hm 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 essence, the
Peruvians supposed their Tanga-tanga to be one in three, and three
in one: and in consequence of the union of hero worship with the
astronomical and material systems of idolatry they venerated the sun
and the air, each under three images and three names. The same opinions
equally prevailed throughout the nations which lie to the west of
Hindostan. Thus the Persians had their Ormuzd, Mithras, and Ahriman:
or, as the matter was sometimes represented, their self-triplicating
Mithras. The Syrians had their Monimus, Aziz, and Ares. The Egyptians
had their Emeph, Eicton, and Phtha. The Greeks and Romans had their
Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto; three in number, though one in essence, and
all springing from Cronus, a fourth, yet older God. The Canaanites had
their Baal-Spalisha or self-triplicated Baal. The Goths had their Odin,
Vile, and Ve, who are described as the three sons of Bura, the offspring
of the mysterious cow, and the Celts had their three bulls, venerated as
the living symbols of the triple Hu or Menu. To the same class we must
ascribe the triads of the Orphic and Pythagorean and Platonic schools;
each of which must again be identified with the imperial triad of the
old Chaldaic or Babylonian philosophy."(43)

43) Faber, Pagan Idolatry, book vi., ch. ii., p. 470.

The history of the catastrophe known as the deluge, which, it is
claimed, took place either in Armenia, at Cashgar, or at some other
place in the East, is observed, in later ages, to furnish a covering
beneath which have been veiled the mythical doctrines