marks of foreign improvement or innovation. Isis, Orisis, Ammoun, Typhon, and Thoth, are natives of Egypt, receive their names from its vernacular language, and worship from its physical situation."[1]
If this conclusion should be adopted, and it should be allowed that the religion and philosophy, as well as the language, and all the other possessions of the Egyptian people, were peculiar to themselves, and entirely unconnected with those which belonged to other nations of antiquity, we shall perhaps be obliged to admit the inference which has been deduced respecting the origin of the Egyptian race;[2] though it contradicts the testimony of the Sacred Records, the earliest memorials of mankind, and is at variance with the general observations that result
- ↑ Travels of James Bruce, Esq. to discover the sourc of the Nile. Third edition, Appendix to book ii, No. 1 (by the learned Editor.)
It must be remarked that although this is the conclusion to which Professor Murray has been led by Jablonski's work, it was by no means the opinion of that author himself. On the contrary, he regarded the Egyptian mythology as allied in its origin to the superstitions of Eastern Asia, and mentions the writings of the Brahmans among the sources whence we may expect to derive a further and most important elucidation of its doctrines. See "Pantheon Ægyptiorum," in prolegomenis.
- ↑ The author cited above seems to infer that the Egyptians were a race peculiar to Africa, and originally distincy from the posterity of Noah and of Adam.
