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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WE KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF HESY- chius, that what appears as a Greek name, Scotia, was applied to an Egyptian goddess of night equated with the Roman Venus, who, comparatively a recent Roman divinity, was assuredly the goddess of Love in its mostsensualaspect. 2or/a is gloom, darkness. Venus was identified with Aphrodite, a name connected in appearance with appo?, foam, and so spoken of by Homer, connecting her from the earliest times with moisture. Not the moon, however, but the evening star heralding the darkness was sacred to Venus and Aphrodite, no doubt because night is the appropriate time for sensual love. This was as it should be, seeing that the goddess of the moon, Diana, was one of the earliest of the Roman divinities, probably of Sabine and Latin derivation. Diana, Artemis in Greek, is called poi(Bii, meaning the shining one, female. Judging, then, from the records we have of the more advanced Roman civilisation, a civilisation all-powerful for nearly four centuries at the commencement of our era in the southern parts of this island, we naturally expect that the Celts of the west would see the same qualities in the luminary of the night as those which had been recognised by Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and that- they might not improbably adopt the name used by the Romans to characterise an object of worship of their own. Let us examine the characteristics of Diana?that is, the moon. First we notice that she was also called Jana, of which name the masculine form is Janus, the two-faced deity whose name was used as signifying a year. The moon, of course, has two faces as looked at when waxing or when waning; and as a guess founded upon this fact, we may suppose Janus to represent a male moon. Diana undoubtedly is the female moon, and all her characteristi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217027472
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217027474
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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