. 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 ... . aries of heaven, was called the father ofthofe planets. CHAP. IV. OF* OCEANUS AND TETHY3, 1 HI S deity was one of the eldeft fons of Caslusand Terra, and married his filter Tethys, befideswhom he had feveral other wives. Each of them pof-fefled an hundred woods and as many rivers. By Te-thys he had Ephyre, who was matched to Epime-theus,
. 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 ... . aries of heaven, was called the father ofthofe planets. CHAP. IV. OF* OCEANUS AND TETHY3, 1 HI S deity was one of the eldeft fons of Caslusand Terra, and married his filter Tethys, befideswhom he had feveral other wives. Each of them pof-fefled an hundred woods and as many rivers. By Te-thys he had Ephyre, who was matched to Epime-theus, and Pleione the wife of Atlas. He had feve-ral other daughters and fons, whofe names it wouldbe endlefs to enumerate, and indeed they are onlythofe of the principal rivers of the world. Two of the wives of Oceanus were Pamphylogeand Parthenope. By the firft he had two dsughters*Afia and Lybia ; and by the laft, two more calledEuropa and Thracia, who gave their names to thecountries fo denominated. He had alfo a daughter,called Cephyra, who educated Neptune, and threefons, viz. Triptolemus, the favourite of Ceres, Ne-reus, who prefided over fait waters, and Achelous,the deity of fountains and rivers. The (a) This feems copied from the (lory of T li E H E A T li E N G O D S. 3 The ancients, regarded Cceanus as the father oj;ods and men, on account of the oceans encompaf-iing the earth with its waves, and becaufe he was theprinciple of that radical moiitiire ditTufed throughiinivtrial matter, \^ilhout which, according to Thalct:,nothing could either be produced or fubiifc. Homer makes Juno vilit him at the rtmotefl limitsof the eartli, and acknowledge him and Tethys asthe parents of the gods, adding that Hie herfelf hadbeen brought up under their tuition, Oceanus was depided with a bulls head, to repre-fent the rage and bellowing of the ocean when agi-?lated by ftorms. CHAP. V. OF AURORA AND TITHONUS. We have already obferved, that this goddefs wa»the youngeft daughter
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