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people of Japan, where an image of the Sun is ciiap 
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introduced; but with this difference, that the , ' 
colours, instead of being while and blue, are ivJdte 
and red ". The inhabitants of some parts of India, 
as it is well known, who are worshippers of the 
Sun, revere the invisible as well as the visible 
luminary; the former of which answers to AIAH2 
and AOPATOS of the Egyptians and the Greeks\ 
This notion of J<'/Z'/omA7 concerning Serapis is 
by him opposed to an opinion of the Fathers, 
which maintained that Serapis was a symbol of 
Joseph: but even admitting it to be true in its 
fullest extent, it will rather serve to confirm that 
opinion, if attention be paid to the titles which 
the Egyptians were accustomed to bestow upon 
their deified princes. The language of the 
valuable Inscription on the Rosetta Tablet will set 
this truth in a very clear point of view: we there 
(6) The reader may see such representations in the engravings made 
from the sacred Pictures of the Calmuck tribes. [Vol. I. of these Travels, 
p. 320, octavo edit.) In three of those pictures, this double representa- 
tion of the Sun is introduced ; although the plate have not been coloured, 
andtheminutiasof the distinction werelittleattended toby the engraver. 
In the original drawings, one orb is red, and the other white. The 
author at first supposed they were intended for the Sun and Moon. 
(7) ^^a^sa Tov ToivTuv u'X'arov ^lov 'ififiiv idai, 
'HiXisv Se 6ioiu;, 
Die Deorum omnium supremum esse lao, 
Quem hyeme orcum vocant, iaeunte autem vere Jovcm, 
.(Estate porro Solem. 
" Jam 
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