A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - Folklore and history |
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... plain from Hatho the Armenian , who nentions it out of composition by the name of Arath . In Arme- niâ est altior mons , quam sit in toto orbe ter- rarum , qui Arath vulgariter nuncupatur ; et in cacumine illius montis arca Noæ post ...
... plain from Hatho the Armenian , who nentions it out of composition by the name of Arath . In Arme- niâ est altior mons , quam sit in toto orbe ter- rarum , qui Arath vulgariter nuncupatur ; et in cacumine illius montis arca Noæ post ...
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... plains and val- leys between the mountains . A country of this nature and situation must , after the flood , have been soonest dried , and consequently the soonest habitable . And it seems also , in an eminent de- gree , to have ...
... plains and val- leys between the mountains . A country of this nature and situation must , after the flood , have been soonest dried , and consequently the soonest habitable . And it seems also , in an eminent de- gree , to have ...
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... plain from the name ; for Cemainum signifies eight . They call the mountain the mother of the world . From hence we may perceive , that what this writer ren- ders Cemainum , should rather have been ex- pressed Shemainum , or Shemanum ...
... plain from the name ; for Cemainum signifies eight . They call the mountain the mother of the world . From hence we may perceive , that what this writer ren- ders Cemainum , should rather have been ex- pressed Shemainum , or Shemanum ...
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... plain of Araratia ; and held in great regard by the Ar- menians , who give out , that it is the most antient place in the world , and built immediately after the Deluge by Noah . Galanus , a Roman Presbyter , who wrote an account of the ...
... plain of Araratia ; and held in great regard by the Ar- menians , who give out , that it is the most antient place in the world , and built immediately after the Deluge by Noah . Galanus , a Roman Presbyter , who wrote an account of the ...
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... plains of Shinar : but it will be my endeavour to shew , that the general migration was not only prior , but from another part of the world . The βασιλειαν Βαβυλωνος μετα τον κατακλυσμον ή θεία γραφή ανατίθησι , Chron . Paschale . p ...
... plains of Shinar : but it will be my endeavour to shew , that the general migration was not only prior , but from another part of the world . The βασιλειαν Βαβυλωνος μετα τον κατακλυσμον ή θεία γραφή ανατίθησι , Chron . Paschale . p ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards ages Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonia Bacchus Belus Berosus Bochart called Canaan Chaldea Chron Colchis consequence Cronus Cutha Cuthites Deity deluge Diodorus Dionys dispersion dynasty earth Egypt Egyptians Erythrean Ethiopians Euseb Eusebius Gods Grecians Greece Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned mistake Mizraim Moses mountain nations natives Nimrod Oannes original Perieg person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river sacred says Scythia Sethon Shepherds shew shewn Shinar signified sons of Chus speaks Strabo styled supposed Syncell Syncellus takes notice term Tigris tion Titanian Titans tower whence worship writers γαρ δε δια εις εκ εν Ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ύπο Χαμ
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Page 24 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Page 24 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 38 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 341 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 18 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 24 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 83 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 284 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 36 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Page 24 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.