“The deity Harì,” says an inscription at _Budda-gaya_, in India, “the lord and possessor of all, appeared in this ocean of natural beings at the close of the Devapara and beginning of the Cali Yug. He who is omnipresent and everlastingly to be contemplated, the Supreme Being, the Eternal One, the Divinity worthy of mankind, appeared here, with a portion of His divine nature.”[361] There is no term so vernacular in the Irish language as that of _Budh-gaye_. It is familiar to the _ears_ of every smatterer in _letters_; and is in the _mouth_ of every _cowherd_, from Cape Clear to the Giants’ Causeway. Neither class has, however, had so much as a _glimpse_ of what it means: nor did they busy themselves much in the pursuit, but acquiesced in that example of _commendable_ resignation once practised by Strabo--when he failed to ascertain anything about the _Cabiri_--by declaring that “the name was mysterious!” A great personage, however, who was not only in his habits _wise_, but was in himself _wisdom_, has affirmed, that “there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; nor hid that shall not be known.”[362] And as every sentence recorded as emanating from _His_ lips has with me a value more than what could serve to illustrate a momentary topic, I flatter myself that the result of the confidence, thus humbly inspired, will be additionally verified in the instance before us. _Budh-gaye_, then of the Irish, or _Budha-gaya_ of the Hindoos, means _Phallus[363] telluris_, _i.e._ the _generativeness of the earth_, or _the earth’s prolific principle_. This I have before demonstrated to have been the object of adoration to the ancients; and have furthermore shown, that one of the individuals, in whom this idea was personified, had suffered crucifixion as a mediator for sin. A new disclosure suggests itself from this. _Budh_ and _Phallus_ being synonymous, if you add _Gaye_ to each, then _Budh-gaye_ and _Gaye-phallus_ will be identical. But as the character who embodied the _abstract virtue_ of the former had been crucified, his name came to stand, not only for that _abstract virtue_, but also for a cross,[364] or a _crucified man_; and of course, _Gaye-phallus_, its equivalent, represented the same ideas. Now, as well the _primary_ as _secondary_ meaning of those two words was liable to misconstruction; and they were sure to obtain such from ignorance and from depravity. The _pure_ and the _sublime emotions_, which the religiousness of the _prolific principle_ had comprehended, were perverted by malice into _sensuality_ and _debauchery_; while the idea of a _man crucified_, however innocent of charge, could not be separated, by grovelling and servile dispositions, from the ordinary accompaniments of _contempt_ and of _crime_.