Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley.

  • Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.
Date:
1763
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Credit: Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ [ XI9 ] nymphs of mount Nyfa, to be brought up : which is mount Sinai, where they fir ft heard of his celebrity, but I need not here repeat what I printed on this head, in Palceographia Sacra, nor what I could abundantly add to it. thus much I quote to fhow, what notices the antients had, of the nature, and birth of the ex¬ pected Mejftah, and here fpecify’d, in the ftory of Semele. We muft remember, the Greeks draw all antiquity to their own country; confequently the birth of Bacchus is affix’d to the family, of the founder of their city, fo Hyacinthus, the favourite of Apollo, cafually kill’d by him, is the origin of the mod; famous feftival Hya- cinthia, at Sparta, he was grandfon to the founder of that city: fon of Amycheus, fon of Sparta, wife of La- cedemon. the Hyacinthian feftival was of an immo¬ derate lamentation, firft had by the women, for his death; then of as great a rejoicing, for his coming to life again, the whole deriv’d from notions among the anceftors of mankind, concerning the death, and re- furrection of Mejjiah, of this I have fpoke already. Another famous ftory in fabulous antiquity, is that of Myrrha^ who became with child, by her father; which child was Adonis, whofe death was the origin of another moft famous, Greek feftival, Ado?iia^ celebrated with like lamentations and rejoicings, which evident¬ ly exprefs the knowledge they had, of a divine hero, that wTas to be born, and dye for mankind ; and be raifed to life again. Myrrh a is Mary. Adonis is Lord, in Hebrew. VIII. %