have a tradition that this Deity had brought a Deluge over the greater part of the country; because Inachus and some other umpires had adjudged the land to Juno, rather than to him. Juno however at last obtained of him, that the waters should retreat: and the Argeans in memorial of this event raised a temple to Poseidon, the God of deluges, at the place whence the water began to retire. As you proceed a small degree farther, there is the mound (Taços) of Argus, who is supposed to have been the son of Niobe, the daughter of Phoroneus. I have shewn in a prior treatise, that these mounds styled Taço, were not places of burial; but sacred hills, on which in antient times they sacrificed. Tapos Agye is the mount of the ark, or Argo. All the history above given, however limited to a particular spot, relates to the ark, and to the flood, which universally prevailed. In the same city was a remarkable altar, dedicated to Zeus the God of rain, 38 Βωμος Υετιε Διος. Zeuth was distinguished by the title of Sama El, which the Greeks rendered Zeus Enuaλeos. He was worshipped upon mount Parnes in Attica; and the circumstances attending his history are remarkable, as they stand in Pausanias. 19 On de Aln. δε Αθης 38 Pausan. 1. 2. p. 154. παιδες δεν Πεντελικος και Πάρνης-Εν Παρνηθ: Παρέας Στις Χαλκίτης και βάνες Σημαλεκ Διος. Ετι δε εν τη Nazred, an alles Samer Jugos de Ez BUTE, TUTE HO Oubeich Tate & treni xalgutes Aiz. In Attica is the wound Posteliens-also another, called the moasinis gf Parves- Upon the latter stands a statue of Lima Pervctias in brass; and an altar to the suce Clan, said Sama El, or Semaleos. Tipe is duv dwater alianz and when they sacri2. wow in og ivie, sometimes the God of Pulas 7 SMETENES the Dairy, who escaped, a rather a lo averted che alle sqäng him A This writer wentions also upon the mountain HymetTals & Output Devi Song, xai KročlanПoof: altars → Zari Panie, and to spoin surnamed the divaer-out, or lwing firemna If we consider the histories of Panae, Danaus, and the Davaldes, we stall and them to be fragments of history, which relate to the same event. Danie is said to have been the mother of Perseus, who was conceived in dowers exposed in an ark; and at list a king of Arges. She is likewise represented as me mother of Agus who founded na Italy, * Arosa, nd Argiatan: the true history Ναυν πρωτος κατεσκευασε. 42 This is of which places amounts to this, that they were founded by people styled Arkites. Danaus, who came into Greece, is said to have come over in the first long ship which was constructed: but the more antient account is, that he was the first builder of a ship; which he designed and finished under the direction of Minerva, or divine wisdom: 'TπODE» μενης Αθηνας αυτῷ, the same story which is told of Argus, the supposed son of Inachus and Niobe. It is likewise said of Danaus, when he came to Greece, that he came over nave biprora, called by Greeks aμpıguμvaïs; and that he built the Acropolis at Argos. But the navis biprora was not a vessel commonly made use of to pass the seas: it was a copy of the sacred ship of Isis; and I have shewn the history to which it alluded. I should therefore think, that this story does not relate to the arrival of any particular person from Egypt, but to the 43 She was supposed to have given name to Daunia; and to have settled there with her two sons, Argeos and Argos. Servius in Virg. Æn. 1. 8. v. 345. Tibur Argeo positum colono. Horat. 1. 2. Od. 6. y. 5. 42 Apollodor. 1. 2. p. 63. 43 It is said that Danaus came from the Thebaïs of Egypt, where stood Chemmis, near the city Noa. Perseus was worshipped here. Herodot. 1. 2. c. 91. He calls the city Nen. The person alluded to under the character of Danaus was far prior to the first introduction of rites from that country; and especially the memorial of the Argo, from whence the place took its name. And that there was such an introduction of rites, appears from Hypermnestra, the supposed daughter of Danaus, being esteemed the priestess of Juno at that place. If, as I have imagined, the words wwws and »zus are derived from, Nau, and Noah; the name of Danaus relates not to a man, but is in reality 5 dạ Naus, and signifies literally the ship. The æra therefore of Danaus is the æra of the ship: being the precise time when some model of this sacred vessel was introduced, and the rites also and mysteries with which it was attended. The fifty daughters of Danaus were fiity priestesses of the Argo, who bore the sacred vessel on festivals. da I æra allotted Lim in the Grecian history. He is said to be the son of Belus, the son of Neptune: also the brother of Sesosis, the same as Seth and Zuth. Δαναον διωκόμενον ὑπο The name of the ship was Danais. Αιγυπτο πρώτον κατασκεύασαι (Ναι) όθεν και Δαναϊς εκλήθη. Schol. in Apollon. Rhod. 1. 1. v. 4. The daughters of Danaus are supposed to have introduced the θεσμοφορία from Egypt: την τελε την ταύτην εξ Αιγύπτε εξαγαγέσαι. Herod. I. 2. c. 171. 44 Ev Agyei iegarsuosy Tzigumiça Aavax. Luseb. Chron. p. 29. 1. 40. 45 47, Da, Chaldaicè, hæc, ista, hoc, illud. Sec Daniel. c. 4. v. 27, and c. 7. v. 3. Of this I shall treat hereafter at large. have mentioned that there was a temple in Egypt, called Ca Nobus, erected to the God of seas; to whom the element of water in general was sacred. Throughout the whole history of Danaus and his daughters, there will be found allusions to the rites of this God. The Danaïdes are said to have been sent in quest of water: to have brought water to Argos: to have invented 46 The gra, or 47 vessels for water: and, lastly, were supposed to have been doomed in the shades below to draw water in buckets, which were full of holes. Every circumstance of this history is from Egypt. natives of that country were very assiduous in conveying water from one place to another. They likewise had particular jars, which were sacred to the God, whom the Greeks called Canobus; and were formed with a representation of him. These Canobic vessels were sometimes made of porous stone; at other times of earth, manufac 46 Danaus is said to have founded Argos. Δαναος Ελθών ες Αργος ωκισεν Ιναχε πολιν. Εuripid. in Archelao apud Strabon. 1. 5. p. 339. 47 Αργος ανυδρον τον Δανααι θεσαν Αργος ενυδρον. Strab. 1. 8. p. 570. All Greeks in the time of Homer seem to have been called Danäi. 43 They were called Στακτικα-αγγεια διυλίζοντα Νείλωον ύδωρ. Hesych. Στακτικών. |