Chapter Vi. Serpent Temples : p. 359 CHAPTER VI. SERPENT TEMPLES. I. THE intimate connexion between the solar and serpent worship has already been ascertained. From which it appears, that, in the confusion of Pagan idolatry, these superstitions, originally independent, became so closely interwoven, that from their union sprung...
Title Page : p. i THE WORSHIP OF THE SERPENT TRACED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; ATTESTING THE TEMPTATION AND FALL OF MAN BY THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF A SERPENT TEMPTER. BY THE REV. JOHN BATHURST DEANE, M.A. F.S.A. LATE OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. , ,.--JUSTIN MARTYR, "Apol." lib. i. p. 60. SECOND EDITI...
Chapter V. Heathen Fables Illustrative : p. 311 CHAPTER V. HEATHEN FABLES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FALL OF MAN. HAVING shown that THE SERPENT, as "an emblem of divinity", as "a charm", as "an oracle", or as A GOD, entered into the worship of almost every considerable nation of the ancient world, I proceed to consider what traditionary...
Chapter Iii. Serpent Worship In Europe : p. 183 CHAPTER III. SERPENT-WORSHIP IN EUROPE. I. GREECE.--Whether the learned and ingenious Bryant 1 be correct or not, in deriving the very name of EUROPE from (AUR-AB), the "solar serpent", it is certain that Ophiolatreia prevailed in this quarter of the globe at the earliest period of idolatry...
Chapter Iv. Serpent Worship In America : p. 293 CHAPTER IV. SERPENT-WORSHIP IN AMERICA. I. MEXICO.--Every feature in the religion of the New World, discovered by Cortez and Pizarro, indicates an origin common to the superstitions of Egypt and Asia. The same solar worship, the same pyramidal monuments, and the same concomitant...
Chapter Ix. Concluding Remarks On The Redempti : p. 461 CHAPTER IX. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE REDEMPTION OF MAN. FROM the moment in which Adam, by transgression, fell, it became apparent that, "of himself", he could never rise again. The cause of his fall being "entire disobedience", the "effects" of that cause could only be alleviated by...
Chapter Viii. Summary : p. 441 CHAPTER VIII. SUMMARY. I. IN the preceding pages we have traced THE WORSHIP OF THE SERPENT from "Babylonia", east and west, through "Persia", "Hindstan", "China", "Mexico", "Britain", "Scandinavia", "Italy", "Illyricum", "Thrace", "Greece", "Asia Minor", and "Phnicia". Again, we have...
Chapter Ii. Serpent Worship In Africa : p. 119 CHAPTER II. SERPENT-WORSHIP IN AFRICA. 1. EGYPT.--Of all the nations of antiquity, none was so infamous for idolatry, as Egypt. She was the "alma mater" of every superstition; conveying, with her colonists, wherever they were settled, some corruption of the truth, which, under the fostering...
Untitled : This is an early 19th century study of Ophiolatreia, or snake-worship. Deane's primary thesis here is that ancient serpent worship was based on memories of the Garden of Eden. He has a monomaniacal devotion to the subject of snake worship and sees evidence of it everywhere. Deane reviews a massive...
Preface : p. v PREFACE. THE deception of Eve by Satan, through the instrumentality of a "serpent", has ever been an object of ridicule with the profane, who, reading without reflection, or reflecting without reading, deem that "a foolishness" which they cannot understand, or that "a stumbling-block" which...
Preliminary Observations On The Fall Of Man : p. 1 THE WORSHIP OF THE SERPENT. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE FALL OF MAN. I. THAT man, in his present state of ignorance, infirmity and wickedness, is not the Adam of God's hand--the similitude of his Creator--the being which he was when God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,"...
Chapter I. Serpent Worship In Asia : p. 39 THE WORSHIP OF THE SERPENT. CHAPTER I. SERPENT-WORSHIP IN ASIA. THE WORSHIP OF THE SERPENT is supposed by Bryant to have commenced in Chalda; and to have been the "first variation from the purer Zabaism 1." That it was intimately connected with Zabaism cannot be doubted; for the most...
Chapter Vii. The Decline Of Serpent Worship : p. 413 CHAPTER VII. THE DECLINE OF SERPENT-WORSHIP. HAVING traced the origin and progress of Ophiolatreia, it may be useful to ascertain the causes and periods of its decline. Such an inquiry, though little more than a recapitulation of facts already mentioned, will tend to give a clearer view...
