. The serpent symbol, and the worship of the reciprocal principles of nature in America . s, have distorted this circumstance in a singular manner; for they argue,as coatl means a twin, and as Didymus also means a twin, therefore Quetzalcoatland the apostle Thomas who Avas called Didi/nius, are one and the same pei-son;i. e. Thomas taught the Gospel in America! If the reader desires to see tlic argu-ment at length, let him consult Miers Dissertation in Bustamentes edition of Saha-gim, lib. 3. Sup.; and Veytia, tom. i. pp. 160—200. f HumboUs Res., vol. i. p. 195; vol. ii. p. 37. This error of t
. The serpent symbol, and the worship of the reciprocal principles of nature in America . s, have distorted this circumstance in a singular manner; for they argue,as coatl means a twin, and as Didymus also means a twin, therefore Quetzalcoatland the apostle Thomas who Avas called Didi/nius, are one and the same pei-son;i. e. Thomas taught the Gospel in America! If the reader desires to see tlic argu-ment at length, let him consult Miers Dissertation in Bustamentes edition of Saha-gim, lib. 3. Sup.; and Veytia, tom. i. pp. 160—200. f HumboUs Res., vol. i. p. 195; vol. ii. p. 37. This error of the bigots hasabundant parallels, and was well hit off by Warburtou in his day. The findingof all the gods of the Ancients to be Jewish Patriarchs, seems unsupported by everything but a pious intention of doing honor to the Bible. And so jealous are someof tliis fairyhonor paid to the scriptures, that I have met with those who would have THE SERPENT SYMBOL. 165 represents this goddess, and is copied from the Codex Vaticanus,in which it is the 4Sth plate.* In these representations, we. Fig. 34. have also the figures of children, of different colors, who are thought it much encroached upon, should it be suggested that there was any otherorigin of Human Sacrifices than the command of God to Abiaham, to offer up hisson.—{Divine Leg. of Moses, book ii.) * The corresponding plate of the Codex Borgianus, (No. 54) represents the serpentIjivig below the Goddess, and the children in a friendly attitude, without the twosmall altai*s. Mr. Gallatin suggests that the arrangement of the figures in the CodexVaticanus is a monkish interpolation ; a suspicion which is confirmed alike by theunscrupidous character of the monkish bigots, and the circumstance that, in theirinterpretations, they sfeek to identify CUiuacohuatl, the Serpent Mother there repre-sented, with Eve. Of course, to carry out the imposition, and make the allusion tooriginal sin and the mm-der of Abel more distinct, it was on
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