the properties of the
Godhead."

Carnac, in upper Egypt, is a monolith of the same symbolic character. It
is hewn from a solid block of black granite and is eighty feet high.

Henry O'Brien, a cultured Irishman, who when in London became, in his
own line of investigation, one of the chief contributors to Fraser's
Magazine while at its best, in response to a call by the Royal Irish
Academy for productions relating to the origin and use of the Round
Towers, declared that they were erected by a colony of Tuath-de-danaans,
or Lingham worshippers from Persia, who had left their native land
because of the victories gained over them by their rivals--the Pish
de-danaans--a sect of Yoni worshippers; in other words, the sect which
recognized the female element as the superior agency in reproduction,
and who, therefore, worshipped it as divine. In the devastating wars
which swept over Persia and the other countries of antiquity prior to
the age of the later Zoroaster, the Pish-de danaans were victorious,
and, driving from the country the Tuath-de danaans, or male worshippers,
succeeded in re-establishing, and for a time maintaining, the old form
of worship. O'Brien claims that the Tuath-de-danaans who were expelled
from Persia emigrated to Ireland, and there continued or preserved their
favorite form of worship, the Round Towers having been erected by them
in conformity to their peculiar religious views. This writer assures us
that the old Irish tongue bears unmistakable evidence of the relation
existing between these countries. In addition to the similarity of
language which is found to exist between ancient Ireland or Iren, and
Persia or Iran, the same writer observes that in all their customs,
religious observances, and emblems, the resemblance is preserved.

Much regret has been expressed by all the writers who have dealt with
this subject that at an earlier age when Stonehenge, Abury, and various
other of the ancient monumental shrines of the British Isles were in a
better state of preservation, and before bigotry and religious hatred
had been aroused against them, more minute observations of their
character and of all the details surrounding them could not have been
made; yet, notwithstanding the late date at which these investigations
were begun, it is believed that a fair amount of success has crowned the
efforts which have been put forth to unravel the mysteries bound up in
them.

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