242 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aBTNO 1705. 



was the golden age. This Saturn had many children and grand children, whom 

 he made petty kings, and carried some with him in his expeditions, and made 

 them kings abroad over the nations he conquered: hence they were called Tio- 

 danar. Titans, that is, kings of people; which celebrated name passed to the 

 Greeks, Pherecydes calling them Hyperborean Titans, and the poet subterra- 

 neous gods, or who possessed the seat of the Inferi, in the farthest parts north. 

 And Plato, the author says, owns that all the tradition concerning the Elysian 

 Fields and Hell, owes its rise to their north; which being cut on a table of 

 brass, was carried by Ops from the Hyperboreans to Delos, belonging to the 

 Greeks. fi 



The twelfth chapter treats of Jupiter, his form of government and his expe- 

 ditions at several times, about the year of the world 2100; the author having 

 proved, he thinks, that Jupiter was the son of Saturn in Sweden, and held his 

 empire there; he also undertakes to show, that he went thence to other coun- 

 tries and subdued them; which has been the occasion that various nations and 

 cities, claim his place of birth and sepulchre to themselves, among whom he first 

 numbers those of Crete. The thirteenth chapter treats of the migration of 

 the Atlantics under Jupiter, Bacchus, Inachus and others, to divers parts of the 

 world, as Thracia, Bactra, Egypt, but especially into Phoenicia. 



From the Phoenician language he conceives we may draw a strong argument 

 that they are a colony of theirs (the Swedes); what he has said before concerning 

 the race of the Phoenicians, and the greatness and colour of their bodies con- 

 firming the same. And therefore, lest any people in the north, or neighbour- 

 ing to the Phoenicians, should claim this glory to themselves, he adds here for 

 a close a table of some words in the chief and mother tongues of the rest ; that 

 these being compared with the Runic or Phoenician words, it may clearly appear 

 how close an alliance there is between the Scythian or Swedish, and the Phoeni- 

 cian languages. Now those most ancient tongues, to which in a manner all 

 the rest owe their birth, are these: the Scythian or Swedish, the Runic or 

 Phoenician, the German, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Sclavonian, and Finnic. 

 Many words of each of which he has given m a table, which being compared 

 together, the Phoenician language appears to be in a manner the same with the 

 Scythian or Swedish. Moreover, by considering the divine worship, customs, 

 and letters, of the Phoenicians, he finds they owe their rise to the Scythians. 

 As for the time of this expedition of Thor and Bacchus, whom,, as well as his 

 chief deputies, Mercurius, Inachus, and the rest, the poets call by the names 

 of Hercules, Fenesius, Dionysius, and Titan, he concludes it to have fallen in 

 with the times of Abraham, and his great grandfather Saruck, with which he 

 finds the scriptures to agree. 



