Identifier: antiuniversalist01prie (find matches)
Title: The anti-universalists, or history of the fallen angels of the scriptures..
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Priest, Joseph. (from old catalog)
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nd to bereverenced by the most sober and solemn acts of worship. Thefigures of serpents adorned the portals of the proudest temples ofthe east: the serpent was a very common symbol of the sun, andis represented biting its own tail with its body formed in a circle,in order to indicate the ordinary course of this luminary, andunder this form, it was m emblem of both time and eternity. Aserpent was the symbol of medicine, and of the gods which pre-sided over it, as of Apollo and Esculapius. In most of the an-cient rites is found some allusion to the serpent under the titlesof Ob, Ops, Python, &c. In the orgies of Bacchus, says Bry-ant, the persons who partook of the ceremonies, used to carryserpents in their hands, and with horrid screams call out Eva,Eva; being according to the author just named, the same asItlpha, or Opha, which the Greeks rendered Ophis, denoting aserpent; but having no allusion to Eve as supposed by some.These ceremonies, and this serpent worship, began among the
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ANGELS OF THE SCRIPTURES. 35 Magi, who were the sons of disk, the children of Ham, theson of Noah, and by them was propagated in various parts of theworld. Wherever this people founded any place of worship, andintroduced their rites, there was generally some horrid story of aserpent. There was a legend of a serpent at Colchis, in Egypt,at Thebes, in the same country, and at other places. TheGreeks called Apollo himself, Pythian, (the destroyer of a mon-strous serpent bred in the mud of the deluge,) which is the sameas oupis, or onb, and is a serpent. In Egypt there was a ser-pent named Thermutlus, which was looked upon as very sacred,the likeness of which the natives are said to have used as a royaltiara, with which they ornamented the statues of Isis, their oxgod. The kings of Egypt wore high bonnets terminating in around ball, surrounded with figures of asps; their priests alsohad the figures of serpents on their bonnets, which they worein the temples of their gods. Abaddon, the des

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