Forlong - Rivers of Life

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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
“descendants of Hellen, by a woman named Nephele, whom Athamas was supposed
to have married; and however obscure the history may be, the purport of it is plainly
this, that the Hellenes and Phrygians were of the Nephelim or Anakim race. 1 The
Arkites had the name of Kentauri,” 2 for arks and clouds signify the fertile principle.
“Bu-Kentaur was a common Amoniun name for a boat, and the Veneti (Kelts) at this
day call their principal galley the Bu-kentaur.” 3 In fact, the Ark has been called a Kentaurus.
“Chiron was said to be son of the Centaur Cronus, but the rest were the
offspring of Ixion and Nephele.” The Kentaurs are described by Nonnus as horned,
and “as inseparable companions of Dio-Nysus.” 4 Now this Kir-on was simply a Suntower,
Sun-stone, or Lingam—the Toth or obelisk of Nephele in Thessaly, very similar
to the Mino-taur of Crete, and the Tauro-men (Man-bull) of Sicilia. 5 Kiron’s priests were
the Kentauri, who, to denote their worship, wore horns on their caps, as those of Jove
and Mars; all Palatine priests wore conical hats with a tuft at base and a phallic rod
or spear in hand. See Fig. 66, II. 1, page 185, and Chapter on Kaldian Faiths, where
these one-horned men play an important part. Kiron of Thessaly was called Kahen-
Taur; and here—at the foot of the pillar of Toth, as used to be in Egypt, were
founded colleges of learning and justice, where jurisprudence was taught and law
administered, so that Kiron wns said to have been filopronwn kai dikaiotatoj. 6 The story
of Kentaurs being the offsprimg of Ixion and Clouds is a true solar idea, although I will
not stop to consider to what root we might reduce both lxion and his father Phlegyas;
but the mythic genealogical tree is too interesting to pass, being briefly this:
Zeus and Hera.
Chryse
Ares.
Father of the Phlegyae,
a
branch of Minyae, who
settle in Phokia.
Phlegyas
King of Orkomenos in Beotia.
Deioneus
Ixion Kronus Apollo.
Mother Dia.
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Piri-thons
Eskulapius, or Asklepios.
Here then from a Lingam-Yoni and solar root, we arrive at pretty nearly historical
personages devoted to Fire in P’ur-thos, and to Sun and Serpents in Eskulapius,
and all much connected with Arks, Omphi, and the Phokian shrine. Ixios was a name
for Apollo, and by a phantom resembling Hera he becane “the father of a Ken-Taur,”
that is, the Kentauri, who lived on Mount Pelion, another very solo-phallic name.
Hera’s phantom is sometimes called a Cloud, and the progeny—very properly conjoining
their father Sol’s name with their own, were known as the Hippo-Kentaurs, who lived
1
Bryant and Holwell, p. 288.
2
p. 51.
3
Bryant, II. 441.
4 5
Holwell, p. 94. Hol, p. 112.
6
Bryant and Hol., p. 113. Kahen is a title of honour, as when Osiris is called Kahen-Sehor.