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The Religions of the Ancient World IRLF </ (n\ LI BR AR Y OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. OR Revived.. __ Accessions N0.0__=_ Shelf Na^' HUMBOLDT LIBRARY POPULAR SCIENCE LITERATURE. No. 62.] NEW YORK : J. FITZGERALD. Entered at the New York Post-Office as Second-Class Matter. 1 November, 1884. I ^Numbers THE OF THE ANCIENT WOR BY GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A. |J INTRODUCTION. ier flights. Conjecture is found to be more amusing than induction, and an " na- Religio est, quae superioris cujusdam ingenious hypothesis to be more at- Divinam vocant, curam caerimo- " turae, quam tractive than a law. Our ad- ii. proved niamque affert." Cic. De Inventione, 53. " vanced thinkers advance to the fur- 1, IT is the fashion of the day to thest limits of human knowledge, on the of sometimes even them and be- speculate origins things. beyond ; Not content with observing the mech- witch us with speculations, which are anism of the heavens, astronomers dis- as beautiful, and as unsubstantial, as cuss the formation of the material uni- the bubbles which a child produces verse, and seek in the phenomena with a little soap and water and a to- which constitute the subject-matter of " bacco-pipe. for of their science Vestiges Crea- 3. Nor does even religion escape. tion." Natural philosophers propound The historical method of inquiry into theories of the "Origin of Species," the past facts of religion is in danger and the primitive condition of man. of by speculations being superseded " Comparative philologists are no longer concerning what is called its philos- " satisfied to dissect languages, com- ophy," or its science." We are con- pare roots, or contrast systems of tinually invited to accept the views of grammar, but regard it as incumbent this or that theorist respecting the upon them to put forward views re- origin of all religions, which are attrib- specting the first beginnings of lan- uted either to a common innate idea guage itself. or instinct, or else to a common mode 2. To deal with facts is thought to of reasoning upon the phenomena and be a humdrum and commonplace em- experiences of human life. While the ployment of the intellect, one fitted for facts of ancient religions are only just the dull ages when men were content emerging from the profound obscurity to plod, and when progress, develop- that has hitherto rested upon them, " " ment, the higher criticism were un- fancy is busy constructing schemes known. The intellect now takes loft- and systems, which have about as 2 [SOj THE RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. much reality as the imaginations of a and Babylonians, Iranians, Sanskrit- j novelist or the day-dreams of an Al- ic Indians, Phoenicians, Etruscans, naschar. The patient toil, the care- Greeks, and Romans. ful investigation which real Science The religion of the Jews has been requires as the necessary basis upon omitted, as sufficiently well known to which generalization must proceed, all educated persons. The religions and systems be built up, is discarded of ancient barbarous races have been " " for the short and easy method of excluded, as not having come down to jumping to conclusions and laying us in any detail, or upon sufficiently down as certainties what are, at the trustworthy evidence. The eight na- best, "guesses at truth." tions selected have, on the contrary, 4. It is not the aim of the present left monuments and writings, more " writer to produce a Science of Re- or less extensive, from which it has ligion," or even to speculate on the seemed to be possible to give a tolera- possibility of such a science being ul- bly full account of their religious be- timately elaborated when all the facts liefs, and one on which a fair degree are fully known. He has set himself of dependence may be placed. No a more prosaic and less ambitious doubt, as time goes on, and fresh dis- task that, namely, of collecting ma- coveries are made of ancient docu- terials which may serve as a portion rnents, or an increased insight ob- of the data, when the time comes, if it tained into the true of their j meaning ever for the construction of we shall come to know much comes, | contents, the science in question. A building more than we know at present on the cannot be erected without materials here handled but it is confi- ; subject ; a true science cannot be constructed dently believed that further research without ample data. and study will only supplement, and real 5. Careful inquiries into the not contradict, the views which are nature of historical religions are nec- here put forward. The author will essary preliminaries to the formation gladly see the sketch which he here of any general theories on the subject attempts filled up and completed by of religion worth the paper upon which others. they are written. And such inquiries have, moreover, a value in themselves. " The proper study of mankind is CHAPTER I. " the of the hu- man ; and past history THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT an inter- man race possesses undying EGYPTIANS. est for the greater portion of educated . Trt human kind. Of that past history 6eoaifl(; /ndAtora KCLVTUV avdpuiruv, HEROD, ii. there is no branch more instructive, of the ancient and few more entertaining, than that 7. THE religions which deals with religious beliefs, world, if we except Judaism, seem to all of more or less opinions, and practices. Religion is have been, them, in the but the the most important element polytheistic ; polytheism grew of a nation and it is in different was carried out thought ; by study- up ways, different and ing their religibns that we obtain the to very lengths, pro- best clue to the inner life and true ceeded upon considerably varying character of the various peoples who principles. In some places natural have played an important part in the objects and operations appear to have drama of human affairs. presented themselves to the unso- mind of as 6. In the ensuing pages the relig- phisticated man mysteri- of divine and ious tenets and practices eight prin- ous, wonderful, ; light, fire, the the the cipal nations of antiquity are passed the air, sun, moon, dawn, in review the nations being those the cloud, the stream, the storm, the with which ancient history is chiefly lightning, drew his attention sepa- concerned the Egyptians. Assyrians ratelv and distinctly, each having THE RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. [81] qualities at which he marveled, each, multitudinousness, its complexity, as he thought, instinct with life, and and the connection of this latter feat- each, therefore, regarded as a Power, ure with early local diversities in the a Being the natural and proper ob- names and offices of the gods. Wil- Else- ject of worship and reverence. kinson, who does not profess to ex- where, men seem to have begun with haust the subject, enumerates seventy- a dim and faint appreciation of a three divinities, and gives their single mysterious power in the world several names and forms.* Birch without them, and to have gradually has a list of sixty-three "principal " divided this power up into its various deities,"t and notes that others per- manifestations, which by degrees be- sonified the elements, or presided came separate and distinct beings. over the operations of nature, the The process in this case might stop seasons, and events."t It is not, short after a few steps had been perhaps, too much to say, that the taken, or it might be carried on Egyptian pantheon in its final form almost interminably, until a pantheon comprised some hundreds of gods had been formed in which the mind and goddesses, each known under a lost itself. different name, and each discharging 8. Where the polytheism grew up more or less peculiar functions. We out of an analysis, the principle of say, "each discharging more or less the division might be either physical peculiar functions," since some deities or a of nat- were so came so close metaphysical ; separation nearly alike, ure into its parts, or an analysis of the one to the other, that their iden- the Being presiding over nature into tity or diversity is a moot point, still his various .powers and attributes. disputed among Egyptologists. In Or these two processes might be com- other cases the diversity is greater, bined and intermixed, the pantheon yet still the features possessed in being thus still further enlarged at common are so numerous that the the expense of some confusion of gods can scarcely be considered thought and complexity of arrange- wholly distinct, and, indeed, are not ment. Again, occasionally, there unfrequently confounded together was a further enlargement and com- and blended into a single personage. plication, in consequence of the de- We hear of Amen-Ra, Amen-Kneph, sire to embrace in one system analy- Ra-Harmachis, Isis-Selk, Phthah-So- ses which were really distinct, or to kari-Osiris, and the like. There is in a national reason to believe that a main cause of comprise single religion \ local diversities of arrangement or this multiplication of deities, nearly nomenclature, or even to admit into a or quite the same, which at first sight system based on one principle ele- seems so strange and unaccountable, ments which belonged properly to is to be found in the originally local systems based upon others. The character of many of the gods, and whole result in such a case was one the subsequent admission of purely of extensive complexity, and even provincial deities into the general contradiction; a tangle was produced pantheon.
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