SCENT Su, Tuisto (Mercury), and Ertha (the , earth), were the chief divinities of the early German tribes. Tuisto was born of Ertha (Ella) and Mantis (Menu); lie is often con founded with Odin or Woden, the Budha of the easteni tribes, though they are the Mars and, Mercury of these nations. The Suevi or Sniones, the most powerful Getic nation of Scandinavia, was divided into many tribes, one of whom, the Su (Yu-chi or Jit), made human sacrifices in their consecrated groves to Ertha (Ella), whom all worshipped, and whose chariot was drawn by a cow. The Suevi worshipped Isis and Ceres (of Rajasthan), in whose rites the figure of a ship is introduced, symbolic,' observes Tacitns, of its foreign origin.' At Udaipur, the festival of Ise or. Gowri, wife of Iswara, is performed on the lake, and appears to be exactly that of Isis and Osiris in Egypt, as described by licrodotus. The Getic race carried their veneration for the horse, symbolic of their chief deity the sun, into Scan dinavia, equally so of all the early German tribes, the Su, Suevi, Catti, and Suchnbri Getes, in the forest of Germany and on the banks of the Elbe and Weser. The milk-white horse was supposed
to be the organ of the gods, from whose neighing they calculated future events : notions possessed also by the Aswa, sons of Budha (Woden), on the Yamuna and Ganges, when the rocks of Scandinavia and the shores of the 13altic were yet mitred by man. It WAS this omen which gave Darius Ilystaspes (Hystia, to neigh ; Aspa, horse) a crown. The bard Chund makes it the omen of death to his principal heroes. The steed of the Scandinavian god of battle was kept in the temple of tipsala, and always 'found foaming and sweating after battle.' • Money,' says Tacitus. ' waB only acceptable to the Germau when bearing the effigies of the horse.'—Tocitas ; Rajasthan, i. p. 64.