Types of mankind or, Ethnological researches : based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Josiah C. Nott
Date:
1854
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Credit: Types of mankind or, Ethnological researches : based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mythological Periods. Symbolical Ante-Diluvian Patriarchs. Grceco-Chaldcean Decade. Hebrcec-Chaldaan Decade. Dhcenicc-Chaldaxm Decade. 1. . years 36,000 ADaM Protogonos 1. First-bora. 2. tt 10,800 SeT< Genos, Genea 2. Genus, family. 3. it 46,800 ANoS/t Phos, pur, phlox 3. Fire, light, flame. 4. tt 43,200 KINaN Cassios, Libanos 4. Cassius, Libanus (mount's). 5. 64,800 MaHaLaLeL Memrounos, ousoos 5. Celsus, par coelo, wood. 6. 36,000 IRaD Agrios, alieus 6. Peasant, hunter, fisher. 7. Edoranchus.. tt 64.800 KfteNUK Chrusor, hephaistos, 7. f Vulcan, fire, artificer, 8. Amempsinus. U 36,000 MeKUSeLaKft artifex, geinos I earth-worker. 9. 28,800 LaMeK Agros, agroueros] 8. Kustic, agriculturist. tt 64,800 NuKA AmuDos, magos 9. Warrior, magician. Misor (Sydyc, Saduc) 10. Egypt, and the just Years 432,000 king, Melchisedek. C II A L D -35 A N DELUGE. 1st Note. — The 36 Decans of the Zodiac, (562) multiplied by the 12 months of the year, give the mystic number 432. The grand year of Astronomy — or the time anciently supposed to be required for the sun, planets, and fixed stars, to return to the same celestial startiDg-point — was at first 25,000, then 36,000, and lastly 432,000 years; being the supposed duration of the ten Graeco-Chaldaean generations. A Deluge terminated the cycle. (563) 2d Note.—The Phcenico-Chaldcean list, derived from Sanconiatho, presents us with the Greek translations, not with the real names of its lost Oriental original. The Phoenicians had originally crossed from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, and their intercourse with Chaldasa was inces- sant; while the two people spoke Semitic dialects. More saliently than the other two forms of the same theogony, this Phoenician stream exhibits the rationale of its ex post facto con- struction. According to it, we have the stages of family, hunter, fisherman, artizan, hushand- man, soldier,priest, and king, through which antique humanity developed itself. A parallelism seems to be preserved in the offshoots of the Adamic stem in Genesis, where Abel the wandering sheplierd is hateful to Cain the sedentary peasant. Chaldaic Ethnological Division — [contained in Xth Genesis.] Theoretical Post - Diluvian Commencements. NuKft. (Obscurity.) IaPfteTi. SfteM. KJaM. White races. Yellow races. Swarthy races. Babylonish Theory for Diversity of Tongues. City and Tower of BaByIi-on = confusion — BaBeL-babblings. Hebrew Geographical Origins. ARPTia-KaSD = ORFA-the-CAaZctam (District). SaLaKft = Salacha (City). AeBeR = the-yonderer (Tribe). PeLeG = a.-split (Earthquake ?). Earliest Legendary Ancestors. ReU. SeRUG. NaKMJR. TteRaK/i. (562) Lepsius: Chronologic; i. pp. 66-76. (563) De Brotonne: op. eit.; pp. 234-246.