[190] It is the fashion to deride Bryant's etymology, and no doubt he did not write in the light of modern science; but I find ("Mythology," iii. 534) that he had already given this information. "_Main_, from whence _moenia_, signified in the primitive language a stone, or stones, and also a building." Here it is seen that the word for stone in these respective places is the same with our word "man;" it is not specifically said that the word would carry this sense also in the places indicated, but I infer it from the analogy which runs through _homo_, _homme_, and by a connection of ideas through the Greek [Greek: ômos] to the Sanscrit--thus "âma-ad" ([Greek: ômos-edô]), are names applied "in the Sanscrit" to "barbarians" who are cannibals. (Max Müller, ii. p. 44.) And I am not sure that Mr Max Müller does not say so directly, in reference to the word "Brahman," for although the word originally is said to mean _power_ (i. 363), yet "another word with the accent on the last syllable, is _Brahmán_, the _man_ who prays."--_Max Müller_, i. 72.[191] Also Kenrick ("Essay on Primæval History," p. 59), "Thus the Hindus attribute the origin of their institutions and race to Manu, whose name is equivalent to _man_. The Germans made Tuisto (Teutsch) and his son Mannus to be the origin and founder of their nation." Also Sir W. Jones' "Asiat. Res." i. 230; Rawlinson's "Bamp. Lect." lect. ii. 67:--"From _Manu_ the earth was re-peopled, and from him _man_kind received their name _Manudsha_." Gainet (i. 170) says:--"The stones changed then into men by Deucalion and Pyrrha, are they not their children according to nature? In Syriac the word 'Eben' signifies equally a child and a stone. In spite of these confusions their accounts of the Deluge are striking as well on account of their resemblance, as on account of their universality, as the reader will soon be able to convince himself."--_Vide Gainet_, i. 167.[192]