toi UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



make the pilgrimage to Mecca, and obferve the 

 fall of Ramadan. 



XII. It remains to fpeak of certain religions, 

 of which, though not generally received, but 

 are or have been lefs diffufed among mankind 

 than the preceding, we ought not to be ig- 

 norant at lead of the names, if we would at- 

 tain a complete idea of the various worfhips and 

 luperflitions that have reigned among the hu- 

 man race from its firil exiftence. Such are, 



(8.) The Religion of the Eramins^ or the inha- 

 bitants of Tonquin, between China and India. 

 Brama is their principal god, and adored by the 

 followers of Confucius. They have likewife 

 three other divinities, who are Raumu, Betolo, 

 and Ramonn, and one goddefs, who is called 

 Satibana. Befide which they facrifice to the 

 feven planets as divinities. The people, but 

 efpecially the priefts of this feel:, are named Bra- 

 mens, Bramins, or Bramines, and thofe names 

 are formed from the word Brachmanes, by which 

 the Greeks and Latins denoted the Indian philo- 

 fophers. They believed in the immortality of 

 the foul, but they added to that belief the 

 metempfychofis, or tranfmigration of the foul 

 from one body to another. 



(9.) The Religion of the People of Barantola, in 

 Southern Tartary, in Afia, This kingdom is 

 governed by two fovereigns. The firft, who is 

 charged with the political government, is namec} 

 Deva , the other, who lives retired, is not only 



adored 



