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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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    of Styx and the giant Pallas were Strength, Jealoufy, Power, Victory, Fountains and Lakes; and that the offspring of Echidna and Typhon° were Gorgon, Cerberus, Scylla, Chimera, the dragon which guarded the gol- den fleece, the Theban Sphinx, the Hydra: of Lerna, and the ferpent of the Hefperides?. In this fingular aflemblage we repeatedly be- hold the combination of the emblematical {nake of the Sun with the waters of the dilu- vian Ocean ; and, what is worthy of our par- ticular attention, we perceive moreover, that thefe various monfters are all connected with each other, though placed by the poets in widely feparated countries. The fnaky locks of Gorgon 4 and the Colchian dragon, equally n Ex Pallante gigante et Styge, [Scylla,] Vis, Invidia, Po- teftas, Vidtoria, Fontes, Lacus. Fab. p. 8. Scylla’ feems to have crept erroneoufly into the text, for fhe is fhorily after by the fame author faid to be the daughter of Typhon and E~- Yehatnn yy © Or the Ocean. P Ex. Typhone et Echidnas Gorgon, Cerberus, Draco, qui pellem auream arietis Colchis fervabat: Scylla que fuperiorem _ partem fceminz, inferiorem canis habuit, quam Hercules in- teremit : Chimera, Sphinx, que fuit in Boeotia: Hydra fer- pens, que novem capita habuit, quam Hercules interemit: et draco Hefperidum. Ibid. p. 12, 4 Strangely as the Greeks have corrupted the hiftory of Gor- gon, we are plainly told by Palephatus, that fhe was the fame as Minerva, or the divine wifdom which preferved the Ark. He
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