The Origin Of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained From Historical Testimony And Circumstantial Evidence

F. and C. Rivingtons, 1816

Egyptian legends	xxxvii

Saturn	xlv

BOOK I	1

Jupiter	2

3 Or all nations were once assembled together in a single place	3

Bacchus	4

Priapus	5

Apollo	6

BOOK IV	221

Egyptian cosmogony	228

Respecting the general mode of computing time by weeks	234

The Hindoo cosmogony doubly relates to the creation and to the	243

IX Japanese cosmogony	249

Remarks on the prayers 90	256

The demiurgic triads of the Orphic and Platonic systems	263

BOOK II	279

Janus 207	8

From the Japanese fable of the bull and the egg and from the Japa	9

Vulcan Hephestus Phtha Ammun	10

this theory 400	11

Mercury Hermes Thoth HermAnubis Theutates Tuisto Twash ta Tat Datta Buddha Sacya	12

Mars Ares TheusAres	13

Osiris Horus Serapis 208	15

Adonis Attis 209	17

Brahma Vishnou Siva 211	19

Hu Beli Belatucader Abellion	20

Vitzliputzli 212	22

Sabianism united to Demonolatry	31

From Demonolatry and Sabianism united sprang Materialism which	40

The longevity of the antediluvian patriarchs	49

On the antediluvian and diluvian history as exhibited in the Zend	58

Certain peculiarities in the several characters of the Messiah and the great	61

The high antiquity of the fable of the four ages may be gathered from	76

Remarks on the early history contained in the ZendAvesta	79

Mythological prayers of the Parsees	88

A view of the mode in which Idolatry may be supposed to have originated	99

The materials of the ZendAvestaic history seem to be genuine though	104

SyroGrecian account of the deluge from Lucian	110

CHAPTER II	111

Druidical account of the deluge	130

Persian account of the deluge	136

Egyptian statement of the doctrine 120	149

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

The egg is often associated with other kindred symbols	178

With the lunar crescent	195

Heathen Cosmogonies	201

Gothic or Scythian cosmogony	213

CHAPTER I	281

The general aspect of the earth having experienced no alteration from	290

An inquiry into the real scite of Paradise	297

Respecting the changes experienced by these rivers in their courses	306

CHAPTER II	314

Hindoo traditions relative to Menu and his three sons and to the murder	319

ARARAT coincides geographically with the antediluvian Paradise	320

Parnassus whether Indian or Greek Atlas Snowdon and CaderIdris	351

Buddha of Iran Aboudad Mahabad	352

CHAPTER III	357

Buddha of the Celts	360

The Paradisiacal islands are the classical Elysium	365

Summanus	368

Respecting certain remarkable opinions which the Gentiles enter tained of the Sun 215	372

Mystical intercommunion of the Earth the Ark and Hades as exemplified	374

symbolical Moon	378

In the garden of the Hesperides he is Adam	381

Universality and origin of its connection with the Moon	384

CHAPTER V	392

CHAPTER VI	402

The worship of the lion	411

The origination of the symbols of the bull the lion and the eagle must	419

Hindoo Cherubim in the Paradise of Meru Phenix Simorgh	431

CHAPTER VII	439

Parallel fables respecting mountains which take their name from Idavratta 339	443

Concerning the identity and astronomical character of the great	444

But he also represented the good principle	448

Indian legend respecting the translation of Enoch	452

CHAPTER VIII	465

Respecting the notions entertained of the nature of sacrifice	472

CHAPTER VI	478

Each sacrifice shadowed out the future sacrifice of the Messiah	488

Názov	The Origin Of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained From Historical Testimony And Circumstantial Evidence
Autor	George Stanley Faber
Vydavateľ	F. and C. Rivingtons, 1816
Zdroj originálu:	Rakúska národná knižnica
Digitalizované	27. nov. 2013

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