Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . crates, viewed as the incarnation of a deity through a female divi-nity—Mylitta or Isis—one of the oldest and most important traditions oftlie East, viewed in all its bearings. We have also the Ras Majusi, orhead magi of the Persians, transmitting an original Babylonian andAssyrian form, just as Mithra effects the transition of Nergal to Apollo;and Layard has shewn that the Assyrians knew also the obscene ritesof PriajHis. The collection, take
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . crates, viewed as the incarnation of a deity through a female divi-nity—Mylitta or Isis—one of the oldest and most important traditions oftlie East, viewed in all its bearings. We have also the Ras Majusi, orhead magi of the Persians, transmitting an original Babylonian andAssyrian form, just as Mithra effects the transition of Nergal to Apollo;and Layard has shewn that the Assyrians knew also the obscene ritesof PriajHis. The collection, taken in all its parts, truly shews that the mythologyof Tarsus was (as indeed might have been anticipated from what isknown of its history—its boasted Assyrian origin—its mercantile re-nown—its connexion with Greece and Rome, and its celebrity as aschool of philosophy and religion) of such a mingled character, Assyrian,Egyptian, Indian, Syi-ian, Greek, and Roman, that it will always be dif-ficult to unravel it. Yet in this very ftict consists in a great measurethe value, the interest, and the great peculiarity of this
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