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h Ice, the Foreigners J/ff. For when- the Earth, the 
Niece of Ice,%r Jfisy after (he begar^to be call'd and wor- 
fiiipp'd with the Names of her Grandmother, viz. I/is, 
and 2i\(oDifay D^, and Diana, then likewife wasabfcrib'd 
to her that obfervation, by which the firft forms of Ice 
upon freezing were difcovcr'd, after the manner'of which 
ftie afterward began to draw Letters. Now Water upon 
freezing into Ice, firft difcovers a certain ftraight line, af- 
ter the Imitation of which the Letter [ I ] is formed, with 
one (ingle ftroke, which they call Is, Jfis 5 afterwards, at 
the lides of this ftraight line, on both parts, there come 
tranfverfe ley lines, which they call Kna, Kneesy and 
from which Pattern Difa began to form all Rumck Let- 
ters whatfoever, as being composed of meer ftraight and 
tranfverfe lines, viz, of // and Kna, that is, I/is or Ice, 
and Kne. 
He fays, the Tympanum of the Mother of the Cods, fo 
much Celebrated by Greek and Latin Writers, tho ex. 
plain*d by none of them, as it ought, was nothing but a 
Copy of the Lapland Tympanum, convey'd to foreign parts 
hy Difa, I/is, IcUa, or Diana, whofe Ring and Hammer 
were fome time foundrin the Left Hand of the Figure of 
I/is at Rome, che Tympanum itfelf being over the Head of 
the Goddefs, and there being marks under her Feet like to 
thofe that are feen in the Lapland Drums^ The JEgyptian 
I/is alfo, according to a Cut .given of her by Pignoriuf, 
holds this Ring and Hammer in her Left Hand. And the 
Mother of the Gods (as Du Choul lias fet her forth ) han- 
dles a Tympanum. And he thinks he has given much 
light to the Tympanum ofCyhele, from that ftrange Superfti- 
tion of their Anceftors, which reigns ftill in fome parts of 
Lapland *j and fays in his Chronology, he will make ouj. 
cthat the Daughter of Inachm going into JEgypt a 
little before the time of Mofes, taught the /Egyptians , 
Incantationi, and withal (hew'd them that infamous abufe 
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