Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the spirit, or breath, of theElohim. This was the wind of theBeginning. The wind of the Begin-ning felt a yearning of love, and thismoved upon the chaos. The main-spring of things, therefore, was Desire. Desire was the true Beginning, Bythe involution of the wind of the Begin-ning upon itself arose that forin of mat- 868 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ter called Mot. What this signified isnot clear. Some think soft earth;others, putrefying matter; others, awatery mixture. It was the protoplasmof universal nature. Li this were theseeds of all things. )Mot was in theform of an Qgg. Then the myth runson as follows: And then shone forththe sun and moon and the great constel- gotten. ^^on discovered the nourish-ment obtained from trees. iVnd ^onand Protogonus begot Genos andGenea, who dAvelt in Phoenicia; andwhen the fierce heat came they stretchedout their hands to the sky and the sun.Since they regarded the sun as the onlylord of the sky, they called him Belsa-men, which, among the Phoenicians,
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LIHVNUS, U I I H DRLSL \ \\ I \(,1 ()\ CLItl lations. As the air now sent forth afiery glow, winds and clouds arose frointhe kindling of the sea and the earth, andvast tempests of rain streamed down;and Avhen all this dashed together therefollowed thunderings and lightning bywhich the creatures were awaked; andon the earth and in the sea the male andthe female elements began to move.And from the wind Kolpia and hiswife, Baau, which means night, ^onand Protogonus, mortal men, were be- means Lord of the Sky, and among theGreeks Zeus. The myth proceeds with the beget-ting of children by JEow and Protogo-nus. The children were The myth stoops called Phos and Pvr and down from sky -r-,1 1 y 1 J • T • i , T to earth-land. Phlox; that is. Light andFire and Flame. For these childrendiscovered fire by rubbing togetherpieces of wood. Also, thev begat off-spring who were of prodigious stature.One was Casius, another Libanus, a THE CANAANITES.—PHCENICIANS. 36a third Antilibanus. Here the my

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