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ftrial Bodies to depend of them : and therefore they call'd 
the fecond day oi the we€k Sondagh^ the third Mondagh^ 
the fourth Tifdagh, the day of Di/i, or the Earth. As for 
the reft of the days, they call'd them by the namesof their 
three greateft Heroes: The fifth day of the week, Ode^f- 
dagh^ from Odifitfs^ or Atinus^ the Deity of War both by 
Eand and Sea 5 that is, performing the parts both of Her- 
mhs t^qA Nepnne: The fixth Torfdagh, from Thoruf^ or 
Jnpjkr^ the chief Judge and Lord of the Earth ; The fe* 
mmh Fredag^ from Freia^ the Wife of Jupiter^ not only 
^ the Goddefs of Wedlock , but likewife Queen of the 
Morthern Ama%anes^ under whofe condufl: and example 
/ fhey karnt to handle both DiftafF and Arms. 
The word Jme^ he fays, in their Language, fignifies a 
ivhold, or round thing, and that from thence the June 
Ra-fl is fo call'd, becaufe it follows the converfion and 
^tmn of the Sun to their Anceftors, having been fome 
i!ime abfent from them* And he gives an account of the 
Sj3prts md at that Feaft, much anfwering to ours at 
. §hrfflmi^^-- and of the Sacrifices then us'd : And fhews 
that many of the Poets Fables are in their nature fuch, 
thatxthey cannot be apply'd with the like fuccefs to any 
foreign Kings, Commanders, Phces, or Heaven. He ob- 
f€rve% as often as Learned men have aflerted Ofiris to 
ife Ae Sunv they made his Country without all hefitation 
w be the North, fince they could not get the fiftion con^ 
^rning tl^ Sun s Country, but from the North, itfelf : 
for fince the Stin is not on the Earth, whatfoever is read 
concerning his Country on the Earth, raufl be refer rd 
1© certain fights or afpefts^of him, as alfo to the kinds or 
jpints of his rifing or fetting in the horizon^ inhabited 
by thi^ or that Nation § andfoin this refpeft-the North 
was faid to be the Country of the Sun, becaufe there he 
Titemd to have found fbme reft or refrefhment from his 
Uboms^ And he fays many Fables for thefe caufes are 
J2©t, only explaiu'd unfucccfifaU^ nay, ridieuloufly and 
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