THE principal notices, respecting HU GADARN; or, Hu, the Mighty; are to be found in the Historical Triads, printed in the Archaiology of Wales, vol. ii. and are to the following purport :

Triad 4. p. 57.-The three pillars of the nation of the isle of Britain (ynys Prydain). First, Hu the Mighty, who conducted the nation of the Cymry into the isle of Britain; and from the summer country, which is called Defrobani, was their progress; that is to say, where Constantinople is situated; and it was over the hazy sea (German Ocean) that they arrived in the isle of Britain, and in Bretagne, (Llydaw) where they continued. Second, Prydain, the son of Aedd the Great, who established social compact and monarchy first over the isle of Britain; for, prior to that period, there was no right, except what might be done through amenity, nor order, but the strongest taking by force. Third, Dyrnmal Moelmud, who was the first that reduced the laws,

ordinances, customs, and privileges of country and nation to a system; and on account of those things they were called the three pillars of the nation of the Cymry.

Triad 5.p.58.-The three social tribes of the isle of Britain: The first was the nation of the Cymry, that came with Hu the Mighty, of whom it is noted, that he would not obtain dominion and lands through fighting and pursuit, but through equity and peace; the second was the stock of the Loegrians, that came from the land of Gascogne (Gwasgren), who proceeded, as to their origin, from the primitive stock of the Cymry; and the third were the Brythi, and who came from the land of Bretagne (Llydaw), originating from the primitive stock of the Cymry. They were denominated the three peaceable tribes, on account of their coming with the consent of each other, in peace and tranquillity; and those three tribes originated from the primitive nation of the Cymry;

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Triad 54, p. 67.-The three guardians against oppression of the isle of Britain: Hu the Mighty, conducting the nation of the Cymry out of the summer country, called Defrobani, to the isle of Britain; Prydain, the son of Aedd the Great, bringing the Britons under policy and law; and Rhitta Gawr, who made for himself a robe of the beards of kings, whom he made vile ones (shaved) on account of their tyranny and profligacy.

Triad 56, p. 67.-The three benefactors of the nation of the Cymry: the first was Hu the Mighty, who first instructed the Cymry in the way of ploughing land, when they were in the summer country, (that is, where Constantinople now stands), before they came into the isle of Britain; Coll, son of Collvrewi, who first introduced wheat and barley into Britain, where there were only oats and rye before that time; and Elltred the Knight and Saint, of the society of Theodosius, (Tewdws), who improved the manner of ploughing land, superior to what was known before, among the Cymry, and gave them the system and art of cultivating

prior to the time of Elltred the land was only cultivated with the mattog and over-tread plough, in the manner of the Gwyddelians.

Triad 57. p. 67.—The three primary systemists of the nation of the Cymry: Hu the Mighty, who first devised the method of movement and unity of array among the Cymry; Dycnmal Moelmud, who first brought the laws, privileges, and customs of country and nation into a regular code; and Tydain, Father of the Muse, who first made order and system of the memorial and preservation of vocal song and its attributes; and from that order were invented the original systematic privileges and customs of the bards and bardism of the isle of Britain.

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persons performed originated bards and bardism, and the forming of those into a system of privilege and custom, by the three primitive bards, namely, Plennydd, Alawn, and Gwron.

Triad 97. p. 71.-The three principal achievements of the isle of Britain: the SHIP of Nevydd Nav Neivion, which carried in it the male and female of all living, when the Lake of Floods broke out; the PROMINENT OXEN of Hu the Mighty, that dragged the tortoise (Avanc) of the lake to land, so that the lake broke out no more; and the STONES of Gwyddon Ganhebon, whereon were to be read all the arts and sciences of the world,

The poets of Wales make frequent mention of Hu Gadarn, from the foregoing Triads, and from some other memorials, which are now lost. Jolo Goch, a bard of the fourteenth century, applies to him the attributes of deity, "being the supreme and active protector, having the elements at his command, lightning the chains of his oxen, and whose abode is in the splendid sun." This and Huon, another ancient name for the Deity, are to be identified with Hesus, who was worshipped in Gaul. The abstract meaning

of the word HU is what is subtle, or penetrating; intellect, or intelligence; and from this root the word HUAD, a hound, is formed: as also HUAN, the sun and may not this be the origin of Anubis, the god of Egypt, as being represented with the head of the same animal, by considering it an emblem of intelligence, or providence, from its superior faculty of tracing by scent?

Upon that curious sarcophagus in the British Museum, which was brought from Egypt, there is evidently a hieroglyphic representation of the Noachida, repeated in five or six places, wherein the identity of Hu, Huon, or Hesus, and Anubis, appears very remarkably: there we see a group of eight persons in a boat, and another standing up, out of the group, at one end of the boat, encircled by a ring, aud having the head of the hound, emblematic of providence or the guide.