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250 NOTES TO THE DEVOTED ONE.
the Jews, speaks of the god
Rimmon :
"
Yea, ye took up the ta-
bernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan ; figures
which ye made to worship them ;" alluding to the tabernacle
of the sun and the planets. Moloch, in Irish, is fire, a type of
the sun, as the sun was a visible type of the invisible God, and
Remphan, or Rimmon, signified the inferior planets. Again,
this Remphan is called Chiun by Amos, (c. v. v. 26,) " Ye have
borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves." Rimmon
was the Syrian name, and Chiun the name given by the
Moabites to the same deities. I have therefore no doubt, that
the circle of Rempstone, in Purbeck, was dedicated to the stars,
or Rimmon. In the same island, is Aggie-stone, an immense
rock, erected on a mount or : high-place this was the stone of
the sun, a lithos, sometimes called a cromleach, which Toland
explains from the Irish crow, to adore, and leac, stone stone
of adoration. Borlase says, that in the Western Isles some
remains of adoration are still paid to such stones: "As it
seems to me, they call them bowing- stones, from the reverence
shown them : for the Even Maschith, which the Jews were
forbidden to worship, signifies really a bowing-stone, and was
doubtless so called because worshipped by the Canaanites."
Round these stones many of the Gaelic islanders still perform
the Deisol, as they also do round holy wells and fountains.
( 20 ) Immortal fame on earth ? The earth forbids it,
For daily she to dissolution tends. ... p. 172.
This knowledge of the expected dissolution of the earth,
might have come to the Saxons from the legends of their
pagan forefathers, for it is to be found in the Edda, the greater
portion of which bears internal evidence of its eastern origin,
and perfectly accords with the philosophy of India and Egypt;
the reflection of which may be found in Lucretius, Lucan, and
Ovid. In Scipio's dream, the old man, showing his nephew
the globe from the clouds, tells him, that however great or for-
tunate our actions may be, there can be no lasting glory in
this world -
f seeing that, after a certain period,
it must be
destroyed, either by water or fire, which would sweep away
all human records.
Indeed, the expectation of the dissolution of the earth was
so great about the middle of the tenth century, and which still
continued to the commencement of the Crusades, that the
churches and other edifices were suffered to fall into utter
of our
decay. Jerusalem, it was supposed, would be the spot
Saviour's re-appearance on earth and multitudes of all
j ranks,