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assumed various names : Ca'l became Cronos, 

 Moloch, Saturn, Dis, Pluto, and Typhon; 

 Ca'li' became Hfxate, Proserpine, and Diana, 

 who was worshipped with bloody sacrifices at Tau- 

 ris. It was to the barbarians that the Greeks were 

 referred, by their own writers, to learn and under- 

 stand the names and origin of their Deities. 



SiVa, in his character of the Creative Power, be- 

 came the ZeusTriophthalmos, Jupiter, and Osi- 

 ris; his consort, BhavaVi', became Juno, Venus, 

 Cybele, Rhea, the Syrian Goddess, the armed 

 P'allas, Isis, Ceres, and Anna Perenna. This 

 multiplication of Deities arose from the ignorance 

 of foreign nations as to the source of the supersti- 

 tion which they adopted, and the original mean- 

 ing of the symbols; they supplied their want of in- 

 formation by fables congenial to their own national 

 character and manners : hence arose those contra- 

 dictions, which made their mythology a labyrinth 

 of confusion. 



When the Saivas intended to ascribe particularly, 

 to the object of their worship, the benefits arising 

 from any operation of nature, they decorated the 

 image with suitable emblems, and assigned to the 

 Deity a corresponding title. 



For instance, S'ancara, (which signifies the be- 

 nefactor,) is a title of one of those forms of SiVa 

 or Ca'l. To him the gratitude of the Saivas attri- 

 buted the blessings which are derived from the 

 waters of the Ganges, which rolls its fertilizing 

 stream through various countries, bestowing life 

 and happiness on millions of created beings. 



They therefore adorned the image of Ca'l with 

 emblems applicable to the mountain whence that 

 stupendous river flows. 



