GREAT GODS OF PHENICIA, SAMOTHRACE, EGYPT,
TROAS, GREECE, ITALY, AND CRETE;

BEING

An Attempt to deduce the several Orgies of

ISIS, CERES, MITHRAS, BACCHUS, RHEA, ADONIS,
AND HECATE,

FROM AN

Union of the Rites commemorative of the DELUGE with the
Adoration of the HOST of HEAVEN.

BY GEORGE STANLEY FABER, A. M.

FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE.

Η γαρ τον κρανον προσαράξειν, η τα κρυπτα της Ισιδος εκφανειν, η
το εν αβυσσο απορῥητον δείξειν, η σησειν την Βαριν, η τα μέλη το Οσι
είδος διασκεδάσειν τῳ Τυφώνι, η αλλο τι τοιουτον απείλει ποιήσειν.
Jamb. de Myft. fect. vi. cap. 51.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR:

And fold by F. and C. RIVINGTON, London; and

W. HANWELL and J. PARKER, Oxford.

1803.

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