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Show OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL. STATE ‘ The name of the serpent o of the green plumage being « | given to this legislator, lead s the mind to Moses’ brazen ‘i serpent in the wilderness ; at adorned with their most and now in Indian tradition, noted amulet, and article of ad| 5 © Tae medici en é ne,” eS the green plumage. This has ever been “S~i the most precious article known in their holy ark, ® and | thei | r “ medicine bag,” interview with that Spanish general,) ° a pret ~ _those who. inhabit this country, are not na ae : Bs “ through various tribes, Hence natura] emble m of the healin g power et~ “pe@nnexed to the ancient bra zen serpent m ade by Moses; aSee }; and thus annexed to the ham te e given to him. 7 Thi we Zt? - wn s legislator and chief's introduci ng the custom of piercing the ears ;—reminds of the noted law of “e,dMipses, of boring the ear of the servant who was unwilTing to teave his master, “se This teaching to lacerate the body with prickles and ~ thorns, is a striking Hebrew igu re + 4\ 3 hying services demanded in the Mos of the many self-deaic rituals, ie His appeasing divine a 6¢ — ° he » | events can easily be traced to ancient revelation 5 . = _ : ese a appears to offer a singular facility to trace it to th spiced records of Israel. is called seth by a_ F Though ap gees ae ied Bakes e eet! jedi green of serpent the | name importing Mont Sencceezum cee a, taught : ; ; | brough ranc estors,a, way ance i j > ‘ they agente 3 Nera other regions have forme! { bearded ; called » y t ia yO rer aU came, Co . ~- . tabs . aces i 8 1 And a Gista | the n Cholulan dist: : te : a eee Pree , ee tO their t ] sir beards; 7 tne 5 i [ndi: How tweezers. a is whic h was the fact ; * e 4 ’ Who thes oul Lf pluck >I ‘a oe] . ae ‘ eae af TA wpe of their . with t0 r ancwes exacily does Moses answe , this their ancient legislator, | and chie . ¥ te hdoliek 5 11 . reilg o10US L community, T ukoeiice Aaron, the high priest; As Moses a As Moses in inaucted / inte ' ry. ' is blendedin nm. him | so this office, in their mythology, 1s ee der. ‘This will remark upon these points 1 Ses paeiat” ; as a i, ‘TE nig aay , 3S - a : s 218 yh: % . 2 religious community, Sk ae ; Fe RS el on nflicting AS asks on themselves thems : : | 41h sual notion PadttiGtic and religion. 4 crue ess yy Se x : “> es x . a ‘ “ ; . a ‘ , er may be : but a penance, tia, f <a of the sirictness of the .»a Mosaic Masaic laws . a also the mediation ef Moses as a.type of Christ, and PonGod’s turning away his fier ce wrath from-tsFael at his lltercession, as was repeatedly the case. The great famine in Culan naturally remind s of the great famine in Canaan and its adjacent nations ; which famine bro retiring, in the land of Midian , to the backside of the wilderness, to the mou nt of God, where God spake to him their SeteSE et eeTiS, s. i? ve > opposition that yt resion from which eS wt have ught Israel into Kvypt. This lezislator’s retiring to the a speaking mountain, most nat place of a volcano, and urally leads the mind to Moses niry eet ca dition. . teach that they wore ie their hice bearas; in CALE 4 and | GEaTGEE man e a saint, who led them to this country, aland Who couid tits be but Jo: levislator in Israel? ‘The Indians in SeS, ; ; ; may in the burning bush made the same mountain app , and in after days ear hke a tremendous volcano ind eed, as well as like a speaki ng mountain j-— when from the midst of the terrible fire, and sound of the tru mpet, God commanded his people in the giving Of the law. : This levislator’s walking barefoot, natur c ly alludes to | Moses? e" putin iv his shoes from his feet,” at the diVine direction, before the Durning bush, The goiden ase, with spo ntane‘cous harvests, nat ural. Y 8ug3zests the the: seven years of ple nty in Egy pt; may and Miciude also (and Especi ally) the eriod we aaa ? of . - Ry ow >» pao | | 2a, AAWWitt faite MaARN, ; cient @icie? aD | Was wrath, striking alto the system of the Mosaic Sacrifices, including ev = es While considera tha ate tradition: — ae a erivit is more difucuit. volved in this historic > ae ‘others are so fa bulous, that to reduce them = Pe Ge | ea = Nal to be of tins characters the ea : | then is thought of the mythology of - Pos aeuerevelation, hevelative: ¢ have | et] been confusec onfused, oor) and earhli blended ‘ejent yet | with mach fable. |Much it is their most om | it i timed for a certain time to his Sie coug a | We have always believed that his eerie ce one day come to take possession of this Seeat) Be - : ou arrive from that region where the sun rises; an | i ou assure me you have tong known us; I cannot | dant but that the king who sent you is our ern | Sebmaragnd (p- 263.) It has generally been the fact, = | events i or ‘thology, which are founded on an- Vee Fo who led our ancestors eM eo or & a ts pnd 35 PP, pa mee that the chief on = from agreat on ‘also, who came + | strangers, ew Jo i of EA SS 2 -sitauepsllioran a Martti: at Snoe ~ gu = ot Se rae sece See " aS3 PRESENT . BP THE |
