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"The most early defection to Idolatry," says Bryant, "consisted in the adoration of the sun and the worship of demons, styled Baalim." Analysts of Anc. Mythol. vol. iii. p. 431. The remarks of Mr. Duncan on this subject are well worth perusal. "Light has always formed one of the primary objects of heathen adoration.
Dissert. on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, in the Pamphleteer, vol. viii. p. 53. Symbol. und Mythol. der Alt. Völk. In these Mysteries, after the people had for a long time bewailed the loss of a particular person, he was at last supposed to be restored to life. BRYANT, Anal. of Anc. Mythology, vol. iii. p. 176. Herod. Hist., lib. iii. c. clxxi.
"Hu, the mighty, whose history as a patriarch is precisely that of Noah, was promoted to the rank of the principal demon-god among the Britons; and, as his chariot was composed of rays of the sun, it may be presumed that he was worshipped in conjunction with that luminary, and to the same superstition we may refer what is said of his light and swift course." DAVIES, Mythol. and Rites of the Brit.
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