Copy 1, Volume 1
A new system, or, an analysis of antient mythology; wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable; and to reduce the truth to its original purity. In this work is given an ... account of the principal events in the first ages, from the Deluge to the Dispersion; also of the various migrations which ensued / By Jacob Bryant.
- Jacob Bryant
- Date:
- 1807
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A new system, or, an analysis of antient mythology; wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable; and to reduce the truth to its original purity. In this work is given an ... account of the principal events in the first ages, from the Deluge to the Dispersion; also of the various migrations which ensued / By Jacob Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![yet great in worldly wisdom. They intro- duced, wherever they came, many useful arts, and were looked up to as a superior order of beings: hence they were styled Heroes, , Demons, Heliade, Macarians. They were joined in their expeditions by Other nations, especially by the collateral branches of their family, the Mizraim, Caphtorim, and the sons of Canaan. These were all of the line of Ham, who was held by his posterity in the highest veneration. | They called him Amon: and having in pro- cess of time raised him to a divinity, they worshipped him as the Sun; and from this worship they were styled Amonians. This is an appellation which will continually oc- eur in the course of this work; and I am authorised in the use of it from Plutarch, from whom we may infer, that it was not uncommon among the sons of Ham. He specifies particularly, im respect to the Egyptians, that when any two of that na- tion met, they used it asa term of honour in their * salutations, and called one another 2 Aiyumriag ~—meo¢ ahanarus Ty nats Auay vengbas. Isis et Osiris) Pp: 305. , ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33282754_0001_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
