182 Ori'gm of Mythology. 



Coclus, or heaven, that is, without the termination or 

 article, Coel, is the CeUic Irish Cecil, heaven, the Greek 

 Wao?, concave, hollow, from a root whose signification is 

 bejiding, hoUoxv, Hebrew vS"" to scoop out, Kiiglish hole, 

 hollow. This nanle of heaven, then, is given to the vault 

 over our heads, from its apparent concavity. Hence in 

 in Hindoo, Gala is time, probably from the apparent rev- 

 olution of the heavenly orbs. And it deserves notice 

 that the Teutonic himel, heaven, is formed from Cam^ 

 ham^ crooked, bending, arched ; and hence it signifies 

 not only heaven, but a canopy. 



Terra, the earth, is formed from the Celtic tir, earth. 



In the creation, Hesiod makes chaos to precede the 

 formation of the earth, but he makes the earth, the first 

 constructed body, the parent of Coelus ; or oy^itve?, made 

 as a canopy for the earth and the seat of the gods. The 

 earth in conjunction with heaven produced, the Ocean, 

 Thea, Rhea, Japet, and several other deities, with the 

 C}- clops and giants.* 



Titan is represent-ed as being the son of Coelus and 

 Terra, and the brother of Saturn. " The most ancient 

 mythologists," says Lempriere, *' make no mention of 

 Titan. The name is applied .to Saturn by Orpheus and 

 I^ucian ; to the sun by Virgil and Ovid, and to Prome- 

 theus bj Juvenal."! 



* See Hesiod's Theog. v. 116 — and Ovid's Mets^n. lib.i. 

 Ante mare et tullus, et, quod tegit omnia, Coelum, 

 Upus erat toto naturae vultus in orbc. 

 Quern dixere chaos; rudis indigestaque moles. 



\ In nemus ire parant, ubi primos crastinus ortus, 

 Extulerit Titan, radiisque retexerit orbem. 



Virg. JEn. iv. 118. 



NuUus adhuc mundo praebebat lumina Titan. 



Ovid. Metam. i. 10. 



Et meliore Into finxit praecor4ia Titan. 



Juven. Sat. xiv. 35. 



That Titan and Prometheus were used as different names of the 

 same object, is evident from the fact, that the ancients considered 

 -them as the immediate agents in creating man, or infusing into him 

 iiis intellectual principle, the etherial fire. See Prometheus in the 

 sequel. 



