Forlong - Rivers of Life

Sun Worship.
no doubt Adonis. All Italy used to go forth to welcome this god at his Vertumnalia
on the 23d of August; they placed his temples—within which would be his Priapic
figure—close to the altar of Ops, a fitting Queen. In the Solar name, Semon, we see
other meanings connected with the Sun, who alone can produce the seed and render it
fruitful; and the Hebrew saw this when he gave the name Sarah to the wife of
A-Bram, or Ab-Ra-Am. Diana—Sol’s offspring, the fair child Dies or Day, called herself
his IOne, one of her names being Saroni; and the men of Tyre and Sidon named their
noble ones Sarim, and anything noble Sarranus. 1 Thus the capital of wealthy Cresus
was Sar-dis or Sar-Ades, and Sargon was one of Asyria’s greatest kings; Serapis and
Serapion are no less immortal names. “Saron,” writes Bryant, “was without doubt
an ancient god of Greece,” by some held to be Poseidon, the Deus Marinus. All
oaks were named Saronides, because, says Pliny (iv. 8), they were sacred to the Sungod;
and so also rocks were Saronides, 2 because they represented the virile god,
and man; hence Tsurim (rocks) in the Hebrew sacred writings are constantly equivalent
to Elohim, and connected with Matsebahs, Tors, and Temples. 3
As closely connected with Solar titles, let us look at the names given by various
peoples and ages to the Ineffable and Incomprehensible One—Spirit or Creative Force,
which we call God. The following is a list which, though very imperfect and likely to
lead to error if used without some knowledge of the languages and feelings of the
period when these names came into existence, may yet help the reader’s memory and
assist investigation. 4
German, - - Gott.
Belgis, - - Gott.
Teutonic, - - Gutt, Gud, Ehod.
Old Danes and Laps, Odin, Teut, Thor, Thot.
Swedish, - - Gode.
Bretons, - - Goed, Doe
Welsh, - - Dduiv, De, Dewv.
Spanish, - - Dios.
Italian, - - Idio.
Turkish, - - Abdi, Al, Allah.
Philippine Isles, - Abba.
Wallachian, - Zëul.
Etrurian, - - Chur or Kor, Œsar.
Magarian, - - Oesc.
Tyrrhenian, - Eber.
Saracens, - - Abgd.
Anglo-Saxons, - Ta-ui, Heil, As. (Runic).
Siberians and Polynesians, Tora, Ta-ora.
Otahitians, - - Ta-ul, Kalou (Fiji).
Madagascar, - Jada.
Arabia, - - Allah, Ta-Al, Al.
Syria, - - Adad, Alueh, hwla, Chad, or
Kad, Beth-El.
Ethiopians, - - Amlen, {lma.
1 2
Holwell, p. 365 Ibid., p. 367
3
See chapter on Arkite Faiths in Man’s Origin
and Destiny. J. P. Lesley.
465
Magian, - - Orsi.
Ceylonese, - - Odel
N. Amer. Aborigine, Zimi, Teotl, Tloque.
Jews, - - Jahveh, Yahveh, JAH,
IAH, El, Shadai, Adonai,
Aleim, Ani-hua, awh yna
Persian, - - Syra or Soora, Mitra, Jzed,
Shams, Sar, Koda.
Peruvian, - - Lian, Yuti.
Tatars, - - Edga.
Greeks, - - IAO, Zeus, Dionysus.
Slaves, - - Bleg, Boog, Buh.
Russian, - - Book, Boge.
Polish, - - Boog, Boze.
Dalmatian, - - Bogi, Bogs.
Druids, - - Bel, Thau, Crom, De, Dis.
Phenician, - - Yachvah, Jah, Ba-al, El.
Egyptian, - - Toth, Zeut, Budh, Phre, P’ta,
Knum, P’nuta, Hoon, Ha,
Am, Am-On, Osiris.
Kaldian, - - An, Bel, Beltis or Ishtar,
Nin, Nebo, Hea, Vool.
Gaelic, - - Dia, Io-dhol, Nimh, Iar.
Irish, - - Dieh, Dhia, Niel, Esar, Be-al.
4 I am partly indebted for these names to a
pamphlet “by a Layman,” on Evidence of the Universality
of the Trinity. Hall & Co., Lon., 1863.