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continued to bear the old Van champion’s title of “ Balor of the Evil Eye,” in the legendary accounts of the later invasions. Thus he is made to oppose even so late an invasion as the fifth, by ‘“ The Tribe of the goddess Danu ” with the Serpent-cult fetishes, which show them to be a later horde of the same common stock. This affinity indeed is evident, apart from the Serpent fetishes, by the name of their champion being “‘ Lug,” that is, “ Loki,” one of the Vans and the arch-enemy of the Goths in the Eddas and also called ‘‘ The Wolf of Fen,” (i.e., Van); and his fatal weapon in Ireland as “ Lug ”’ was significantly, as in the Eddas, a “ Sling Stone.’”!

The old Matriarchist Serpentine-cult of Van appears to have persisted in Ireland, even when it was called “ Scotia,’ as the popular cult of the Feins down to the epoch of St. Patrick in 433 A.D., notwithstanding the contemporary existence of Sun-worship amongst the ruling race of Scots, with their legendary solar heroes, Diarmait and Conn-the-Fighter-of a-Hundred. The chief idol of Ireland which St. Patrick demolished by his Cross is described as “‘ The Head [idol] of the Mound’ :? and it is identified as the idol of Fal of the Fiery Stone,* that is, the son-champion of the serpentworshipping Matriarchist Fomors, “‘Balor of the Evil Eye.”

These “‘ Fomor ” or Ban, Wan, Van, Fen or Fein aborigines of Ireland, dark, dwarfish ‘‘ Iberians ’ who seem to have arrived in Erin from Albion in the late Stone Age, some time before 2000 B.c., now appear to have been presumably of the same race as the dwarfish aborigines of Albion, who were called by the Romans “ Picts’ or “‘ The [Blue] Painted,”’ and who, we know, were, like the Feins, of primitive Matrilinear and Matriarchist social constitution. And we have seen that the “ Fomor’’ were presumably the prehistoric dwarfish ‘‘ Baombur’’ aborigines of Van, who were described by the Aryan Gothic Eddas as of the race of “The Blue (Painted) Legs.”

1 R.H.E., 397. *Cenn Cruaich in Tri-partite Life of St. Patrick, and see R.H.L., 200. . RHE. 208.