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, Volume 2C. & W. Galabin, 1800 - India |
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... EGYPT , AND GREECE , THE WHOLE INTENDED AS INTRODUCTORY TO AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE . VOL . II . Commencing the SURVEY of the THEOLOGY of HINDOSTAN ; and confidering that Theology ...
... EGYPT , AND GREECE , THE WHOLE INTENDED AS INTRODUCTORY TO AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN , UPON A COMPREHENSIVE SCALE . VOL . II . Commencing the SURVEY of the THEOLOGY of HINDOSTAN ; and confidering that Theology ...
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... EGYPTIANS ; and , 4. That of the EARLY , GREEKS . As the fubject is complex , and , confequently , as no very exact order of arrangement in the investigation of such a multitude of obscure and abstracted topics could be adhered to , he ...
... EGYPTIANS ; and , 4. That of the EARLY , GREEKS . As the fubject is complex , and , confequently , as no very exact order of arrangement in the investigation of such a multitude of obscure and abstracted topics could be adhered to , he ...
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... Egypt , where the Moon was a female divinity , adored under the name of Isis , and whence the Greeks had their horned goddefs Io . The In- dian Chandra drawn by antelopes - a RABBIT his fymbol , as the CAT was of the Moon in Egypt , for ...
... Egypt , where the Moon was a female divinity , adored under the name of Isis , and whence the Greeks had their horned goddefs Io . The In- dian Chandra drawn by antelopes - a RABBIT his fymbol , as the CAT was of the Moon in Egypt , for ...
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... Egypt , and a fhort pa- rallel , preparatory to one more extended , of those deities , and their fymbols , with the Indian divinities and fymbols . The bull of OSIRIS the bull of SEEYA . SERPENTS facred in both countries- the EAGLE of ...
... Egypt , and a fhort pa- rallel , preparatory to one more extended , of those deities , and their fymbols , with the Indian divinities and fymbols . The bull of OSIRIS the bull of SEEYA . SERPENTS facred in both countries- the EAGLE of ...
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... Egypt , the ROCKY SUBTER- RANEOUS fhrines of MITHRA , and the particular ca- verns in question . The authors , in ... EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES ; and Montfaucon and Dr. Hyde on the MITHRATIC CAVES , RITES , and SYM- BOLS . — Convinced that ...
... Egypt , the ROCKY SUBTER- RANEOUS fhrines of MITHRA , and the particular ca- verns in question . The authors , in ... EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES ; and Montfaucon and Dr. Hyde on the MITHRATIC CAVES , RITES , and SYM- BOLS . — Convinced that ...
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