A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - Folklore and history |
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... worship . I have taken notice of some of the antient altars , which consisted of a conical hill of earth , styled oftentimes , from its figure , λopos pasoɛidns , a mound , or hill , in the shape of a woman's breast . Titæa ( TiTaia ) ...
... worship . I have taken notice of some of the antient altars , which consisted of a conical hill of earth , styled oftentimes , from its figure , λopos pasoɛidns , a mound , or hill , in the shape of a woman's breast . Titæa ( TiTaia ) ...
Page 65
... worship of the Sun prevailed : for Anes , and Hanes , signified the fountain of light , or fire . Titana was some- times expressed Tithana , by the Ionians rendered Tithena and as Titea was supposed to have been the mother of the Titans ...
... worship of the Sun prevailed : for Anes , and Hanes , signified the fountain of light , or fire . Titana was some- times expressed Tithana , by the Ionians rendered Tithena and as Titea was supposed to have been the mother of the Titans ...
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... worship of their Deity , and brought them , εις Σενααρ της Βαβυλωνίας , to the city Senaar , in Babylonia . But they were again driven from hence by a second dispersion ; and mankind being as yet all of one ' language , 3 The words are ...
... worship of their Deity , and brought them , εις Σενααρ της Βαβυλωνίας , to the city Senaar , in Babylonia . But they were again driven from hence by a second dispersion ; and mankind being as yet all of one ' language , 3 The words are ...
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... worship , and its origin . Eratosthenes 27 Εθηκαν και αυτο εν τῷ Ουρανῳ εἰς μνημοσυνον . supra . Some however think , that it was placed there upon another account ; in memorial of the first altar that was raised after the flood ...
... worship , and its origin . Eratosthenes 27 Εθηκαν και αυτο εν τῷ Ουρανῳ εἰς μνημοσυνον . supra . Some however think , that it was placed there upon another account ; in memorial of the first altar that was raised after the flood ...
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... worship of the sun , that great fountain of light ; and paid the like reverence to the stars , and all the host of heaven . They looked upon them as fountains , from whence were derived to men the most salu- tary 18 emanations . This ...
... worship of the sun , that great fountain of light ; and paid the like reverence to the stars , and all the host of heaven . They looked upon them as fountains , from whence were derived to men the most salu- tary 18 emanations . This ...
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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.