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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
more ably than Englishmen have treated of British ruins. I shall presume that the
facts and topography, always here highly important, are well known to my readers.
At Karnak and Malnak we observe long lines of upright stones, evidently arranged
systematically and with care, winding around and near to sacred and somewhat
remarkable conical mounds, and ending in decreasing size near a very remarkablyshaped
Bay. All ages have looked upon the arrangement of these monoliths as
imitating the coils of the great mythological snake, and some learned writers insist
that the word Karnak is held to be derived from Karn or Cairn, a. heap of stones, that
is a Hermes, and “AK,” a serpent, in the same language. In Egyptian and Asyrian,
AK is the Sun, and also Serpent. No wonder that, with such a grand monument,
“these Pagans,” as they were called, of the province of Armorika, did, so late as a
few centuries ago, “incur the censure of the Church for worshipping upright stones.”
These modern Armorikans did not, however, thinks no reviewer, regard the stones
themselves as possessed of divinity, but only as the sacred constituents of a grand
emblematical structure, by which their Deity was typified, or which his worship had
hallowed. This “Dracontium,” as it is now commonly called, is half a mile distant
from the village of Karnak, nine miles from Auray, in the department of Bretony.
Its width towards the tail is 200 feet, and towards the head—the east, 350 feet, where
the stones average 15 to 17 feet in height—above ground—and 30 to 40 feet in
circumference. The tail rises out of a narrow part of a Marine lake, called by the
modern but very suspicious name of La Trinité; and the head, running round the
mound near the quaintly-shaped Bay of Quiberon, possibly Oub-r-on, there rests after
a course of some eight miles. At two points it forms a horse-shoe or bell, and at
every point it keeps in full view “a singular mound of great elevation which was
once evidently conical; the upper part of it being artificial, and analogous to the remarkable
hill of Silbury, which is similarly connected with the Dracontium of Avebury or
Abury (perhaps Ab-Ur). This cone has been consecrated by the Christians to the Archangel
Michael, to whom also is sacred every natural or artificial mound in Bretony;”
showing us, if we did not know this otherwise, that Michael is Hermes, the Lingam,
Sun-stone, or strength of the Sun—the Mahe-Kāl or Christian Maha-Deva. We
do not hear much of this Michael till those converted to Christianity lost their Baituli,
Beth-Els, or Lingam-Gods; but he came to light in the Apocalypse as “the destroyer
of the Dragon,” because that Dragon had. forgotten he was the servant, though motor
and spiral adorner of the Cone, and not in these days, itself the king. In the apocryphal
book called “The Death of Moses,” “Michael and Samael” (usually called Satan)
“contend,” we are told, “for the body of Moses;” which “contenders" we may classify
with Raphael, Uriel, Ariel, etc., who represent certain emanations from the active
principle of nature, that is, are phallic deities (Idol., note 9). It is very important to
remember this, and also that every people must have a Maha-Deva in one form of
another. Mahomed selected Gabriel, to whom, along with Michael, Europe has shown