. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . e an iniquity to bepunished by the judge; for I should have denied theGod that is above. This passage distinctly provesthat the sun and moon were reverenced by some, butthat Job was a monotheist, looking beyond theseobjects to the God who made them. That the sun and moon were at a very earlyperiod worshipped, none who has studied antiq
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . e an iniquity to bepunished by the judge; for I should have denied theGod that is above. This passage distinctly provesthat the sun and moon were reverenced by some, butthat Job was a monotheist, looking beyond theseobjects to the God who made them. That the sun and moon were at a very earlyperiod worshipped, none who has studied antiquitycan deny. But there has been diversity in themanner in which the latter has been regarded ;sometimes the moon has been considered as mascu-line ; more generally, however, she has been figuredas a female. Amongst the ancients, the two lumi-naries were usually re- Figure thus: Fig. the same way theyare still representedover many of the altarsof the Roman Catholictemples. By a fiction,it was supposed thatthe sun impregnatedthe moon; and whenthe latter luminary was new, and the one quarterwas shining with reflected sun-light, and three quar-ters with reflected earth-light, it was easy to adoptthe idea that the moon was pregnant, or had. 326 Moon] Figure 25.
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