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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![brews. It is often found in composition, as in Ab-E], Ab-On, Ab-Or. AUR, OUR, OR. Aur, sometimes expressed Or, Ur, and Our, signifies both light and fire. Hence came the Orus of the Egyptians, a title given to the Sun. _® Quod solem vertimus, id in Hebreo est x, Ur; quod lucem, et ignem, etiam et Solem denotat. It is often compounded with the term above, and rendered Abor, Aborus, Aborras: and it is other- wise diversified. This title was often given to -Chus by his descendants; whom they styled Chusorus. From Aur, taken as an element, came Uro, Ardeo; asa Deity, oro, hora, wex, ‘Iegov, ‘Iegeus. Zeus was styled Cham-Ur, rendered Kouupos by the Greeks; and under this title was worshipped at Halicarnassus. He is so called by Lycephron. *Heuos narasdov Quolaw Kowuew Acwy. Upon which the Scholiast observes ; (Kwpuges) « < Zeus ev AAsKaCvaTw THAT Oh 99 Selden de Diis Syris: Prolegomena. c. 3. Lycophron, v. 459. Scholia ibidem. Tt is also compounded with Cham, as in Orchamus, a common Babylonish appellation. Rexit Achemenias urbes pater Orchamus ; isque Septimus a prisci numeratur origine Beli.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33282754_0001_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
