The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Tlie Kliabour, fiom near Arban, lookiug uoitn. Fig Koukab. CH. VII. 1 HE A, OR HO A. 79 to the mystic animal, half man, half fish, which came up fromthe Persian Gulf to teach astronomy and letters to the firstsettlers on the Euphrates and Tigris.* It is p(Mliaps containedalso in the word Ijy which Berosus designates this same creat-ure—Oannes (Baviw)—which may be explained as Hoa-ana,or the god Hoa. T
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . Tlie Kliabour, fiom near Arban, lookiug uoitn. Fig Koukab. CH. VII. 1 HE A, OR HO A. 79 to the mystic animal, half man, half fish, which came up fromthe Persian Gulf to teach astronomy and letters to the firstsettlers on the Euphrates and Tigris.* It is p(Mliaps containedalso in the word Ijy which Berosus designates this same creat-ure—Oannes (Baviw)—which may be explained as Hoa-ana,or the god Hoa. There are no means of strictly determiningthe precise meaning of the word in Babylonian; but it is jjcr-haps allowable to connect it, provisionally, with tlie ArabicHiya, which is at once life and a serpent, since, accord-ing to the best authority, there are very strong grounds forconnecting Hea or Iloa with the serpent of Scripture and theParadisaical traditions of the tree of knowledge and the treeof life.»» Hoa occupies, in the first Triad, the position which in mythology is filled by Poseidon or Neptime, and insome respects he corresponds to him. He is the lord of theearth, just as Neptune is yai^oxog; he is the kin
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