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North, than their primary ahd-only end, which is nought 
but to (hadow forth the prefencc, abfence, riGng and 
Petting of the Sun and Moon, as they happen in the 
Northern parts 5 where one while thefc two Planets feem 
to arife and begin their courfe, and labours from the 
Mountains and Woods, another while to return, and 
hide themfelves in the fame places, «s it were, for fleep 
and reft. Tho it has feemed good to fome Northern Po* 
ets, to delineate that great and Winter fetting of the Sun, 
by his defcent into, or drowning in Eridamus^ and to 
joyn the mourning and forrow of the Cods with that 
misfortune. 
The Fable of Deucalion and Pjrrha^ he fays, is owing to 
^their Anccftors, as the confeflion of Foreigners, who call 
DeiwaUon a Scythian^ and alfo the nature and origines of 
the Names, in the Gothick^ DaffkaUtns oca Burros make 
manifeft. Davp, or Daff^ tn that Tongue fignif> ing moift, 
dewy, watery 5 and k^Uc^ a man , fo that Daffkale^ Deu- 
calion denotes an Aquatick man, or a man concerned in 
Waters, or a Deluge : And fo Pyrrha defcends from the 
Gothick^VfoxA Butfui^ or Byra^ that is, the Mother of many 
Children* And he fays Writers generally own that in thefc 
Fables Noah and his Wife are ftiadowed forth 5 and that 
the Scalds call the fame not only Daffk^Ue^ DeucalioH^ but 
alfb Berghtelmr^ Bure^ Man^ Thor^ Jofur^ and by other 
names. Upon the whole, he applys this whole ftory to 
the Sun and Moon, their Couching in the Sea^ and their 
return again. 
In giving the Etymology of the word Proferpina^ he 
fays, it was ufual with their Scalds^ in framing or 
compofing Names, to ufe words that have more than one 
fip.nification, tho making fomc way to the thing 5 and that 
, chiefly for this reafon, that in one Name a wholeS entence, 
in a manner, might be fren and read. 
He (hews, that, as the Sun, in the Ancient Fables was 
lhadowed forth under feveral names; fo, among others, 
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