Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley.
- William Stukeley
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ XII ] has preferv’d innumerable facred records of the old world; though involv’d in his pleafing manner, of fable, and the poet himfelf knew them to be, truth at bottom; handed down by word of mouth, and in traditions, by the Greeks; before they became mafters of hiftorical writing. I have many years ago printed a plain proof of Jeho- evah ^ the divine hero of the Jews, their leader, patron, oracle, their God ; couch’d under the heathen fable of Bacchus. It cannot be queftion’d, but that the ftory of the birth of Bacchus fprings from antient notions of the geniture of the true Son of God. his mother’s name Semele is pure Hebrew} the name of God, Bhem cl. being daughter of Cadmus, points out to us, whence the fable came, Phoenicia \ and the time of its tranfportation from Afia to Greece, not diftant from the truth. At the fame time, it acquaints us, with a piece of mere hiftory, valuable ; and of high antiquity. The facred hiftorian, Genef. X. tells us, the Hivite was the fon of Canaan, fon of Ham. this Hivite Hevteus, the family name, was the fame as Cadmonite, mention’d Gen. XV. 19. who is no other than our Cadmus: at leaf! Cadmus of the Greeks was a near defcendant from that original flock. Though his pofterity, as well as the reft of the Ca- naanite nations became idolaters, yet he was of the pa¬ triarchal religion; and render d himfelf particularlv eminent, for eredting a ferpentine temple, or Dracon- tium, fuch as that immenfe work at Abury in Wilts; and Shap in Weftmorland. Thefe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30408374_0127.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
