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VAN, BAN OR FEIN MATRIARCHS IN IRELAND 105

(Lia Fail of the Irish Celts).*. These fetishes figure freely in the later Irish legends and myths, although they do not appear to be expressly mentioned until a later period, after Part-olon’s invasion, when they are in the hands of a later branch of the same Serpent-cult people called “ The tribe of the goddess Danu”’ (Tuatha de Danaan), who, significantly also are stated to have migrated to Ireland from Alban.

This tradition of the existence of these two Matriarchist Van fetishes amongst the prehistoric Feins in Ireland is of great importance for the origin of the prehistoric Serpentcult in Ireland, and it affords additional proof of the identity of the prehistoric Fein Matriarchist immigrants into Ireland with the prehistoric Matriarchist Van or Fen dwarfs of the Van district of Asia Minor, a8 described in the Gothic Eddas. These Gothic epics—which, after detailed analysis, I find to be truly historical Aryan records of the establishment of the First Civilization in the World—make frequent reference to the use of the Magic Oracle Bowl or Witches’ Cauldron for divination as a special utensil of the Serpent-worshipping Matriarchists in Van and Asia Minor and Chaldea. This magic bowl was especially associated with Kvasir, the namesake of Cesair, as already noted. And Fal’s Fiery Stone was the materialized thunderbolt of the Dragonserpent of Lightning, and the invincible magical weapon of Baldy, the son-consort and champion of the Van Matriarch in the Eddas; and his exploits therein as the champion of the Matriarch correspond generally with those of his namesake Fal in the Irish legends. This identity of the Irish Fal with the Van leader Baldr of the Eddas is further seen in the frequent title of the champion of the Irish Feins as “ Balor of the Evil Eye.” So intimately was Fal identified with the early Ireland of the Feins that Erin was called “ Fal’s Isle’ (Inis Fail); and ‘‘ Fal’s Hill’ was the title of the sacred hill at the ancient capital, Tara.

* In the later Irish legends Fal’s Stone, essentially a missile, is made to be a fetish oracle, which cries out on the Coronation Day of the Celtic kings, and hence is supposed to be the Coronation Stone carried by the

Scots from Ireland to Scone and afterwards taken to Westminster, as * The Coronation Stone.” See Skene ‘‘ The Coronation Stone.’