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The identity of the heavenly soma with the cloud-water, and the close connection in which fire and soma are brought in various Aryan legends, prove that the drink of the gods was conceived to be a product of the storm. It appears also that the earthly soma was boiled or brewed before it was fermented, whence it must have followed, as a matter of course, that its divine counterpart should be supposed to undergo the same process. Hence it is manifest that we cannot claim for any of the later ages the credit of having invented the metaphor involved in the common saying, 'It's brewing a storm.' In that phrase, as in many others, we only repeat the thoughts of our primæval ancestors.
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the heavenly soma out of the stormy phenomena of the mountain regions. In the Welsh of the present day, _brygu_ means to grow out, to overspread. One modern Welsh word, _brwysg_, means drunk, and another _brwys_, fertile, luxuriant. The double use of the term at the present time, is, therefore, in singular harmony with the hypothesis of Kuhn, and adds much to its probability. Kelly says:--
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One of the synonyms of soma is _madhu_, which means a mixed drink; and this word is the _methu_ of the Greeks, and the _mead_ of our own Saxon, Norse, and Celto-British ancestors.
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It is locally named the
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Giant's Grave. It is not improbable, from remains discovered near it, that it has had some connection with a temple dedicated to the worship of Mithras. A manuscript by Sir David Smith, preserved in Alnwick Castle, referring to this singular excavation, says:--
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The old peasants here have a tradition that the Romans made a beverage somewhat like beer of the bells of heather (heath), and that this trough was used in the process of making such drink. Dr. Collingwood Bruce, commenting on the above, says:--
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The opinion long prevailed in Northumberland that the _Picts_ had the art of preparing an intoxicating liquor from heather-bells, and that the secret died with them.
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furnished by Bel and Sama for the fertilisation of the earth. The hoary rocky mountains of Pennygent, Ingleborough, and Pendle, and the storm-clouds that contended with lightning about their summits, furnish sufficiently characteristic natural phenomena to justify the appropriateness of the appellation. This deification of rivers was by no means an uncommon occurrence. Sir William Betham, in his
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Gael and Cymbri, says, expressly,
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The Wharf, which springs not far from the source of the Ribble, received these honours from legionaries of Rome or some of their auxiliaries, who appear to have worshipped the stream as the water-goddess
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Verbeia. The Roman name appears to be merely a Latin form of the ancient British word of which the modern name Wharf is a corruption. The Lune, too, appears to have had similar honours conferred upon it, as is evidenced by an altar found at Skerton, near Lancaster, inscribed DEO JALONO. The word _Lune_ was anciently written _Lone_, and the hundred is still named Lonsdale. Indeed, the personification of rivers is not yet extinct. We speak of
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Old Father Thames