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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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e feems to be the figure of a plough-fl\ire ; and upon his head the Nymph^a. -. If any means can be found out to obtain the latent pur-port of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, they mufl arife from con-fidering tnefe emblems fingly, and obferving their particularfcope, and deflination. When we have afcertained themeaning of fome individuals, we may poflibly difcover theirdrift, when confidered coliedively. Thefe, I think, are theprinciples, upon which we mufl proceed : but after all itwill be a dark refearch, in which many have been bev/il-dered. There are authors, who mention an ancient pieceof hiercglyphical fculpture, which was to be ken in the ^5 K«< Toi^x av ire rx ^•.syofj.iicc ay-V^ict i^ix ro xccnu^e- m q-tvcv cuviiy^at, &sTO. Aiyu-n-TicL KiQbi^ix. AthencEUS. L. ii.p. 477. See Diofcorides. L. 2. p. 97,£trabo. L. 17. p. 1178. KijSoo^tov, Ai)U7rriot ovou-ct. iTi TroTiiffs. Hefych. 9° See Spanheim de Ufa et Prxftant. Num. Antiq. Vol. i. p. 302, 303. 9^ Ibid. city Plate Xir.
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The Analysis of Ancient Mythology. 401 city SaVs of lower Egypt. It confifted of a * child, andan old man : and near them flood an Hawk. Afterthefe a Cetus, or fea-lifh: and laft of all an Hippopo-tamus. ^ Clemens of Alexandria mentions the famehiftory: but fays, that it was at Diofpolis. Inflead ofthe river horfe he introduces a crocodile, which he fayswas an emblem of impudence. It is to be obferved,that the Hippopotamus, and Crocodile were fymbols of thefame purport; both related to the * deluge : and howeverthe Greeks might fometimcs reprefent them, they were^ both in different places reverenced by the ancient Egyp-tians. The interpretation given by Clemens is this. Allye^•who arejuft come i?tto the world, and all ye, who are going out,remember, that God hates impudence. As there are fo manycrimes of high moment, which demand animadverfion, itis ftrange, that fo folemn a caution fhould be given merelyagainft impudence. The infcription feems to have beenput up in two places: one

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