Part 19 (2/2)

[70:2] Cadiz (ancient Gades), being situated near the _mouth_ of the Mediterranean. The first author who mentions the Pillars of Hercules is Pindar, and he places them there. (Chambers's Encyclo. ”Hercules.”)

[70:3] Volney's Researches, p. 41. See also Tylor: Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 357.

[70:4] See Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Art. ”Hercules.” Cory's Ancient Fragments, p. 36, _note_; and Bulfinch: The Age of Fable, p. 201.

[70:5] Chambers's Encyclo., art. ”Hercules.”

[70:6] Vol. i. plate cxxvii.

[71:1] Monumental Christianity, p. 399.

[71:2] d. Jud. p. 360, in Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 239.

[71:3] ”Rien de plus connu dans la fable que ses amours avec Omphale et Iole.”--L'Antiquite Expliquee, vol. i. p. 224.

[71:4] The Legend of Samson, p. 404.

[71:5] Vol. i. plate cxxvii.

[71:6] ”Samson was remarkable for his long hair. The meaning of this trait in the original myth is easy to guess, and appears also from representations of the Sun-G.o.d amongst other peoples. _These long hairs are the rays of the Sun._” (Bible for Learners, i. 416.)

”The beauty of the sun's rays is signified by the golden locks of Phoibos, _over which no razor has ever pa.s.sed_; by the flowing hair which streams from the head of Kephalos, and falls over the shoulders of Perseus and Bellerophon.” (c.o.x: Aryan Mytho., vol. i. p. 107.)

[72:1] Hebrew Mytho., pp. 137, 138.

[72:2] c.o.x: Aryan Myths, vol. i. p. 84.

[72:3] Tales of Ancient Greece, p. xxix.

[72:4] The Legend of Samson, p. 408.

[72:5] c.o.x: Aryan Mytho., vol. ii. p. 72.

[73:1] The Legend of Samson, p. 406.

[73:2] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 237. Goldzhier: Hebrew Mythology, p. 22. The Religion of Israel, p. 61. The Bible for Learners, vol. i. p. 418. Volney's Ruins, p. 41, and Stanley: History of the Jewish Church, where he says: ”His _name_, which Josephus interprets in the sense of 'strong,' was still more characteristic. He was 'the Sunny'--the bright and beaming, though wayward, likeness of the great luminary.”

[73:3] Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 237, and Volney's Researches, p.

43, _note_.

[73:4] See chapter ii.

[73:5] The Religion of Israel, p. 61. ”The yellow hair of Apollo was a symbol of the solar rays.” (Inman: Ancient Faiths, vol. ii. p. 679.)

[73:6] Bible for Learners, vol. i. p. 414.

[73:7] Ibid. p. 422.

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