A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 2 (of 6)

Of men, styled Zoroaster, the first was a deified personage, reverenced by some of his posterity, whose worship was styled Magia, and the professors of it Magi. His history is t...

Among the different branches of the great Amonian family which spread themselves abroad, the sons of Chus were the most considerable, and at the same time the most enterprising....

[740] L. 8. p. 649. Mount Caucasus was denominated, as is supposed, from a shepherd Caucasus. The women, who officiated in the temple, were styled the daughters of Caucasus, and...

He was also reported, according to [830]Megasthenes and others, to have made an expedition into [831]India, and to have left many memorials of his transactions in those parts. H...

The gigantic Cyclopes were originally Ophitae, who worshipped the symbolical serpent. They have been represented by the poets, as persons of an enormous [535]stature, rude and s...

On this account many antient temples were ornamented with this curious hieroglyphic: and among others the temple of Caphisus [596]in Argolis. Caphisus is a compound of Caph-Isis...

From what has been said, we may perceive that if such a person as Sesostris had existed, his reign must have been of the earliest date. He is by some represented as succeeding T...

Hence the Cadmians were styled [Greek: Anakes], and [1227][Greek: Anaktes]; and the temples of their Gods, [Greek: Anaktoria], Anactoria. These terms were imported from the Anak...

Some make Orpheus by birth a Thracian; some an Arcadian: others a Theban. Pausanias mentions it as an opinion among the [1025]Egyptians, that both Orpheus, and Amphion, were fro...

Farther accounts may be produced from the same writer, in confirmation of what I have been saying. He not only mentions the great veneration paid by the Egyptians to dogs, but a...

[252] Homer. Odyss. [lambda]. v. 105. Strabo supposes Trinakis to have been the modern name of the island; forgetting that it was prior to the time of Homer. l. 6. p. 407: he al...

[916] Chron. Paschale. p. 36. Semiramis was, we find, Rhea: and Rhea was the same as Cybele, the mother of the Gods: [Greek: ten Rhean, Kibelen, kai Kuben, kai Dindumenen.] Stra...

These horses, [Greek: xenoktonoi], which fed upon the flesh of strangers, were the priests of Hippa, and of Dionusus, styled Hippus, or more properly Hippius. They seem to have...

He is said to have sailed first to [1074]Phenicia and Cyprus; and afterwards to [1075]Rhodes. Here he instructed the people in the religion which he professed; and founded a tem...

But Campe was an oracular temple and inclosure, sacred to Ham or Cham: where people used to exercise. The fifty heads related to the number of the priests, who there resided; an...

[51] [Greek: Eis hieron epeidan prota komisthe Kunokephalos, delton autoi paratithesin ho Hiereus, kai schoinion, kai melan, peirazon, ei ek tes epistamenes esti sungeneias gram...

It may seem extraordinary, that the worship of the serpent should have ever been introduced into the world: and it must appear still more remarkable, that it should almost unive...

_They had also long pillars, or obelisks, which referred to the sea; and upon which was delineated the whole system both of heaven and earth_; [Greek: amphis], _all around, both...

[503] Diodorus. l. I. p. 25. Cecrops is not by name mentioned in this passage according to the present copies: yet what is said, certainly relates to him, as appears by the cont...

Under the character of Europa are to be understood people styled Europians from their particular mode of worship. The first variation from the purer Zabaism consisted in the Oph...

_as possessing the deep toned trumpet of the Hetrurian main_. However in early times these brazen instruments were but little known: and people were obliged to make use of what...

It may be said, that I run counter to the opinions of all antiquity: that all the fathers who treated of this subject, and many other learned men, supposed the Gods of the heath...

In respect to the legends about dragons, I am persuaded that the antients sometimes did wilfully misrepresent things, in order to increase the wonder. Iphicrates related, that i...

Many give an account of the Lestrygons, and Lamiae, upon the Liris in Italy; and also upon other parts of that coast: and some of them did settle there. But they were more parti...

The measures and harmony of the Canaanites seem to have been very affecting, and to have made a wonderful impression on the minds of their audience. The infectious mode of worsh...

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Castor, the supposed disciple of Chiron, was in reality the same as Chiron; being a sacred tower, a Chironian edifice, which served both for a temple and Pharos. As these buildi...

[1167] Cadmus is called [Greek: Kadmon]. Steph. Byzant. [Greek: Illuria]. Berkelius has altered it to [Greek: Kadmos], though he confesses, that it is contrary to the evidence o...