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Grandfon of Noah, chofe that Country for his Seat, and 
gave it his Name : He had a Son whofe Name was Cslim^ 
or Uranus^ who had Saturn or Boreus, under whom was 
the Golden Age. This Saturn had many Children and 
, Grand-children, whom he made Petty Kings, and . carried 
fonie with him in his Expeditions, and made them Kings 
abroad over the Nations he conquered, hence, they were 
called Tiodanar^ Titans^ that is, Kings of People 5 which 
Celebrated Name paft to ithe Greeks^ Pherecj/des calling 
them Hyperborean Titans , and the Poet Subterraneous 
GadSj or who poffeft the Seats of the hferi, in thefartheft 
parts North. Now tho Sweden had mmy Titans, yet the 
Houfe »f Atinus ox Neptune had this Prerogative, that all 
Sweden was divided into ten Countries, according to the 
number of his Sons, and the chief Empire was in them 
and their Progeny, and one of them was chofen as Mo- 
narch ^ whence they were called Kurar, Eledors, Thofe 
petty Kings or Cures 2it firft being ten, were afterward in- 
creased to twelve, with a prefiding Monarch. When thefe 
12 Gods with their Prefident were to fit in Judgment, they 
chiefly made choice to fit under an AJh, by reafon of the 
wonderful order pf its Leaves, there being fix Leaves oa 
each fide the Stalk, and one on the top, fitly anfwering to 
that Seffion of the Gods : He alfo notes that Ships with 
them were call'd Ask^r^ becaufe built oi Afb-^ and fays the 
;j,name of this Tree is taken from As, a Divine Title, be- 
caufe it gives a refrefhing (hade co the Gods, as they fit to 
difpenfe their Laws. He tells us alfo, they made their 
Tribunals on the tops of Mountains and Hills, and guarded 
them with Stones fet in a Circle about them, of which 
Circles there are ftill many to be feen in his Country. 
Speaking concerning the recourfe of Foreigners to Sn^e - 
den, to confult the Gods concerning paft and fufjr^ 
things, he gives us feme of the chief of their Cuftom?, 
agredng with what the Greeks md Latins mite Th: 
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