour assigned to it than the other. They were equal in power, and alike in attributes. And to set this _equality_ beyond the contingencies of doubt, it was withal arranged, that while _each, primarily_, retained its _distinct sexual_ interpretation, they should _both, secondarily_, harmonise under another _mutual_ exposition; and what more appropriate one could be devised than that of the _influence_ which they exercised? and of the _veil_ with which they were guarded? _Magic_, therefore, and _mystery_, were the two _secondary_ imports, in which both were _united_; and the _ambiguity_ thus occasioned was what cast Vallancey upon that shoal, which proved similarly fatal to many a preceding speculator. To exemplify--_Budh_, or _Tuath_, in its literal and substantive acceptation, implies the _Lingam_; collaterally, _magic_; and by convention, _mystery_, _prophets_, _legislators_, etc. _Pish_, in like manner, or _Pith_, denotes, literally, the _Yoni_; collaterally, _magic_; and by convention, _mystery_, _prophets_, _legislators_, etc. And the offshoots of either, in an inferior and deteriorated view, such as _Budh-og_ from the former, and _Pish-og_ from the latter, intimate, indiscriminately, _witchcraft_, _wizard_, or _witch_. Now the words _De-danaans_, having been already illustrated as meaning _God-Almoners_, if we prefix to them, severally, _Tuath_ and _Pish_, they will become _Tuath_-de-danaans, and _Pish_-de-danaans; the former expressing, literally, _Lingam_-God-Almoners; and the latter, literally, _Yoni_-God-Almoners; and both equally, by convention, _Magic_-God-Almoners. As we have had exhibited numerous representations of the homage paid to the _paternal_ member of this theocracy, perhaps I may be permitted to adduce a single quotation demonstrative of the honours shown to his _maternal_ colleague.