Forlong - Rivers of Life

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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
brass with arms extended as if to embrace all. His body had seven compartments for
the reception and consumption of the following; 1st, Flour; 2d, Turtles; 3d, a Ewe;
4th, a Ram; 5th, a Calf; 6th, an Ox; and 7th, a Child; so that the priests and people
clearly offered to Molok what all men loved and sought for from Saturn. Diodorus
says that the Carthaginians—descendants of the Canaanites, offered these sacrifices in
the same way; and the Jewish writers often assure us that Milkom was the favourite
of the Amonians, the Ashtoreth of the Zidonians, and the Chemosh or Sun-god of the
Moabites. 1
Kircher and Lamosius call Kiion, Saturn, whose star, in the languages of Persia
and Arabia, was Kieran, and in Egypt Remphan or Rephan. This god, as connected
with the Dead and Darkness, has much perplexed those who do not know or remember
that the female energy is the Womb, Darkness or Night; for not only the Sun-gods
but all must go at one time or another to Ades or the wintry resting.place of the
seed, from which in due time springs forth new life. So Besnage learns from other
sources that Kieran is the Moon. Parkhurst reads the disputed passage “the Kue
(hwk) of your images and glory of your Aleim,” insisting that the root here is “to burn”
and not Ku (wk) to “establish.” My readers will note that “the Establisher” is Sol or
his emblem, and that here again we have the fertile root Ko or Koo, which are clearly
of the same source as Kuthite or Cushite names.
We have a Venus-Remba who is Venus-Marina, or Bávani the wife of Bávana,
whom Jains call Parasva-Nāt, and his wife Bamāni, all which names I have shown
have a clear connection with Parnassus and its Delphic abyss, as Vernase or Benares
was the locale of the Deity’s very loathsome crypt.
Its requires very careful attention to, and often considerable knowledge of this lore,
to discriminate between the God and his Ark or Throne, as we even see in the
Keltic tongues dying out around us. Cluain in Irish is a “meadow” and “woman,”
just as Isis is the Delta or garden of the Nile, and Cluanir or Cluanaire is not only a male
but a “Seducer.” The roots here are cloch, a stone, and An or Ana, 2 the mother of the
Gods. So Tara, Tor, or Tower, is apparently connected with Star; for on Tara stood
the great Stone of Ana, the Ish-tar, where, from the earliest dawn of Irish mythological
story, Koothite and then Keltic rites were performed, and very probably, as asserted,
as early as 1900 B.C. On this Tar or Stara we are told a Pontifex Maximus
and College of Ecclesiastics, if I may use such grand terms, existed in 700 B.C., 3 being
established by “Olan Fodla of blessed memory.” who recovered the wonder-working
stone on which our monarchs must be crowned. The “inspired” Jewish writers assure
us that their tribes carried about Kuins or Ku-ions 4 in Arks, whereby we know they only
imitated the surrounding nations. No people went about without their little gods or images,
or sacred symbols, indeed numbers of pious Christians still carry these with them.
1
See 1 Kings xi. 33, and elsewhere.
3
Tow. & Tem., p. 37.
2 Keane’s Towers and Temples of Anc. Ire., p. 69.
4 The Greeks called the Star which denoted returning fertility Kuwn or Sirius.