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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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    Another title of the fame import was Her- cules, who, confidered in one point of view is Arech-E]l, the God of the Ark, and in ano- PNGT}'.1S. a perfonification of the glorious lumi- nary of day. Thus, while Apollodorus de- fcribes him as failing over the vaft ocean in a golden cup, which he had received as a eift from Apollo’; Macrobius exprefsly afferts, that this cup was nothing more than a fhip, and yet declares, that Hercules was a name of the Sun”. Hence, he was worfhipped by the Beotians under the appellation of CAarops, or Car-Op, the folar ferpent'. It is remarkable, that although the a Titan properly fignifies a diluvian, yet, as we are aflured by the author of the: Orphic - hymns, it was likewife a title of the Sun. 8 ‘Oo: (“Hatos) Ty xvdperaey AavUTE (Hpaxrses) 2 VAULTS, HY pUTEOD edwxev demas, gy @ Toy Quecvoy Ovemepace. Apollod. Bibl. lib. ii cap. 5. See alfo Athen. Deipnof. lib. xi. p. 470. - 4 Eo tamen arbitror non poculo Herculem maria_tran{- vectum, fed navigio, cui {cypho nomen fuit.’ Saturn. lib. v. cap. 21. Preterea facrorum adminiftrationes apud Atgyptios multiplici a€tu multiplicem dei afferunt poteftatem, fignifican- tes Herculem hunc efle roy EY TAT Hobs Dice wavrav navy. Ibid, lib. i. cap. 20. “The twelve labours of Hercules moft probably fignify nothing more, than the paflage of the Sun through the _ twelve figns of the zodiac. : . Avarepu Oe erty ‘Hoaxans Xapol emrxAnoiy’ evravda ds of Boswros _Aeyeow ecvaGavas Tov “Hpanasa ayote Tov T8 gos xv. Paul. Beeot, RP. 779+ Tires
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