Dr. Wall on the Ufe of Symbols. 2 47 
To explain the remainder of the adronomical 
fymbols, upon the fame principle, it is neceffary 
previoufly to remark, that polytheifm in its pu- 
red form, is nothing more than the deification of 
particular attributes of the Supreme Eeing, ari- 
fing from the infirmity of human nature, unequal 
to the comprehenfion of one all perfedt Being. 
Hence we are not furprized to find, that the two 
planets didinguifbed by a fplendor, next to that 
of the fun and moon, were alfo fuppofed to be 
inhabited bv, or at lead confecrated to the fer- 
vice of the two chief Deities, under a different 
form and name. 
One of thefe planets is known by the title of 
Jupiter, and probably derived both its appel¬ 
lation and its fymbol, from that part of the 
./Egyptian mythology, which afferted, that when 
the gods, in the war with the giants, fled from 
the wrath of Typhor into /Egypt, they concealed 
themlelves in the fhapes of various beads, under 
which they were afterwards worfhipped, and 
particularly Jupiter under that of a ram, at the 
celebrated Libyan Temole of Jupiter Hammon. 
To this circumdance Lucan alludes, in his def- 
fcription fif the march of Cato through the wilds 
of Africa ;* and Ovid, more didin&ly, in his ac- 
• Ventum erat ad Templum, Libycis quod Gentibus unura 
Jnculti Garamantes habent: ftat certior illic 
Jupiter, ut niemoraru, led non aut Fulmina vibrans, 
Aut fimilis noftro, fed tortis Cornibus, Hammon. 
Lue. Pharf. L. IX. 511. 
R count 
