Every reasonable Hypothesis should be supported on a fact.

WARBURTON'S Div. Leg. vol. v. p. 458.

Concerning the identity and lunari-terrene character of the great
goddesses of the Gentiles

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I. ALL the principal goddesses resolve themselves into one: and that one is
equally the Earth and the Moon

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ib.

II. Exemplification of this point from the testimonies of the old mythologists
III. The Moon and the Earth mystically identified

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CHAPTER II.

Respecting certain remarkable opinions, which the Gentiles enter-
tained of the Moon and the Earth

I. THE Moon was compared to a ship, and was described as floating on the

ocean

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ib.

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II. This circumstance will explain many singular notions entertained of the

Moon in various parts of the world

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1. Among the Hindoos

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2. Among the Persians

3. Among the Greeks

4. Among the Egyptians

5. Vision of Timarchus

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6. The Moon styled Salus, and venerated as the mother of the initiated

7. Among the Druids

ib.

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8. Fable of the man in the Moon equally known in opposite quarters of

the globe

ib.

9. Otaheitean legend

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III. Intercommunion of character between the Earth and the Moon

ib.

IV. The legends, which describe the Earth and the Moon as floating on the

surface of the ocean, originated from the Ark

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V. For the same reason the universal frame of Nature was compared to a vast

ship

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CHAPTER III.

Respecting the navicular, infernal, and human, character of the

great mother

I. THE great mother was a ship; and that ship was the Ark

1. Navicular character of the Indian Isi

2. Navicular character of the Egyptian Isis

3. Navicular character of the Gothic Isis or Frea

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II. The great mother is equally proved to be a ship by the symbols, under

which she was represented

1. The sea-fish, the egg, the navicular cup, and the lunette

2. The floating lunar island

3. The lotos

III. The whole history of the great mother corresponds with her navicular cha-

2. The Ark born out of the deluge on the top of a lofty hill

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ib.

ib.

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ib.

ib.

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3. The Ark was the universal mother of the hero-gods and of the whole

world

4. The members of the Noëtic family and the rudiments of the new world

were born from a door in the side of the Ark

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5. The Ark, previous to its appulse, was in an erratic state

6. The Ark afforded safety to one family, but appeared as the genius of de-
struction to all the rest of mankind

IV. The great mother viewed as the female regent of Hades.