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Show -- a The jinftBooke of the firpart Cuaré.§.s, --- y Leda, \Caftor and Pollux, Helen and Cly. b Abriope he hadw. mpbienand Zetus:b r of Ew reniveftra by Datac, Perfews: bylordawa, Dencalion: by: Charme (the daughte balay Briteniertts iby Protogenia, hehad Athlins the father of Exadymion:and by (the daughter ofInachke YEpaphus, the founder of Memphis in eypt: which Epaphus riarfiéd Didya,of whom that Countrey tookename,fot {othe Greckes afterward called the Afritiar He tanithed: Aegina the daughterof efopws:jand caruyed her into begat eases s by Oendpia or Oewotriaafterward called wegivason whom he Dardanus hadailo: he had Archefilans and Carbinss by Oray Colaxes shee s T: brother the begat He Troy. d Miuman ward nmafter Dardeni whorbuilt liajidnd on Garamantis, HiarhasHe had befides thefe (ifthey belye nc God) Philewsand Pilumnas,inuenters of the Bakers craft; and 1 know not howmany more 3 but [know well that he could not be fatherto all thefe, whe were borne in ag 6 fo farredifferingvAnd of thefe his feuerall rauifiments, betrayings, ftealingawayof menswiues; daughters} andfonnes, buying ofvirgins, andthelike, cameinall thofé ancient fables of his transformations into {howres of gold, eagles, buls, birds, and beafts; andofhim,and by him (in effect) all thatrabbleof Grecian forgeries, And yet didnorthe Greekesatid Romans feareto entitlethis Monkter, Optimys Maximas,chough Giceroin his fecond Bookesde satura Deorum,afiirme, that hee deferued nothinglefle: and in his Oration, pro domofas, reprocheth Cledias forhis inceft, by the nameof és tocin Sarit, piters His buriall was inCrete (faith Lucian. ) Cretenfes nom filamnatam apudfi 0 Ww --_ fepnisum Ionem téftamtarfed etiamfepulchrum eins oitenduat , The Cretians or Candians doe not onely auow that Inpiter was borne aad buried among them, but theyfbew his craneand Sepulchre : which Epipbanias alfo confirmeth, for in his time there remayned. the monuments of his\tombe in the Mountaine /afius. This Callimachasin his hymiues alfo wituefleth, but,as offended thereat,faith thus.: : ‘The Cretians ever lyars were; theycare not what they fay: Djoael.C24.56 Forthey a tomibe have built for thee,O King,that lint alway. Diodorus Siculustels by way of report fromthe Libyan fables, confirmed (as hee faithyby fome Greeke Writers,thatthe originall ofthefe gods was from the Wefterne;; parts of Africa. For there amongthe At/antide reigned one ramus ( whichfignifieth' Heauen) called fo for his great skillin 4/rologie,and forhis knowledge.and ber the people,honoured by them as a god afterhis death:He had by manywines 45 fons; but by his principall wife Titea,he had feuentcene fonnes andtwo daughters,a [which were called after their mothers name the Titanes.Of Titea, likewife it is faid, that {hee for her goodnefle was canonized as a goddefle, being dead,and called the Earth,as het husband was ftiled Heauien.But ofall'the children of7iteashet daughter Bafilea which samongCeetbhLlcDt brethren, and ofthe peo ale s yointed t i ul . ees Renerall confent ne as yeta Virgin b 4 ; Pies = ea ee her fathers death, gin. Shee saketo to ahusbandher brother Hyperion,to whomfhee barea belle tonne andadaughter, called swuae'and Moowes, The beautie and towardlinefte ofthele 7 WG. <- eeTS eee Se 4 _ /. . children moouedherbrethien to enuy,& bred in thema feareof being excludedfrom the fucceffion : wherefore they tooke the boy and drowned himinthe River Evident now ec alled Pee. The toffe of this child caufed his fifter-to breake her owneneck e2 the loffle ofbothyher children made the: mother to play many dd ee dancing with Cymbals) after a wilde fafhion, infight ofall the people tefoee iit (hee is {aid ‘to haue vanifhed away. Ere thee dyed, her fonne (as thefable hath ‘it yfigni fied vntoherin a dreame, that heeandhis fifter, by the prouid chic i 6 God, fhoul become immortall, that alfo the Seuzneiand Mogne{hould bee called| r hes narmesyf and that their death fhouldbee reuenged vpon the murderers Ac i P lng towhicht is faid; cnatthe people did fo call thofe twoPlanets. and ovitieall held‘h se felfe asa goddeffe,and termed her the great Mother, vvhichname they liad fe see Sreinel 9 hersfor her niotherlycare in cherithing her brethren viliiledrh es idfuses ‘Eipe riowand his Race being extinguifhed,' the other. fonnes of fans: dintdnd, the King ==, dome. OF thefle. 4e/s and'Saturne were chiefe. Atlas reigned once eed lying aboutthe Mountaine s,which hishame; aiuttand crwardybar iolonafterwatd' le po? e hisname.a is bare i eewife - Prince,dec Prince. decpel 3 Mita imudfrdlogie, and for inventionof the Spheare, faid to hauefupported Heart Cawrgigys. He fact HififOnties: but-che ptincipallofthem ‘called Hefperwi,being "Ofhisfathers qualities and ftirdies,was faid-to hati¢ beene carried away by théwinde,from thétop of an high Hill in the midft of his' contemplations : and' his name ii honour of him, jm. poled bythe people'vpon theimdrring ftarre. ‘The feiren daughters of Atlas Were a): {6 faid'te hatie Beene excellent Ladies;who accompanying fiichas camé tobe Deified, orresiftredamong the Woithies; brought forth' children, ati{werable in qualitie to chafethat Beat them. Ofthefe it 4s held; that thé feuen ftatres called Pleiades tooke nae: Saturac, the bidther of Arlasteigned in (sictia, part» of Africk, atid' Tralie. Iupiter, another of the fortes ofVranus, reigned in' Crete ; who had ten forineswhieh he called Civéfes -he called that" Vand after his wites' nathe; Ydea';?in which Mlehee dyedsatid was buried. But this'mpiter muft'not have beerie' thatigteat'oné, bit vncle tothegreat Jupiter,if thefe fables Ofithe Libyans wete trues Satarne (as theleLibyans tell the tale ) was a great Tyrant, and fortified ftrong places, thebetter to keepe his in fome people in fubiection. His fifter Rhea was married to Hammon, who reigned part of Africk. Hammon louing others aswell as "his" wife, or-better, gota daughter, called A4inerwa,neare to the River Triton,who thereupon was called Tritonia. Hee on Amalthesafonne called Bacchis;whomhee caufed fecretly, for feare of alfo begat o hislife, ic,tto be brought vp at 2j/4,anIland in the Riuer Tritez, vnderthe tuition ofhis daughter Mizerua,and certaine Nymphs. = - yw To Amalthea hee gaue in reward a goodly 2° Countrey, that lay on the Sea-coatt; bending in-forme-ofa horne, whence grew the tale of Amalthea's plentiful horne,famous among thePoets. WhenRhea heardthefe néwes,fhee fed from herhusband to\her brother Sat#rne, who not onely entertained, her asafifter, but tooke her to wife,/and at her inftigation made Warre vpon Hammon, vanquithed himbyaffiftance ofthe Titanes, and made‘himflee into Crete. TheCuretes, luviterschildren-before mentioned, held the Tland'atthat time; which was newnamedGrete by Harxmon{after thehame of Cretathe Kings daughter, whomhee tooke to wife, andhad withher'( Womerl;ainay feeme;bting very gracious in thofetiames) the Kittgdome. "Bacchus wasgrowne-@ proper young man, had found ott themaking ofwine,thearte ofplanting trees, and many.things el{¢commodious for mankinde, go before thefight ofhismotheriniaw. Novy therefore hearing report of all that had hapned and that Saturaé was comming aganf him with the Titans; hee leuyed an Armie,to Which the-Amiazons,liuiig not farre from Nyfa, addedgreat forces, in loue OfMixcrua, who was entred intotheir profefign. So Baerbus leading the meri, and M7weruathe women, they fet forward againft Saturfe, met hit, ouerthrew him,and taking many oftheTitans prifoners,returned to Nyfa;where patdoning the prifoners, that promifedto become histrue followers,he prepared fora fecond: Expedition. In the fecond Expedition he behaned himfelffo well, that he wan the loue ofall thepeo- ple by whomhe paffed ; infomuchthat partly for good afiection to him, partlyin hatted of Saturnes rigorous gouernment, he was greatly ftrengthened, and the enetieas 40muchinfeebled by daily reuolts. Comming to the Citic of Hammon, hewan abattaile Of Saturae,before the very walls.A fter which, Saturze with his wife Rhea fled by night, fecting the Fowne onfire to defpight Bacchus. Butthey-were caught in. their flight, pardoned byBaechus,and kindlyentreated. Satwrne had a young fonne by Rhea, called fufiters This child Bacchus tooke with himin agréat Expedition that he made into the Eat Countries: "and céfiming into Egypt,he left this Iupiter Socing thena boy, Gouernoukofche Countrey's bur' appointed vato himyas_an QOuer-feer, one Olympus, of whom! /apiter grewto be called Olympus. Whileft Bacchus trauailed through all Nations,asfarreas into India,doing goodin all places,and teaching many things profitabletdthe life of man ; the Titanes had foundout his father Hammon in Crete, atid be50840 to watre vpon him. But Bacchus returned out'of India, with whomJspiter from Egy ptjindhisfitter Mizerua,togetherwith the reft,thatafterwards were held as gods, joyning all their forces,went into Crefe, ouerthrew the Titanes, chafed them,tooke &&_ fliethem:and freedthe world ofthemvall... Afterallthis; when Hammon aiid Bacchus Weré dead,they weredeified ; a nd the great /upiter, the fonne ofSaturne, fucceeding them,reigned Lordalone oucrall the world,hauiug noneof the Titans left aliue, nor anyother to difturbe him.Betweene thistale of the. Libyan gods, and the Egyptian fables of Ofirss, there isa rude refemblance, that may caufe themboth to be taken for Lod Imeaoce af {or neone truc hiftorie, For the Expeditions of Ofirt, and of e}2i0lerCLOOKCG Images OF AOL G3 Bacchys as ¥ i of the Hiftorie oftheWorld |