. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . tine form, and furrounded withdogs, an animal facred to her, and under vvhofe form(lie was fometimes reprefented. She was alfo efteem-ed the goddefs of inevitable fate. If we have recourfe to the Egyptian key, we fhallfind this threefold goddefs the fame fymbol with theJuno and Cybele we have already treated of. TheGreek fculptors had too
. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . tine form, and furrounded withdogs, an animal facred to her, and under vvhofe form(lie was fometimes reprefented. She was alfo efteem-ed the goddefs of inevitable fate. If we have recourfe to the Egyptian key, we fhallfind this threefold goddefs the fame fymbol with theJuno and Cybele we have already treated of. TheGreek fculptors had too good a tafte to endure thehead of the bull or goat on their deities, which theyborrov/ed fiom that country. They therefore alter-ed (3) To exprefs that the moon had no light of her own,but what flie borrowed from the fun. (4) To exprefs the wane and full of the moon. (5) Either from sxaGiv, at a diilance, becaufe the moondarts her rays afar off; or from eh*tcv, a hundred, becaufe ahtcatomb was the ufual victim. (o) At every new moon the Athenians made a fupper forhcT in the open ilrect, which in the night was eatca up bythe pvor people. (7) So Dito, in Virgil, calls on TVr^^. Hccuten, tria virginis ora DUina. iEneid IV» (8) fhcogoTiy, 1. T H E HEATH I. N C 0 D 3. 8; €d thefe hieroglyphical figures to tlieir own mode ;but took care to preferve the attributes by difpofingthem in a more elegant manner. The lunar lymbolamongft the Egyptians was called Hecate, or (9)Achete, and by the Syrians, Achot. Ihe latter alfv)ftiled her Deio, or Deione (i), and Demetcr. Thecrefcent and full moon over her head at the n;omerAa,made her miftaken for that planet; and the time ofthe interlunia, during which fhe remained invilible,ihe was fuppofed to take a turn to the invifible world,and fo got the name of Hecate. Thus the tripartitegoddefs arofe. The meaning of the ancient fymbolswas confounded and forgot, and a fenfelefs jargon offable and fuperftition introduced in its place, a
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