[Illustration: FIGS. 30 to 38.--From _Les Filigranes_ (Briquet, C. M.).]
It has been suggested that the Wandering Jew is a personification "of that race which wanders _Cain_-like over the earth with the brand of a brother's blood upon it"; by others the story is connected particularly with the gipsies. The Romany word for moon is _choon_, the Cornish for _full moon_ is _cann_, and it is a curious thing that the Etrurian Dante entitles the Man in the Moon, Cain:--
Now doth Cain with fork of thorns confine On either hemisphere touching the wave Beneath the towers of Seville. Yesternight The moon was round.[161]
Christian symbology frequently associates the Virgin Mary with the new moon, and in Fig. 39 a remarkable representation of the Trinity is situated there.
[Illustration: FIG. 39.--The Holy Ghost, as a child of eight or ten years old, in the arms of the Father. French Miniature of the XVI. cent. From _Christian Iconography_ (Didron).]
In the illustrations overleaf of mediæval papermarks, some of which depict the Man in the Moon in his conventional low-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, there is a conspicuous portrayal of the two breasts, doubtless representative of the milk and honey flowing in the mystic Land of _Can_aan. This paradise was reconnoitred by Joshua accompanied by Caleb, whose name means _dog_, and it will be remembered that dog-headed St. Christopher was said to be a Canaanitish giant.
Irishmen assign the name Connaught to a beneficent King Conn, during whose fabulously happy reign all crops yielded ninefold, and the furrows of Ireland flowed with "the pure lacteal produce of the dairy". Conn of Connaught is expressly defined as "good as well as great,"[162] and the Hibernian "pure lacteal produce of the dairy" may be connoted with the Canaanitish "milk". We shall trace King Conn of Connaught at Caen or Kenwood, near St. John's Wood, London, and also at Kilburn, a burn or stream alternatively known as the _Cune_burn. This rivulet comes first within the ken of history in the time of Henry I., when a hermit named Godwyn--query _Good One_?--had his kil or cell upon its banks. King Conn of Connaught reigned in glory with "Good Queen Eda," a Breaton princess who was equally beloved and esteemed. This Eda is seemingly the Lady of Mount Ida in Candia, and her name may perhaps be traced in Maida Vale and Maida Hill. Pa Eda or Father Ida is apparently memorised at the adjacent Paddington which the authorities derive from Paedaington, or _the town of the children of Paeda_. Cynthia, the Goddess of the Moon or _cann_, may be connoted with Cain the Man in the Moon, and we shall ultimately associate her with Candia the alternative title of Crete, and with Caindea, an Irish divinity, whose name in Gaelic means _the gentle goddess_.