Identifier: analysisancientmyth02brya (find matches)
Title: A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable, and to reduce the truth to its original purity ...
Year: 1774 (1770s)
Authors: Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804 Basire, James, 1730-1802 Blake, William, 1757-1827
Subjects: Mythology History, Ancient Iran -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Printed for T. Payne ... : P. Elmsly ... : B. White ... : and J. Walter ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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erfon, who had been wonderfully preferved; as ap-pears from their hieroglyphics. When they would defcribeHelius, fays ^ Porphyry, they reprefent a man in a float, oriLip, which is fupported by a crocodile. Orus is often de-fcribed, as ftanding upon a crocodile, and at the fame timefurrounded with other fymbolical reprefentations. For asthe Egyptians in their rites referred to a perfon preferved inthe midfl: of waters; they accordingly, to defcribe that hif- *9 Toy Acy^ifiv, Iv ATToAAw^a, oV xai wcscrSuTipcv Q.oov enoi scaAecr/. Plut.Ifis et Ofiris. P. ^55. 7° Tcv jj.sv Oaicw, eik ao^nv, tw Se laiv, ui CvroSo^m, rav S-i fi^or, on axo-nMTua. Ibid, P. 374. 7 I(7H—iixTi-itov Tuaaiis ysvsaeuii) ,x.x^o rSiivyi, xaiwxvSe^ii?. Ibid. P. 372,1lo-n; omoy D.PB y.ocrrxiov. P. 374. Xupxv ySPitTicoi, itati <^i^;C>iK.3TC5 srAsfa eTi y.noy.O- iitA-i Ketf/.r.3- Eufeb. Pfasp. Ev. L. 3. p. 115. n tory. .(M*!^**********
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Soc iMJavlijluyiiicca HJuAd ^Jaurltiinjyrufu The Analysis op Ancient Mythology. 395 tory, made ufe oF types, which had fome analogy, and re-(emblaiice to fuch prefervatlon. Some of thefe could fcarcelvbe called fymbolical, the purport was fo manifeft. Suchwas their carrying about the image of a man in an ark(sv >:ibwTwj, who appeared to be dead; and who afterwardswas fuppofed to return from a flate of darknefs to ^ life.But fuch defcriptions related rather to their ceremonies.The ilmilitude, of which I am-now fpeaking, is to be chieflyobfervcd in .their hieroglyphics and fculpturcs. Thefe willgenerally be found to have a plain analogy with the hiflory,which they reprefent. Hence the crocodile, and Hippo-potamus, were emblems of the Ark ; becaufe during theinundation of the Nile they rofe with the waters, andwere fuperior to the flood. The Lotus, that peculiarplant of the Nile, was reverenced upon the fame account:and we accordingly find a frog upon the Lotus introducedas a facred e

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