pents twined round it. They had also snakes in their hair, and in the chaplets, which they wore; so that they made a most fearful appearance. Their cries were very shocking: and the whole was attended with a continual repetition of the words, Evoe, Saboe, Hues Attes, Attes Hues, which were titles of the God Dionusus. He was peculiarly named 'Tas; and his priests were the Hyades, and Hyantes. He was likewise styled Ενός. " Ενας ὁ Διονυσος. Evás. & 10 In Egypt was a serpent named Thermuthis, which was looked upon as very sacred; and the natives are said to have made use of it as a röyal tiara, with which they ornamented the statues of Isis. We learn from Diodorus Siculus, that the kings of Egypt wore high bonnets, which terminated in a round ball: and the whole was surrounded with figures of " asps. The priests likewise upon their bonnets had the representation of serpents. The antients had a notion, that 10 Τους οφείς τους Παρειάς θλίβων, και ύπες της κεφάλης αιωρων, και βοων, Ευοι, Σαβοί, και επερχόμενος Της Αττης, Αττης Υης. Demosth. Tags sepave. p. 516. 12 Της Ισίδος αγαλματά ανέδυσε ταύτη, ὡς τινι διαδήματι βασιλειῳ. Elian. Hist. Animal. I. 10. c. 31. 13 Τες Βασίλεις - χρησθαι πιλοις μάκροις επι το πέξατος ομφαλον ἔχωσι, και περιεσπειραμένοις ορεσι, ὡς καλεσιν ασπιδας. 1. 5. P. 145. aš when Saturn devoured his own children, his wife Ops deceived him by substituting a large stone in lieu of one of his sons, which stone was called Abadir. But Ops, and Opis, represented here as a feminine, was the serpent Deity, and Abadir is the saine personage under a different denomination. 14 Abadir Deus est; et hoc nomine lapis ille, quem Saturnus dicitur devoràsse pro Jove, quem Græci Caruhov vocant.-Abdir quoque et Abadir βαιτυλος. Abadir seems to be a variation of Ob-Adur, and signifies the serpent God Orus. One of these stones, which Saturn was supposed to have swallowed instead of a child, stood, according to " Pausanias, at Delphi. It was esteemed very sacred, and used to have libations of wine poured upon it daily; and upon festivals was otherwise honoured. The purport of the above history I imagine to have been this. It was for a long time a custom to offer children at the altar of Saturn: but in process of time they removed it, and in its room erected a suños, or stone pillar; before which they made their vows, and offered sacrifices of another nature. This stone, which they thus substituted, was called Ab-Adar, from the Deity represented by it. The ** Priscian. 1. 5. and I. 6. 15 Pausan. 1. 10. p. 859. 18 term Ab generally signifies a "father: but, in this instance, it certainly relates to a serpent, which was indifferently styled Ab, Aub, and " Ob. I take Abadon, or, as it is mentioned in the Revelations, Abaddon, to have been the name of the same Ophite God, with whose worship the world had been so long infected. He is termed by the Evangelist " Αβαδδων, τον Αγγελον της Αβυσσε, the angel of the bottomless pit; that is, the prince of darkness. In another place he is described as the "9 dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan. Hence I think, that the learned Heinsius is very right in the opinion, which he has given upon this passage; when he makes Abaddon the same as the serpent Pytho. Non dubitandum est, quin Pythius Apollo, hoc est spurcus ille spiritus, quem Hebræi Ob, et Abaddon, Hellenistæ ad verbum Aroλλvava, cæteri 19 16 Bochart supposes this term to signify a father, and the purport of the name to be Pater magnificus. He has afterwards a secondary derivation. Sed fallor, aut Abdir, vel Abadir, cum pro lapide sumitur, corruptum ex Phoenicio Eben-Dir, lapis sphæricus. Geog. Sac. 1. 2. c. 2. p. 708. ονομα 17 See Radicals. p. 59. and Deuteronomy. c. 18. v. 11. 13 Έχουσαι βασιλια εφ' άυτων τον Αγγελον της Αβυσσα αυτῳ Εβραϊςι Αβαδδων, εν δε τη Ελληνική ονομα εχει Απολλύων. Revelations. c. 9. v. 11. 19 Revelations. c. 20. v. 2. Abadon signifies serpens Dominus, vel Serpens Dominus Sol. 1 |