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A Student's Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World ASTUDENT’S SYNCHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD “THE REAL HISTORY OF MAN, IS THE HISTORY OF RELIGION, HIS ATTEMPTS TO KNOW, TO SERVE, AND TO LOVE HIS GOD” THERE HAS BEEN NO ENTIRELY NEW RELIGION FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD Accompaniment to RIVERS OF LIFE OR FAITHS OF MAN IN ALL LANDS . EXPLANATION OF COLOURS. BY TREE GREEN SUN PINK MAJOR GENERAL FORLONG, F.R.G.S. F.R.S.E. M.A.I. &c. &c. PHALLIC YELLOW ANCESTOR SEPIA SERPENT GREY THEISM RED FIRE CARMINE BIBLES BLUE YEARS PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS, CITIES, AND LEADING RELIGIOUS PRINCIPAL MATTERS IN BIBLES, THEOLOGICAL WORKS, DOGMAS, MISSIONS, YEARS B.C. EVENTS, HISTORICAL AND MYTHICAL. OBJECTS OF WORSHIP, DEITIES, INCARNATIONS, AND FAITH STREAMS LANUGAGES, &c. B.C. 10,000 10,000 Flourishing Communities and Remains of Man (Dates and Data, p.427 to ). Fetish-like objects, with fossil man, long anterior to this (Dates and Data.) 9300 ZOROASTER’S Birth, says Plato, after a Flood which buried the great Island of Atlantis Beginning of reigns of350 Babylonian kings, which Sargon's tablet of 700 B.C. says preceded him. and its Cities. 9085 9000 Legendary Rise ofSHEMITES or Sun-Worshippers, not the “Semetics” of Philology. Kings of Egypt traced back to this by Bunsen. 9000 8570 Annals ofSAIS go back to this (Dates and Data). [Koothites or Cuthites thought to have preceded Shemites,12,000 B.C. , driven by a cyclical change WORSHIP OF FETISHES & CHARMS EVERYWHERE and deluge from North.—Egyptians claim14,000 to Hephestus, and 10,000 from Menes to Sethon. TheDESATIR OF MEHABIAN () Zoroastrian sect say that a cyclical deluge took place every 10,000 12,000 13,000 to years. Egypt claimsB.C. says Herodotus, who was shown DATA TOWARDS CALCULATING THE AGE OF THE WORLD, FROM NATURAL PHENOMENA, &c. effigies of Priests going back34 3 generations from Sethos, Priest of Vulcan, 713 B.C .] TREE WORSHIP 8300 Priests ofSAIS give this as date of Memphic Kings (Plato).. LINGAM & YONI SERPENT Accumulation of Sand and Mud, Memphis(),...... Lyell Years required ,14,000 25,810 8150 Human remains in Coral, Florida (Professor Agassis). A Complete Revolution of Zodiac,........,,,, or Age of Egyptian Zodiac, calculated by position of signs, .....,,,,15,000 Aryans mostly residing in a common Fatherland, called in ZendARYANA-VAEDJO , in ,,,,with Capricorn in zenith ,......,,,,13,083 8000 SanskritUTURU-KURU , or table-land of Pamir (Upa-Meru).. ,,Indian ,,,,,,......,,,, Virgo 22,575 8000 PHALLIC FAITHS ,,Pottery under Second Cypress Forest, New Orleans ,.....,,,,28,000 Highlands of Northern Hemisphere becoming habitable. ,,Human Bones under Fourth do.. do. ,......,,,,57,600 ,,Upper Stalagmite Floor of Kent Cavern ,......,,,,720,000 Cutting back of Niagara Rock,........,,,,37,000 7500 Burnt Brick and Pottery at Memphis (Dates and Data). Cutting back of such channels as Great Canyon of the Colerado of California, 500 miles long, with ,, ,, Millions. vertical side from1000 to 5000 feet high,...... } 240,000 7300 Date ofINDIAN ZODIAC (Dupuis). To beginning of Glacia Period(),.......,,,, J. Croll WORSHIP OF FERTILITY For the continuance of do., ........,,,,80,000 Do. do.(),.......,,,, Lyell 200,000 Egyptians gave Herodotus a List of330 Kings going back .....,,,,17,000 EGYPT a lax confederation of provinces (Bunsen). Some sayMANETHO I., King of Progression of Perihelion(,),.......,,,, Phillips 979 20,937 7000 Egypt, andALORUS I., King of Kaldia lived. ASHER and ISTAR Revolution of Poles,.........,,,,2,700,000 7000 ProbableRHEMATIC Age, when a language existed, out of which came Turanian, Aryan, Growth of Coral Reefs of Florida,........,,,,135,000 158,400 and Shemtic tongues. ,,Tenth Cypress Forest, New Orleans ,......,,,, ISWAR & ISA Earth's Cycle of Eccentricity of Orbit round Sun,......,,,,515,610 FIRE 40 30,000 6521 Date of Egyptian Zodiac of Esne, says Drummond, but others6450 and 4639 . If Aryans of Bacria saw Southern Cross in latitude°.....,,,, , them . MAHA- DEVA “ The Earth’s past hisotry extends over hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of years.”(STRACHEY , Brit. Assoc.) For the Geological History of Earth. (J.CROLL , “Climate and Time.”) . ,, ,, 100,000,000 IZDOOBAR. SIVA & SIVI 6200 The Zodiacal Year beginning Aquarius (Mill. of Facts). AM ON Social Organization of Iberians, &c. (Strabo). SUN CREATIVE VIGOR Age of flint implements (Dates and Data). 6000 OSIR & ISHA 6000 5800 CREATION, according toMANETHO .5688 CREATION (Josephus). Beginning of most ancient kings, as Alorus of Kaldia, taking Berosus’318 kings at an average of 24 years from Sargon of Asyria. 5641 MENES I. reigned in Egypt (M. Dufeu); Abydos or Abu-this his capital. HELIOS WARMTH OSIRIS & ISIS CREATION, “several thousand years before Moses,” says Pliny.5872 , according to Septuagint (Mill. of Facts); but 5900 , 5600 Perihelion crossed Equator N. to S. (Phillips.) ASH says Syncellus. 5550 Date ofSYENE well being under the Tropic. WHEEL HESIRI MENAPIS 5700The so-calledFLOOD of Berosus, at the close of the reign of his 10 early kings. 5509 CREATION ERA fixed by Ecunemical Council of Constantinople in 381 A.C. 5508 Third month and twenty-fifth day is the very exact date ofCREATION given by Julius Africanus, the Greek Churches and 5493 362 ALA & ALITA Abysinian and Alexandrian Era of Creation. (Com. Alex,A.C. ) OF LIFE AISH FIRE of GOD many early Fathers, and called theERA OF CONSTANTINOPLE. Many say that at9 A.M . marked “the fall 5344 CREATION, say Hales, Poole, and Talmud.5390 Era adopted by Sept. Translators. ALPHA OMEGA of Adam,” and1 P.M , the promise of Christ . 5150 Babylonian Historical Era—a Tablet of2280 . (Sir H. Rawlinson, following Berossus.) BELUS ESH FIRE of the SUN 5369 History carried up to this by Indians whom Alexander met. 5000 Probable rise ofMANETHO ’s Egyptian Kings (Mariette Bey.)THINIS Capital of Egypt. AL & OM 5040 Beginning of Native Kings of Egypt (Diod. Sic.) 5000 4862 Foundation of GreatPYRAMID . (M. Dufeu.) SomeARYANS probably moving south to India and Western Asia. 4790 Supposed. age of the existing great cypress tree of Oaxaca, Mexico (Lyell). [3 cycles begin. MENVES AGNI AR or RA & ATHOR ALORUS, the Civilising Chief of Central Asia; from him possibly the Jewish ADAM. Josephus says he was4053 years before 4750 IS, Egyptian Capital of Second Dynasty.4714 Era from which Julian period is reckoned. the Exodus, but his figures taken in detail give5759 B.C . as CREATION. 4658 CREATION, say Samaritans.4682 Spring Equinoctial colure enters Taurus. [Meydoon. BEL BAL BA - AL MITRA & MYLITA N.B.—The names given in the body to these PRIME ROOTS or BASES of faiths are not here placed chronologically. This 4450 Memphis, Capital of31 d Dynasty. Union of Upper and Lower Kingdoms. st Pyramid-. occurs lower down, as history permits us to trace these ROOTS. This horizontal band, here dividing the downward 4347 Egyptian Fourth Dynasty begins. ATETI succeedsMENES . Great Development of Art. THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS streams, represents a break in the continuity of the streams, and places the objects standing at the head of the streams in a far HEPHESTUS I., King of Egypt. (Diog. Laertius, Phillips.) IL or EL ELOHIM remote and unknown period, with names that gradually developed in all lands and amongst all peoples. 4235 Memphis, Capital of Fourth Dynasty. KingCEPHRENE builds Twelfth Gizeh Pyramid. MITRA TEMPLE OF OSIRIS at Abu-this, from which came the “table of Abydos” and Oracular Temple to Ptah, “the Revealer” and 4235 Stepped Pyramid of Sakara completed. Pestilence and many supernatural events (Manetho). ADÃM & ADÃMA Fecundator, Memphis. Medical Works and a regular Ritual for the Dead in Egypt. 4004 CREATION, say Usher and Vulgate. Bovine Worship exists. SOURCE of ALL Man evinces consciousness of a Spiritual World and its Immortality (Dates and Data). 4000 4000 3950 IS, Capital of Fifth Dynasty. ADMI EVA Pelusium and Isthmus drying. FERTILITY Northern Hemisphere dry. (Phillips.) CREATIVE HEAT EGYPTIAN A& N 3890 MEMPHIS said by some to be founded byMENES . (Osburn.) The year4714 is 1 st year of Solar Cycle, or the BEGINNING OF REIGN OF MENESOFEGYPT. 3870 SETH’S birth. Elephantine or Sixth Egyptian Dynasty. DOMINICAL letter; of the Meteoric or Moon Cycle, Maritte-Bey says ....5004 SACRED theGOLDEN number; and the Cycle of Indication or Brugsch ,,....4455 3712 HEPHESTUS I., King of Egypt. (Dikæarchus, Phillips.) Roman taxation period, lasting15 years. These three Lepsius,, ....3896 3690 Fifth Dynasty and use ofIRON in Egypt. (Col. Vyse). TAURUS - APIS RITUAL cannot again occur together till3266 a.c . Bunsen ,,....3623 3500 ETHIOPIANS ruling world—great in Religion and Art, especially in Egypt. NER, NAR, NIN 3500 AGNUS-DEI 3400 Some writers place this as age of Great Pyramid. Memphis, a Capital of Seventh Dynasty. BET ELS SERPENS 3369 Date of the Chinese PatriarchTAE-HAOU , “the Resplendent One,” “Adam, or Great Male.” 3426 FLOOD IS 3043 Worship of Mountains, Rivers, Wells, and Caves. of Septuagint. (Phillips.) , a Capital of Eighth Dynasty, . HEPHAISTUS or the 3400 Some Writers here put Foundation of Egyptian Monrachy. or FORM or ABODE The sum of all MANETHONIAN DYNASTIES shows a 364 4655 5049 In Egypt Phthah, or Vulcan, or Hephestus. Fire-Worship. (Mill. of Facts). ILIOUN difference of years, varying from to . There were OF EL 26dynasties of 172 years each. Christian O.T. CHRONOLOGY ANCESTOR WORSHIP varies as much as2115 years. 3300 Egyptians call themselvesRUT-TUMMU , “the Race of Men,”par excellence . SERAPHIM 3300 Probable period of Wars ofSOORAS and ASOORAS , India. 3290 Herakleopolis Capital of Ninth Dynasty. ILUS SCORPIO 3258 DELUGE. (Syncellus and Julius Africanus.) MOUNTAIN WORSHIP EVERYWHERE GENERATIVE WILL ASSYRIAN Jemsheed (Bailly); if so Persepolis invents cycle of1440 years. PASSION Jewish Flood, say Hales, Jackson, &c. 3200 SACRED 3200 HELIOSAND OURANOS WORSHIP. An Inscription in Soosiana by Koothites. (Baldwin.) TABLET HINDOOS 3100 3180 KRONOS, a predecessor of early Menes, King of Egypt. (Mill. of Facts.) FERTILE FORCE PYTHON had determined mean motions of Saturn and Jupiter (Mill.
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