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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
Deva or mighty Lingam, some 30 feet in circumference, around which Benares clusters.
Now, Ham, as Hebro-Chrisians call the father of the Egyptians, signifies Heat, and
is written Am or Cham; he is the Sun, which has similar names as Shem, Sham,
Shams, Shamus, and hard, as Kem, Kam, Kama, the Sanskrit-Aryan God of Love,
form which comes Kamāla, the name of the sacred Lotus. Ak or Ach—this last a
mode of spelling which has often kept us in the dark—enters abundantly into many words,
and “was a term of honour among the Babylonians and the rest of the progeny of the
Chus” 1 —which last we may spell Koos or Kooth. “Ak-ad, says the Reverend Mr. Holwell,
“was one of the oldest, and first cities in the world, and Ak-ad, and Ak-on, were
names of the Deity, the Sun,” as also Ak-ar; and notice that not only these words, but
all the parts of them, signify the sun. It seems to be a peculiarity of early races and
weak minds to reiterate the chief word of a sentence, as every person who knows an
Eastern tongue colloquially, will acknowledge; we possibly see the same in our nurse’s
pet “Georgie-Porgy.” In the Old Testament this repetition constantly occurs as El-Elohe,
El-beth-el, El-Is-ra-el, El-ja and Ja-el, &c. Akai-menes were worshippers of Ak or Aka,
and Mene the moon, and Plato tells us we have the same signification in Her-ak-lide,
though Hera or Hoor may here signify the race worshipping either Sun or Moon. If
they came from India, they would be devotees of Vishnoo, as he is Hari, or the Sun, and
“the God of Religion,” if from Kaldi, then of Hur, the Moon.
In all this be it remembered we have also the Serpent, for he is “an
emblem of the Sun, Time, Kronos, and Eternity, and was esteemed the same
as Osiris” 2 but it is as Pi, and therefore, the sun in activity, the upright and
inflated one; so Pi-on is the Lingam, and usually the fertilizing sun of spring.
Pi conveys in general the same signification as when Kam (love) enters into a compound
word, as in Kam-Orus, a name of Oph-El, or Ar-Kam-Orus, the city or God.-
Kam-Orus. 3 Op-El-tes or Op-El-des signifies the Des or country of Ophites or
Opelites, as Op-El-tin means the place, generally sacred place, and therefore altar or
shrine, of an ophite; if with a Taphos, tšmenoj, or sacred enclosure; then it was called
a sacred mound or Omphe, and in this case usually had a feminine significance. Serpentworshippers
were also styled Heliadæ, Auritæ (solar terms),Pitanatæ, and Drakonani, for
all gods or god-men connected with Sol became more or less connected with this universal
Basileus. His Greek term Python or Pi-on came from Egypt, or is perhaps the Syrian }tp
Pethan, Asp or Basiliskos; that Basilisk or “Serpent king,” so called from the crown
or Lingam-like triangle on his head which he inflates at pleasure, and makes him a
most fit representative of the hooded Eastern Cobra. Numerous are the fables concerning
him; he or a congener is “the Cockatrice, sprung from a cock’s egg, brooded by a
serpent”—strnage co-m.ngling of such potent mythic creatures. As sprung from a male
without a female, this gives him the leading characteristic of & god or god-man which all
faiths cling to. Christ is the offspring of Jahveh and not of Joseph, nor yet even Mary,
1 Holwell, p. 2; Gen. x. 10.
2 “Clas. Man.” 337.; Odys. xiv.
3 Bryant I., 462; Holwell, 303.