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A dissertation on the mysteries of the Cabiri; or the great gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete; being an attempt to deduce the several orgies of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus, Rhea, Adonis, and Hecate, from a union of the rites commemorative of the deluge with the adoration of the hosts of heaven / By George Stanley Faber.

  • George Stanley Faber
Date:
1803
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Credit: A dissertation on the mysteries of the Cabiri; or the great gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete; being an attempt to deduce the several orgies of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus, Rhea, Adonis, and Hecate, from a union of the rites commemorative of the deluge with the adoration of the hosts of heaven / By George Stanley Faber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hence.it appears, how very widely the helio- shorfe was one of ‘the moft ufual fymbols of Noah, and a mare, of the Ark’: the Sun therefore, united with the horfe, is no other than the great folar patriarch, while his fequently, the children of Afwi, or the horfe, lapa, are the allegorical offspring of the Ark, whofe chief was Noah, confidered in his double chara@ter of both a folar and a dilu- vian deity. : We find Efculapius connected with the Diofcori or Cabiri, no lefs in the mythology of Greece than in that of Hindoftan. Pau- fanias mentions a temple of this deity at Bra- fiz in Laconia, built near a promontory pro- jecting into the fea, upon which were placed three {mal] ftatues of the Diofcori or Cory- bantes, and a fourth of Minerva‘. I make = Vide infra chap. vii. ' 8 Noah, united with a horfe, while his fuppofed confort is defcribed as a mare, is the very fame mode of reprefentation as that adopted in the figures of Dagon and Derceto: the only difference between them i, that in the one cafe the fymbolical horfe, and in the other the fymbolical fith, is introduced. t After giving an account of this temple of Efculapius, Pau* fanias adds: Axpa o: esw ev reig Beaosoug pinecy weoexovTar npeaa es THY Sarcoray, xes ‘wT GUTN YCAKOs modvaswr ESNXATHY Ov perCoves DAs “~
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