. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . f-an-hour, orperhaps an hour, of moonlight, and yet be blightedor otherwise injured by a whole night of it. In Palestine, however, so far as we can learn, themoon was a popular, and su])posed to be a beneficialgoddess. Being identified with Astarte, Ishtar, Juno,Ceres, or woman generally, — as the following figure(Fig. 26) will show,—the ceremonials connected withher worship were eminently sensual, and, being so,were very likely to captivate the minds of
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . f-an-hour, orperhaps an hour, of moonlight, and yet be blightedor otherwise injured by a whole night of it. In Palestine, however, so far as we can learn, themoon was a popular, and su])posed to be a beneficialgoddess. Being identified with Astarte, Ishtar, Juno,Ceres, or woman generally, — as the following figure(Fig. 26) will show,—the ceremonials connected withher worship were eminently sensual, and, being so,were very likely to captivate the minds of a nationof unbridled lust. See New Moon. She is also represented sometimes, as in a prettytail-piece by Bryant, in his Mythology, as an ark orship of safety, associated with the dove ; whilst arock in the back ground stands for the male, thewater typifying the means of union (Fig. 27).Morality. When testing the value of any religious doc-trines, we of the present day usually act upon theidea, men do not gather grapes of thorns or figsof thistles, a good tree cannot bring forth evilfruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good. Figure 27.
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