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94 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

of the cauldron, was herself the “‘ wise-woman '’ or wizardess and priestess of the Serpent and other demonist totemistic cults in primitive times—cults which survived into the modern world as witchcraft.

This Matriarch Ceasair, or Cesara, is reported to have landed with her horde at Dunn-m Bare or “‘ The fort of the Barks or (Skin-| Boats,’ now Duna-mark in Bantry Bay on the south-west coast of Erin—the bay adjoining Part-olon’s traditional landing place at Scene in Kenmare Bay. This name “‘ Bantry Bay,” means “‘ Bay of the Shore of the Bans,‘ and is in series with “‘ Fin-tragh Bay " or Bay of the Shore of the ims further north, in which ‘‘ Ban ” or “‘ Fin ”’ appears to be an ethnic title of this matriarchist horde. The next neighbouring town on the east is Ban-don or ‘‘ Town of the Bans,” with a river of that name, which attests the great antiquity of that title; and to its north is Ban-teer, and further east along the south coast is Bann-ow River, and the Bann Riverin Wexford, which, we shall see, is associated with a stand made by the tribe of this matriarch against later invaders, and the Boinne or Boyne River on the east coast, admittedly named after the River-goddess “‘ Boann,’’ with the old Irish epic town of Finn-abair (or Fenn-or),? and vast prehistoric dolmen tumuli at New Grange with intertwined Serpent symbols,* all presumably belong to this same series of the Ban, Fen or Van horde, or its descendants.

Indeed, we find in Ptolemy’s map of Ireland, drawn before 140 A.D., that the tribe inhabitating the south-west of Ireland, from Kerry, where Cesair landed, and extending through Cork to Waterford were still called by Ptolemy “‘ Joweoni-o7'’* (i.e. “ Weont” or ‘“ Veont,” the Greeks having no W or V’) which we shall see is a dialectic variant of ““ Wan,” “ Van ” or “ Ban.’ And the chief seat of Cesair’s descendants at the epoch of Part-olon’s invasion of Erin, and where he defeated these aborigines, was called “ The plain of J¢ha,”

1 Trag or Tyvacht=“‘ shore or strand,”’ compare C.A.N., 359.

>See J. Dunn Tain bo Cualange (from Book of Leinster) 1914, 377.

$C.N.G., several specimens.

* P.G. lib. secundus, C. ii, p. 29; and map I (p.2) in Europa tabula. This map with a Greek verse is reproduced in British Museum Early Maps No, 3 postcard series.