A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable, and to reduce the truth to its original purity ... . Plate (>//,./ ( >/.? </„ff/t/rfMt /rr,/^M,/r The Analysis of Ancient Mythology. 387 but a ruined world. It therefore pleafed God to iirjmedi-diately afford them fome comfortable promifes. Amongother things he affured them, upon an altar being raifed, anda facrifice offered, that the earth fliould be no more ac-curfed : that *^ feed time and harveft, cold and heat, andfummer and winter, and day and night fhould not ceafe
A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable, and to reduce the truth to its original purity ... . Plate (>//,./ ( >/.? </„ff/t/rfMt /rr,/^M,/r The Analysis of Ancient Mythology. 387 but a ruined world. It therefore pleafed God to iirjmedi-diately afford them fome comfortable promifes. Amongother things he affured them, upon an altar being raifed, anda facrifice offered, that the earth fliould be no more ac-curfed : that *^ feed time and harveft, cold and heat, andfummer and winter, and day and night fhould not ceafe;and as a teftimony of it, he placed his bow in the divine hope, fo graciouily afforded them, was afterwardsmany ways recorded: and as in the firft ages they had notthe ufe of letters, they commemorated thefe bleflings intheir rites: and defcribed them by various fymbols, whichwere too reverentially regarded. Hence Da Mater was re-prefented with an handful of ripe corn : and there is a (la-tue of her flill preferved, under the charadler of Divine^^ Hope, fet oftwith many of the emblems, of which I havebeen fpeaking. She is figured as a beautiful female
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