Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale ...The Author, 1801 - India |
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... Deity in their immenfe groves under the form of the letter T , THAU , as the Egyptians defignated their Thoth , or Hermes ; their reverence for the ANGUINUM , or fer- pent - egg , which is only the mundane egg of Tyre , rendered ...
... Deity in their immenfe groves under the form of the letter T , THAU , as the Egyptians defignated their Thoth , or Hermes ; their reverence for the ANGUINUM , or fer- pent - egg , which is only the mundane egg of Tyre , rendered ...
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... though hitherto very little investigated , we find the traces of it in the very name of their firft grand deity Brahma , the Creator , which is , doubtlefs , connected with , C 3 1 with , if not immediately derived from , the [ 21 ]
... though hitherto very little investigated , we find the traces of it in the very name of their firft grand deity Brahma , the Creator , which is , doubtlefs , connected with , C 3 1 with , if not immediately derived from , the [ 21 ]
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... deities , who are called Dives and Devatas ; and the reader's furprize will , perhaps , be not a little excited , when I inform him that Colonel Vallancey , well known for his researches into old Irish litera- ture , told Sir William ...
... deities , who are called Dives and Devatas ; and the reader's furprize will , perhaps , be not a little excited , when I inform him that Colonel Vallancey , well known for his researches into old Irish litera- ture , told Sir William ...
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... Deity and governing Providence are neceffarily fuppofed in the very formation of every religious inftitution . As to ... deities , whom , like their Sabian brethren of the Greater Afia , they confidered in the light of mediators , to ...
... Deity and governing Providence are neceffarily fuppofed in the very formation of every religious inftitution . As to ... deities , whom , like their Sabian brethren of the Greater Afia , they confidered in the light of mediators , to ...
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... Deity , the WING , the GLOBE , and the SER- PENT , to be exalted on the lofty portals of all the Egyptian temples , as an eternal me- mento to revolving ages , that fuch a patriar- chal notion of a diftinction in the divine na- ture did ...
... Deity , the WING , the GLOBE , and the SER- PENT , to be exalted on the lofty portals of all the Egyptian temples , as an eternal me- mento to revolving ages , that fuch a patriar- chal notion of a diftinction in the divine na- ture did ...
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Abury æra afferted Afia Afiatic aftronomical againſt alfo alſo ancient antiquity Brahmins Britain Britiſh called Carthage Carthaginians celebrated circumftance coaft colonies commerce confiderable confifting Cornwall courſe cuftom dæmon defcendants defcribed deity diftant Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Druids Eaft Egypt Egyptians erected eſpecially eſtabliſhed extenfive facred fame fays fcience feems feftival ferpent ferved fhall fhips fhore fhould filk filver fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome formed fpecies ftate ftill ftones fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fyftem fymbol Gaul gold Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus hiftory hypothefis immenfe India inftance iſland itſelf leaſt lefs metal moft moſt muft muſt nation navigation neceffary northern obferved old Britons paffage paffed Perfian period Phoenicians Pliny prefent purpoſe race refpect regions Reſearches rites Sabian Sanfcreet Scythian Sir William Jones Stonehenge Strabo Stukeley temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Tyre uſed vafes vaft veffels weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip