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132 HISTORY OF INITIATION. nected with them, and most frequently these places were subterranean. Few caverns in this country remain to relate the wonders of Druidical initiation ; but the stu- Eendous grotto at Castleton, in Derbyshire, 58 called by tukeley, the Stygian Cave, 59 is sufficient to convince us that these celebrations were of the most terrific nature; were performed with the aid of complicated machinery, and did not yield in interest and sublimity to those which have been so highly eulogised in the more polished and civilized nations of Egypt and Greece. They were usually constructed on the principles of secrecy and re- vol. i., p. 166.) The husband of Isis was Osiris: a word derived, according to Vallancey, from two old Celtic words, signifying the commander of a ship or ark ; Eiss-Aire, or Is-Ir, the very name of our Cumberland giant who was no other than Osiris or ; Noah, and was represented by every candidate during the initiations. Gibson, in Camden, (Col. 842,) says that this giant's cave or grotto was denominated Isis Parlish, or the cavern of Isis the perilous and the ; current legend, as we have seen, is, that the monster seized men and cattle, and dragged them into his cave for a prey. The cattle were evidently brought there for sacrifice, and the men for initiation, during the process of which the aspirants were figuratively said to be devoured by the giantess Ceridwen or Isis. (Vid. infra. 1. iii.) Re- specting the giant's grave I must refer to my former volume of Signs and Symbols, Lect. VII. A similar legend is recorded by Stukeley, that a giant named Tarquin lived at Brougham Castle, in the same neighbourhood, and that Sir Lancelet du Lake, then residing at Maryborough, attacked and slew him. 58 Antiquities of Masonry, p. 107. 59 Some very singular excavations have been discovered between Luckington and Badminster, Wilts, called the Giants' Caves, which are thus described in Childrey's Britannia Bacconica, and cited in the Aubrey MSS. ** They are upon the top of a rising hill, in number about nine and some of them are or were ; formerly cemented with lime. Some of them are deeper, and some shallower, some broader and larger than others. They lie all together in a row The manner of them is two long stones set upon the sides, and broad stones set upon the top to cover them. The least of these caves is four feet broad, and some of them are nine or ten feet long." Sir R. C. Hoare pronounces them to be ancient sepulchres ; but I conceive the learned baronet to be mistaken in this point, for the author before cited says, " the curiosity of some ingenious men, as it is reported, within these forty years, tempted them to dig into it, and make search for some ancient remains, but they found no thing but an old spur, and some few other things not worth mentioning." How could they be sepulchral if no remains were interred within them ? The fact is, they were no more sepulchral than were the pyramids of Egypt ; and I have no hesitation in saying that they were constructed for the selfsame pur- pose, viz. as places of initiation into the mysteries.
THE CELTIC MYSTERIES. 133 tirement from public observation. Long, dark, and in all practicable cases, intricate passages were the united essentials of the mysterious precinct ; and it is evident that as religion could not be practised distinct from initiation, so places for the performance of these important rites were always constructed within or near the edifices consecrated to religious worship.
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HISTORY OF IN TWELVE LECTURES ; of
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ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. DEDIC
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CONTENTS. Vll LECTURE VII. PLACES O
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PREFACE. THE excellent Preston says
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INTRODUCTION. O such splendour of c
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INTRODUCTION. 7 was accomplished, a
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INTRODUCTION. 9 contemn a system wh
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INTRODUCTION. 11 the ancient world,
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INTRODUCTION. 13 of solitude and da
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INTRODUCTION. 15 mcnts, she succeed
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INTRODUCTION. 17 terrors, that the
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INTRODUCTION. 19 of secrecy, sealed
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INTRODUCTION. 21 death, 71 embitter
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INTRODUCTION. 23 tion, they were pr
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INTRODUCTION. 26 says, that in Athe
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INITIATION IN HINDOOSTAN, 27 and di
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IN HINDOOSTAN. 29 are of doubtful o
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IN HINDOOSTAN. 31 23 be mentioned a
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IN HINDOOSTAN. 33 rose speedily to
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IN HINDOOSTAN. 35 assented to, he w
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IN HTNDOOSTAN. 37 caverns, amidst t
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IN HINDOOSTAN. 39 descend into a lo
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IN HINDOOSTAN. 41 introduced into t
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IN HINDOOS TAN. 43 the usual emblem
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 45 talismanic la
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 47 and even the
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 49 dom when libe
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 51 111 the initi
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 53 feet and form
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 55 by gradual ap
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 57 rant, however
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EASTERN MYSTERIES. 59 entombed with
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61 LECTURE IV. INITIATION IN PERSIA
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IN PERSIA. 63 by the monarch, Dariu
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IN PERSIA. 65 duced from a cave hew
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IN PERSIA. 67 came to hearIlls Lect
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IN PERSIA. 69 of Persian mythology,
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IN PERSIA. 71 tion, however, was so
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IN PERSIA. 73 ments of the wicked i
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IN PERSIA. 75 displayed to his view
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IN PERSIA. > 77 animals and ; sixth
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IN PERSIA. 79 existed through all t
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DOCTRINES AND MORLAITY. 183 These p
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DOCTRINES AND MORALITY. 185 propert
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DOCTRINES AND MORALITY. 187 who wer
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DOCTRINES AND MORALITY. 189 the cow
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DOCTRINES AND MORALITY. 191 circums
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HISTORY OF INITIATION IN AMERICA. 1
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IN AMERICA. 195 of the air; Mictlan
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that vindictive god. IN AMERICA. 19
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IN AMERICA. 199 utter so much as a
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IN AMERICA. 201 foundations of this
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IN AMERICA. 203 y aspirant was form
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IN AMERICA. 205 water; the second b
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IN AMERICA. 207 quent wanderings in
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IN AMERICA. 209 tion of benevolent
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IN AMERICA. 211 general lustration,
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IN AMERICA. 213 The Peruvians, acco
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COROLLARY. 215 reference to the sin
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COROLLARY. 217 other respects, this
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