A New System, or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, Vol. 5 of 6: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable, and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Bryant, Jacob

9780331878691: A New System, or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, Vol. 5 of 6: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable, and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity (Classic Reprint)

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Ionar-hellenic colonies. I have repeatedly taken notice, that the worship of the Dove, and the circumstances of th�deluge, were very early interwoven among the various rites, and ceremonies of the eastern world. This worship, and all other memorials of that great event, were represented in hieroglyphical characters in Baby lonia: and from these symbolical marks, ill gnder stood,'was that mythology framed, which through vol. V. B.

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