2o6 A NATURAL HISTORY 



are impure Spirits, and Authors of all the Evils committed on 

 Earth *. 



Many of the Antients have allotted to every Man an Evil 

 Angel, who is continually laying Snares for him, and inclining 

 him to Evil, as his Good Angel does to what is Good. The 

 yews have ftill the fame Sentiments at this day. Another Father 

 thinks, that every Vice has its Evil Angel, prefiding over itj as 

 the Demon of Avarice, the Demon of Pride, of Uncleannefs -f-. . . . 



In Fagan Theology^ nothing more common than thofe good 

 and evil Genii, and the fame fuperflitious Notion got among the 

 IfraeliteSj by Commerce with the Chaldeans ; but I don't appre- 

 hend that by Demon, they meant the Devil, or a wicked Spirit, 

 tho* it be taken under that Idea by the Evangelifts, and alfo fome 

 modern yewsX- 



W E are not without fome Remains of thofe antient Reprefen- 

 tations : Among the various Rarities in the Mujkum at Ley den in 

 Holland^ is the Effigies in Sculpture oiOfiris^ the Egyptian God y 

 'tis made of Wood, and now almoft confum'd with Age : There 

 are three other Egyptian Idols of Stone ; an Image of Ifis (who 

 married Ofiris, King of the Country) giving fuck to her Orr, 

 Another Effigies of I/is^ the Egyptian Goddefs, upon a little Egyp- 

 tian Coffer, containing the Heart of an Egyptian Prince embalm'd 

 therein. 



The antient Pagans, had almoft as many GoddeJJes as Gods ; 

 fuch were yu?io, the GoddeJ's of Air ^ &c. Queen of Heaven, and 

 of the Gods ; was reprefented fitting on a Throne with a Crown 

 of Gold on her Head : This was the Patroncfs of the female Sex. 

 Every Woman had her yuno^ or Guardian ; as every Man had 

 his Genius. She was the Goddefs of Marriages, which were not 

 deem'd lawful without the Parties firft addrcfl her. One Branch 

 •of her Office was to attend them in Labor, when they pray'd, 

 Help^ yum Lucina ||. 



She was ador'd by all Nations ^ her Temple was open on the 

 Top and had no Doors, it being impious to think of confining 

 the Gods to a narrow Inclofure. Yea, many of the Antients 

 would ered: no devotional Temples, from a Perfuafion that the 



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* J^aSiavttut^ I'b- ii. cap. 14. Lugd. Bat. 1652. 

 ■f- Origsii. Homil. .vV. injolli. Cahr.et. ibid. 

 X Cyclo^adia. |j yuno Licina fer o^em. 



