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spirit_n	artery_n	blood_n	vein_n	5,874	5	10.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57667	Pansebeia, or, A view of all religions in the world with the severall church-governments from the creation, to these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.; Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1972_pt1; Wing R1944_pt2; ESTC R216906	502,923	690

with one eye put out sometimes by mists and vapors arising out of the earth Endymion was the sun with whom the Moon is in love visiting him once every moneth Ianus also was the Sun who is keeper of the four doores of Heaven to wit East West North and South he hath two faces seeing as well backward as forward in one hand he hath a Scepter in the other a Key to shew that he rules the day and that he openeth it to us in the morning and shuts it in the Evening Ianus was the first that taugh● men Religion and doubtlesse men became Religious and did acknowledge a Deity by beholding the Beauty Motion Power and Influence of the Sunne By Ianus was placed a Serpent biting his tail intimating that the sunnes annuall motion is circular beginning where it ends atque in se sua per vestigia labitur annus By Minerva also was meant the sunne as appears by the golden Lamp dedicated to her at Athens in which burned a perpetual light maintained with oil which not only shews the suns golden beams and inextinguishible light but also that oil as all other fruits are begot by his hea● for the same cause she was the inventer of Arts and sciences and held the Goddesse of Wisedome and Learning for by the moderate heat of the sunne the organs of the brain are so tempered and the spirits refined that all Arts by men of such temper have been found and wise actions performed she had a golden Helmet and a round Target the one signifying the colour the other the orb of the Sunne the Dragon dedicated to her signified the sunnes piercing eye as the Cock was dedicated to Minerva so he was to the sunne to shew that by these two names one Deity was meant no man could look upon her Target having Gorg●ns head in it without danger nor may any without danger of his eyes look upon the sunne The Athenians preferred Minerva to Nept●●e because the benefits men have by the Sunne are greater than those they have by the Sea and that hot and dry Constitutions are fitter to make Scholars than cold and moist for the fire which Prometheus stole from the sun brought Arts to perfection The Image of Pallas was kept in Vesta's Temple where the sacred fire burned perpetually to shew that the sunne the ●ou●tain of heat and light is the same that Minerva who was called Pallas from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie the shaking and brandishing of the Sun beams expressed also by the brandishing of the spear She had power to use Iupiters thunder and to raise storms to shew that thunder and storms are caused by the Suns heat she and Vulcan the god of Fire were worshipped on the same Altar to shew these two were but one Deity to wit the Sun who is the god of Fire which Homer also expressed by giving her a fiery Charriot and a golden Lamp holding out a beautifull light she made her self invisible by putting on the dark helmet of Orcus so is the Sunne to us when he is covered with mists clouds and vapours which arise from Orcus or the lowe● parts of the earth and so he is invisible to us when he goeth under Orcus or our h●misphere By Nemesis the Goddesse of Revenge was also meant the Sun for he punisheth the sinnes of men by pestilence famine and the sword for he by his heat either raiseth infectious vapors or inflameth the blood burns up the fruits of the earth and stirreth up the spirits of men to strife and Wa●●es as Nemesis raised the humble and humbled the proud so doth the Sun obscure lucid bodies and illustrate obscure things The A●gyptians to shew that the Sun and Nemesis were the same they placed her above the Moon By beautifull Tithonus also they meant the Sun who is the beauty of the world Aurora was in love with him and rejoyced at his presence it is the approach of the Sun that gives beauty lovelynesse and chearfulnesse to the morning Tithonus in Aurora's Charriot was carried to Ethiopia where he begets black Memno● of her to shew that the Sun in the morning having mounted above our Hemisphere moves towards the South parts of the world where by his excessive heat in the Meridian he ●awns or blacks the Ethiopians Tithonus in his old age became a weak grashopper so in the Evening the light and heat of the Sun weakneth and decayeth to us By Castor and Pollu● they signified the Sun and Moon the one that is the Sun being a Champi●● subdueth all things with his heat the other to wit the Moon is a rider if we consider the swiftnesse of its motion they may be said to divide immortality between them because when the one liveth that is shineth the other is obscured and in a manner dead to us they ride on white horses to shew their light and motion They that will see more of the Sun let them read what we have written elsewhere in Mystagog P●e●ico But besides what we have written there we now make it appear that the Sun was in a manner the onely Deity they worshipped for the hono●r they gave the Moon Fire Stars Air Earth and Sea was all in relation to the Sun as they are subservient to him and the many names they gave to the Moon as Minerva Vesta Vrania Luna Iuno Diana Isis Lucina Hecate Cybele Astarte Erthus were onely to signifie the different operations of the Sun by the Moon so that as Aristotle de mundo saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God being One hath many names from his many effects which he produceth in the world The Sun then in regard of the seminall vertue generative facultie and desire of procreation which he gives to sublunary creatures for eternizing of their severall species is called Venus à venis from the veins and arteries for these also were anciently called veins in which are the blood and vitall spirits the proper vehicles of Venus or the seminal vertue of which the seed of generation is begot which the Prince of Poets knew when he said of Dido's Venereal love Vulnus alit venis Every Spring when the sunne returneth to us he brings this venereal faculty with him therefore he may be called Venus à veniendo from coming for he cometh accompanied every year in the spring with this generative desire which he infuseth in the creatures which the same learned Poet Geor. l. 2. acknowledgeth in these divine Verses Ver adeo ●r●ndi nemorum ver utile silvis Ve●e tument terrae genitalia semina poscunt Tum Pater omnipotens foe●undis imbribus ●ther Conjugis in gremium laetae descendit omnes Magnus alit magno commistus corpore foetus Avia tum resonant avibus virgulta canoris Et Venerem certis repet unt ●rmenta diebus Parturit omnis ager c. And in another place Geor. 3. he sheweth the reason why in the spring living