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Ham; whence he was afterwards designated as Hamon, 

 or Ham the sun, and became the Jupiter Ammon of the 

 Greeks. 1 



The idea of the incubation of the Spirit, of its being the 

 principle of love that was in action, and that it produced 

 the first motion, prevails, more or less, in all the cos- 

 mogonies. 



Aristophanes, in his Aves, gives an account of the 

 Grecian cosmogony, which proves that the heathen gods 

 of the Greeks were all subsequent to the original creation 

 of matter, in a passage, of which the following lines are 

 nearly a literal translation : 



Once Chaos was and Night, dark Erebus 

 And ample Tartarus; but Earth, and Air, 

 And Heaven were not. First blackwing'd night 

 In th' infinite gulfs of Erebus brought forth 

 The wind-nurs'd egg, from which in circling hours, 

 Love the desir'd, his shoulders golden-wing'd, 

 Sprung like a wind-swift vortex, he who mix'd 

 With Chaos wing'd and dark, and Tartarus wide 

 Nested our race, and them brought first to light. 

 Ere love commingled all, immortal Gods 

 Were none, but from that commixture rose 

 Heaven, Sea, and Earth, and Gods incorruptible. 



Wind-nurs'd egg. Gr. UK-WE/MOV uov. Literally, the egg 

 under the wind, alluding to the incubation of the Spirit. 



Love. This is the motion infused by the Spirit into the 

 chaos which was followed by light and expansion, and 

 the whole harmonious circle of creation, in which there 

 was no discord, but all was very good. 



His shoulders golden-wing' d. Gr. STJX&UV varov Trlzpuyow 

 xpvcrcuv. Literally, his back shining with two golden 



1 Cudworth, I. ii. 338. 



