Forlong - Rivers of Life

Serpent and Phallic Worship.
earth.” Apis, the Father or Bull, the Greeks. termed Appa and Apphus, and the
ROMANS MADE APIA INTO PATRIA, 1 which marks a change in faith. The Memphic Apis
was called at Heliopolis Mnevis or Mneuis, which are Egyptian terms for Father; and
Apa or Ap-ta, which Greeks wrote Aphæ, Aphæa, and Aphtha, were “Amonian terms
for fire and the god of fire,” and for Vulcan as well as for Diana.
The first ruler of Pelasgians of whom we know anything—and that is little, and only
as connected with Greeks and Grecian possessions—was Inakus, who flourished
aoout 1875 B.C., and is put down in “the 19th genemtion before the Trojan war.” He
had a son, Phroneus (Pur-on-theus?), who was contemporary with the foundcr of
Sikyon—say 1850 B.C. In “the 13th generation” we hear of this race firmly estab-
lished in Thessaly, and in “the 9th generation” (say last half of the 15 th century B.C.)
that “Danus supplanted them.” The next generation gives us Deukalion, and the next
Kadmus. The Sikyons were called the most ancient people of Greece, and “Sikyon now
Basilico (a serpent name), the most ancient city and kingdom.” Adrastus, says Homer,
was their first king; and he, says Pausanias, “was driven from the throne of Argos.”
“Sikyon was particularly sacred to Jupiter and Hercules,” 2 by which we may understand,
to Phallic and Sun-worship. But to resume our enquiries as to the Pelasgians.
Pegasus was the swiftness of fire, or Sun, or Zeus; he was the horse on which
Aurora rode, and by which Bellerophon—the winter sun—was enabled to con-
quer the Chimera. It was Pegaaus, we must remember, who awoke the Muses,
daughters of Pi-erus, as they slept in darkness on Mount Helikon—solar picture
similar to the first, and one very full of meaning. Now this Pegasus was one of
Italy’s most ancient gods, whom we often see with the head of a horse and a human
body with or without wings, that is, with or without virile power or continuous force.
He was also often represented as a ship 3 or with feminine power, and was therefore
Hippos or the Sun in his female energies, as he is more especially noticed by Kelts
in the Gaelic language. This makes Pegasus, in such a sense, Ceres or the Argos. Now
Pelasgians are the first emigrant race of whom we know almost anything who settled
in Latium or Italy, by which we may understand that probably Petra or Lingamloving
races were on the Mons Pala-tine before Arkites. The Greeks called
the Arkadians Pelasgi, saying they were Autochthone, or indigenous, meaning by this
merely a people whose past history they were unable to fathom; they describe them
as great hunters and shepherds, loving music and worshipping Pan andArtemis in a
very gross manner. The Romans knew them as a race adjoining Argolis, whose
capital was Argas, often held to signify “a plain,” but only so in the same light as
Isis is the plain, that is the milch cow of the Nile and the ark of life. The settlement
of Pelasgo-Aryans in Italy signifies the pulling-down of Etrusco-Turanian rule; for,
according to Mr. Isaac Taylor and many learned men., Etruscans were Turanians who
had gathered together from the Caucasian Alps and Ural mountains—a Ugrik race;
and were in full occupation of Italy when Greeks begm to group themselves together
1 Holwell, p. 38.
2 “Class. Man.,” Iliad ii., p. 90
3 Bryant, I., 411, and Holwell, p. 322.
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