A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - History, Ancient |
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... represented as a king called Naachus and Nauachus ; so by others he was styled Inachus , and supposed to have reigned at Argos . For colonies , wherever they came , in process of time superadded the tradi- tions , which they brought ...
... represented as a king called Naachus and Nauachus ; so by others he was styled Inachus , and supposed to have reigned at Argos . For colonies , wherever they came , in process of time superadded the tradi- tions , which they brought ...
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... represented under va- rious titles , and even these not always uniformly appropriated ; yet there will continually occur such peculiar circumstances of his history , as will plainly point out the person referred to . The per- son ...
... represented under va- rious titles , and even these not always uniformly appropriated ; yet there will continually occur such peculiar circumstances of his history , as will plainly point out the person referred to . The per- son ...
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... represented was the first of men , through whom religious rites were renewed , cities built , and civil polity established in the world : none of which circumstances are applicable to any king of Greece . We are as- sured by 40 Philo ...
... represented was the first of men , through whom religious rites were renewed , cities built , and civil polity established in the world : none of which circumstances are applicable to any king of Greece . We are as- sured by 40 Philo ...
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... represented * 58 56 Calendarium Rusticum mense Martio habet Isidis navigium , quod est Ægyptiorum festum , a Romanis admissum . Marsh . Can . Chron . Sect . 14. p . 356 . See Gruter's Inscript . p . 138 . 57 Iamblich . de Myster . Sect ...
... represented * 58 56 Calendarium Rusticum mense Martio habet Isidis navigium , quod est Ægyptiorum festum , a Romanis admissum . Marsh . Can . Chron . Sect . 14. p . 356 . See Gruter's Inscript . p . 138 . 57 Iamblich . de Myster . Sect ...
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... represented by them as a prince , in whose time the Deluge happened . He was called Zath , Xuth , and Leus ; and had certainly divine honours paid to him . decor indhen me Stud Surat Taus à Zafir The same memorial is to be observed in ...
... represented by them as a prince , in whose time the Deluge happened . He was called Zath , Xuth , and Leus ; and had certainly divine honours paid to him . decor indhen me Stud Surat Taus à Zafir The same memorial is to be observed in ...
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Æneid alluded antient Apis Apollon apud Arachne Architis Arderica Arech Argo Argonauts Arkite Babylon Babylonia Baris Barsippa Berith Beroë Berosus called Chaldeans Cibotus Cronus Dæmons Damater Danaus Deity Deluge denominated Deucalion Diodorus Dionusus divine earth Edessa Egypt Egyptians emblem Erech esteemed Euphrates Euseb Goddess Grecians Greece Greeks Hence Herod Herodotus Hesych Hesychius hieroglyphic Hyginus Hymn Ibid idolatry Isis et Osiris Juno Lunus Macrob mankind memorials mentioned Minyæ mysteries mythology nations Noah Nonnus Orchoë originally Orphic Osiris Ovid Patriarch Pausan Pausanias Peleiades Persic person personage Plutarch poet preserved priests purport represented rites sacred writers Schol shew shewn ship signified speaks Strabo styled supposed symbols Syria takes notice temple term Theba Thessaly Tigris tion Typhon Venus whence worship Zeuth γαρ δε δι εις εκ εν επι ες εσιν Θεων και μεν παντα παρα τε τοις ὡς
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Page 5 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 3 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 2 - A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Page 5 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 185 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth , that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 38 - And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Page 185 - This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 3 - And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him : and the LORD shut him in.
Page 2 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 3 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.