A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, &C., &C

by Jacob Bryant

Excerpt from A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, &C., &C

I have repeatedly taken notice, that the worship of the Dove, and the circumstances of the Deluge, were very early interwoven among the various rites, and ceremonies of the eastern world. This worship, and all other memorials of that great event, were represented in hieroglyphical characters in Baby and from these symbolical marks, ill under stood, was that mythology framed, which through vol. V. D....

Genres: History

426 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1774

About the author

Jacob Bryant (1715 – 1804) was a British scholar and mythographer, who has been described as "the outstanding figure among the mythagogoues who flourished in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries".