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ofelefsly, as mmy learned men confefs 5 hm alfo have lain 
Dcglefted even to this day, for about 40 Ages. To wit, 
I^p Mao ha? took upQn Kim narrowly to infpeft Nature it- 
felf, the TNorth, the Poems of the Scalds, the afpeft of 
the San and Moon in thofe Northern place?, or the won- 
derful turns and changes of ths Earth, Sea, Heavens, and 
Seafons there, wholly unknown lo hdia^ JEg^pt and 
Afrkd. Therefore he here takes upon him to prove that 
all Fables of this kind \vere invented to reprefent the 
motion of the Sun in thefe places, and afterwards carried 
to lEgypt^ and withal to dr;aw forth their genuine fenfe. 
both from Nature, and the proofs of the Learned. He 
tells us from Herodotm^ the Greeks were commanded by 
the Oracle of to preferve religioufly all the vari- 
ous names of the Gods, brought to them by the Hypirbo- 
reans 5 nor was it any way lawful for them to change 
filch for Gree4 Names. And here, as v/eli as generally 
throughout his Book, he makes out from the Etymology 
of the Names of the Gods, Heroes and other things rek- 
ting to them, that they, generally own^ Gothic\ OriginaL 
And fays the delign of their Poets feems as learned as 
elegant, who, feeing the Nature, Names and Number of 
Perfoos to agree with the Names and Number of Things 
themfelves, that thefe ought to be fo joyn'd and fitted 
together, that they might feem to agree together affo in 
iheir very Names 5 of which he gives fome Inftances. 
For rightly underftanding the fenfe of their Fables, he 
fays, we muft conGder it was ufual with the Scalds to notifie 
one and the fame God. or King, with many Names in the 
fameFable,which Names neverthelcls may be reftrain'd by 
fome common Cgn to fome one perfon. Secondly, We 
muft know and hold ingeneral,that there are three mighty 
Bodies in the World, which were chiefly heeded to by 
fabulous Antiquity, employ 'd in Inveniioni or Fiftions, • 
the t axth, Moon and Sun :j and that nothing more 
ftruEgly vindicattss the Indention of thefe Fables to the 
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