A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)Bryant, Jacob
Religion
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)
Bryant, Jacob
History, Ancient; Mythology
[592] Go-zan is the place, or temple, of the Sun. I once thought that
Goshen, or, as it is sometimes expressed, Gozan, was the same as Cushan:
but I was certainly mistaken. The district of Goshen was indeed the nome of
Cushan; but the two words are not of the same purport. Goshen is the same
as Go-shan, and Go-zan, analogous to Beth-shan, and signifies the place of
the Sun. Go-shen, Go-shan, Go-zan, and Gau-zan, are all variations of the
same name. In respect to On, there were two cities so called. The one was
in Egypt, where Poti-phera was Priest. Genesis. c. 41. v. 45. The other
stood in Arabia, and is mentioned by the Seventy: Ων, ἡ εστιν Ἡλιουπολις.
Exodus. c. 1. v. 11. This was also called Onium, and Hanes, the Iänisus of
Herodotus.
[593] Isaiah. c. 30. v. 4.
[594] See Observations upon the Antient History of Egypt. p. 124. p. 137.
[595] D'Anville Memoires sur l'Egypt. p. 114.
[596] Travels. vol. 2. p. 107. It is by them expressed Ain el Cham, and
appropriated to the obelisk: but the meaning is plain.
[597] Bochart. Geog. Sacra. l. 1. c. 35. p. 638.
[598] See page 72. notes.
[599] Dissertation of the influence of opinion upon language, and of
language upon opinion. Sect. vi. p. 67. of the translation.
[600] Scholia upon Apollonius. l. 2. v. 297.
[601] Strabo. l. 10. p. 700.
[602] Orphic Hymn. 4.
[603] Ὁι Θεολογοι--ενι γε τῳ Φανητι την δημιουργικην αιτιαν ανυμνησαν.
Orphic Fragment. 8. from Proclus in Timæum.
[604] Συ μοι Ζευς ὁ Φαναιο, ἡκεις. Eurip. Rhesus. v. 355.
Φαναιος Απολλων εν Χιοις. Hesych.
[605] Pliny. l. 2. c. 106. p. 120.
[606] Λουτρα τε παρεχει το χωριον θερμα, γηθεν αυτοματα ανιοντα. Josephi
Antiq. l. 18. c. 14.
[607] Lucretius. l. 6.
[608] Justin Martyr. Cohort. p. 33.
[609] Mount Albanus was denominated Al-ban from its fountains and baths.
[610] Strabo. l. 8. p. 545.
[611] Strabo. l. 4. p. 290. Onesa signifies solis ignis, analogous to
Hanes.
[612] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1072. see also l. 11. p. 779. and l. 12. p. 838.
likewise Plutarch in Artaxerxe.
[613] Pausanias. l. 8. p. 678.
[614] Horace. l. 1. sat. 5. v. 97.
[615] Pliny. l. 2. c. 110. p. 123.
[616] Strabo. l. 6. p. 430.
The antient Salentini worshipped the Sun under the title of Man-zan, or
Man-zana: by which is meant Menes, Sol. Festus in V. Octobris.
[617] Thucydides. l. 6. c. 2. p. 379.
[618] Orphic Fragment. vi. v. 19. from Proclus. p. 366.
Μητις, divine wisdom, by which the world was framed: esteemed the same as
Phanes and Dionusus.
Αυτος τε ὁ Διονυσος, και Φανης, και Ηρικεπαιος. Ibidem. p. 373.
Μητις--ἑρμηνευεται, Βουλη. Φως, Ζωοδοτηρ--from Orpheus: Eusebij Chronicon.
p. 4.
[619] Ισιδος ενταυθα Ἱερον, και αγαλμα, και επι της αγορας Ἑρμου--και θερμα
λουτρα. Pausan. l. 2. p. 190.
[620] Pausanas. l. 4. p. 287.
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