The Celtic Druids, Or, An Attempt to Shew that the Druids Were the Priests of Oriental Colonies who Emigrated from India, and Were the Introducers of the First Or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of Other Cyclopean Works in Asia and Europe

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Contents

Stones of Stennis Scotland
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CHAPTER II
xc
SECT PAGE 1 Preliminary Observations 1
xcvi
Necessity of Etymology 2
xcvi
Alphabets 3
xcvi
Changes in Language
6
Theory respecting Figures
7
Division of the Year and Circle
9
Druids acquainted with Letters
10
Objection to the Passage of Cæsars
12
Ingenuity of Mr Ledwich
14
Two Ancient Alphabets
15
Irish Greek and Hebrew Letters the same
16
Slight Difference in the Alphabets
17
English and Arabic Alphabets the same as the others
18
Ogams of Ireland
19
Hercules Ogmius
20
Ogam Writings yet exist
21
Affinity between the Languages
22
Argument concluded
23
Peculiarity of the Irish Alphabet
24
Irish Letters compared with Hebrew
25
Possible Use of the above System
26
Hieroglyphics
27
Ciphering invented before Letters
28
A Mazy Concern
29
Chaldees of the Jews
30
Holy Fury
31
Virgil a Druid
32
Runes of the North
33
Allusions to Trees
34
Brimham Yorkshire
35
When the Ogham Writing was invented
36
Picts Towers
37
SECT PAGE 1 Tenth Chapter of Genesis
38
The Eleventh Chapter of Genesis misplaced
39
The Authors Hypothesis supported by Mr Bryant
40
Transposition of Part of the Eleventh Chapter of Genesis
41
Great Knowledge displayed in the Tenth Chapter of Genesis
42
DHerbelots Opinion
43
St Jerom respecting Babylon and Shinar
44
Baillies Hypothesis on a Primeval Nation
45
Opinions of Baillie Buffon and Linné on the Earth and on Man
47
Baillies Reasons for his Hypothesis
48
Baillie on the Sevenday Cycle
49
Sir W Drummond supports Baillie
50
Mr Ledwich also supports Baillie
51
Persia India and China the Depositaries not the Inventors of Science
52
The Celta were Gomerians
54
Pezrons Summary of the different Opinions
56
Observation respecting the Opposition of Priests
57
The Umbri and Etruscans
58
Affinity between the Latin Sanscrit and Celtic
59
Affinity between the Hebrew and the Celtic
62
Affinity between the Greek Sanscrit and Celtic
64
The Term Barbarian
66
The Celtic the First Swarm from the Parent Hive
67
Swarms cast off into the South
68
Nothing to impede the Advance of the Tribes
69
Example of the Cimbri
71
Reflections on the Example of the Cimbri
76
Reasons against the Existence of an Ancient Nation not valid
77
The Scythians
78
Colonel Vallencey impolitic
79
Origin of the Irish Fables
81
Irish Bards
83
Mr OConnors Doctrines not approved by the Author
85
Derivation of the word Britain CHAPTER III
88
Digression respecting the Hero Gods
89
Derivation of the word Britain continued
90
Whitakers Derivation of the word Britain
91
Derivation of Bretagne in Gaul
92
Derivation of the word Albion 7 Derivation of the word Druid
94
Derivation of the words Vates and Bards
95
ib
96
Britain how peopled
97
Mr Daviess Opinion of the First Settlers
99
A Passage from a Poem of Taliessins
100
Population of Britain at the Roman Invasion
101
Britain known to Aristotle
102
Britain first discovered by Pytheas of Marseilles 15 Phoenician Trade to Britain
103
The Old Greeks knew more of Britain than their Successors
104
Geographical Ignorance of Strabo and the Greeks of his Time
105
Abaris
123
Abaris probably a Native of Ireland
124
Druids probably Pythagoreans
125
The Cross common to Greeks Egyptians and Indians
126
Monograms of Christ
127
Extract from Vallencey
128
The Druids adored the Cross b
130
The Old not more than the New Testament miraculously protected from Error
132
this not intended to teach Chronology or Geology
133
Mosaic Chronology
134
Observations on the last Section
135
The Druids admitted the Creation of Matter
137
Cuvier on the Structure of the Earth
138
Observations on the last Section
139
Meaning of the First Verse of Genesis
140
Eternity of Matter
141
Further Observations respecting Genesis
143
Mr OConnors Doctrines further considered
145
Difference of Opinion respecting Chronology
146
Sir Wm Drummond respecting Chronology
147
CHAPTER V
149
The Naurutz in India and Persia
151
Opinions of Faber Maurice and Collyer
154
The Question of the Bramin Backreckoning
155
A Practice of the Guebres of India
158
The Cushites of Mr Maurice
160
The Druid Festival of Christmas
162
Origin of the word Lord
164
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165
Gods of the British Islands
166
System of M Pictet of Geneva
167
Aesar Intellectual Fire or Logh
168
The Mother of the Gods
169
Molloch
171
Cearas and Ceara or Ceres
172
Nath
173
Samhan or BalSab
174
Esmun
175
Explanation of some Ancient Doctrines
176
The first Cabiri Three in Number
177
The Cabiri of the Phoenicians
179
Baal
180
182
182
183
183
185
185
Bryants and Aikins Account of the Chaldees
191
The Culdees succeeded by Hereditary Descent
193
Derivation of the word Culdee 35 Last Remains of the Culdees in Yorkshire
194
Bramham in Yorkshire 37 Ionaderivation
196
Jupiter and Janus
198
St Columba
199
Human Sacrifices by St Patrick
202
Coarbs at Iona
203
Coarbs in Wales and Ireland 43 Doctrines of the Culdees 193 194 ib 196 ib 198 199 202 203 205
205
St Patrick
206
CHAPTER VI
207
A single Plain Stone the Origin of Idolatry
209
The Grecian Lithoi
210
The Lithoi of the Israelites
211
The Lithoi or Cromlehs of the Britons 6 Crosses upon the Lithoi
212
The different Uses of these Stones
213
Rock Idols
216
Kistvaens or Monuments of Four Stones
217
Carns
218
RockingStones or Logan Stones
222
How to account for the RockingStones
223
RockingStones common in Britain
224
Tolmen
225
Tumuli and Dwarfy Stone
226
Deisul or Deiseal
228
Vallencey and others on Ancient Circular Temples
235
Theory of the Origin of Numbers of the First Chapter resumed
250
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258
Curious Proofs of the Truth of the last and of the Section preceding
264
Obelisks at Boroughbridge
270
Hierarchy of the Druids
273
Druids superintend the Education of Youth
281
Worship of the Serpent and the Anguinum
287
The Institution of Priesthoods an Evil
297
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Abury alphabet amongst ancient antiquity argument astronomical Baillie barrow Beth-luis-nion Borlase Bramins Britain British Cabiri Cæsar called Caspian Caspian Sea Celta Celtæ Celtic Celts CHAP chapter Christian Cimbri Cimmerii circle circumstances Coll colony considered curious derived digamma Diodorus Siculus divines doctrine doubt Druidical Druids earth East Egypt Etruscan Etruscan alphabet evidently fact feet festival Gaul Genesis Gomer Græcis Greece Greek Hebrew Hercules Herodotus Hist Hyperboreans India invented Ireland Irish island isles king language learned Ledwich letters means Moses mysteries nations nature observed Ogam Ogham Ogum opinion original passage Pentateuch Persians persons Pezron philosophers Phoenician priests probably prove reader religion respecting Romans sacred Samaritan Samhan Sanscrit says Scythians SECT shew shewn Stonehenge stones Strabo Stukeley supposed temple thing Toland trees tribes tumulus Umbri Vallencey Welsh word worship writing

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TitleThe Celtic Druids, Or, An Attempt to Shew that the Druids Were the Priests of Oriental Colonies who Emigrated from India, and Were the Introducers of the First Or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of Other Cyclopean Works in Asia and Europe
AuthorGodfrey Higgins
PublisherR. Hunter, 1829
Original fromAustrian National Library
Digitized6 May 2014
Length324 pages
  
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