The Pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue . Juno :and what makes this conjecture more probable, the Greeka names of Juno and the air have great affinity and like—nefs. Juno is called Jupiter*% wife; ° becaufe the air,being naturally cold, is warmed by Jupiter, that is, byfire. She is called Aeria p; becaufe ihe is the air itfelf,or rules in the air; and hence arifes the ftory that Junois bound by Jupiter with golden chains, iron anvils be-ing hung at her feet. Hereby the ancients figni
The Pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue . Juno :and what makes this conjecture more probable, the Greeka names of Juno and the air have great affinity and like—nefs. Juno is called Jupiter*% wife; ° becaufe the air,being naturally cold, is warmed by Jupiter, that is, byfire. She is called Aeria p; becaufe ihe is the air itfelf,or rules in the air; and hence arifes the ftory that Junois bound by Jupiter with golden chains, iron anvils be-ing hung at her feet. Hereby the ancients fignified, thatthe air, though naturally more like fire, yet it was fonie-times mingled with earth and water, the heavieft ele-ments. And, as I mentioned before, every woman had a Ju-no, and every man had a Genius -, which were their tu-telar or guardian angels q. i A fofpitando. Cic. de Nat. Deor. k Ab unguendo. LH. Quafi Unxor, ab ungendis poftibus. m Aer interjeftus intercoelum et tenam Juncnis nomine confecratus eft. De Nat. Dee\ Ar,£ et J/H^a-. ° Hellenic, in frfa Qfoohfyw, H<?m, Iliad 5, P Phurnut, q Sen, Epilt. 310* T/ah Tape 8?. ( 8; )CHAPTER VIII. SECT. I. MINERVA, OR PALLAS. HER IMAGE, P. THIS is a threatening Goddefs, and carries no-thing but terror in her afpect, M* It is Minerva^ who derives her name, as femethink, q from the threats of her ftern and fierce look. P. But why is fhe clothed with armour, rather thanwith womens clothes ? r What means that headpiece ofgold, and the creft that glitters fo ? To what purpofe hasfhe a golden breaftplate, and a lance in her right hand,and a terrible fhield in her left? On the fhield whichfhe holds, I fee a grifly head befet with fnakes. Andwhat means the cock and the owl that are painted there ? M. I will fatisfy all your demands. She ought to bearmed, rather than dreffejj in womens clothes, becaufefile is s the prefident and inventrefs of war. The cockftands by her becaufe he is a fighting bird, and is oftenpain
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