Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids

Part 13

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_Demonstrated to be older than_ Roman _times_, 9, 10

_Such in countries never conquered by the_ Romans, 3

Stonehenge _and such works built by the_ Phœnician _colony_, 8, 9, 32, 49

_The cathedral of the Arch-Druid_, 8, 10, 32

_Called antiently the_ Ambres, 9, 47

_Thence_ Vespasian’_s camp, and_ Ambresbury _nam’d_, 49

Stonehenge _call’d_ choir gaur: _the great church or cathedral_, 4, 47

_Made with mortaise and tenon, unusual with the_ Romans, 18

_Made by the ancient_ Hebrew, Phœnician _cubit_, 6, 12, 28

_Its proportion to our foot_, 6, 11, 15, 26, 30, 32

_The ancient_ decempedum, 12

_The Druids were geometricians_, 16, 18, 27, 42

_Knew the use of the compass_, 57, 63

_They carried a little ax to cut down misletoe_, 39, 48

_The Druids letter_, 31, 54

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_The patriarchal temples were open_, 19, 23, 30, 39, 40, 46, 52, 54, 58.

Moses’_s tabernacle the first cover’d temple_, 23, 24, 58

_Patriarchal temples_, 19, 40, 46, 50, 51, 54

_Of rude stones, unchizel’d_, 66

_The_ kebla, 24, 30, 40, 54

_Had no statues_, 55

_Patriarchal altars_, 30, 50, 52

_Their temples fronted the east_, 35

_Their temples were consecrated and endowed_, 52

_Paying tythe_, 52, 55

_Bowing, a part of worship_, 33, 34

_They officiated barefooted_, 55

_They practised chastity, before officiating_, ibid.

_The priests wore white linen surplices at the time of officiating_, 24, 55

_Their publick devotion was call’d praying, or invoking, in the N A M E_, 52

_They believ’d a future state_, 31

_They gave notice of religious festivals by fire_, 37

_Those were the quarterly sacrifices_, ibid.

_The manner of sacrificing_, 34, 54

_They us’d water for purification_, 11, 13, 14, 34

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_Of the water vases at_ Stonehenge, 11, 13, 14, 34

_The stone table there_, 34

_Of the stones and cavities on the_ vallum, 11, 14

Crwm-lechen, _bowing stones_, 33, 34

_Human sacrifices_, 54

_Heathen imitations of the_ Jews, 46, 60, 62

Main Ambres, _rocking stones,_ gygonia, petræ ambrosiæ, Bæthylia, 18, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54

Ambrosia _what?_ 51, 52

_Horned, anointed, analogous to sacred, consecrated_, 52, 59

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_The time when_ Hercules _lived_, 52, 53, 58

Hercules _built patriarchal temples, where-ever he came_, 54, 57

_Probably he made the_ Main Ambre _by_ Pensans, _and_ Biscawoon, 54

Persepolis _a patriarchal temple_, 19, 46

_Of the avenue of_ Stonehenge, 35, 39

_Of its two wings_, 35, 38, 41, 57

_Eastern wing, its variation_, 36, 56, 57, 64, 65

_Of the_ Hippodrom _or_ Cursus, 13, 41, 56

_Its variation_, 42, 57

_The_ Romans _borrowed the_ British _chariots_, 42

_The eastern_ meta, _its variation_, 57

_Other like works, in other parts of_ England, 43

_The_ via Iceniana, 9

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_Of the barrows or sepulchral_ tumuli, 43

_Druid barrows_, 10, 45

_Arch-Druids barrows_, 38

_Urn burial_, 44, 46

_The bodies lay north and south_, 45

_Beads of amber, glass, gold,_ &c. _found_, ibid.

_Horses, dogs, and other animals buried with them_, 46

Carvilius’_s tomb_, 4, 44, 46

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_The magnetical compass known to_ Hercules, _the_ Phœnicians _and_ Arabians, 57

_The oracle of_ Jupiter Ammon _had a compass_, 59, 61, 62

_The golden fleece was a compass_, 60, 62

_How the compass was forgot_, 55, 58, 63, 64

Apher _grandson of_ Abraham, _companion of_ Hercules, _from_ Arabia, 53, 62, 63

_He gave name to_ Africa _and to_ Britain, 53, 62, 63

_A scheme of the variation of the compass_, 65

_A conjecture therefrom, when_ Stonehenge _was founded_, 65

_F I N I S._

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