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ticularly to Ham, his fon, and Chus, his 
grandfon, whofe progeny were chiefly con- 
cerned in erecting the Tower of Babel, 
and promoting thofe religious rites con- 
nected with this building, which induced 
the Almighty to difperfe them by a confu. 
fion of.tongues. Upon this miraculous 
event, the Ammonians and Cufhites, or 
defcendants of Ham or Chus, migrated 
in different colonies, from the plains of 
Shinaar to almoft every point of the com- 
pafs. We trace them by their very name, 
as well as religious rites, the worfhip of 
water, and of the fun, or fire, its reprefenta- 
tive on earth, in Perfia, Thibet, Bootan, 
and China, as weil as among the "Scu- 
thians, or Scythians, of Erythrea. But 
the largeft or moft adventurous band of 
this wandering race extended themielves 
towards Egypt, took pofieflion of the 
country, and again migrated, fome centu- 
aies afterwards, under different leaders, 
towards Phrygia, and over the whole re- 
gion of Greece. The fun, in the Ammo- 
nian language, was denominated ax or oz; 
and its reprefentative. fire, or,,or wr: 
hence the name of Ammon or Hammon, 
which is literally Ham-on, ‘¢ Ham, the 
fun,” the ‘* refplendent. and illuftrious 
Ham:”* hence the name of Hercules, the: 
deity fupremely adored over all Egypt, 
Ethiopia, and Syria, which is, in like 
manner, Ur-cal-es, ** the radiant hill of 
fire 3°’ cul or col, meaning a hill cr moun- 
tain, whence the Latin collis; andés or ees 
refplendent or excellent, whence the Greek 
eve, ** good or lovely.”” ‘The pyramid was 
the form of the temple peculiarly dedi- 
cated to the adoration of fire or the fun; 
its figure, as has has been long obferved by 
Ammianus Marcellinus, admirably deli- 
neates a flame of fire iffuing froma broad 
bafis, and terminating gradually in an 
apex; or, converfely, a pencil of rays 
ftreaming from every point of the folar 
difc, and- perpetually increafing in its 
angles. Its name is derived, not, as has 
been generally believed, from the Egyptian 
THIPCORLE, or the Chaldaic e355, but the 
Babylonian radicals, pi-ur-am-ait, con- 
tracted into P’-pr am-ait, ‘* the glorious 
emanation of the fupreme Ham,’’ or 
‘¢ Ham, the fun.” While the obelifk, 
which was a form of temple, dedicated to 
the divine rites of the ferpent, is deduced 
from ob-el es-ca, “ the iliuftrious dwelling - 
of the ferpent god;” o, in the fame lan- 
guage, meaning a ferpent, whence the Per_ 
fiannse) (ab) the Coptic 2, (hoph) 
and the Greek of and Ogi (ops and 
ephis), terms fignificative of the fame rep- 
of the Greek Alphabet. [Jan. 1 
. «2? 4 4 
tile; whence alfo Europa, Europe, Ur- 
oph, ‘* the ferpent of the fun,’’ Sol Pytho s- 
Cecrops, Ca-cur-ops, and with the ufe and. 
contraction of the Attic dialeét Ce-c’r-ops, 
the ‘¢ dwelling or temple of the folar fer~ 
pent,” and a vaft variety of fimilar deri- 
vatives. From the name of Noah, the foun- 
der of the ark, or primeval fhip, and the 
mythic creator of all things, the Greeks, 
the Romans, and all the fouthern nations’ 
of modern Europe, derive their immediate 
term for a /fip in zeneral: thus, fro 
Noah, Nwave, Nave (Noaus, Naus), Navis, 
Navire, Navio, Navigio; hence alfo Dae 
naus (Da-naus, literally ‘ the thip,” from 
the prefixed ufe of the Chaldaic particle 
xy.) and the Danaidz, the people or fub- 
jecis of Danaus. While moft of the other 
languages of Europe, and particularly 
thoie of Gothic origin, derive their term 
for the fame vehicle from the word hip or 
hips, which was another name attributed 
to it by the Ammonians themfelves: it 
furnifhes the Englith with /27p, the Dutch 
with jcéip, and the German with Schiff. 
From the Ammonian radical bip, the 
Greeks derived their (inaras) hippos or— 
horfe ; the water-carriage being merely 
converted into a land-carriage; bippo= 
phaes, and a great multitude of names 
doth of perfons and places: the Egyptians 
their OAL (hip)or ibis, a water-fowl pecu-,. 
liar to that country, and facred’ in confe- 
quence of its being a evater-fowl; and 
the Ethiopians their Uf}: (hybo) condenf- 
ed dew, water. There were alfo many _ 
other radicals by which the ark was de- 
fignated, and which have afforded to all 
languages terms immediately expreffive of 
this machine, or of ideas conneéted with 
it. It was denominated mén, and hence 
the Greek words, Mxy, Mau (a month, the 
moon), the latter of which was, probably 
fo denominated, at firit, in confequence of 
her crefcent form, by which fhe was fup- 
pofed to refemble the figure of the ark, 
and was worfhiped as fuch by the hoft of. 
arkite idolators ; as, for the fame reafon, 
in confequence, I mean, of the crefcent - 
_fhape of their horns, the bull and heifer, 
the Ofiris and Apis of Egypt, were, ad- 
vanced to fimilar religious honours, Hence 
alfo, Minos, Menu, Meneftheus, and a va- 
riety of other proper names. From the 
name of Theb (773n), it furnithed an appel- 
lation for the country of the Thebajs, and 
for {everal cities, which were denominated 
Thebes: from Erech, in the Hebrew 
J208, another name appiied to it, were ob- 
tained Apyoo (Argus), Arcadia, ask, and 
arc, a term ftill in general ule to exprefs 
the 
