Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions

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He further shows that the Oin-id lamcntati(^n for the
Dead was kept in Ireland on the eve o{ La Sania/i, the day
of Saman, the Pluto or Judge of Hell, November ist (All
Saints), as in several other heathen lands of antiquity.
lie
sees a new reckoning on Mathair OidhcJic, the eve bcf >re
La Nollah Mithr. The Sab-oide, or festival of Sab, the Sun,
was held on the 1st, 8th, 15th, and 23rd of the month, as
with the Sabbaths of the Persian Magi. He was not then
aware that Sabbath, day of rest, was an old Chalda^an word.
He recognizes Christmas Eve in Madra nect, or Mother
night.
Buddhism abolished caste and sacrifices.
The Tripitaka,
or Bible, contains 592,000 verses. The last Buddhist
council was held 251 B.C.
Dr. Kenealy observes, in his Book of God, "The Irish
hieratic language was called Ogham (pronounced ozudi
,
which is
the same as the Buddhist and the Brahmin A//m,
and the Magian and Mexican horn, or ineffable name of
God. This last, the Greek changed into A O M, A 12, or
Alpha and Omega." W. Anderson Smith, in Lezvisiaua,
reluctantly acknowledges, " We must accept the possibility
of a Buddhist race passing north from Ireland." Thus he
and others must trace the relics of Buddhism in Scotland
and the Hebrides through Ireland. Truly, as Fcrgusson
writes, '' Buddhism, in some shape or other, or under some
name that may be lost, did exist in Britain before the
conversion of the inhabitants to Christianity."
Hanloy, Chinese interpreter at San Francisco, who
claims the discovery of America for his countr\'mcn, that
left written descriptions of the strange land, has this
additional information— "About 500 years before Christ,
Buddhist priests repaired there, and brought back the news
that they had met with Buddhist idols and religious
writings in the country already. Their descriptions, in