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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
pyramid , when we are thus led to suppose that the pyramid and tower ob ? ct : rX " ti on . ldeRUCal and malE 1 , 0 Wer ' *& « itotM Wide indeed is such a conclusion from the real truth of the matter As thetower wassacred to the MALE power of the universe ( as has been shown ) , so likewise was the pyramid , triangle , or cone , adopted by the votaries of an opposite worship the real and consecrated emblem
, as and representation of that procreative female energy in which ( considering it as the true and vital conceptive power of nature ) , according to them , resided absolutely and solel y , the underived principle of life : which female power they chose alone to deify , and , like their oimonenfl r-nn **
-crated ttieir unhallowed worship by the most profane and licentious rites . I Hus tlie great pyramids were at Memphis the colossal monuments of a separate worship , with all its concomitant mysteries , - aud , like the lower of Babel in both symbolical edifices , the threefold obiects of uS ° ' aStr 0 l ° Sy' and reli S ion , were indissolubl y involved and Baron Humboldt observes , in his Researches , ( in total ignorance , e \ thS th ) eVer art of the
ZT u , T y " ^ y l 8 M * , on the ridge of tbe Cordilleras as well as m the Isle of Samothrace , in the iEgean Sea iragments of primitive languages are preserved in religious rites " hat us , in accordance with this observation , examine the ancient bumcrit word YU , or YONI , which , I hesitate not to say , we shall recognise in the religious vocabulary of every nation where pyramidal edifices prove them to have been addicted to the schismatic of the
worship I * « £ w-T *? - SSf- IU l l le t ! ; M Volume of tlle As ; utiB Researches , ' , - ¦ \ ; lifor ' informs us that the word yo ' ni , or the female nature , is derived from the mot yu , to mix ; and Sir W . Jones more expressly states , that the meaning of yoni , or bhaga . is undoubtedl y the female womb ; and in his plate of the Hindu lunar mansions , ( in the article on the Antiquity of the Indian Zodiac ) , this constellation of the " yoni " is figured as three starsinclosed bthe Hindu in
, y draughtsman a representation of that object ; which , in his figure , is made to resemble an inverted pyramid , or truncated cone . Venus Genetrix is sometimes represented in the form of a conical marble , "for the reason of which figure , says Tacitus , we are left in the dark ; " but , adds Sir W Jones the reason appears too clearl y in tlie temples and paintings of Hindustan , where it never seems to have entered the heads of theWi < . lntnr 0 <__ ¦
people , that any thing natural could be offensivel y indecent . " Welford mentions , that according to Theodoret , Arnobius , and Clemens Alexandria , the YONI of the Hindus was the SOLE object of veneration , in the mysteries of Eleusis . For proofs of the hi gh antiquity of this worship in China , the discerning mind need onl y consult the following passage from Lord Macartney ^ Iravels , vol . i ., Hager , Monument of Yu . "In both Americas he it is matter of
says , " a inquiry what was the intention of the natives when they raised so many artificial pyramidal hills , several ot which appear to have served neither as tombs , nor watch towers , nor the base of a temple ; a custom established in Eastern Asia may throw some light on this important question . About 2000 years before our era , sacrifices were offered in China , to the Supreme Being on four great mountains , called the FOUR Yo . The sovereigns finding it incon vemeiit to go thither in person , caused eminences , reprcsentiva these mountains , to be created by the hands of men , near their habitations "
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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
pyramid , when we are thus led to suppose that the pyramid and tower ob ? ct : rX " ti on . ldeRUCal and malE 1 , 0 Wer ' *& « itotM Wide indeed is such a conclusion from the real truth of the matter As thetower wassacred to the MALE power of the universe ( as has been shown ) , so likewise was the pyramid , triangle , or cone , adopted by the votaries of an opposite worship the real and consecrated emblem
, as and representation of that procreative female energy in which ( considering it as the true and vital conceptive power of nature ) , according to them , resided absolutely and solel y , the underived principle of life : which female power they chose alone to deify , and , like their oimonenfl r-nn **
-crated ttieir unhallowed worship by the most profane and licentious rites . I Hus tlie great pyramids were at Memphis the colossal monuments of a separate worship , with all its concomitant mysteries , - aud , like the lower of Babel in both symbolical edifices , the threefold obiects of uS ° ' aStr 0 l ° Sy' and reli S ion , were indissolubl y involved and Baron Humboldt observes , in his Researches , ( in total ignorance , e \ thS th ) eVer art of the
ZT u , T y " ^ y l 8 M * , on the ridge of tbe Cordilleras as well as m the Isle of Samothrace , in the iEgean Sea iragments of primitive languages are preserved in religious rites " hat us , in accordance with this observation , examine the ancient bumcrit word YU , or YONI , which , I hesitate not to say , we shall recognise in the religious vocabulary of every nation where pyramidal edifices prove them to have been addicted to the schismatic of the
worship I * « £ w-T *? - SSf- IU l l le t ! ; M Volume of tlle As ; utiB Researches , ' , - ¦ \ ; lifor ' informs us that the word yo ' ni , or the female nature , is derived from the mot yu , to mix ; and Sir W . Jones more expressly states , that the meaning of yoni , or bhaga . is undoubtedl y the female womb ; and in his plate of the Hindu lunar mansions , ( in the article on the Antiquity of the Indian Zodiac ) , this constellation of the " yoni " is figured as three starsinclosed bthe Hindu in
, y draughtsman a representation of that object ; which , in his figure , is made to resemble an inverted pyramid , or truncated cone . Venus Genetrix is sometimes represented in the form of a conical marble , "for the reason of which figure , says Tacitus , we are left in the dark ; " but , adds Sir W Jones the reason appears too clearl y in tlie temples and paintings of Hindustan , where it never seems to have entered the heads of theWi < . lntnr 0 <__ ¦
people , that any thing natural could be offensivel y indecent . " Welford mentions , that according to Theodoret , Arnobius , and Clemens Alexandria , the YONI of the Hindus was the SOLE object of veneration , in the mysteries of Eleusis . For proofs of the hi gh antiquity of this worship in China , the discerning mind need onl y consult the following passage from Lord Macartney ^ Iravels , vol . i ., Hager , Monument of Yu . "In both Americas he it is matter of
says , " a inquiry what was the intention of the natives when they raised so many artificial pyramidal hills , several ot which appear to have served neither as tombs , nor watch towers , nor the base of a temple ; a custom established in Eastern Asia may throw some light on this important question . About 2000 years before our era , sacrifices were offered in China , to the Supreme Being on four great mountains , called the FOUR Yo . The sovereigns finding it incon vemeiit to go thither in person , caused eminences , reprcsentiva these mountains , to be created by the hands of men , near their habitations "