ADDENDA.
[A Chapter on the INDIAN ASTRONOMY, showing its correspondence with the system of "Mazzaroth," was contemplated by the Writer, and would have been appended to this work had life been prolonged. In a letter dated January 9, 1864, is the following passage. - C. D.]
"Have I told you I have lately got seven Indian Zodiacs in a Bengali Almanack, none older than Abraham, none Egyptian, but ancient Chaldean Astronomy? They came when I was very ill, and I have not written yet what I see in them, fixing the origin of these and probably all Sanscrit Astronomy to about the time of Abraham. Cancer is there, no Scarabseus, no cattle in that sign. In the more modern, Taurus is the little humpy Hindoo Bull; in the others, a grand, but scarcely made out, fine Eastern Bull."
[Amongst Miscellaneous papers has been found the following, endorsed "For India."]
Perseus and Andromeda and Cepheus are Indian constellations.
Nipla, modern Chaldaic for Orion (Maurice). Name of the Pleiades in Sanscrit, Carteek, this constellation was called in India. "The general of the celestial armies."
Maurice thinks that the Indian mythology was formed "when the year opened in Taurus, and the Pleiades rose heliacally" (as at the antediluvian vernal equinox, F. K.). He also thinks that when the Grecian sphere was first formed, the seventh Pleiad was becoming fainter; it is said to have vanished at the siege of Troy. Hyginus says it retired as a comet to the arctic circle.
Valiancy, Oriental Collections, says that "the plan of Pagan Religion is the same every where," from antediluvian astronomy transmitted through Noah.
Saturn, from the Oriental root, sater, to hide. Satyavarmon, the Indian Urah, as hidden in the ark.
De Grimes says an Egyptian hieroglyphic for science is dew falling from heaven.
De la Loubere. The Siamese week. Planetary names nearly the same as the other Indian ones, beginning however apparently with the Sun, the first day.
[The following also appears partly to bear on the subject.]
The "Primitive Astronomer," observing the sun rise and set, who could this be but the first man?
The Greeks, by the mouth of Plato, say they learnt the little they knew of Astronomy from the Egyptians. The Egyptians attribute theirs to Oannes, Thoth, and Soth. The Chaldeans, whose records went back nineteen centuries in the days o f Alexander, attribute the origin of theirs to Seth and Enoch. Astronomy has never been by modern astronomers attributed to "Chaldean Shepherds;" and was not Abraham a Chaldean Shepherd, only a few generations from Noah? did he not preserve and transmit the records of those eclipses of nineteen centuries pleaded by the Babylonians to Alexander? Antediluvian records would be preserved by Noah, as was the astronomy of Seth, Soth, or Thoth, and transmitted by the sons of Noah to Egypt and Chaldea, and why not to India and China? Was it not one invention, emanating from one inventor, known to posterity by varying names?
"Have I told you I have lately got seven Indian Zodiacs in a Bengali Almanack, none older than Abraham, none Egyptian, but ancient Chaldean Astronomy? They came when I was very ill, and I have not written yet what I see in them, fixing the origin of these and probably all Sanscrit Astronomy to about the time of Abraham. Cancer is there, no Scarabseus, no cattle in that sign. In the more modern, Taurus is the little humpy Hindoo Bull; in the others, a grand, but scarcely made out, fine Eastern Bull."
[Amongst Miscellaneous papers has been found the following, endorsed "For India."]
Perseus and Andromeda and Cepheus are Indian constellations.
Nipla, modern Chaldaic for Orion (Maurice). Name of the Pleiades in Sanscrit, Carteek, this constellation was called in India. "The general of the celestial armies."
Maurice thinks that the Indian mythology was formed "when the year opened in Taurus, and the Pleiades rose heliacally" (as at the antediluvian vernal equinox, F. K.). He also thinks that when the Grecian sphere was first formed, the seventh Pleiad was becoming fainter; it is said to have vanished at the siege of Troy. Hyginus says it retired as a comet to the arctic circle.
Valiancy, Oriental Collections, says that "the plan of Pagan Religion is the same every where," from antediluvian astronomy transmitted through Noah.
Saturn, from the Oriental root, sater, to hide. Satyavarmon, the Indian Urah, as hidden in the ark.
De Grimes says an Egyptian hieroglyphic for science is dew falling from heaven.
De la Loubere. The Siamese week. Planetary names nearly the same as the other Indian ones, beginning however apparently with the Sun, the first day.
[The following also appears partly to bear on the subject.]
The "Primitive Astronomer," observing the sun rise and set, who could this be but the first man?
The Greeks, by the mouth of Plato, say they learnt the little they knew of Astronomy from the Egyptians. The Egyptians attribute theirs to Oannes, Thoth, and Soth. The Chaldeans, whose records went back nineteen centuries in the days o f Alexander, attribute the origin of theirs to Seth and Enoch. Astronomy has never been by modern astronomers attributed to "Chaldean Shepherds;" and was not Abraham a Chaldean Shepherd, only a few generations from Noah? did he not preserve and transmit the records of those eclipses of nineteen centuries pleaded by the Babylonians to Alexander? Antediluvian records would be preserved by Noah, as was the astronomy of Seth, Soth, or Thoth, and transmitted by the sons of Noah to Egypt and Chaldea, and why not to India and China? Was it not one invention, emanating from one inventor, known to posterity by varying names?
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