Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatry of that people. To these is prefixed, a prefatory discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant.

Jacob Bryant

Date:: 1794

Credit: Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatry of that people. To these is prefixed, a prefatory discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$was an Egyptian deity called Palmytes. This deity was generally denominated Hermes; and, according to Apuleius, defcribed with a branch of the palm in his hand ; and leaves of the fame tree upon his feet. The palm is an evergreen: and by this emblem was fig- nified Victory, Honour, and Immortality. Though Plutarch tells us that the frog was not acceptable to the Grecian Apollo; yet we may be allured, that it was a facred reprefen- tation in Egypt, by its being found in the Bembine Table fitting upon the water-lily or ] lotus : and that it was facred to Ofiris Helius. This deity was fometimes defcribed upon the fame lotus, and in the midf: of waters, under the form of a newly born. tain. The tree may have been To' Filed among other nations ; and perhaps by the Egyptians; Even among the Greeks Ylac^v; fignified a prince; or, as I fhould fufpecf, a conquerour. It came probably from an old word Palma: and from thence both Ustyug, and IlafywTUf. For the Palm was certainly a badge of vidtory and honour. o Gaaiteug, Hefych. 'Ztv; Uah/xu; atpOiTm, Pycophron, v. 691. * ■ \ . * Jablontk. 1. 4. c. 1. p. j6i.' child I$