The Origin of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained from Historical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence, Opseg 1

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F. and C. Rivingtons, 1816
 

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Parallel traditions of the Iroquois
38
From Demonolatry and Sabianism united sprang Materialism which
40
Examples of the hermaphroditic divinity Rites of his priests
72
It is also confirmed by profane history
78
The worship of the sacred Omphalos
82
Though pagan Idolatry was fundamentally the same in every part
86
A view of the mode in which Idolatry may be supposed to have originated
99
Remarks on the early history contained in the ZendAvesta
102
The materials of the ZendAvestaic history seem to be genuine though
104
SyroGrecian account of the deluge from Lucian
110
Concerning the pagan doctrine of a succession of similar worlds
111
Egyptian statement of the doctrine
120
Cingalese statement of the doctrine
129
Druidical account of the deluge
130
Persian account of the deluge
136
Statement of the doctrine by the Greek and Roman philosophers
137
Druidical statement of the doctrine
143
The commencement of the Mosaical history of the creation was designed
152
Saturn
156
The preceding remarks will account for a curious local variety in
159
Respecting the Materialism of the great god and goddess of
161
The pantheistic great mother
169
Respecting the mundane and arkite egg
175
Local floods produced by an irruption of the sea
176
The egg is often associated with other kindred symbols
187
Local floods not marked either by the bursting of a lake or by
193
The egg of the Phenix was really the sacred symbolical egg
199
Heathen Cosmogonies
201
Pluto
207
Gothic or Scythian cosmogony
213
The Sun was thought to have been plunged into the ocean
219
BOOK IV
221
Egyptian cosmogony
228
Aptness of the physical character of the Sun for its union with that
231
Respecting the general mode of computing time by weeks
234
The Hindoo cosmogony doubly relates to the creation and to the
243
Japanese cosmogony
249
Attis Atys Menes
260
Bacchus
261
The demiurgic triads of the Orphic and Platonic systems
263
Hu Dylan Dwyvan Noë Aeddon
304
Respecting the changes experienced by these rivers in their courses
306
CHAPTER II
314
Respecting the sacred books 147
319
ARARAT coincides geographically with the antediluvian Paradise
320
Otaheitean Ooro and triad
323
Buddha of Ceylon Gautameh
339
Olympus was a local transcript of Meru or the Paradisiacal Ararat
344
Buddha of CochinChina Tonquin Japan and Tartary
348
Parnassus whether Indian or Greek Atlas Snowdon and CaderIdris
351
Buddha of Iran Aboudad Mahabad
352
The human character of the great mother
353
CHAPTER III
357
Buddha of the Celts
360
The Paradisiacal islands are the classical Elysium
365
Head of Osiris
368
Mystical intercommunion of the Earth the Ark and Hades as exemplified
374
symbolical Moon
378
Hercules
381
Peculiar notions entertained of the Moon
384
Mercury Hermes
387
CHAPTER V
392
this theory
400
Phtha Vulcan Hephestus Aphthas Twashta
401
Cupid Cama Eros Caimis Camasson Pothos Maneros Pappas
407
The worship of the lion
411
Mithras
413
The origination of the symbols of the bull the lion and the eagle must
419
MarsCamulus or Cadmilus
422
Hindoo Cherubim in the Paradise of Meru Phenix Simorgh
431
CHAPTER VII
439
Concerning the identity and astronomical character of the great
444
But he also represented the good principle
448
Vitzliputzli
455
CHAPTER VIII
465
Respecting the notions entertained of the nature of sacrifice
472
Virachoca
477
Each sacrifice shadowed out the future sacrifice of the Messiah
488
Speculations of some of the ancient philosophers respecting the fall
495

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