The History of Great Britain: From the First Invasion By the ..., volume 1
The History of Great Britain: From the First Invasion By the ..., volume 1
Robert Henry
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all which names in their language were expreffive of the nature and properties that nous Digitized'by CjOOQ IC CIuq». 2. Sea. I. RELI6ldN. ^5/ that vifible fountain of light and heat^\ To this illudrious obje6t of idolatrous worlhip, thofe famous circles of flones, of which there are not a few ftill remaining, feem to have been chiefly dedicated; where the Druids kept the facred fire, the fymbol of this divinity, and from whence, as being fituated on eminences, they had a full view of the heav...enly bodies. As the Moon appeared next in luflre and utility The to the Sun, there can be no doubt, that this ra- ^"* dient queen of heaven obtained a very early and very large fhare in the idolatrous veneration of mankind. What Diodorus fays of the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, may perhaps be faid with equal truth of all other idolatrous veneration " When they took a view of the univerfe, and «* contemplated the nature of all things, they ♦* imagined that the Sun and Moon were the ^* two firfl and greateft Gods *\ The Moon, as we are told by Caefar^% was the chief divinity of the ancient Germans, out of gratitude, it is probable, for the favours which they received from her lunar majefty, in their noftumal and predatory exfyeditions ; nor did they think it proper to fight, or engage in any important enterprize, while this their protedlrefs was in U ftateof obfcurity *°.
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