presents fourteen different periods, six of which have already
elapsed; we are in the seventh, which began with the flood. Each
of these periods is called a Manwantara, the presiding genius or
Deity of which is a Menu. At the close of each dynasty a total
destruction of the world takes place, everything being destroyed
except the ruler, or Menu, who "escapes in a boat." Each new
world is an exact counterpart of the one destroyed, and each Menu
is a representation of all preceding ones. Thus the history of
one dynasty serves for all the rest. This doctrine of a
triplicated Deity appearing at the beginning of a new creation
may be traced in nearly every country of the globe. Among the
Buddhists of China, Fo is mysteriously multiplied into three
persons in the same manner as is Fo-hi, who is evidently Noah.
Among the Hindoos is observed the triad Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva
springing from the monad Brahm or Brahme. This triad appears on
the earth at the beginning of each Manwantara in the human form
of Menu and his three sons. We are assured that among the
Tartars evident traces are found of a similar God, who is seated
on the lotus. It is also figured on a Siberian medal in the
imperial collection at St. Petersburg. The Jakuthi Tartars, who
are said to be the most numerous people of Siberia, worship a
triplicated Deity under the three denominations of Artugon and
Schugo-tangon and Tangara. Faber tells us that this Tartar God
is the same even in appellation with the Tanga-tanga of the
Peruvians, who, like other tribes of America, seem plainly to
have crossed over from the North-eastern extremity of Siberia.
Upon this subject the same writer remarks thus:

"Agreeably to the mystical notion so familiar to the Hindoos,
that the self-triplicated Great Father yet remained but one in