. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. M M fimperors, Insteil also 18000 years or moons, 1384 of our years: which is an additional proof of con- temporary duration. They are said to have been sons of the Celestial Emperors, and fathers of the next KI, all
. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. M M fimperors, Insteil also 18000 years or moons, 1384 of our years: which is an additional proof of con- temporary duration. They are said to have been sons of the Celestial Emperors, and fathers of the next KI, all of which are sometimes per- sonified. They must liave been the primitive rulers of the Lowlands which were called Earth in oppo- sition to the Celestial Mountains. To them is ascribed the discovery of the solar year of 12 months of 30 days, makini^ the -year of StiO days, as it was before the flood. 3. Oin-hoang meaning Human Emperors were nine bpothers, sons of theTi>hoang, who divided the earth among them, and built cities sur- rounded with walls, foundeu king- doms and settled governments, be- coming des|iotic rulers, while before or among the other two KI, the rulers were only patriarchs. Their duration is extended to45,606years, which if reduced to moons, would be only S508 years. These GIN or men appear to be the Jins or Oe- nis of the primitive Arabs and Per- sians, who came in contact with them in East Imalava and Iran, fa- mous in antediluvian history as good and beneficent beings, friends of the Peris, the ancient Iranians or That these TIEN, TI and GIN were not KI periods, but rather SHI or families of mankind, is evident by no Dynasties being numbered among them. They are often col- lectively made a Rl named San- hnangi but then the U-long form the second KI, while the third has no name and therefore no existence. I rather consider them as the three first KI, either implying three periods, or three divisions of man- kind. And I find a fourth division in the U-LON
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