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Sun Worship.<br />

died and rose again (clearly meaning the sun), re-appearing in a shower <strong>of</strong> gold; from<br />

which the Greeks probably got that Jovian story, and which would seem a resumé <strong>of</strong><br />

his worship in the person <strong>of</strong> Danae, daughter <strong>of</strong> Akrisius, and mother <strong>of</strong> the Dorians.<br />

We know that the progenitor <strong>of</strong> the Dorians, Danians, or A’donians, was Danaus,<br />

he <strong>of</strong> the Naus—Ark or Ship; that the race came to Greece from Kemis in<br />

Egypt, and were great worshippers <strong>of</strong> Adorus, 1 that is Adonis, the autumnal Perseus.<br />

From these Danians or Dorians came the Doric songs which used to be sung in all<br />

Adorations <strong>of</strong>fered in and around the Prutanea <strong>of</strong> Greece, for Doric was the sacred<br />

language <strong>of</strong> the State. 2 The name Adorus or Adonis may thus come from Ador-San or<br />

Ador-Sol, 3 Lord <strong>of</strong> Light, and if so must be a name for Ham Aithoips. Kooth, or Cus,<br />

whose family was called Ba-alim just as we may call Jews El-ites or Elohim-ites.<br />

Æthi-i-opes were first called Aitherii and then At-lan-ti, see Pliny ix. 45, and Bryant<br />

and Holwell.<br />

The Danaides were great Arkites, as all solar worshippers are. Pausanias tells<br />

us that the place where Danaus made his first descent in Argolis was called Apobathmos;<br />

and Josephus calls the place <strong>of</strong> the Noachian Ark’s descent, Apobaterion.<br />

Danaus brought to Argolis with him the Amphi-prum-non (Omphe, and fire <strong>of</strong> On), or<br />

the sacred model <strong>of</strong> the ark, which he lodged in the Akro-polis <strong>of</strong> Argos; the boat, Yoni,<br />

or Larissa <strong>of</strong> this land. Of Danae, the mother <strong>of</strong> Perseus, it is said she “conceived in<br />

showers, exposed in an ark, and was the parent <strong>of</strong> Argos. the founder <strong>of</strong> Ardea and<br />

Argiletum in Italy;” so that we inevitably come to the conclusion <strong>of</strong> the Reverend<br />

Mr. Holwell (p. 148), that Da-Naus is simply the God-ship, and that hn, Neh or Ne<br />

(“Noah”), is a mere variant <strong>of</strong> Da, signifying the male principle in the Naus, that is<br />

Siva, who is the Nāt or Nāth in the Argha. Of course we can vary this, for D, Da,<br />

De, &c., are the roots <strong>of</strong> Zeus—the Aithiops, so that we have here the Deus-Naus,<br />

which the Hindoo reverses, and calls Argha-Nath, “Ark-Goat,” or “Boat and its god,”<br />

i.e., a Sri-linga. Naus in Irish becomes Nói; and Noe, in Welsh, is any “shallow<br />

vessel, or kneading-trough,” so that we see the original meaning was the Argha or<br />

Vulva, which developed into the boat and ship.<br />

Isis was usually shown with a crescent under her, and a cist or “ark in her ‘lap,’ called<br />

Argha, ‘ship’ or ‘receptacle;’ ” and so in Skandinavia, Wodin was the sun, and Freya<br />

the moon, also shown with a chest; so with Druids, Aed Mawr and Keel meant Sun and<br />

Moon. The boundless expanse was the great male covering god, and the dome or hollow<br />

1<br />

Herod. VI., 53. Pliny, VII. Bryant, II.<br />

249. Hol., 147-161.<br />

2<br />

Bryant, I. 112.<br />

3<br />

Ador or Athor was the most sacred wheat,<br />

without beard, <strong>of</strong>fered at adoration <strong>of</strong> gods. In Latin<br />

Adorus was a present <strong>of</strong> such after a victory, and<br />

Ad-oro, is, I adore, from oro, I pray to. Others<br />

derive it from Os-oris, I move my hand (ad os) to<br />

473<br />

my mouth, by way <strong>of</strong> reverence and prayer, but we<br />

only get a root <strong>of</strong> this word by going to the<br />

Keltic, where we find that Ad-radh, “pronounced<br />

Ar-ah” = “adoration;” so that it simply means<br />

“calling on Ara, Alla or God,” while Al or Alt, is<br />

usually “a high place or Alt-Oir,” i.e. Altar, see Rev.<br />

R. Smiddy’s Druids, pp. 28, 29, 249.<br />

4 Bryant, II., 329; Holwell, 147.

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