_Page 181. Be'al._ I do not think there is any evidence to prove that the Be'al or Bêl often spelt Baal--whose name and worship survive to this day in _Bealltainn_ (Beltane), May-day--of Gaelic mythology, is identical with the Phoenician god Baal, though probably of a like significance. The Gaelic name, which may be anglicised into Be'al, signifies "Source of All." I am inclined to believe that the Be'al or Bêl of the Gaels has his analogue in the Gaulish mythology in _Hesus_ (also _Esua_, _Aesus_, and _Heus_), a mysterious (supreme?) god of ancient Gaul, surviving still in Armorican legend. If so, Hesus or Aesus may be identical with the "lost" Gaelic god _Aesar_ or _Aes_. _Aesar_ means "fire-kindler," whence the Creator. (In this connection I would ask if _Aed_, an ancient Gaelic god of fire, also of death, be identical with (as averred) a still more ancient Greek name of Fire, or God of Fire = _Aed_?). Be'al, the Source of All, may take us back to the Phoenician _Baal_: but the Gaelic _Aes_ and the Gaulish _Aesus (Hesus)_ take us, with the Scandinavian _Aesir_, further still: to the Persian _Aser_, the Hindoo _Aeswar_, the Egyptian _Asi_ (the Sun-bull), and the Etruscan _Aesar_. The _Bhagavat-Gita_ says of Aeswar that "he resides in every mortal." _Pages 199-203._ This section, slightly adapted, is from an unpublished book, in gradual preparation, entitled _The Chronicles of the Sìdhe_. _Page 225. The Culdees._ Though I have alluded in the text to the probable meaning of a word that has perplexed many people, I add this note as I have just come upon another theoretical statement about the Culdees as though they were an oriental race or sect. The writer evidently thinks they are the same as Chaldæans, and builds a startlingly unscientific theory on that assumption. In all probability the word is simply _Cille-Dè_, _i.e._, [the man of the] Cell of God--_Cille_ being Cell, a Church--and so a Cille-Dè man would be "man of God," a monk, a cleric. A much more puzzling problem obtains in the apparent traces of Buddha-worship in the Hebrides. It may or may not be of much account that the author of _Lewisiana_ "admits reluctantly" that "we must accept the possibility of a Buddhist race passing north of Ireland." I have not seen _Lewisiana_ for some years, and cannot recall on what grounds the author arrives at his conclusion. But from my notes on the subject I see that M. Coquebert-Montbret, in the _Soc. des Antiquaires de_ _France_, argues at great length that the Asiatic Buddhist missionaries who penetrated to Western Europe, reached Ireland and Scotland. He asks if the ancient Gaelic Deity named _Budd_ or _Budwas_ be not _Buddh_ (Buddha). Another French antiquary avers that the Druids were "an order of Eastern priests adoring Buddwas." Some light on the problem is thrown by the fact that the Gaulo-Celtic museum in St. Germain is an ancient Celtic "god"--the fourth in kind that has