Forlong - Rivers of Life

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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
Dorians (early), - Sior, Ilos.
Croatian, - - Dohs.
Borneo, - - Nito, Tupa.
Hindoos, - - Esh, Eswāra, Rām, Nāt, Deva,
Nar, Iar, Vary, Swamy.
Chinese, - - Shin, Choo, Tā-o, Fo, Fi, Ti.
Japanese, - - Zain, Yaum, Ta-ma, Mion.
Kalabar Negroes, - Egbo.
Formosa, - - Ishi.
Hungarians, - Isen.
Amongst the ancient Asyrians and Egyptians, Father and Mother, or God and
Goddess, would seem to have been MOUT and NOUT, for Isis was MOUQ, mouth or
mother, and the fertile MUD of the Nile. 1 The God Nout was usually written NOOT,
with large round O’s, so that no violent change was necessary to make Nin or Nim the
male God. Noot is clearly the Western name for our Fat.stern Nat, Nath, or Nar and
Nag (perhaps N’ag), the Spirit-God and Serpent of early man.
In Dr Morrison’s Chinese translation of the Bible, Shin is used for God, Choo for
Lord, and Shin-Choo for Lord-God. Choo is composed of the numeral San, three, 7,
and Yin, I, one, and is a Triune corresponding to the Japanese Ta-ma, and the Anglo-
Saxon Iodje, says the orthodox “Layman.”
All in this list signify the Sun or Phallus, or combine feature or characteristics
of Solo-phallic gods, the roots being clearly—Tu, To, Di, Du, De, I, Ni, Yu, Od, Or,
Am, Ab, Ar, Ra, La, Al, El, Es, Esh, and Ish, to which after came affixes B as Bel, K as
Kor, or Ch as Chor, G as Gode or Go-ad, and Z or S as Zeus and S-al. Nasal n’s, of
course, and aspirates were added, just as the Jew puts h’s to IAO, and the Asyrian an
n to Ni, or I; but remembering this, those who have studied these subjects will see
here the universality of Phallo-Solar, and the roots of Trinitarian faiths; and that the
God of Fertility was clearly the first worship of man.
The Egyptian called the great Creator by such complex names as Phta, Toth,
Khnum, &c, which are reducible to P’Ta, Ta-Ot, A-Um, Am, and Am-On (the intensified
On), that is, the Sun in fertilizing heat, whose representative was the Lingam. From
Aum comes our Amen, the Hebrew Aman }ma, a name given to Jehovah or Christ
when rebuking those who were “neither hot nor cold.” 2 From the Sanskrit Aum or
O’M (“The Ineffable One”) probably comes the Greek On, ”On; permanence; and as
connected with the solar light and hue, we have Latin Aurum, gold; French Or;
Spanish Oiro; Portuguese Oúro; British, Our or Aur. The Scotch call “wealth,”
and all that is good, Oud or Gowd; Gaelie Cail, which is also “energy” and vital force,
reminding us of the Belgic Goud and Goed, and our God. The Sun is always represented
as Gold, which men have considered the greatest Good; and Good is in Danish
God; Goth, Gods; Icel., Godr or Goed; O.H. Ger.; Got; old Gothic, Guth, and Persian
Koda or Khuda, for Ks, are Gs and may be omitted before Os, so Koda = Oda
and Korus = Orus. 3 In ancient days he was Almighty, “Golden,” and a “Lord and
Master,” to be honoured and feared as a terrible and fierce avenger of all who neglected
his rites, sacrifices, or commandments, or who “took his name in vain.” The conception
of Him as a Deity of Goodness and Love, was a far later idea; even now he is so
regarded only by a limited few, while a still smaller number acknowledge him as a
God of Law and Order; others make him passionless, and without either love or hate.
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Plut. De Is. et. Os., and King’s Gnostics, p. 104. [In Egyptian,–t or –et is the feminine terminal. Mout
the Theban vulture / mother goddess and Nut the sky-goddess or female abyss of waters were originally
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distinct from Isis, and each other. — T.S.] Rev. i., iii. 14. The Academy, 5. Feb. 1876.