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Show THE PRESENT STATE monies he had described he adds; 3 ‘“‘ Perhaps the euri- lost ten ous may imagine that some faint allusion to the num- f| He dfs also _ se'ect tribes of Israel may be discovered in the ‘Trinity in ber of dreamers (they being ten) ;—to the unity, bunches the 1p OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL. po: ba (and the circle) of grass ;-—to ie 159 =: ae They have among them a tradition eluge, in which only a few persons were . who beg refuge ona high mountain called Lhegtheg, etheg, which possessed possessed the property of moving - athe Jewish anointings and purifications, in their repe ;on the water.”’ e, their secret consultations;—and to the prophetic offic in the office of their dreamers.” of Let us look at the natives in an extreme part ence evid any it exhib South..America, and see if they region 4,260 miles south of Pera, in South America,) furnish’their quota of evidence that they originated ; the cesame ? family uly with with the the North N American Indians, dammed and Here tuary, In ted paintings ;-—to the sacred rite of the sanc similar to what been has ct North America. , says Don Alonzo de Ericilla. in his history of Chili of the of the-natives there; ~Phe religious system eme Supr a dge owle ackn They Araucanians issimple. n, Pilla call they m Beiay, the author of all things, who soul; and signi a word derived from Pulli, or Pill, the fies the Supreme Essence. They call him also, Guenu- the Great Depillan; the Spirit of Heaven; Bulagen, emvoe, the Oming; Thalcove, the Thunderer; Vilv the [nnipotent ; Molligeiu, the sternal; He adds; finite.’ Pillan, (his Supreme and Avnolu, * The universal vovernment of Essence,) is a prototype of the He ts the great ‘Toqui of the inAraucanian polity. g He goes on to speak of his havin visible world.?? he under him, to whom subordinate invisible beings irs of less importance. commits the administration of affa so" to call ** subaltern civinate These, this author sees fit l notion of We may believe they are but a traditiona held by the Indians of angels, good and bad; such asis North America. “ They all agreed This author says of this people; of the soul. [his ‘1 the belief of the immortality and in a manner consolatory truth is deeply rooted, innate with them.— They hold that man is compose! y diflerent; the corrupt of two substances essentiall Kd rporeal and eternal.” y le body and the soul, inco ed carri is Their bier * Of their funerals, he says; 1s surrounded by and the principal relations, in the manner of the ased dece who hewail the giourners among the Romans.” od 1 hf remote natives of Chili (a old some of their essential traditions. of the natives of adduced em, then it seems the . Ae hence could arise the tradition of those natives of one ‘Supreme Being, author of all things 2?” That , oe he is the “Supreme EssenI ce ; the :Spirit of Heav eaven: ; Sta } ee ro ¥ = >} és . ; ; ae the Thunderer ; the Omnipotent ; the Eternal; the | Whence their tradition of the 1e fl flood,| aifd Ve" ;;+ finite??? ator” of several persons . bemg Peas saved rec ona floating mountain, * 2 - ' > meaning no doubt the ark? Whence their ideas se@ correct of man’s immortal soul “£4.46 5 @*ycx, Ts This author says of those native Chiktans, ‘Many suppose that they are indigenous to the country ; Ww bie others suppose they derive their origin from a foreign stock, and at one time say, that their ancestors came from the north, and at another time from the west 7 Their better informed or wise.men, it seems retain some impressions of their original emigration from a fercign lane , and from théhorth-west, or Beering’s Straits.” “Ts it possible to give a satisfactory account of such traditions among those native Indians of Chili short of their having received them from the Hebine sacred Scriptures? Aud if from thence, surely they must be Hebrews. 1 oO _ he Southern Intelligencer, in extracts from the misr 08 sionaries among the Chickasaws, tnforms us that an old Indian, stating Chickasaws., to them some of the (most of which traditicns of the were sufficiently wild an pagan) gave the following. “The Great Spirit first wide ean: and animals : afterward he made man a Shit 5 en was made in like manner.’?—‘ The Great i rew lines on Tod; theseMhes alafterward the surface of the on with his became | rivers.”? Theré “1s "ar ‘@ tradition (he adds) concerning a great flood of as |
