![]() They claim that by this mythical image Homer meant that nutriment is drawn from water by the stars, for the reason why he called the Ethiopians kings of the celestial banquets is that none but the Ethiopians live around the shore of Ocean, and the vicinity of the sun burns them so much that they appear black in colour. e., with the planets, set out for Ocean, as the Ethiopians were inviting him to a banquet. Under a cloud of poetical invention Homer has given it to be understood by those who have the wit to discern the truth, that Jupiter with the rest of the Gods, i. īefore Ninus, by whom Semiramis according to some is believed to have been begotten, nothing memorable has entered the historical record. The Egyptians declare that the earth is spherical and divide it into five zones ibid, p. Ī large number of colonies were sent out from Egypt to different parts of the world. That the Athenians were a colony of the people of Sais, and derived their laws and constitution from Egypt. Isis was the eldest daughter of Younger Saturn according to the inscription on the pillars. The sacred grove of Vulcan in Memphis, ibid, p. The majority agree in this that the Giants were all destroyed because of the war levied against Jupiter and Osiris. Īnd the earth as being a kind of receptacle, they call mother, just as the Greeks too, with a small verbal change due to the passage of time, call her Demeter, since of old they called her Γῆν μήτερα, as Orpheus attests in these words: Some of the old Greek mythologists call Osiris Dionysus καὶ σείριον παρωνύμως, and, with a slight change, Sirius. They tell the legend that the gods were born in Egypt, and the earliest observation of the stars is attributed to them. Likewise copper stone, Cathimia, Calamine stone. Kadmia = the unripe mineral of any metal, which still consists of its first matter. Barnabus or Barnaas = Saltpetre, urine of saltpetre, a very acid vinegar. Artanek = Artaneck = Arsenic of which there are three kinds, white, yellow or orange, and citrine. Andena a kind of Steel in oriental regions which is cast like Copper and silver. Alembrot = the salt of the philosophers, the key of art. And in our times when the Cynopolitæ eat the fish Oxyrynchus, the Oxyrinchitæ caught dogs & sacrificed them & eat them as sacrifices, & thereupon these two Nomi making war on one another, did each other much mischief till the Romans by way of punishment fell upon them both. ![]() So amongst all the Egyptians the Lycopolitæ eat sheep because the wolf whom they worship as a God does so. ![]() For while he enjoyned them severally the worship of several animals which were at enmity with one another & some of which preyed upon others the nations being affected with the hostility of their animals were secretly inclined to hostility with one another. Some tell that a crafty king when he observed the Egyptians light & prone to innovations, & by reason of their multitude to be insuperable should they act with prudence & by common council: he contrived an occasion of their perpetual discord by dispersing several superstitions among their several nations. Others that their later kings to terrify their enimies, put on the head & chief members of Beast formed in gold & silver. Some say that Osiris divided his army into certain troops & companies & gave to each an ensign formed with the shape of some animal, & the several Egyptian nations worshipped the animal which fell to their share. ![]() The Egyptians often denote Isis by the name Minerva, ibid., p. Orus was brought up by Latona in the marshes near Buto. 365E.Īnticleides makes Isis daughter of Prometheus and wife of Liber, ibid., p. Īmong the Egyptians Bacchus is said to be son of Isis and does not have the name Osiris but Arsaphes, which signifies strong and brave. Homer who, like Thales, was taught by the Egyptians, made water the first principle and origin of all things. Pythagoras was held in great admiration by the Egyptian priests, and he himself admired them he imitated their mode of expounding things by means of symbols and riddling remarks, and he wrapped up his doctrines in enigmas, ibid., p. The temple of Minerva (whom they also call Isis) is in the city of Sais. Any of the warriors who was made king immediately attached himself to the priests and became a participant in their philosophy, ibid., p. Kings were chosen either from the priests or from the warriors. Many say that Isis was a daughter of Mercury, many of Prometheus, ibid.
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