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is devoted to an analysis. of the supposed 
Phenician history of Sanchoniatho, and 
an explication of it on the principles of 
the author, He then proceeds to establish 
the identity of the Cabiri, Corybantes, 
Curetes, Dioscori, Anactes, Dii Magni, 
Idei Dactyli, Telchines, Lares, Plenates, 
Manes, Titans, and Aletz, the polyo- 
nymy of the sun, and the connection 
of the fabulous Hades with the mysteries 
of the Cabiri. The various countries 
devoted to the Cabiric superstition are 
then investigated: Italy, Crete, Samo- 
thrace, and Troas. The second volume 
opens with an illustration of four con- 
venient monosyllables, occupying nearly 
70 pages, and proceeds to the history of 
the Argonautic voyage, the war of the 
Titans, and the identity. and import of 
the mysteries of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, 
&c. &c. Such is nearly the table of 
contents. 
We add another short extract for the 
purpose of illustrating more fully our 
author’s etymological propensities, and - 
take it at hazard. 
«« | have mentioned, upon the authority of 
Tzetzes, that {taky received its name from a 
person called Italus or Taurus. ‘This person 
is evidently no other than the Talus, Italotus, 
or Taurus of Crete; whence it will follow, 
that the word Italia.is compounded of Ital- 
Aja, or ‘Ait-Al-Aia, the land of Italus or 
Palus, the solar bull. In a similar manner 
Talium or Italium, in the territory of the 
Samnites, and Italica, in the island of Eubéa, 
the country of the Corybantes, both equally 
derived their respective appellations from the 
“worship of Talus. ‘The same remark may be 
Applied to the Telebow, the ancient inhabi- 
tants of the isle of ‘T'aphos. These are said 
by the scholiast upon Apollonius to have 
originally inhabited Acarmania; and he de- 
scribes them as coming te Argos, and fight- 
ing with Hlectryon, the father of Alemené, 
for his oxen. Electryon was the son ef Per- 
seus and Andromeda; from Hippothoé, the 
daughter of his brother Mestor, aud Nep- 
tune, sprung Pterelas; and from Pterelas, 
Taphias, and Telcboas the father of the 
Telebor. Alcmené afterwards married Am- 
phityron, and at length became the mother 
of Hercules by Jupiter. All these names 
are significant. ‘Teleboas is compounded of 
Tel-Ob-Bow, the helio-tauric serpent; and 
Electryon is derived from El-Oc-Tor-Ion, the 
divine tautic dove of the ocean. In a similar 
manner, Alemen? is Al-Oc-Mena, the lunar 
deity ofthe sea; Amphitryon is Am-Phi-Tor- 
* Ton, the oracular god of the bull and the 
dove; Mestor is M’Es-Tor, the great solar 
bull; Pterelas is P’Ter-H!-A3, the bull the 
god of fire; and Hippothoe, the concubine 
6i Neptune, is Hippo-Thea, the divine Hip- 
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ANCIENT CLASSICS. 
pian Ark. The contest, in short, was be- 
tween the votaries of the two great supersti- 
tions, and was that which preceded their 
final union. A colony of hi Teleboz, 
according to Virgil, formerly inhabited Ca- 
prez in the bay of Naples; and he mentions 
one of their ancient sovereigns named Telon, 
who was the father of Oebalus. Aon 
Nec tu carminibus nostris indictus abibis 
Oebale, quem generdsse Telon Sebethide 
nympha 
Fertur: Teleboum Capreas cum regna 
teneret 
Jam senior. 
Telon or Tel-On is the sun; and his sup- 
posed offspring Oebalus is Ob-Al, the serpent 
deity.” 
To say what the heathen mythology 
is not, in opposition at least to a 
systems as that of the present work, 
easy ; to determine what it is, is happily 
as unimportant as the question is diffi- 
cult; or perhaps, more properly speak- 
ing, incapable of resolution. In its 
origin we conceive it to have been partly 
symbolical, and partly to consist of dis- 
guised narrations of facts which really 
happened ; the mythology of different 
countries we believe to have been chiefly 
local. It was said by a former, though 
much less daring, adventurer in the same 
field, that “ the heathen mythology is a 
free and open chase, where men of letters 
are privileged to sport and pursue the 
ame, ey according to his fancy.’ 
We have only one objection to this ac- 
count, that the game, generally speak- 
ing, is not worth the pursuit. The 
fables,” says Hume, * which are com- 
monly employed to supply the place of 
true history, ought entirely to be disre- 
garded; or if any exception be admitted 
to this general rule, it can only be in 
favour of the ancient Grecian fictions, 
which are so celebrated and so agrees 
able, that they will ever be the objects 
of the attention of mankind.’”? And to 
apply even these fictions to the investi- 
gation of history, appearsto us a labour 
as fruitless as that of Sisyphus himself, 
who, according to the old poet, 
versat © 
Saxum sudans nitendo, neque proficit hilum, 
While we cannot but disapprove en- 
tirely of his system, we are both willing 
and desirous to make a favourable dis- 
tinction between Mr. Faber’s learning, 
and what appears to us his erroneous 
application $f it He is extensively 
