An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus : lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples; in two letters : one from Sir William Hamilton ... to Sir Joseph Banks ... : and the other from a person residing at Isernia : to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus : and its connexion with the mystic theology of the ancients / By R.P. Knight.

Date:: 1786

Credit: An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus : lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples; in two letters : one from Sir William Hamilton ... to Sir Joseph Banks ... : and the other from a person residing at Isernia : to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus : and its connexion with the mystic theology of the ancients / By R.P. Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ ] Intelligence itfelf, they do it by images and compa- rifons of Light and Fire.^ From a pafTage of Hecat^us, preferved by Diodo- rus Siculus, 1 think it is evident that Stonehenge, and all the other monuments of the fame kind found in the North, belonged to the fame, religion, which appears, at fome remote period, to have prevailed over the whole Northern Hemifphere. According to that ancient Hiftorian, the Hyperboreans inhabited an IJland beyo7td Gaul, as large as Sicily, in which Apollo was worjhipped in a circular Tl’emple conjidera^ ble for its fize and riches.^ Apollo, we know, in the language of the Greeks of that age, can mean no other than the Sun, which, according to C^sar, was wor- fhipped by the Germans, when they knew of no other Deities except Fire and the Moon.J The Ifland I think can be no other than Britain, which at that time was only known to the Greeks by the vague P reports * See Proclus in I’heol. Platon. Lib. I. c. 19. Naoi; a^ioXoJ'OD, avaS’rjjU«(r» TroXXojf >c£xo(rj(A»^£vov, tu (r^rii/,aTi, Diod. Sic. Lib. II.

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