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BAN, FEIN OR VAN MATRIARCHS IN IRELAND 93

Hibernia, as elicited by excavations, and of the bulk of the present-day population, who are mostly of the dark, smaller-

statured, long marrow-headed “Iberian’’ or “* Mediter-

ranean’ type (see Chapter XII.), as opposed to the element of the tall fair Aryans, the Irish “Scots” of Bede and other early writers, now presumably located mostly im

Ulster.

SSS

_—A prehistoric Maitriarch of the Vans (?) of the Stone Age. From a Hittite rock-sculpture near Smyrna. {After Martir

Note the primitive type with low fo

ind eyebrow ridges.

The name of this first Matriarch of Erin, “ Ceasair,”’ appears to be cognate with “ Kvasiy”’ of the Gothic Eddas, who was the ““ wise man "’ of the sacred magic jar or cauldron, and a hostage given by the Wans, Vans or “ Fens” (presumably the “ Fene” or “ Fein’ title of the early Irish) to the Goths.* While the Matriarch of the Vans and priestess

+ This rock-cut bust was carved at the entrance to a sacred grotto, pre-

bly of the Mother-cult, near the alpine village of Buja, to east of

Smyrna, and near Karabel, with its Hittite sculpturings. Its drawing by

A. Martin is given by Perrot (P.A.P. 68). = aah * A.Y.E. 160 etc.; and V.D. 361.

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