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480 Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands. and, adds the translator in his note on verse seventy of this hymn: “Apollo was induced by his love to Admetus” (Adam or man), to descend from heaven,” to save his own Fig. 179.—THE JEWISH CHERUBIM FROM CALVET. THE SEASONS; FERTILITY; ALL ORGANS sons from death, and did really disarm his father of his vengeance and the wrath due to their offences . . . he was exiled from heaven, deprived for a time of the privileges
Sun Worship. of his divinity, and became a stranger and a sojourner, and yet a shepherd here upon earth, . . . he procured for Adam that he should escape death, and be delivered from it by the death of another, . . . He himself condescended to become his substitute.” 1 This idea seems to have been present in the minds of the Hebrew writers of Ps. lxxxx. 1; Isa. xl, 11, xlix. 10; Ezek. xxxiv. 13, and Jo. x. 1-16, &c. Not even the Persian Conqueror Dates presumed to put out Apollo’s fires; he destroyed most Grecian shrines, but those of Apollo and Diana in Delos he religiously respected, evidently looking upon them as those of Mithras—the pur ¢ennaon or “everlasting fire.” Mr. Hanway tells us that on his visiting Bako, the original and moat sacred spot of the Persian Giberrs, that he found the devotees like Indian Saniyāses, “naked, and with certain of their limbs fixed for ever in one position;” having saffron on their foreheads, and greatly venerating the red cow, which we know Egyptians, and after them, Jews did. The Bakoo fire is in a rocky country, ten miles N.E. by E. of Boko, where are many little stone temples, but only in one does a soft blue flame issue from the earth. It is caught up by a hollow bamboo, and there burns about three feet above the altar. Here reside some forty or fifty poor devotees, praying for themselves and a lost world. Of course, they are Sivaites of a kind. Apollo is said to have killed the Kuklops who furnished his father with thunder-bolts, another proof that this race was probably all-powerful before Jove’s day, and that Apollo-worship tried to efface the older faith, of which this very Sivaik, one-eyed people were the strenuous and oldest supporters. Diana, the Sister of Apollo, was the tallest and handsomest of the goddesses. She too was “ever young,” and from her bow was always emitting darts on men and animals, yet ever healing and removing the pains and ills of life. She was the Moon which continually puts forth precious things, as the Jews so well knew, 2 and “the guardian of mountains and groves;” her car was drawn by two stags, denoting swiftness and longevity, as that of Ceres was by Serpents, or Passion, Kubele’s by lions, and Venus’ junctis oloribus. 3 Diana was the Triformis and the Tergemina; in Heaven Luna, on Earth Diana, and in Hades Hekate or Proserpine. 4 Hesiod pictures her somewhat like the Jewish Cherubim, but with the head of a horse on one side, and a dog on the other, herself the centre as a man! This must never surprise us however, there being a Lunus as well as a Luna. The dog usually betokens salaciousness, and the Hippos fertile power. Some ascribe to Diana the form of a young bull, dog, and lion, 5 and put a mule in her chariot, because it is barren, to aignify that she can only shine by the light of the Sun. She is often Phoibe or Phebe, from her Lord Phebus, and as Hebe she represents coming puberty, 6 and the first early grass of spring. Soma, we must remember, was worshipped in Eastern as well as western Asia, under both sexes; but in Europe, those who served Lunus were considered the superior race. Men worshipping Luna had to appear in women’s clothes, and vice versa. 7 Diana, like 1 Hymn to Apollo, page 37. 2 Deut. xxxiii. 14. 3 [Lat., “by joined (or ‘yoked’) swans.”] 4 [Only under late syncretism. — T.S.] 481 5 Tooke’s Pantheon, p. 212. 6 Pubes vel Hebe, primum capillum pudendorum significat. 7 Hymn to Delos, Dodd’s trans., p. 97
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CONTENTS VOL. I. I. INTRODUCTORY .
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NO. Page 1 Ficus Indica, with Idols
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REFERENCES WORKS WHICH HAVE BEEN RE
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References. ix ARCHEOLOGY OF KELTS,
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References. xi GENERAL LITERATURE V
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PREFACE IT being now several years
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Preface. xv cliffs, beside secret c
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Preface. xvii more ancient Turano-B
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Preface. xxi did Rāma, great Vishn
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Preface. xxv and lines of inquiry,
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Preface. xxix truth, and his studio
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Preface. xxxiii who thou art, but I
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Preface. xxxvii or etymological use
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2 Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man
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424 English Months. Phenicians, Koo
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