DELUGE, 
“try. His oc was a a“. pun _ ee aaa 
mh bes 
under the name af Deacon, aa a. ca. “the pre- 
fent race of mankind are oo from thofe who firlt 
exited ; for thofe of rid were all deftroyed. 
Lhe prefent world is ated fem the fons of Deucalion 
having increafed to fo great a number fro 
refpeét to the oh broo they were me 
lawlefs in their dealings. The regarded aes oath nor a 
ferved the rites of hota, nor fhewed 
ik n this account they were oe t 
LU al 
1 flefh 
ie whole earth was covere 
d. 
ee and piety- Ha refervation was effected in this man- 
ner: he put all his family, both his fens and their wives, into 
a valt ark, which he had provided; and he went into it him- 
felf. At the fame time animals of every fpecies, boars, 
horfes, lions, ferpents, whatever lived upon the face of the 
earth, followed him oy aay hee which he received into the 
ark, and experienced no m them ; for there prevailed 
a wonderful harmon ny throaghout, by the immediate influence 
ere they wafted with him, as long as 
€ 
that upon the difappearing of the waters, D 
forth from the ark, and raifed an altar (altars, woveeg to 
Gen. vi. 20.) to God: but he tranfpofes the {cene to Hie- 
rapolis in Syria, where the natives pretende 
particular memorials of the deluge ) 
who have tranfmitted to us thefe accounts, inform us at the 
he remains of the ark were to be feen in 
r days upon one of the mountains of Armenia. Aby- 
denus fays, that the people of the country ufed {mall pieces 
of the wood as amulets; and Berofus fays the fame of 
the afphaltus, with which it was covered, and which they 
fcraped o 
The learned Bryant, in = < farina ai Ce pec 
t a reference o No ah and the 
ny of _ reli- 
The well- 
s, among the Egyptians, was, as he con- 
eives, a facred emblem ; in honour of which thefe people 
celebrated an annual feftival. It was, in after-times, admit- 
e 
length; and both the city, faid to be t 
Egypt as well as the province, was denominated from the 
ark, called QM, Theba, by the facred writer. The fame 
memorial is to be obferved in other countries, where an ark, 
r fhip, was introduced in their myfteries, and i ade nile 
abut upon their feftivals ; and many inftances 
tical reprefentations are cited by Bryant, which related to 
am 
t 
which A cy elonged we were firfe BE plithed ; and this learned 
_ writer imagines, that in early times moft fhrines arte es 
Mizraim were formed under the refemblance of a hip, 1 
memory of er great event. He adds Aen that Cou 
{hips and temples received their names from hence; being 
he by the Greeks, who borrowed largely from Egypt, 
Noavg and Neos, and Mariners Navies, Naute, in reference to 
the Pach. who was varioufly ftyled: Noas, Naus, and 
Vou. XU, 
_ ncaee (Ifis a oe — 1. po 366, 367.) bg 
account s being expo ee fl 
Pee He ps ny wre - was on account of Typ 
yt and 
that it happened onthe 17th of the month Athyr, nee ae 
{un was ts Scorpio. 
med From thefe, and many other circum~ 
Grice oe aie be rec cited, it . eee sae that 
the hiftory of the deluge was no fecret to the Gent ine 
They held the memory of it very ca and ma ae 
nies which went abroad, ftyled themfelves ‘Thebeans, in re- 
ference to the ark ; and many cities of the name of Theba 
only and ange ae 7 oo Tonia, 
Attica, Phthiotis, Catacnia, Syria, a 
The tradition of the deluge ek indeed, pred through. 
out the world, and is Gane in the ory of all na-« 
tions ; in the continent of ete as well as Ajlia, in the 
Eaft and Welt Indies, arnong the Africans i Europeans. 
(See Burneti Telluris Fheor. Sacra. hi. c. 
We a told, indeed, (fee Code of Cae Laws, Pref. 
that the — {criptures make no mention of the 
t the Bramins Aca that the deluge never 
took place in Hindoo an. If this well ex- 
i vent fo fingwlar in 
its nature, that fappoling i it to je happened, the memory 
of it could never have been extinguifhed ee the geiera- 
lity of nations hp inhabit the earth; and more efpecial- 
ly, fince Larned men have abundantly proved that a tradi- 
9 
ythians, a ainong{t the 
la, Pag ainie other Toe 
of America. Noe we are informed - one of the 
vigators to the Southern Hemifphere, that the uuabens 
of Otaheite being afked concerning their origin, fimply an- 
{wered, that their fupreme god along time ago, being angry, 
ragged the sah : oes deg = and their ifland bein 
token off was a tradition oe 
a deluge has ereaied in aimee eet ‘ia of the globe, ex~ 
cept in India, and, as fome fay, in China, may we not hefi» 
tate a little till we know more of thote countries, before we 
pofitively affirm, that they have no fuch tradition? For it 
o 
e Banians about 150 
ago; for he 
exprelaly te te he made his colle@ions, bY the help 
of interpreters, from the Shafler, and he has the follow- 
ing words :—** As if the world needed aecaae of i its de« 
filement and pollution, there came a flood, that-covered all 
nations in the dep:hs-—and fo concluded the firtt sage ‘of the 
world according to the tradition of the Banians.”” (Lord’s 
Difcovery of the Banian Religion, c. 6.) Sir William Jones, 
books there is fu 
ciently correfponds with that of Mofes. (See Bifhop = 
on’s oo to the Clergy, &c. in his wipes an 
of esckel tari ca 1760) from the works of Ramm, 
concerning the primitive fta he earth, and the fubfe. 
quent deluge, kes, as it is a7 from the moft ancient ane 
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