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herself, or of symbols designating her various chap. 
modifications. Of these, the author collected v — , — ' 
many, which it would be tedious to enumerate. 
In their origin, the worship of Ceres and of 
Venus was the same. The Moon, or Dea Jana, 
called Diana by the Romans', and Astarte, 
" DAUGHTER OF HEAVEN," bv the Phoenicians^, 
wheth'^'r under the name of Urania, Juno, or 
his, was also the Ceres of Eleusis. Having in 
a former' publication pointed out their con- 
nection, and their common reference to a single 
principle in JVature, (a subject involving more 
extraneous discussion than might be deemed 
consistent with the present undertaking,) it is 
not necessary to renew the argument further, 
than to explain the reason why the symbols of 
the Eleusinian Ceres were also employed as the 
(2) " The Latin Diana (P'ossius de Idolat. lib. ii. c. 25. (is the contract 
•f Diva Jana, or Dea Jana" See also the erudite dissertation of 
Gale (Court of the Gentiles, p. 119. Oxon. IG69. " They styled the 
Moon Urania, Juno, Jana, Diana, f'enus, &c. ; and as the Sun was 
called Jnpi/er, from T^'> ja Txrh^, and Janus, from the same H^, so 
also the Moon was called first Jana, and thence Juno, from H^ jah, the 
proper name of God." So f'ossius de Idolat. lib. ii. c. 2G : " Juno is 
referred to the Moon, and comes from iT' jah, the proper name of 
God, as Jacchus from H' ja Cltus. Amonjst the .'\utient Romans, 
Ja)ia and Juno were the same." 
(3) According to the learned Gale, our word Easter, considered of 
•uch doubtful etymology, is derived from the Saxon Goddess JEstar 
or Astarte, to whom they sacrificed in the mouth of April. See Gale's 
Court of the Gentiles, b. ii. c. 2. 
(4) " Greek Marbles," p. 74. 
