Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	day_n	light_n	rule_v	3,378	5	10.4702	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42508	The poetical histories being a compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latine poets and other ancient authors / written originally in French, by the learned Jesuite, P. Galtruchius ; now Englisht and enricht with observations concerning the gods worshipped by our ancestors in this island, by the Phœnicians, and Syrians in Asia ... ; unto which are added two treatises, one of the curiosities of old Rome, and of the difficult names relating to the affairs of that city, the other containing the most remarkable hieroglyphicks of Ægypt, by Marius d'Assigny ...; Histoire poétique pour l'intelligence des poéts. English	Gautruche, Pierre, 1602-1681.; D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717.	1671 (1671)	Wing G384; ESTC R15913	274,012	534

attributed unto him and by the famous persons that were said to Be his Sons First He was taken for the Sun and in this Quality he had the name of Pboebus given to him that is by interpretation The Light of the Living It is true that some do differ in their relations concerning the Sun and say that his Father was one of the Titans named Hyperion from whence it is that he is called Titan. They have imagined that he rides upon a glorious Chariot that every night he goes down to rest in the Ocean until the next day when the Hours do prepare him his Horses to begin again his course He did seem to delight in the Isle of Rhodez more than any other part of the World for this reason because as Solinus doth report there is no day never so dark nor clouded but the Sun appears to the Inhabitants there Besides they say that in this Island he begat his Daughter Rhodia He sent down in it showres of Gold and caused on his Birth-day Roses to open and spread The Rhodians did dedicate unto him that famous Colossus of Brass of 800 feet in height and of a proportionable bigness which was broken down by the Sarazens that took the Island in the year of our Lord 684. When it was beat in pieces they loaded above 900 Camels with it This was esteemed one of the seven Wonders of the World Amongst the most famous places where Apollo did give Oracles Delphos was one of the chief In it was a glorious Temple or Fabrick enriched with innumerable gifts which came from every corner In it was a Woman Priest named Poebas otherwise Pithia or Pythanissa that received the Enthusiasme sitting upon a little Table supported with three feet it was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Cortina because it was covered with the skin of the Serpent Python This God was also esteemed the Inventer of Musick he flead the Satyre Marsias alive because he was so impudent and daring as to challenge him to sing The Muses that were Daughters of Jupiter and of Mnemosyne were committed to his tuition their names were Calliope Clio Erato Thalia Melpomene Therpsicore Euterpe Polymnia or Polyhymnia and Vrania They had several names according to the several places where they did dwell Sometimes they were called Pierides because of the Forrest Pieris in Macedonia where they were said to be born sometimes Heliconiades from the Mountain Helicon which is nigh to their beloved Parnassus from whence also they were named Parnassides and Cytherides from the Mountain Cytheron Castalides and Aganippides from two noted Fountains that were consecrated unto them These Muses by the assistance of Apollo invented Musick Their chief Office was to be present at the solemn Festivals and Sacred Banquets and there to sing the praises of the famous men that they might encourage others to undertake glorious actions They were esteemed for their Chastity which they did profess so much that when Admis the Favorite of Venus offered to stir up in them some inclinations of Love they fell upon him and put him to death The Children of Apollo were many besides that Rhodia mentioned before He had Atha the Father of Medea King of Colchos unto whom was committed the Golden Fleece by Phrixus the Son of Athamas King of Thebes when he fled with his Sister from the fury of his Step-mother as you shall see in the eleventh Chapter Apollo had another Daughter named Pasiphae married to Minos King of Crete and who became at last enamoured with a Bull by whom she had the Monster called Minotaure Phaeton was also his Son This young Gallant had an ambitious fancy to govern the Chariot of the Sun and to give light to the World for one day But not knowing the right way through the middle of the Air and wanting strength to rule the winged Horses that ran so swiftly he set the Heaven and part of the Earth in a flame For which cause Jupiter being offended kill'd him with his Thunderbolts and cast him head-long into the River of Padus in Italy that is otherwise called Eridanus where his Sisters afflicted with his misfortune were changed into Poplar-trees and their Tears into Amber as the Poets say After this Conflagration there happened an Universal Deluge when Deucalion the Son of Prometheus was King of Thessaly for the waters were so great as they say that all living Creatures were destroyed only Deucalion and Pyrrha his Wife were forced for the safety of their lives to seek a retreat upon the top of Mount Parnassus When the Waters were abated and that they saw themselves alone in the World they requested the Gods to create some other men to keep them company or to deprive them of their lives Themis the Goddess of Justice sent them word that their desire might be accomplished if they did but cast behind them the bones of their Grandmother They presently imagined that this Grandmother was the Earth therefore according to this order they gathered up the stones and cast them over their backs Those that were cast by Deucalion were turned into men and those that came from Pyrrha became women By this Stony Generation all the Earth hath been fill'd This Deluge and another that happened in the time of Ogyges King of Thebes are the most remarkable in the writings of the Poets This Deucalion is commended for his Piety and Justice and is said to have built the first Temple for the worship of God It is plain by the circumstances mentioned in the Poets that this Fable is borrowed from the truth of the Scripture from the History of Noah who saved himself and his family from the universal Deluge by Gods appointment Nicolaus Damascenus and Berosus Chaldeus two of the ancientest Historians do mention this Deluge with some difference from the Scripture Moreover they say That the Ark in which mankind was saved did continue till their daies upon Mount Barin in Armenia where it was worshipped as well in requital of that good service that it had rendred as because of those Diseases that it did cure and the miracles that it did work Abidenus relates the same Story with some change of Names This is an infallible a argument to prove the Truth of this Story seeing so many persons that did live at such a distance one from another that they had scarce any correspondency between themselves but none with the Possessors of Moses writings do all agree in one Relation From hence it may be easily proved That they had this and all their other Stories that are agreeable to those of Moses from the Tradition of their Forefathers as Moses had his Apollo was one of the most gentile Gods of the Heathens of whom they do not relate such filthy Stories as of the others He was the God of Wisdom Physick Musick Learning and Arching He was represented as a young man without a Beard and Rayes of light about his Head in one