Jacob Bryant (1715–1804)

A NEW SYSTEM; OR, AN ANALYSIS OF ANTIRNT MYTHOLOGY. VOLUMEN III

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Excerpt from A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable, and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity
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A NEW SYSTEM OR ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY

P R E F A C E.
HROUGH the whole procefs of my inquiries, it has been my endeavour from fome plain and determinate principles to open the way to many interefting truths. And as I have fhewn the certainty of an univerfal.
Deluge from the evidences of moft nations, to which we can gain accefs: I come now to give an hiftory of the petfons, who furvived that event; and of the families, which were immediately defcended from them. After having mentioned their refidence in the region of Ararat,and their migration from it: I fhall give an account of the roving of the Cuthites, and of their coming to the plains of Shinar, from whence they were at laft expelled
To this are added obfervations upon the hiftories of Chaldea and Egypt; alfo of Hellas, and Ionia; and of every other country, which was in any degree occupied by the fons
of Chus. There have been men of learning, who have denominated their works from the families, of which they treated: and have accordingly fent them into the world under the title of Phaleg, Japhet, and Javan. I might,in like manner, hare prefixed to mine the name either of Cuth...,… (mer)

A NEW SYSTEM OR, AN ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY VOLUME I

RE F A C E.
EPICHARMUS This my purpofe in the enfuing work to give an account of the firft ages ; and of the great events, which happened in the infancy of the world. In confequence of this I thall lay before the Reader, what the Gentile writers have faid upon this fubject, collaterally with the accounts given by Mofes, as long as I find him engaged in the general hiftory of mankind. By thefe means I fhall be able to bring furprifing proofs of thofe great occurrences, which the penman has recorded. And when his hiftory becomes mored, and is confined to a peculiar people, and a private difpenfation ; I fhall proceed to fhew, what was fubsequent to his account after the migration of families, and the difperfion from the plains of Shinar. When mankind were multiplied upon the earth, each great family had b
VoL. I.… (mer)