_Page 130._ Columba, whose house-name was Crimthan, "Wolf"--surviving in our Scoto-Gaelic MacCrimmon--who was of royal Irish blood and, through his mother of royal Scottish (Pictish) blood also, came to Iona in A.D. 563, when he was in his forty-second year. At that date, St. Augustine, "the English Columba," had not yet landed in Kent--that more famous event occurring thirty-four years later. In this year of 563, the East had not yet awakened to its wonderful dream that to-day has in number more dreamers than the Cross of Christ; for it was not till six years later, when Columba was on a perilous mission of conversion among the Picts, that Mahomet was born. In 563, when Colum landed on Iona, the young Italian priest who was afterwards to be called the Architect of the Church and to become famous as Pope Gregory the Great, was dreaming his ambitious dreams; and farther East, in Constantinople, then the capital of the Western World, the great Roman Emperor Justinian was laying the foundation of modern law. With the advent of Charlemagne, two hundred years later, "the old world" passed. When the ninth century opened, the great Gregory's dearest hopes were in the dust where his bones lay; Justinian's metropolis was fallen from her pride; and, on Iona, the heathen Danes drank to Odin. _Page 136._ The _Mor-Rigân_. This euphemerised Celtic queen is called by many names: even those resembling that just given vary much--_Morrigû_, _Mor Reega_, _Morrigan_, _Morgane_, _Mur-ree (Mor Ree)_, etc. The old word _Mor-Rigan_ means "the great queen." She is the mother of the Gaelic Gods, as _Bona Dea_ of the Romans. "_Anu_ is her name," says an ancient writer. Anu suckled the elder gods. Her name survives in _Tuatha-De-Danann_, in _Dânu_, _Ana_, and perhaps in that mysterious Scoto-Gaelic name, Teampull _Anait_--the temple of Anait--whom some writers collate with an ancient Asiatic goddess, Anait (see p. 171). It has been suggested that the Celts gave _Bona Dea_ to the Romans, for these considered her Hyperborean. A less likely derivation of the popular "_Morrigû_" is that _Mor Reega_ is _Mor Reagh_ (wealth). Keating, it may be added, speaks of Monagan, Badha, and Macha as the three chief goddesses of the Divine Race of Ana (the Tuatha De Danann). Students of Celtic mythology and legend, and of the Táin-bó-Cuailgne in particular, will remember that her white bull "Find-Bennach" was "antagonist" to the famous brown bull of Cuailgne. The Mor Rigan has been identified with Cybele--as the Goddess of Prosperity: but only speculatively. Another name of the Mother of all Gods is _Aine (Anu?)_. Prof. Rhys says _Ri_ or _Roi_ was the Mother of the gods of the non-Celtic races. It is suggestive that _Ana_ is a Phoenician word: that people had a (virgin?) goddess named _Ana-Perema_.