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Teutate ' s and fierce Hesus ' s altars load , And barbarous Taranus , his shrine that vies With curst Diana ' s Scythian sacrifice . ' " Fourthly . —Belinus , the Baal of the Scripture , identified with Apollo , the god of the sun . A wood in the neighbourhood of Lausanne is still known as
" Thirdly . —Taranis from Taran , s thunder' ( Celtic ) , the Jupiter of Greece and Rome , and the Thor of the northern nations . The present appellation of Thursday ( Dies Jovis ) is , at this day , ' Donnerstag , ' literally the Thunder-day . In the year 1653 , a Roman altar was discovered at Chester , with an inscription uniting the name of this Celtic divinity with Jupiter , viz . : —
J : O : M : Tanaro ( Jovi Optimo Maximo Tanaro ) . Lucan , in the c Pharsalia , ' has thus enumerated these deities : — ( Efc quibus immitis placatur sanguine diro Teutates , horrensque feris altaribus Hesus ,
Et Taranis Scythicae non . mitior ara Dianse . Translated in Campden ' s ' Britannia , ' p . xix . : — ' And those vile wretches that with human blood ,
Sauvebelin , viz . Sylva Belini ; and traces of this name are to be found m many parts of England . The custom of kindling fires about midnight on the Eve of St . John ' s Day , at the moment of the summer solstice , which was considered by the ancients a season of divination , is a vestige of Druidism , in honour of this deit " y F . ifthly . —Cisa , who was more particularly worshipped in the Grisons , or Rhcetian Alps . Tuesday , in some of the German cantons of Switzerland , is said
to be called Oistag , or Zistag . " Sixthly . —Penninus . —The Convent of St . Bernard still occupies the site of the Temple of the Pennine Jupiter . Pen ( Celtic , a summit or head ) is applied at this day to the mountainous region of the Apennines ; and the same word is to be found in various parts of Wales , viz ., Penman-ma . wr , Pen-y-gwint , & c . "
On the conquest of Gaul by the Romans , the mythology of the latter nation was introduced ; but notwithstanding all means were taken to eradicate the Druidical religion , which also were put in force both in England and "Wales , many usages were so deeply rooted and established , that they remained till the introduction of Christianity , and tbeir vestiges may still be traced . Thus the custom in the Alps of nailing up dead animals , or the heads of birds of prey , over the doors of the houses is a repetition of the usage of the
Celtic hunters , to return thanks to the divinities of the chase for their success ; and the hanging up garlands or whisps of straw , which frequently occurs in mountainous districts , is a description of sortilege or divination , which goes back as far as the times when the oak or the pine were objects of adoration . This mention of the oak or pine leads to a consideration of that estimation in which trees were held , as derived from the earliest ages
of the world . The Hebrew name " Elah" is rendered in the Septuagint and Vulgate by the expressions ( Spue and tepe'GwOoc , guercus and tcrdmithus . Thus we find ( Gen . xxxv . 4 ) that Jacob hid the images of the strange gods " under the oak that was by Shechem " ( suiter terelinthum , Vulg . ) ; and " Deborah ( viii . ) the nurse of
Rebekah was buried beneath Bethel , under an oak" ( suiter qucrcum
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On The Religion Op The Celts, And The Cu...
Teutate ' s and fierce Hesus ' s altars load , And barbarous Taranus , his shrine that vies With curst Diana ' s Scythian sacrifice . ' " Fourthly . —Belinus , the Baal of the Scripture , identified with Apollo , the god of the sun . A wood in the neighbourhood of Lausanne is still known as
" Thirdly . —Taranis from Taran , s thunder' ( Celtic ) , the Jupiter of Greece and Rome , and the Thor of the northern nations . The present appellation of Thursday ( Dies Jovis ) is , at this day , ' Donnerstag , ' literally the Thunder-day . In the year 1653 , a Roman altar was discovered at Chester , with an inscription uniting the name of this Celtic divinity with Jupiter , viz . : —
J : O : M : Tanaro ( Jovi Optimo Maximo Tanaro ) . Lucan , in the c Pharsalia , ' has thus enumerated these deities : — ( Efc quibus immitis placatur sanguine diro Teutates , horrensque feris altaribus Hesus ,
Et Taranis Scythicae non . mitior ara Dianse . Translated in Campden ' s ' Britannia , ' p . xix . : — ' And those vile wretches that with human blood ,
Sauvebelin , viz . Sylva Belini ; and traces of this name are to be found m many parts of England . The custom of kindling fires about midnight on the Eve of St . John ' s Day , at the moment of the summer solstice , which was considered by the ancients a season of divination , is a vestige of Druidism , in honour of this deit " y F . ifthly . —Cisa , who was more particularly worshipped in the Grisons , or Rhcetian Alps . Tuesday , in some of the German cantons of Switzerland , is said
to be called Oistag , or Zistag . " Sixthly . —Penninus . —The Convent of St . Bernard still occupies the site of the Temple of the Pennine Jupiter . Pen ( Celtic , a summit or head ) is applied at this day to the mountainous region of the Apennines ; and the same word is to be found in various parts of Wales , viz ., Penman-ma . wr , Pen-y-gwint , & c . "
On the conquest of Gaul by the Romans , the mythology of the latter nation was introduced ; but notwithstanding all means were taken to eradicate the Druidical religion , which also were put in force both in England and "Wales , many usages were so deeply rooted and established , that they remained till the introduction of Christianity , and tbeir vestiges may still be traced . Thus the custom in the Alps of nailing up dead animals , or the heads of birds of prey , over the doors of the houses is a repetition of the usage of the
Celtic hunters , to return thanks to the divinities of the chase for their success ; and the hanging up garlands or whisps of straw , which frequently occurs in mountainous districts , is a description of sortilege or divination , which goes back as far as the times when the oak or the pine were objects of adoration . This mention of the oak or pine leads to a consideration of that estimation in which trees were held , as derived from the earliest ages
of the world . The Hebrew name " Elah" is rendered in the Septuagint and Vulgate by the expressions ( Spue and tepe'GwOoc , guercus and tcrdmithus . Thus we find ( Gen . xxxv . 4 ) that Jacob hid the images of the strange gods " under the oak that was by Shechem " ( suiter terelinthum , Vulg . ) ; and " Deborah ( viii . ) the nurse of
Rebekah was buried beneath Bethel , under an oak" ( suiter qucrcum