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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
Thus we find that the pyramidal hills ou which sacrifice was offered , were designated by the very name of the object typified , thus affording an invaluable clue to our present inquiries . ( See also Asiatic Researches , vol . iii 437 , 438 , 439 ) . And the names of many of their most considerable cities and provinces still bear witness to the religious or sacred etymology of their titles ; and Yo-tcheon , Yao-gan , in the province of Yu-nan , Yu-engang , & c , are assuredly derived fiom a primitively religious meaning , as the four sacred Yo ( or natural pyramids ) themselves ,
alluded to by Lord Macartney . . The whole country of Mexico abounded in pyramids , and Humboldt declares the basis of the Great Cholula to have been twice as broad as that of the Egyptian Cheops , though its heig ht is little more than that of Mycerinus . tie states , also , that in the American languages 137 roots have been recognised in the languages of Asia and Europe ; and m perfect accordance with this theory of their religious ideas we find a Mexican named Yucatan the Mexican Isis ( lsh lslior
province - ; , , female nature ); the wife of the sun is called Tti-becaygua-ya ; and a chapel called Yo-pico , was built over the cavern that contained the skins of the human sacrifices ! It is extremely remarkable , says Humboldt , that we discover among the Mexican hieroglyphics , absolutely nothing which announces the symbol of the Generative Force , or the worship of the Lrngam . AI . Zoiiohas observedthat the emblem of the Phallus is likewise never
-a , found in Egyptian works of great antiquity . M . Langles observes expressly , that in India some sectarians have this emblem in horror ; " might one not suppose , " adds he , « that there exists some exiled sect in the north-west of Asia , who reject the worship of the Lingam , and ot which one finds some traces amongst the American races ? Thus did these great writers , intuitively as it were , discern the existof object of worshiin those countries which they
ence a separate p , allude to , although , as they never advert to the real nature of it , I conclude their inferences ( like those of so many other great men , who lacked this master key ) to have been only obscurely conjectural . _ The fact is , that wherever this peculiar worship has ever flourished , ( and it must never be lost sig ht of ; that all idolatry can be shown to have been orisrinally based on one or other ramification of it ) , traces are
left behind , and relics remain , wliich have always been found to nave puzzled the learned antiquarian , no less than the unlettered conjecturer . " In a tumulus on Salisbury Plain , " says Sir R . Hoare , m his Tumuli Wiltuncnscs , " we found a CONE of jet , likewise an amber CONE . In another , " we found an earthen cup of singular pattern , a CONE ot
GOLD , & C . " That the mitre of Osiris , which , in fact , represented a truncated cone , had relation to this mysterious type , I imagine few will be inclined to controvert ; and I believe these remarks cannot but receive corroboration , from a close inspection of the extraordinary groups in the _ caves of Ellora ( which are engraved in the sixth volume of the Asiatic Researches ) , where the mitre , placed on the head of Indra , as well as on situation of the human
the head of Indranec , no less than the peculiar shall and cross-bones , placed conspicuously on this last female personage , and occupying tlie natural position of the Yoni itself , sufficiently evince what were tlie notions of those ancient architects concerning religious mysteries , and of the particular agency , by which death , m the . first instance , " passed upon all men . " In relation to this peculiar head-dress , it may be remarked , that an
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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
Thus we find that the pyramidal hills ou which sacrifice was offered , were designated by the very name of the object typified , thus affording an invaluable clue to our present inquiries . ( See also Asiatic Researches , vol . iii 437 , 438 , 439 ) . And the names of many of their most considerable cities and provinces still bear witness to the religious or sacred etymology of their titles ; and Yo-tcheon , Yao-gan , in the province of Yu-nan , Yu-engang , & c , are assuredly derived fiom a primitively religious meaning , as the four sacred Yo ( or natural pyramids ) themselves ,
alluded to by Lord Macartney . . The whole country of Mexico abounded in pyramids , and Humboldt declares the basis of the Great Cholula to have been twice as broad as that of the Egyptian Cheops , though its heig ht is little more than that of Mycerinus . tie states , also , that in the American languages 137 roots have been recognised in the languages of Asia and Europe ; and m perfect accordance with this theory of their religious ideas we find a Mexican named Yucatan the Mexican Isis ( lsh lslior
province - ; , , female nature ); the wife of the sun is called Tti-becaygua-ya ; and a chapel called Yo-pico , was built over the cavern that contained the skins of the human sacrifices ! It is extremely remarkable , says Humboldt , that we discover among the Mexican hieroglyphics , absolutely nothing which announces the symbol of the Generative Force , or the worship of the Lrngam . AI . Zoiiohas observedthat the emblem of the Phallus is likewise never
-a , found in Egyptian works of great antiquity . M . Langles observes expressly , that in India some sectarians have this emblem in horror ; " might one not suppose , " adds he , « that there exists some exiled sect in the north-west of Asia , who reject the worship of the Lingam , and ot which one finds some traces amongst the American races ? Thus did these great writers , intuitively as it were , discern the existof object of worshiin those countries which they
ence a separate p , allude to , although , as they never advert to the real nature of it , I conclude their inferences ( like those of so many other great men , who lacked this master key ) to have been only obscurely conjectural . _ The fact is , that wherever this peculiar worship has ever flourished , ( and it must never be lost sig ht of ; that all idolatry can be shown to have been orisrinally based on one or other ramification of it ) , traces are
left behind , and relics remain , wliich have always been found to nave puzzled the learned antiquarian , no less than the unlettered conjecturer . " In a tumulus on Salisbury Plain , " says Sir R . Hoare , m his Tumuli Wiltuncnscs , " we found a CONE of jet , likewise an amber CONE . In another , " we found an earthen cup of singular pattern , a CONE ot
GOLD , & C . " That the mitre of Osiris , which , in fact , represented a truncated cone , had relation to this mysterious type , I imagine few will be inclined to controvert ; and I believe these remarks cannot but receive corroboration , from a close inspection of the extraordinary groups in the _ caves of Ellora ( which are engraved in the sixth volume of the Asiatic Researches ) , where the mitre , placed on the head of Indra , as well as on situation of the human
the head of Indranec , no less than the peculiar shall and cross-bones , placed conspicuously on this last female personage , and occupying tlie natural position of the Yoni itself , sufficiently evince what were tlie notions of those ancient architects concerning religious mysteries , and of the particular agency , by which death , m the . first instance , " passed upon all men . " In relation to this peculiar head-dress , it may be remarked , that an