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THE
ORIGIN OF PAGAN IDOLATRY
ASCERTAINED FROM
HISTORICAL TESTIMONY
AND
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
BY GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B. D.
RECTOR OF LONG-NEWTON.
Every reasonable Hypothesis should be supported on a fact.
WARBURTON'S Div. Leg. vol. v. p. 458.
THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
London;
Printed by A. J. Valpy, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane,
FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTONS;
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.
1816.
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ib.
THE four ages are indifferently reckoned from the creation and the deluge;
the golden age being that of the great father
I. The fable itself properly relates to the period between the creation and the
deluge: but, from certain points of resemblance between the ages of
Adam and of Noah, it was also made to relate to the period between the
deluge and another yet future dissolution of the world
II. Arrangement of the ten postdiluvian generations, and extension of the iron
age, when it was found that no fresh deluge took place in the tenth
generation
III. The descriptions of the golden age prove it to have been really the age of
Paradisiacal innocence
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5. Traditions of the Hindoos
6. Traditions of the Jaius
TV. Saturn, who flourished in the golden age, must have been Adam. Yet he
was also Noah. Hence, when he was viewed as the latter, the golden age was placed after the flood
1. Exemplification of this arrangement in the Hindoo fable
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2. The same mode of interpretation must be adopted in the fable of the
Jains
3. The same also in that of Hesiod
(1.) Discussion of the Argonautic, Trojan, and Theban, epochs
(2.) Summary of Hesiod's arrangement
V. The high antiquity of the fable of the four ages may be gathered from
Scripture
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CHAPTER II.
Miscellaneous traditions relative to the period between the creation
and the deluge
I. Hindoo traditions relative to Menu and his three sons and to the murder of
Abel
II. Parallel traditions relative to the three Cabiri and to the murder of Abel III. Parallel traditions of the Atlantians
IV. Parallel traditions of the Iroquois
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1. The character of Enoch melts into that of Noah
2. Mount Atlas and Cader-Idris were each a transcript of the Paradisiacal
Ararat
7. The legend of Annacus or Nannacus
VIII. The longevity of the antediluvian patriarchs
IX. The number of antediluvian generations
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CHAPTER III.
On the antediluvian and diluvian history, as exhibited in the Zend-
Avesta
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I. Sketch of the antediluvian and diluvian history contained in the Zend-Avesta
II. On the authenticity of the Zend-Avesta and the character of Zeradusht
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1. The hypothesis of Dr. Prideaux respecting the Zend-Avesta
2. His hypothesis respecting Zeradusht
III. Remarks on the early history contained in the Zend-Avesta
1. Ahriman with his rebel angels
2. The first man-bull is viewed as reappearing in the person of the second
6. The second man-bull Taschter with his three companions is Noah with
his three sons
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