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 and Profound Literature of Hindostan : Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt and Greece...H. L.Galabin, 1801 |
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Page xiii
... STONE- HENGE IS EVIDENTLY ONE OF THE TEMPLES OF BOODн ; and the arithmetic , aftronomy , aftrology ; the HOLIDAYS , GAMES , names of the ftars , and figures of the conftellations ; the ANCIENT MONUMENTS , LAWS , and COINS ; the ...
... STONE- HENGE IS EVIDENTLY ONE OF THE TEMPLES OF BOODн ; and the arithmetic , aftronomy , aftrology ; the HOLIDAYS , GAMES , names of the ftars , and figures of the conftellations ; the ANCIENT MONUMENTS , LAWS , and COINS ; the ...
Page 74
... STONE- HENGE were a tribe of Brachmans , of the fect of ВOODн , we have only to call to mind the peculiar predominant fuperftition of that tribe , which , according to Lucian , was the adoration of the Sun , as a fecondary deity , in ...
... STONE- HENGE were a tribe of Brachmans , of the fect of ВOODн , we have only to call to mind the peculiar predominant fuperftition of that tribe , which , according to Lucian , was the adoration of the Sun , as a fecondary deity , in ...
Page 76
... STONE- HENGE was the identical temple here alluded to . This remark of Mr. Knight is perfectly congenial with my own fentiments on the fubject , and I mean in a future page to give the whole paffage , at length from Diodorus , with fuch ...
... STONE- HENGE was the identical temple here alluded to . This remark of Mr. Knight is perfectly congenial with my own fentiments on the fubject , and I mean in a future page to give the whole paffage , at length from Diodorus , with fuch ...
Page 95
... Stones , conical , pyramidal , or placed in circular Heaps , Remains of the ancient folar Superftition , fince his Difc , or Rays , were Shadowed out under thofe Emblems . — The greater aftronomical Cycles were alfo thus fymbolized ...
... Stones , conical , pyramidal , or placed in circular Heaps , Remains of the ancient folar Superftition , fince his Difc , or Rays , were Shadowed out under thofe Emblems . — The greater aftronomical Cycles were alfo thus fymbolized ...
Page 96
... Stones compofing it , including Thirty Impoft and Thirty Uprights , Sixty , the fexagenary Cycle ; a Cycle first formed in India , but early adopted in China . - The Adytum , or Cove , of Stonehenge , an Oval , re- presenting the ...
... Stones compofing it , including Thirty Impoft and Thirty Uprights , Sixty , the fexagenary Cycle ; a Cycle first formed in India , but early adopted in China . - The Adytum , or Cove , of Stonehenge , an Oval , re- presenting the ...
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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 cuſtom dæmon defcribed deity diftant Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Druids Eaft Egypt Egyptians erected eſtabliſhed extenfive facred fame fays feems feftival fent ferpent ferved fhall fhips fhore fhould filk filver fince firft firſt fituated flouriſhed folar fome formed fpecies ftate ftill ftones fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofed fymbol Gaul gold Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus hiftory immenfe India inftance iſland itſelf leaſt lefs leſs metal moft moſt muft muſt nation navigation neceffary northern obferved old Britons paffage paffed Perfian period Phoenicians Pliny prefent prieſts purpoſe race regions Reſearches reſpect rites Sabian ſcience Scythian ſpecies ſtate ſtill ſtone Stonehenge Strabo Stukeley temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Tyre uſed vafes vaft veffels weft weſtern whofe whoſe worſhip