* Tun va a cry Nos, buin by the ancient Durians in Sielige calot by breptat are so Kamis, The Songrum speak of ches called Amon-Na, mi No-Amon * 7gn. Euk. c. 3. v. 14, &c. Jerem. c. 45. v. 25. The City Nastratis in the same country was probably NanCeret, umlar to the Kiriath of the Hebrews; and signized the cay of Nan, or Noah. A city Noe was near Syene. Plin. Nat. Hist. L. 6. e. 39. 22 the method of planting the pine, and how to press out the juice, and receive it in proper vessels. Though the Patriarch is represented under various titles, and even these not always uniformly appropriated; yet there will continually occur such peculiar circumstances of his history, as will plainly point out the person referred to. The person preserved is always mentioned as preserved in an ark. He is described as being in a state of darkness, which is represented allegorically as a state of death. He then obtains a new life, which is called a second birth; and is said to have his youth renewed. He is on this account looked upon as the firstborn of mankind: and both his antediluvian and postdiluvian states are com memorated, and sometimes the intermediate is spoken of. * Κικλήσκω Διονυσον, εριβρόμον, ευαςηρα, 34 Πρώτος Diodorus calls him Deucalion; but describes the 33 13 Orphic Hymn. 29. p. 222. * Orphic. Fragm. apud Macrob. Saturnal. l. 1. c. 18. Sometimes Пgwroyons is changed to a female, and then made the daughter of Deucalion. Πρωτογενεια δε Δευκαλίωνος και Πυῤῥας. Schol. in Pind. Olymp. Od. 9. v. 63. 35 36 Deluge as in a manner universal; " κατα τον επι Δευκαλίωνος γενομενον κατακλυσμον έφθαρη τα πλείςα των Zwwv: In the Deluge, which happened in the time of Deucalion, almost all flesh died. Apollodorus having mentioned Deucalion λagvaxi, consigned to an ark, takes notice, upon his quitting it, of his offering up an immediate sacrifice, 3 Aï Duži, to the God who delivered him. As he was the father of all mankind, the antients have made him a person of very extensive rule, and supposed him to have been a king. Sometimes he is described as monarch of the whole earth: at other times he is reduced to a petty king of Thessaly. He is mentioned by "7 Hellanicus in the latter capacity, who speaks of the deluge in his time, and of his building altars to the Gods. Apollonius Rhodius supposes him to have been a native of Greece, according to the common notion: but notwithstanding his prejudices, he gives so particular a character of him, that the true history cannot be mistaken. He makes him indeed the 37 35. Diodor. Sicul. 1. 1. p. 10. 36 Apollodor. 1. 1. p. 20. 37 Ότι δε και Δευκαλίων εξασίλευσε Θεσσαλίας, Ελλάνικος εν πρώτο της Δευκαλίωνίας φησιν· και ότι των δώδεκα θεών βωμος Δευκαλίων ίδρυσατο Ελλανικος εν τω αυτῷ. Schol. in Apollon. Rhod. 1. 3. y. 1085. son of 38 Prometheus, the son of Japetus: but, in these antient mythological accounts, all genealogy must be entirely disregarded. 39 Ιαπετιονίδης αγαθον τεκε Δευκαλιώνα, τα δ' Though this character be not precisely true, yet we may learn, that the person represented was the first of men, through whom religious rites were renewed, cities built, and civil polity established in the world: none of which circumstances are applicable to any king of Greece. We are assured by 40 Philo, that Deucalion was Noah. Έλληνες μεν Δευκαλίωνα, Χαλδαίοι δε ΝΩΕ επονομαζεσιν, εφ' ε τον μεγαν κατακλυσμον συνέβη γενεσθαι. The Gre cians call the person Deucalion, but the Chaldeans style him Noë; in whose time there happened the great eruption of waters. The Chaldeans likewise mentioned him by the name of Xisouthros. 38 He was the same as Prometheus, the person here called Japetionides. 39 Apollon. Rhod. 1. 3. v. 1085.. 40 Philo Jud. de præmio et pæna. vol. 2. p. 412. jeupe of Tiesa tien comy soy, THEY is proved in his name ocurring n different Juty of THE WOKit; and avas accompanied vi BURE IStory of the denge. The natives of Syria at the same dam to him. Et vas simposed to have founded the temple at empois; where va a ciasm, through which the waters after the deine Were Bead to have retrated. He was Jnew ne reported to have but the temple of Jupiter at Athens; where was a cavity of the tatue meters, and a like tradition, that the waters of the food passed off through this aperture. However groundless the notions may be of the waters having retreated through these passages, yet they thew what impressions of this event were retained by the Amonians, who introduced some history of it wherever they came. As different • Cedres. p. 11. Lucia de Des Syria. p. 853. Α3. Όσον εις πήραν το έδαφος διεσται και λέγεσι, μετά την επιμόρια την επί Δευκαλίωνες συμβασαν, ἐπορνηναι ταύτη το ύδως. Pausan. 1. 1. p. 43. P. |