. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . y renewed andrenewing youth and vigour. He ftandsto denote theunabated acftivity of light, and is habited in a fort ofnetwork, compofed of globules of light pulhing andinterfering each other every way. He holds a ftafFcrofled, expreffing his power in the four elements ;and on it the head of the hoop, a tranfient bird, toreprefent the cont
. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . y renewed andrenewing youth and vigour. He ftandsto denote theunabated acftivity of light, and is habited in a fort ofnetwork, compofed of globules of light pulhing andinterfering each other every way. He holds a ftafFcrofled, expreffing his power in the four elements ;and on it the head of the hoop, a tranfient bird, toreprefent the continual change of things which heproduces by thofe elements. This ftaff, the fymbolof his rule, is further adorned with a gnomon andtrumpet, indicating feafon and fymmetry, harmonyand order. At his back is a triangle with a globefixed to it; fhewing the regular being of the worldto depend upon him. The lides of the portal, whichhe ftands in, are decorated with the celeflial bodies,and on the top of it is the circle with expanded hieroglyphics, engraven on the bafe, call him,The Parent of vegetable Nature; the Guardian ofMoifiure; ProteEior of the Nile; Avertcr of E-vi/s;Qo^ernor of the Worlds; the mar, Ccd; theAutljor of Plenty^ THE HEATHEN GODS. i8i CHAP. LXIV. OF THE CABIRI. BoCHART fays, that the Cibiri were the Gods oFthe Phcenicians, and obferves jiiftly that Cabir fig-nines, both in the Hebrew and Arabic tongue, Greator Mighty ; fo that Cabiri, in the plural, are TheGreat or Mighty Ones. He that miniftered inholy things went by the appellation of Cohes, a nna-nifeft corruption of the Hebrew Cohen, prieft or in-terceffor. They are fpoken of by the names of Axieros,Axiocherfos and Axiocherfa; as three diilind pei-fons:and in them our author thinks that he has foundCeres, Proferpine and Pluto ; the Abbe Pluche, Ofi-ris, Orus, and Ifis ; others, Jupiter, Ceres, and Bac-chus. To thefe, the Scholiaft upon Apollonius, hasadded a fourth, Cafmiius or Cadmil
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