A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 2 (of 6)Bryant, Jacob
History
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 2 (of 6)
Bryant, Jacob
History, Ancient; Mythology
in many parts of the world, where the Amonian religion obtained, which was
propagated much farther than we are aware. In our island the exhibition of
those manly sports in vogue among country people is called Camping: and the
inclosures for that purpose, where they wrestle and contend, are called
Camping closes. There are many of them in Cambridgeshire, as well as in
other parts of the kingdom. In Germany we meet with the name of Kæmpenfelt;
in which word there is no part derived from the Latin language: for the
terms would then be synonymous, and one of them redundant. Kæmpenfelt was,
I imagine, an antient name for a field of sports, and exercise, like the
gymnasium of the Greeks: and a Camping place in Britain is of the like
purport.
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ANTIENT HEROES.
Καθολου δε φασιν (ὁι Αιγυπτιοι) τους Ἑλληνας εξιδιαζεσθαι τους
επιφανεστατους Ἡρωας τε, και Θεους, ετι δε και αποικιας τας παρ'
ἑαυτων. Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 21.
It has been my uniform purpose, during the whole process, which I have made
in my system, to shew, that the Grecians formed Deities out of titles; and
that they often attributed to one person, what belonged to a people. And
when they had completed the history, they generally took the merit of it to
themselves. By means of this clue we may obtain an insight into some of the
most remote, and the most obscure parts of antiquity. For many and great
achievements have been attributed to heroes of the first ages, which it was
not possible for them singly to have performed. And these actions, though
in some degree diversified, and given to different personages, yet upon
examination will be found to relate to one people or family; and to be at
bottom one and the same history.
OSIRIS.
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