Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, DescribedStukeley, William
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Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, Described
Stukeley, William
Avebury (England) -- Antiquities; Druids and Druidism
_The ordinary service of publick religion was call’d invoking_, 3,
4, 6
_Heathen remains of invoking_, 4, 6
_This implies an expected mediator, Messiah_, 3, 6
Jehovah _was the Messiah who appear’d visibly_, 3, 6
_Knowledge of the nature of the deity, the highest wisdom_, 7, 85,
90
_From that knowledge idolatry first began_, 62, 84, 89, 101
_Sacrificing was the extraordinary service of religion_, 4, 38
_At the four solar ingresses_, 68
_Temples were form’d on figures of the symbol of the deity_, 8, 9,
92
_Whence thought prophylactic, to guard the ashes of the dead_, 41,
52, 82, 95
_When desecrated to idolatry, the_ Mosaic _tabernacle was order’d;
square and cover’d_, 3, 5, 8, 14, 24, 62, 72
_Three kinds of Druid or patriarchal temples, from the threefold
symbol of the deity._ First, _the circle_, 9
_The circle, the symbol of the Supreme_, 54, 61
_The Supreme, as invisible, had no picture, no name_, 3, 50, 62, 98
_Called_ As, Atys, Hesus, _by the Druids_, 100
Rowldrich _temple described, as an example of the first kind_, 10
_The requisites of a Druid temple drawn up_, 10, 13
_The_ Second _kind of temple, the circle and snake_, Dracontium, 9,
54
ABURY, _a serpentine temple of the second kind, described_, 14
_Another at_ Shap _in_ Northumberland, 62
_Another at_ Classerness, ibid.
_Of the symbol of the snake_, 49, 54, 56, 92
_It means the divine Son_, 55, 60, 61, 62, 93, 94
_The Druids’ great regard to it_, 56
_The natural history of the serpent_, 50, 57
_Origin of serpent worship_, 59
_Of symbols in general_, 55
_It was the ancient form of writing_, 56
_The divine Son call’d_ Phtha, νους ἑτερος, mind, creator, wisdom,
word, Logos, 50, 61, 62, 88
_He was_ Jehovah, _the Mediator, who appeared visibly_, 3
_He was called the__ NAME, _3, 6, 100
_Called_ Belenus _by the Druids_, 100
_Of the_ kebla _or central obelisc in our temples, called_ ambre,
5, 23, 24, 67, 100
_Became idols_, 5, 67
_The_ petra ambrosia _of the heathen_, 24, 75, 82
_Of the cove, or_ ansæ, 5, 23, 100
Kist vaen, 13
_Indicative of the divine presence_, 24
_The_ Hakpen, _or snake’s head_, 15, 31, 32
_Heathen remains of such_, 33, 84, 97
_The snake’s tail_, 36, 37, 52
_The whole symbol of the deity was a circle, snake, and wings;
call’d_ Cnephtha, 9, 29, 54, 62, 92, 93
_Heathen remain of this in_ Medusa’_s head_, 69, 93
_The_ Third _sort of Druid temple form’d like the circle and wings,
alate temples_, 9, 76, 83, 92
_This figure call’d Cneph, means the divine spirit, or_ anima
mundi, 62, 92, 93
_An alate temple of the Druids on the banks of the_ Humber,
_described_, 92
_An alate temple on_ Navestock-common, 96
_Another in_ Cornwall, 97
_Another in the isle of_ Scianach, ibid.
_Hence the_ Mercury _of the heathen_, 84, 98, 101
_The same as_ Neptune, 84, 94, 98
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