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The Origin of ' Brahman Urn. 



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brother Typhon, and he wandered in search of his lost wife Isis, 

 in the same manner as Rama after Sita. Isis afterwards sought 

 for his scattered limbs, as her counterpart Demeter did for those 

 cf Bacchus. On his expedition to India, Osiris was accompanied 

 by Apollo and Pan, and he left the care of Egypt to his minister 

 Hermes. To dismiss the absurdity of monkies or Satyrs being 

 employed in the expedition, we must assume that the effigy of the 

 Egyptian god Pecht, the same as the Greek Pan, and the Hindu 

 monkey god Hanuman, was borne on the banners of the army. 



I shall endeavour to prove who the heroes of the expedition 

 really were, commencing with the most prominent. I express my 

 conviction that Osiris or Bacchus, is actually Misraim, afterwards 

 deified in India as Bramah, and that Rama his nephew (Genesis 

 Chap. X. v. 6-7 ) is the Rama of Hindu Mythology. Misraim, 

 Rama, and Cush are allowed to have been the most powerful and 

 adventurous of the children of Ham who settled in Africa ; and 

 there is reason to believe the two last along with Seba, accom- 

 panied the expedition of Misraim. The belief that Government 

 was first established, laws enacted, and religion introduced in 

 India by Rama, about 3,800 years ago, corresponds with the date 

 assigned to the death of Xoah, and the settlement of his immedi- 

 ate descendants. 



The association of the name of Misraim with such names as 

 Bacchus and Osiris, may at first excite the surprise, and disturb 

 the prepossessions of some of my readers ; but I beg they will re- 

 serve their criticism until they have completed the perusal of this 

 paper, in which, I can assure them, they will find nothing in op- 

 position to the sacred books of the Old Testament ; while, the 

 more to set their minds at ease, I add, that the right thinking Sir 

 W. Jones acknowledged the identity of the two Ramas* to have 

 occurred to his mind as being more than probable. I remind them, 

 moreover, that, the Jews alone preserved real names in their 

 genealogies, — the Pagan Greeks and Egyptians bestowing new 

 names and additional titles upon the ancient heroes, whom they 

 deified, and to whom they ascribed exploits, and gave attributes 



* The Hindu Purans speak of the love felt by their Rama for the 



land of Egypt. 



