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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
above conclusions , I will pass to the third section of this sketch , and endeavour to point out , as I proposed , that the ancient emigrations with which we are acquainted , are to be distinctly attributed , in the first instance , solely to this division of faith , ancl its results . Ancl , if we admit as an historical fact , that which we certainly cannot deny , as an historical record , viz ., the universal war which prevailed on the earth , andmoreoverthe religious oriin of itthen that which is here ht
, , g , soug to be established will follow as an ordinary consequence ; for , is it not evident , that the occupation of a country by a swarm of intolerant conquerors would absolutely necessitate the evacuation ancl emigration of the conquered party , equally violent and implacable in their moral and physical resistance , supposing them to have been resolved neither to become the slaves nor the converts of their victorious oppressors ? The justness of this deduction , which certainly requires only a very
ordinary measure of logical sagacity to arrive at , is fully confirmed by attending to the circumstances connected with those emigrations alluded to , a very few among which only , I have space to consider . Wilford mentions , in his Essay on the Nile , ( vol . iii . p . 318 ) that there remains in India the remnant of a sect called the PALI . They are considered as outcasts , though they are acknowledged to have possessed a dominion , in ancient timesfrom the Indus to the eastern limits of Bengaland
, , even as far as SIAM . Their ancestors are described as a most ingenious people—virtuous , brave , and religious , attached to the worship of Maha deva , ( the primseval male deity ) under the symbol of the LINGA , or Phallus . Their country was called PA ' LIST ' IIAN ; their history will be found to be much connected with that of Europe . He says further , ( p . 369 ) next to the emigration of the Yadavas , the most celebrated was
that of the Palis , or Pdliputras , many of whose settlements were named Pdlist'han , which the Greeks changed into Palaistine . A country so called was on the banks of the Tigris , and another in Syria ; the river Strymon had the epithet Palaistinos ; in Italy we find the Palestini ancl Philistina , & c . As the Greeks wrote Palai for Pali , they rendered the word Paliputra , by Palaigonos , which also means the offspring of Pali , literally signifying the offspring of the Phallus .
The foregoing remarks furnish the clue to this history , too plain to be misunderstood ; and we find the remnant of a sect who were devoted to the worship of the Phallus , still considered as outcasts by a nation who originally embraced an opposite worship , for it was notoriously the Y 6 ni , and not the Phallus , which alone received the veneration of the Hindus , though now divided into innumerable sects ancl an inextricable maze of polytheism . To proceed , Wilford observes that " the Ydranas were the
ancestors ofthe Greeks , " ancl says ( vol . iii . p . 358 ) " that the Pandits insist that the words Ydrana ancl Yoni are derived from the same root—Yn , ancl that the Yaranas were so named from their obstinate assertion of a superior influence in the female over the male nature ! ' Sir William Jones likewise says that " the name of one of the founders of the seven dynasties was Ydrana , " and mentions , in his third Discourse , that " an ancient book on astronomyin Sanscritbears the title of Ydrana
, , Jdtica , which may be interpreted the Ionic sect . " There is an ancient proverb amongst the Pandits , that " no base creature can be lower than a Yarana , " truly showing the fluctuating nature of human opinions and of theories , which , nevertheless , have torn the bosom of society , and shaken nations to their centre , and in the instance before us , no doubt , occasioned the migration of the Ionian colony in Asia Minor , from their original Yiitica , in consequence of some religious contests , and whose
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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
above conclusions , I will pass to the third section of this sketch , and endeavour to point out , as I proposed , that the ancient emigrations with which we are acquainted , are to be distinctly attributed , in the first instance , solely to this division of faith , ancl its results . Ancl , if we admit as an historical fact , that which we certainly cannot deny , as an historical record , viz ., the universal war which prevailed on the earth , andmoreoverthe religious oriin of itthen that which is here ht
, , g , soug to be established will follow as an ordinary consequence ; for , is it not evident , that the occupation of a country by a swarm of intolerant conquerors would absolutely necessitate the evacuation ancl emigration of the conquered party , equally violent and implacable in their moral and physical resistance , supposing them to have been resolved neither to become the slaves nor the converts of their victorious oppressors ? The justness of this deduction , which certainly requires only a very
ordinary measure of logical sagacity to arrive at , is fully confirmed by attending to the circumstances connected with those emigrations alluded to , a very few among which only , I have space to consider . Wilford mentions , in his Essay on the Nile , ( vol . iii . p . 318 ) that there remains in India the remnant of a sect called the PALI . They are considered as outcasts , though they are acknowledged to have possessed a dominion , in ancient timesfrom the Indus to the eastern limits of Bengaland
, , even as far as SIAM . Their ancestors are described as a most ingenious people—virtuous , brave , and religious , attached to the worship of Maha deva , ( the primseval male deity ) under the symbol of the LINGA , or Phallus . Their country was called PA ' LIST ' IIAN ; their history will be found to be much connected with that of Europe . He says further , ( p . 369 ) next to the emigration of the Yadavas , the most celebrated was
that of the Palis , or Pdliputras , many of whose settlements were named Pdlist'han , which the Greeks changed into Palaistine . A country so called was on the banks of the Tigris , and another in Syria ; the river Strymon had the epithet Palaistinos ; in Italy we find the Palestini ancl Philistina , & c . As the Greeks wrote Palai for Pali , they rendered the word Paliputra , by Palaigonos , which also means the offspring of Pali , literally signifying the offspring of the Phallus .
The foregoing remarks furnish the clue to this history , too plain to be misunderstood ; and we find the remnant of a sect who were devoted to the worship of the Phallus , still considered as outcasts by a nation who originally embraced an opposite worship , for it was notoriously the Y 6 ni , and not the Phallus , which alone received the veneration of the Hindus , though now divided into innumerable sects ancl an inextricable maze of polytheism . To proceed , Wilford observes that " the Ydranas were the
ancestors ofthe Greeks , " ancl says ( vol . iii . p . 358 ) " that the Pandits insist that the words Ydrana ancl Yoni are derived from the same root—Yn , ancl that the Yaranas were so named from their obstinate assertion of a superior influence in the female over the male nature ! ' Sir William Jones likewise says that " the name of one of the founders of the seven dynasties was Ydrana , " and mentions , in his third Discourse , that " an ancient book on astronomyin Sanscritbears the title of Ydrana
, , Jdtica , which may be interpreted the Ionic sect . " There is an ancient proverb amongst the Pandits , that " no base creature can be lower than a Yarana , " truly showing the fluctuating nature of human opinions and of theories , which , nevertheless , have torn the bosom of society , and shaken nations to their centre , and in the instance before us , no doubt , occasioned the migration of the Ionian colony in Asia Minor , from their original Yiitica , in consequence of some religious contests , and whose