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thought to attach to it. And is it possible, that all those who are
so basely treated among the Gauls, have had Lucifer with Mercury
in the houses of Saturn and the confines of Mars?
Chapter XXIV: Different Customs of Different Countries
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many women have one husband; and each part of the
world adheres to its own manners and institutions. None of
the Amazons have husbands, but, like animals, they go out
from their own territories once a year about the vernal equinox,
and live with the men of the neighboring nation, observing
a sort of solemnity the while, and when they have
conceived by them they return; and if they bring forth a male
child, they cast him away, and rear only females. Now, since
the birth of all is at one season, it is absurd to suppose that in
the case of males Mars is at the time in equal portions with
Saturn, but never in the Genesis of females; and that they have
not Mercury placed with Venus in his own houses, so as to
produce either painters, or sculptors, or moneychangers; or in
the houses of Venus, so that perfumers, or singers, or poets
might be produced. Among the Saracens, and Upper Libyans,
and Moors, and the dwellers about the mouths of the ocean,
and also in the remote districts of Germany, and among the
Sarmatians and Scythians, and all the nations who dwell in the
regions of the Pontic shore, and in the island Chrysea, there is
never found a moneychanger, nor a sculptor, nor a painter,
nor an architect, nor a geometrician, nor a tragedian, nor a
poet. Can it be therefore that the influence of Mercury and Venus
must be wanting among them?
Chapter XXV: Not Genesis, But Free Will
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to be devoured by dogs; yet they have not Mars with the
Moon placed in Cancer all through their daily Genesis. The Indians
burn their dead and the wives of the dead voluntarily
offer themselves, and are burned with them. But all the Indian
women who are burned alive have not the Sun under the earth