The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology : an inquiry / by Richard Payne Knight.
- Richard Payne Knight
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology : an inquiry / by Richard Payne Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Frey, the Sun-god, 87 ; Pi’ometheus a name of the sun, 88; Apollo the diurnal, and Bacchus the nocturnal, 94; supposed to impregnate the air, 99; called also Baal, 122 ; his children by Minerva, 175. Sunnaos, or bedfellow, 171. Supreme Beings idea suggested by supreme magistrate, or demiurgos, 2 ; taught in the Mysteries, 4 ; reverenced as Kronos, or Zeus, 22 ; self-generated, 22 ; the idea of having parents, 25 ; all things his emanations, 41. Supretne councils^ held in the Prytania, or fire-temples of Greek cities, 26. Stipreme magistrate^ or demiurgos, suggested the idea of a Supreme God, 2. Szuans, 190. Sxvine (see Boar), the flesh abhorred by the Egyptians and Jews, also in Pontus and other countries, 27. Swo7'd, an oath taken upon it inviolable, 115. Symbols, secret doctrines conveyed, 5 ; sacred, as the means of conveying divine truth, 6; on coins, 7; of immemorial antiquity in Asia and Egypt, 12 ; et passhn. Syrian Goddess, Atar-gatis, or Derceto, Astarte, Mylitta, Rhea, Cybele, Isis, the Celestial Venus, or Mother-goddess, round-tower pillars in her temple at Hierapolis, 74; her image, iii, 166; served by galli, or castrated priests, 174 ; the fish sacred to her, 176. T. Taautos, Tat, or Thoth, or perhaps Seth, 24. Taras, son of Poseidon, and reputed founder of Tarentum, 176. Tartars, princes carry the dragon for their military standard, 14 ; worship Macha Allah, 14, 136 ; place the picture of the lion on tombs, sacred edifices, and utensils, 75 ; regard the monkey as sacred, 129. Tartarus, the fabled place of punishment after death, 125. Taurobolium, the sacrifice of the bull for purification, 123. Tauropola, a title of Diana, 102. Teletai, or perfectings, the common Greek designation of the Mysteries, 4. TetJienos, or temple-circle, mentioned by Hecatseus, probably Stonehenge, 68. Temples, of the sun, in Mexico, 15, 70; Grecian, image of the bull, 18 ; of Vesta, circular, 27 ; oracular, 46, 47 ; — primitive, were circles of rude stones, 61, 68; of Juggernaut, 70; at Thebes, 106; symbolical of the female power, III; at Delphi, 151; pantheic, that of the Syrian goddess most known, 166. Terra, tr] epa, 24; one of the Great Gods in the Samothracian Mysteries, 24. Terrestrial soul, the umbra, ox psuchi, 124. Thamyris, a very ancient part of Thrace, mentioned by Homer, ii. Thebes, Boeotian, or Cadmcean, 10; signifies a cow, 35 ; Bacchus said to have been born there, 35. Thebes, Egyptian, temples and ruins scattered ten miles on both sides of the Nile, 106; Sesostris, 107; records of the priests for between 11,000 and 12,000 years, 108. Themis (Coptic, Thmei), the guardian of assemblies of men and gods, 27. Theocrasy, a method of curtailing the number of deities, 150. Theodosius demolished the temples, 30. Theogony exhibits the first system of religion in every nation, 2 ; of Hesiod, 73.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24885320_0416.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
