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Show 5GG TilE MONOGENJSTS .AND sia." 472 IT once it h comes obvious that the Persian poet, like the Chn.ld an chorogrnphor of_. th Genesis, in all his ethnic per oni:fications, antlwopomorplio izcd a country currently lnown as "Tndl.Jl" into an id al king Tur. triA tramln.tor obscrv s that, ancient cythia embraced th whole of Tnran, which app llativc was but an early synonym for 'J'url cstan; in this, coinciding with Dubcux.473 Tho Ramo legend, sligl1tly varied, reaches us tbrough Midmvcnd,174 who died about IIcdjea 903=A. D. 1498, viz: that Tur received Turkcst.:-ln as his patrimony from F ridoon, and tlton conspired with oloom to murd r their· brother Inl<lj, king of Iran- hohr: alluding doubtless, through an Oriental allegory of three men, to simultaneous attacks of omitic and ~ytl1io invaders upon the lion-standard of I ersia. Being Persian d signations, "Iran and 'J'our:in" must receive solution through Arian etymologies; 475 and these arc furnished in one paragraph by J3JmOMANN, •76 who as a favored pupil of Eugene Burnouf inspires every confidence. "Thus, in the same manner that the Jiindoos, pm·ticulnrly at tho sacerdotal point of vi'"' of the Brahmnns, called their country by tho 11amo of A1·ya (IIonomblo), or of Ary(1va?·tta (Honorable country), in opposition to tho heretical countries named T~?"!Ja (Persian Utt-arya, --~--- --- m The Sltah-Nameli of Ji'i/'{lau~f, 'l'mnsl. ATKINSON, London, 1882; pp. 50, 161-2, nnd p. 1i19, uotc :-cf. l{r.Arno·ru "lli~toirc dol' Anciennc Pcrso, d'nprbs Firdou~si," in which tho 11go of the 2d ( Kni'nnian) dynasty is taken at D. o. 803, nnd tho lat (Pishtladiau) as oommcnoing 8342 years proviouRly 1 'l'abltaux, pp. 8-4, 5-22. &78 Peru, Um'v. Pittor., p. 225. m MmKilOND, Uistory of tlte Em·ly King8 of Persia, trans!. SluM, London, 8vo, 1882, pp. 138-86. m I incline to think, notwitl1stnnding, that the enigma of tiHl well-known rmdro-lcontine und nudro-t~ttuino sphinxc~ of Persopolis, ~tnd possibly also those of om·liCJ· Assyrin, cnn bo, in pnrt, (IXplaincd through b-tln nnd Touran, ns understood in throe lnnguttgo~, Arinn, Semitic, tmd Soythio; co1·responding to tho three forms of Achromoninn cunont.ics, and to tho t1·iple medley of tbr·co types of mrm, Arnbian, Por·sian, and Turkish, in tho snme countries at this dn.y. Tim A, in tho first clnss of tongues, JR-itn, as lion-land "prtr excolloncc" (nl wrtys the hern.ldic symbol of J>ersin, ~tnd blended into hor monarch's names in tho form of" sheer") conlrnsts with l'OUJt-r\u, .IJul/-ln.nd; which, on the ono side, is found in A·TUR, As hom·, As~ yria,-and on 1ho other npplies to tho n.uciont zoological conditions of Mnwnrnnuhn.r, &c., whore wild cattle were enormously nbundant, whence Tour became tho figumtive omblom of bnrbnr·ous T1w-kish l'nocs? Uut, with an indiontion th~tt, in Soytbio tongues, IR monns 1.1lso man, a cm·ious iuquiry, th~tt could bo justified only throngh mo.ny pages of elucidntiorr, is submitted to tho oonsidorn.1ion of follow-atJldents of ~trohroology. • 70 Lea Peuplt8 Primitift de la Race de laphUe: E8qttiue Etlmog~tldalogique et ll.i8torique; Colmar, 8vo., 1858; p. 17 :-C:f. MAx MiiLLJm's note iu DuN SEN, Three Liuguistic Di88e,·tation8, 1848, p. 200. DM BAUJ.OY, I find, rend "Irt'm, do !'Iran" upon tl1o inscriptions oopiod by tho unfortunat~ Schulz, nt L~tko Vnn, 10 yo1\l'R ngo (Recherches aur l'dcriture Ouneiforme Aasyrim11e, I>nrJS, 1818, p. 26): whilHt a writer in tho London Literary Gazflte (1852, p. 610) said thnt he dco~~hercd "J,ordMhip of Tr~tk nnd Jro.n" na woll as "T.ordahip of Tumn," 011 bricks in tho Dl'ltt~h MuBoum. I have board of no oonfil'lnntion of the latter sta1omont. TilE POLYGENISTS. 5G7 Outside of Aria, or '1'-u-a?·ya, opn.ratcd 1i·om Aria), and that they termed Lhcmsol v s Aryas as opposed to Mletaltas (JJ'cebles, Barbarians, llerclics; cp. Hob. Goytm,· Pcopl s, tranO'ers, Arabic el-aadJim, Wretches, Barbarous), so likewise the Persians [Paltlavas- anscrit pa1·aqus, Gr.pelelcus, batch t; Pahlavan=hatchet-bcarcrs] d signated themselves Aries or Artaes (Gentiles, IIJ<;UODO'l'. VII. 6J): and, in imitation of the Zcncl names Airyao, and of Tu-~rya or An-ai?·yaodanghavo (Country uot-honorablo), they also gave tho name A1·iana (Gr. At·iane), and later that of Iran, to all countries situate between tho Tigri and the Indus, and between the Oxus aud. the Indian Occall, because they were inhabited by orthodox Arians, won;hippers of Ormuzd (Zcnd. Alm1·o mazdilo, Great genius of the suu); whereas tho misbclieving lands to the north and cast, which wet·c held Lo be tho abode of Altriman (ZcJtd. Ag1·a-rnainyus), wore called .An~ran ( on-Iriln) ot· TO-ran (Ultra-Irftn)." Tho antiquity of the word ToU?·an being thus brought down to recent post-Christian times in all books wherein it occurs,-itt~ signification bci11g imbued with the theological xenolasia of Mazdooans and Brahmans, and naturally restricted in application to Scythic hordes immediately contiguous to Aria, or Ariana-modcrn ethnoloO'y has no more rio-ht to extend its area all vcr the worl<l, than to classi(y the xanthous aul of Crosal''s time with the melanic Tamoulian of the pL'esont D khan, together with r d-hcadcd liiglllanders and raven-lock d Wahabecs, under the oth L' false term "Caucasian." lnuccd, b fore agreeing with Prof. Max Muller (wl1oso authority is unqtter;Lionahly Lite highest for its usc), iu tolerating tho corruvtod rnytltr; of , heuite Persia as histori al; or talk of th "descendants of 'l'ul'" as if such metaphorical personag had really been f~l.Lh r of t!JoHc "Turanian tribes" which-si11cc spread broadcast over the earth LhrotJO'll LlliH l1ypotltcsis-aro now Raid to speak ouly '' Turanian Ja.nguacrcH," l~;ltould feel wanantcu iu accepti11g, as a legitimate haHis iin· ethnic llomenclaturc, that exquisite travesty of' a lost book of Diodorus; wherein the Greek text mal-es it evident, "IIow Britain, sou of J u I iter and Paint, peopled tho island [of England]; but some say that Briton was indigenous, ami Paiut (.au), "C<' XpwtJ.fl6) his daugh tor:-how Briton rccei vcd H.oman as his guest," &c. ;177 or else, in con id ring Iliawatlta n tru portraiture of the thoughts and feelings of an Am rica.n savage, instead of sooiug in it merely the romantic ideal of a. great Auglo-Saxon po t. m PllOf'. n~:NtlY MAJ.OJ•:N, "011 pmgmatizcd legends in HiHtory-Frngments from the VIIIth book of Diodot·uH, concerning Ul'it•tin 1111d hor colonios "-11rans. Philol. Soc., Loudon, Nov. 1854; pp. 217- 28. For pious fo,·gorics in quoting nud rendering Diodorus's to:xt, compare Mw1·'a oxpos6 iu Bibliotheque Ilistorique, Pari~, 1884; pp. 189-90, 429. |