[945]Ζευς αρσην γενετο, Ζευς αμβροτος επλετο Νυμφη, Ζευς πυθμην γαιης τε και ουρανου αστεροεντος.---- Ζευς ποντου ῥιζα, Ζευς [946]Ἡλιος, ηδε Σεληνη, Ζευς Βασιλευς, Ζευς αυτος ἁπαντων αρχιγενεθλος---- Και Μητις, πρωτος γενετωρ και Ερως πολυτερπης. Παντα γαρ εν Ζηνος μεγαλῳ ταδε σωματι κειται. Ἑν κρατος, ἑις Δαιμων, γενεται μεγας αρχος ἁπαντων. Whom he meant under the title of Zeus, he explains afterwards in a solemn invocation of the God Dionusus. [947]Κεκλυθι τηλεπορου δινης ἑλικαυγεα κυκλον Ουρανιαις στροφαλιγξι περιδρομον αιεν ἑλισσων, Αγλαε ΖΕΥ, ΔΙΟΝYΣΕ, πατερ ποντου, πατερ αιης, Ἡλιε, παγγενετορ, παναιολε, χρυσεοφεγγες. As we have seen how the father of the Gods was diversified, it may be worth while to hear what the supposed mother of all the Deities says of her titles and departments, in Apuleius. [948]Me primigenii Phryges Pessinuntiam nominant Deûm Matrem: hinc Autochthones Attici Cecropiam Minervam: illinc fluctuantes Cyprii Paphiam Venerem: Cretes sagittiferi Dictynnam Dianam. Siculi trilingues Stygiam Proserpinam: Eleusinii vetustam Deam Cererem. Junonem alii: alii Bellonam: alii Hecaten: Rhamnusiam alii: et qui nascentis dei Solis inchoantibus radiis illustrantur Æthiopes, Ariique, priscâque doctrinâ pollentes Ægyptii, ceremoniis me prorsus propriis percolentes, appellant vero nomine Reginam Isidem. Porphyry acknowledged, that Vesta, Rhea, Ceres, Themis, Priapus, Proserpina, Bacchus, Attis, Adonis, Silenus, and the Satyrs, were all one, and the[949] same. Nobody had examined the theology of the antients more deeply than Porphyry. He was a determined Pagan, and his evidence in this point is unexceptionable. The titles of Orus and Osiris being given to Dionusus, caused him in time to partake of the same worship which was paid to the great luminary; and as he had also many other titles, from them sprung a multiplicity of Deities. [950]Morichum Siculi Bacchum nominârunt: Arabes vero eundem Orachal et Adonæum: alii Lyæum, Erebinthium, Sabazium; Lacedæmonii Scytidem, et Milichium vocitarunt. But let Dionusus or Bacchus be diversified by ever so many names or titles, they all, in respect to worship, relate ultimately to the Sun. [951]Sit Osiris, sit Omphis, Nilus, Siris, sive quodcunque aliud ab Hierophantis usurpatum nomen, ad unum tandem _Solem_, antiquissimum Gentium numen, redeunt omnia. * * * * * END OF VOL. I. W. Marchant, Printer, 3, Greville-street, Holborn. * * * * * Notes to Volume I. [1] Henry VI. founder of Eton and King's College, in Cambridge. [2] Dr. Priestley, on Philosophical Necessity. [3] Κατα θειον δηλονοτι χρησμον. Eusebii Chron. p. 10. See also Syncellus. [4] Αιγυπτους--προς αλληλους τᾳ ῥηματι Αμουν χρησθαι. Isis et Osiris. p. 355.