. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ntro-duced into Greece the name of Bacchus, the ceremonial of hisworship, and the procession of the phallus. He did not, however,so completely apprehend the whole doctrine as to be able to com-municate it entirely, but various sages since his time have carriedout
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ntro-duced into Greece the name of Bacchus, the ceremonial of hisworship, and the procession of the phallus. He did not, however,so completely apprehend the whole doctrine as to be able to com-municate it entirely, but various sages since his time have carriedout his teaching to greater perfection. Still it is certain thatMelampus introduced the phallus, and that the Greeks learntfrom him the ceremonies which they now practise. I thereforemaintain that Melampus, who was a wise man, and had acquiredthe art of divination, having become acquainted with the Avorshipof Bacchus through knowledge derived from Egypt, introducedit into Greece, with a few slight changes, at the same time thathe brought in various other practices. For I can by no meansallow that it is by mere coincidence that the Bacchic ceremoniesin Greece are so nearly the same as the Egyptian—they wouldthen have been more Greek in their character, and less recentin their origin. Much less can I admit that the Egyptians bor-. No. VI. sacred instrument, and it was to thequeen and prince^es that its use wasentrusted, or to other ladies of rankwho held the important office of ac-companying the king or the high priest,while making libations to the above, note ^ on ch. 35, and At. vol. ii. p. 222 to 327 on the musicand instruments of the Egyptians.—[G. W.] ^ Either Melampus, as some maintain, really existed, and travelling into Egyptbrought back certain ceremonies intoGreece, or he was an imaginary person-age ; and the fable was intended toshow that the Greeks borrowed some oftheir religious ceremonies from name blackfoot would thenhave been invented to
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