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the Ijle Formofa.
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Fables invented by the Prielts, and gradually Introduced
and impofed on an ignorant People, implicitely
fubmitting to their Tyranny.
The fecond part of the Jarhabadiond begins
with God's Commands to Vfalmanaazaai\ faying,
Thou Jloalt caufe the Yeople to divide the Tear
into ten Months^ which ye Jhall call by the names
of the ten Stars^ Vyl. Dig, Damen, Analmen,
Anioul, Dattibes, Dabes, Anaber, Nechem, Koriam,
Turbam. Every Month Jhall have four
Weeks^ and five of thefe Months fhall have 37
Days^ viz. the firji^ third^ fifi^-> Seventh and
ninth^ the other five fhall have only 36 Days
Every Week fhall have nine Days^ but in the
Months which have 97 T)ays^ the laft Week flmll
have ten Days^ and the i oth Day fhall be a Day
of Eafting,
Let them begin the Tear from this Day^ which
fhall be the firft of the Month Dig, and then they
fhall Sacrifice to me 20000 Boys under the Age
of nine Tears : But upon the fame Day eVcry
Tear I require only the Hearts of 18000 Boys,
The firft Day of every Month they fi)all jacrifice
to me in the Temples of every Difiri{?^ loco
Beafly^ viz. 300 Bulls^ ^oo Sheep dnd
-^ Calves
and Lambs io compleat the number, fowls of all
forts fhall be for the weekly Sacrifice. Every
Frecinti Jhall carefully obferve to furnifi) their
proper Sacrifices.
I have told you already in my Preface, that
this great annual Sacrifice of Infants doth not fo
much depopulate the Ifland as the Europeans conceive,
idly^ I have only affufd you, that the
Law requires fo many Children every Year. I
darp not fay that the Priefts facrifice the full
number, for I can fcarce believe they do, for this
matter is wholly left to them, who ( (hould they
facrifice