Forlong - Rivers of Life

Sun Worship.
deities, viz., Prajaptay, Brahma, and Vishnoo, the first being the Almighty Creator.
In Hebrew hnq, k n h, Konh or Kone, we have only the Egyptian Kon aspirated or
breathed long; the Hebrew root signifying “making,” begetting,” and is so used
in Gen. xiv. 19, and Ezek. viii. 3, in connection with El-Elyon, “the most High God,”
and “the ardent and giving One,” 1 who makes jealous. He is the Lord and “Ruler”
who “mounts and stands up straight,” and hence “the substantive indicates a rod,
Staff, Cane, or reed; so the Hebrew name }yq Kin, written Cain, means the iron point
of a lance, and Cain’s offspring—the Tubal-Cains were the “Sharpeners” of all instruments.”
2 Eve used the word K-n in connection with “begetting,” when she named her
first-born, “a lance point.” It is clear, then, that “the Kenites, Kenizzites,” and all
inhabitants of Palestine had a god Kan, Kan-ah or El-Kanah of a Canine, Salaciois or
“begetting” nature. 3 We know how the ancients paid divine homage to the Rod,
Distaff, and Quiris, Spear or Lance, especially those Skythians in the neighbourhood of
the mythic land of Eden. Herodotus tellus us (iv. 62) that they put on their sacrificial
piles, lances and scimitars as images of Mars (who was Quirinus or the male sign), and
offered more cattle and horses to these “than to the rest of the gods.”
Down to 350 A.C., all Goths, Geti, Alani, and Sarmatians worshipped the Spear or
sword. “Their only idea of religion was to plunge a naked sword into the ground with
barbaric ceremonies, and then they worshipped that with great respect as Mars;” 4 so
that Romans and Sabines only foilowed the cult of the whole world on their sacred
Quirinal mount. Kol-on, Latin Col-umna, “was an Altar of the Sun,” 5 and Kol-Oph-
On was a Kol or tumulus dei Solis Pythonis. A Cave, or Kîoj, was a place in a mountain
for the Ko, Kol, Kon, or Kor, for these final consonants are used or omitted somewhat
indiscriminately by various peoples; and Mithras was “Lord of the Cave.” In
Latin, we have Cohors, Chors or Cors, “a Cave, pen, or fold,” and Kora was the lover
of Ko, that is Ceres and Persephone, as at Cnidos. 6 “By Cothus (Koqoj) and Arklos (Arkites,
or connected with these) are meant Cuthites and Herculeans,” says Bryant (II. 177);
and long prior to the time of the Roman Empire, Kottius was a national title for a king,
and Kottia of a nation. 7 One of the chief deities of the Taurini was called Ko-mus; a.
race of Hyperboreans were called Ko-ti as worshipping a great goddess Kotus, the
Phrygian form of Hekate or Demeter, who was a form of Dionysus and Zeus-Sabazius
or Sabos. The rites of Kotus “were celebrated in a most frantic manner . . . . on
Mount Hermes,” so that clearly Ko or A-ko is the root-name of a god, and hence Kothus
or Ko-theus, just as we have Pi, Pi-al, or Pi-el, Palus and Phallus. 8 The rites
and mode of celebrating these alone dcclare that Ko-tus was a phallic deity, and probably
in the name of the singers and dancers at a festival—Chorus, we see the gods
attendants. The dance was corei©, Latin Chorea, and the minstrel was Choraules. Co
1
Anc. Faiths, II. 184.
2
Gen. iv. 22.
3
Gen. xv. 19; Anc. Faiths, II. 185.
4
Ammianus Marcellinus, xxxi. II. 23, quoted
in Anc. Faiths, II. 186.
5 Bryant and Holwell, p. 125.
6 Ibid., p. 129.
7 Ibid., p. 131.
8 Strabo, 470 and 720; Holwell, p. 131.
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