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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
speaks of its King Abi-bal, which last may signify Father Ba-al. Hiram—who built
Solomon’s temple and many similar ones to Jupiter, Hercules, and Astarte 1 — was
said to be Abi-bal’s son.
At Paleste in Epirus, the Furies were worsmpped under the name of the
Palestines; and as Tine, Tyne, Tin, Tan, &c. is usually acknowledged to be “place,”
we hence see that hills and countries with this name denoted that they were famous for
the worship of both the male and female organs. But it was often said to be more than
this; for we find in Mr Taylor’s Etruscan Researches, that he places TINA at the
head of all “words denoting the powers of heaven.” At page 132 he says TINA is the
Supreme Etruscan deity, the Aryan Zeus, and a personification of heaven; that in
Hungarian IS-TEN is the spirit of heaven, and in Hunnic, Turkish, and Mongolian,
TENG-ILI and TENG-RI are “heaven’s place or heaven’s MAN,” and we know that Tien
in Chinese is the Sky or Sky-God. Phonetically, says Mr Taylor, THANA, the
Kirghiz TANG, and the Tatar Tan—“Morning and Light,” is the Roman Diana, but
the Rasennic TINA and THANA; so that the heavenly gods JANUS and JUNO spring from
a Finnic substratum. I dispute these conclusions, however, and consider Tin, Tina, and
Tine, merely affixes denoting place, which I deem to be proved in Is-Ten, the spirit of
heaven, that is the Tin where Is, Il, Ri, &c. dwell. In turning to the list of “Powers of
Heaven,” at page 153, this seems clear; all the terms, Ten, Tien, Tang, there admitting
of the meaning “big,” “high” or “heavenly place,” or “place of light,” where some IS,
LA, LU, LI, RI, &c., dwells. To resume our consideration of Pals or Fals and such like.
From Mr Taylor we learn, at page 330, that these terms enter very commonly
into many languages. standing for or in connection with mountains and high places;
and to his list we may add our mountain name PAR or Parah, as in the name of Par-
VATA, the Queen of hills, the great BAGAVATI or womb of all time.
Etruscan, Falæ, Mountains.
Ostiak, Pel, Mountian.
Do. Pylna, High.
Andi, Pil, Mountain.
Mokacha, P’-anda, Do.
Mordwin, P’-ando, Do.
Lapp, Palwa, Cloud
Our Fanny of course enters into this question, and meant more than it does now:
“A Fanum originally was not a temple but a ‘sacred place’ and this word. was the
common property,” says our Reverend author “of the Turanian races of Italy.” The.
annual assemblage of the tribes was held at a place called Fanum Voltumnæ; the Sabines
meeting at Fanum Lucinæ, and the Volaci at Fanum Artenæ. 2 Now Fanes, Hanes,
Phanes, or Ph’ Aanes (all names of a deity), signified in Egypt “the great fountain of
light” 3 from which terms and and idea, the Greeks had fa…nw, fanaij, fanerÒj, &c. Ph-Hanes, of
course is Pi-An-es, or the mouth-place (Es is a place or country) of An, who may be the
1 “Class. Man.,” p. 391.
2 “E. Res.,” p. 326.
3 Bryant i. 124. Holwell, p. 193.