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XI. General use of the Sabbath viewed as originating
from the first grand week of the creation, p. 37
1. General sanctity of the seventh day, p. 38
2. General use of the hebdomadal period, p. 39
XII. Remarks on the pagan method of reckoning by
nights, instead of by days, p. 39
XIII. General result of the inquiry, p. 40
CHAP. III.
Pagan accounts of the period between the creation and
the deluge, p. 41
I. Traditions of Paradise, p. 41
1. Classical golden age, p. 43
2. Gothic golden age, p. 44
3. Hindoo golden age, p. 45
4. Mount Meru, p. 46
5. The garden of the Hesperides, p. 47
6. Consecrated groves, p. 48
II. Traditions of the fall, p. 50
1. Expiatory sacrifice, p. 57
2. Instances of pagan belief in a defection from ori-
ginal purity, p. 65
(1.) The Celts and the Hindoos, p. 65.
(2.) The Greeks, p. 66
(3.) The fable of Pandora, p. 66
(4.) The Platonists, p. 67
III. Traditions of the serpent, p. 71
1. Ahriman, p. 72
2. Caliya, p. 73
3. Typhon or Python, p. 73
4. Ophioneus, p. 73
5. Loke and the serpent of Midgard, p. 74
6. Gentile belief that hell is full of serpents, p. 76
(1.) Gothic, p. 76
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(2.) Persian, p. 77
(3.) Hindoo, p. 77
IV. Traditions of the promised Messiah, p. 77
1. Thor, p. 77
2. Vishnou, p 78
3. Hercules, p. 78
4. The Deliverer foretold in the Sibylline oracles,
p. 78
(1.) Virgil professes to have borrowed the sub-
stance of his Pollio from those oracles, p. 78
(2.) A prophecy to that effect certainly existed
before the Christian era, p. 79
(3.) The original oracles were destroyed by fire
about a century before Christ; but their place
was supplied by a collection diligently made by
order of the Roman Senate, p. 81
(4.) The collection must have been substantially
the same as the destroyed oracles, as we may
argue from the manner in which it was made.
But a very important addition was introduced,
namely a fixing of the time when the Deliverer
should appear, p. 81
(5.) This particular, which the event proved to be
accurate, must have been borrowed from Da-
niel's prophecy of the seventy weeks, read by
the collectors in the Greek translation during
their travels in Egypt, p. 82
(6.) But, though the fixing of the time seems to
have been borrowed from Daniel, there is reason
to believe, that the ancient oracles did indeed
contain a general prophecy of the Deliverer
handed down from the days of aucient Patri-
archism, p. 85
V. Traditions respecting Cain and Abel, p. 87
1. Hindoo legend, p. 87
2. Atlantian legend, p. 88
3. Classical legend, p. 88
4. American legend, p. 89
VI. Traditions respecting Enoch, p. 89
1. Hindoo legend, p. 89
2. Cingalese legend, p. 90
3. Calmuc legend, p. 90'
4. Atlantian legend, p. 90
VII. Traditions respecting the longevity of the ancient
Patriarchs, p. 91
I
1. Attestations of ancient authors preserved by Jo-
sephus, p. 9110
2. Classical tradition, p. 92
3. Burman tradition, p. 92
4. Chinese tradition, p. 93
years of the early patriarchs cannot
5. The Mosaical years o
be lunar ones, p. 94
VIII. Traditions respecting the primeval giants, p. 94
IX. The existence of ten generations, from Adam to
Noah inclusive, was not unknown to the Gentiles,
p. 95
X. Conclusion, p. 96
CHAP. IV.
Pagan accounts of the Deluge, p. 98
If the Deluge ever occurred, it never could have been
forgotten. We may therefore expect to find vivid
traces of it in the legends of the Gentiles, p. 98
I.
Chaldean account, p. 99
II. Syrian account, p. 100
III. Persian account, p. 103
1. As given by Dr. Hyde, p. 103
2. As contained in the Zend-Avesta, p. 103
3. As described by the Behdins under the name of
the deluge of Time, p. 105
IV. Hindoo account, p. 106
V. Chinese account, p. 107
1. Undisguised tradition of the deluge, p. 107
2. Legends, which refer to it indirectly, p. 108
3. The moral cause of the deluge, p. 110
VI. Burman account, p. 110
VII. Gothic account, p. 111
VIII. Egyptian account, p. 112
IX. Druidical account, p. 112
X. American accounts, p. 113
1. Azteck or Mexican, p. 113
2. Peruvian, p. 115
3. Brazilian, p. 116
4. Nicaraguan, p. 117
5. Accounts preserved in the islands of the Pacific
ocean, p. 117
(1.) Otaheitean, p. 117
(2.) That of the Sandwich islanders, p. 117
XI. Traditions respecting the Ark and mount Ararat,
p. 118
1. Pagan authors, p. 118
2. Christian fathers, p. 119
3. Modern Armenians, p. 120
XII. Traditions respecting the dove, p. 123
1. Deucalion, Janus, Argha, Argo, Anius, p. 123
2. Isis, Derceto, Venus, p. 125
S. Hindoo tradition of the dove of Menu, p. 127.
4. Apamean medal, p. 128
XIII. Traditions respecting the arkite Ogdoad, p. 128
XIV. The history of the deluge pourtrayed on the sphere,
p. 130
1. The constellation of the Argo with its allied ca-
tasterisms, p. 131
2. The history, pourtrayed in them, appropriated by
the Greeks to themselves, p. 131
3. It is impossible however, that the Greeks should
have been the authors of these catasterisms.
The
history therefore, to which they relate, cannot be a local Greek history, p. 131
4. A knowledge of the ship Argo no way peculiar to
Greece, p. 132
5. This is confessed by the Greeks themselves, p. 133
6. The whole group relates to the Ark and the de-
luge, p. 134
7. The first arrangers of it must have been the astro-
nomers of Babylonia, p. 135
XV. Conclusion, p. 136
CHAP. V.
Pagan accounts of the periods after the Deluge, p. 137
Preliminary observations, p. 137
I. Traditions of Noah and his three sons, p. 139
1. Fohi, p. 139
2. Osiris, p. 140
3. Saturn, p. 141
4. Bacchus, p. 142
5. Targitaus, Tuisto, Mannus, Bore, p. 143
6. Menu, p. 145
7. Hu-Menwyd, p. 145
8. Otaheitean man of the sea, p. 146
II. Traditions of Babel, p. 146
1. Abydenus, p. 152
2. The Sibylline Oracles, p. 152
3. Eupolemus, p. 153
4. Fable of the Titans, p. 153
5. Tradition attached to the Mexican pyramid of
Cholula, p. 154
6. Traditions respecting the overthrow of the tower
and the destruction of Nimrod, p. 159
7. The accuracy of these may be well doubted: for