[183] "Megasthenes stated that the first king (of India) was Dionysus. He found a rude population in a savage state, clothed in skins, unacquainted with agriculture, and without fixed habitations. The length of his reign is not given. The introduction of civilization and agriculture is a natural allusion to the immigration of the Aryans into a country inhabited by Turanian races.... Fifteen generations after Dionysus, Hercules reigned.... Now all this is obviously pure Indian tradition. Dionysus is the elder Manu, the divine primeval man, son of the Sun (Vivasvat). He holds the same position in the primeval history of India as does Jima or Gemshid, another name of the primeval man in the Iranian world.... The first era, then, is represented by Megasthenes as having fourteen generations of human kings, with a god as the founder and a god as the destroyer of the dynasty, in all fifteen or sixteen generations."--_Bunsen's Egypt_, iii. 528. Compare those fifteen generations with Palmer. Compare the confusion of Dionysus and Hercules with Deucalion and Prometheus, &c., p. 232. Pelasgus among the Arcadians passed for the first man and the first legislator (Boulanger, i. 133). Of Cadmus, too, it is said--"Greece is indebted to him for alphabetical writing, the art of _cultivating the vine_, and the forging and working of _metals_."--_Goguet_, ii. 41. [184] _Vide supra_, Oannes, ch. ix.; _vide_ Smith, "Myth. Dict." To return to Janus. Before concluding I must note that Janus is called Eanus by Cicero, which may perhaps have analogy with "Hea and Hoa" (ch. ix.), and with Eannes and "Oannes," although Cicero derives it from "eundo." Janus was also called "consivius a conserendo," because he presided over generation, a title singularly appropriate to Noah as the second founder of the race, and through whom the injunction was given "to increase and multiply."[185] He is moreover called "Quirinus or Martialis," "because he presided over war," which is precisely the aspect under which it is the original and main purpose of this dissertation to consider Noah; and here I think I am entitled to urge, that if I have succeeded on other grounds in showing that Nin, Hoa, Janus, &c., represented Noah, then that these epithets, "Quirinus," "Martialis," "King of Battle," &c., can only be applied to him whose conquests were bloodless in the sense of controlling and regulating war.[186] In connection with this title of "Martialis," as applied to Janus--and, by the by, all the traditions concerning him are altogether peaceful and bloodless--it will be remembered that his temple was open in war and shut in peace, and closed for the third and last time at the moment of the birth of our Lord.