The Origin Of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained From Historical Testimony And Circumstantial Evidence

F. and C. Rivingtons, 1816

Notions entertained by the Heathens respecting their consecrated moun	1

Arguments against it on the ground of its being irreconcileable with	3

Navicular character of the classical Hera or Juno	8

Intercommunion of character between the Earth and the Moon	19

The lotos	69

Examples of the hermaphroditic divinity Rites of his priests	72

Hermaphroditus Hermes	81

The whole history of the great mother corresponds with her navicular cha	90

Extent of Nimrods empire It commenced at Babylon but the seat	378

An inquiry into the character and origin of the Scythians who founded this	400

2 How we are to understand the termination of the Scythic name	411

Polity of Nimrods empire	426

Machiavellian politics of Nimrod	442

3 Its figurative birth out of the deluge	450

The confusion of languages in some centrical region may be ascertained	458

The division of the world by Noah among his sons	466

Respecting the sacred ark of the Mysteries	118

The doctrine of the Metempsychosis and the Metamorphosis was an essen	142

A summary of the peculiar doctrines taught in the Mysteries	150

CHAPTER VII	193

39	200

Notions entertained of the sacred caverns They represented the gloomy	208

Sacred lakes and islands The Earth the summit of Ararat and	222

97	225

41	228

circle of the visible horizon	229

996	250

The worship of the Gentiles was of a sepulchral nature Hence origi	296

42	303

Romance secular whether ancient or modern	315

2 Its remaining in the great deep	327

Romance ecclesiastical	329

Romance magical or necromantic	345

BOOK VI	357

Route of mankind from Ararat to Shinar	372

The Ark born out of the deluge on the top of a lofty hill	471

Respecting the peculiar mode of the dispersion from Babel	475

nobles were mingled with their brethren in almost every part of	485

The members of the Noëtic family and the rudiments of the new world	497

CHAPTER IV	499

Origin and progress of the Scuthim or Scythians	506

The Ark afforded safetyto one family but appeared as the genius of	508

CHAPTER V	526

Chronology of the pastoral domination	532

Theory of Mr Bryant relative to the Shepherdkings	538

Another theory proposed	545

The great mother viewed as the female regent of Hades	548

55	554

An inquiry into the origin and nationality of the Shepherdkings	560

Various emigrations of the Cuthic Shepherds when finally expelled from Egypt	589

Milesians of Ireland	599

The cause of the resemblance between the Ritual Law of Moses and	624

affliction symbolized by a flood	643

Titel	The Origin Of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained From Historical Testimony And Circumstantial Evidence
Autor/in	George Stanley Faber
Verlag	F. and C. Rivingtons, 1816
Original von	Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Digitalisiert	27. Nov. 2013

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