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Show PRESENT STATE OF wellaccount for its absence in this country. The numerous volcanoes in South America equally account for the abundance of mirrors of obsidian there. This e . ‘aif on pedestals in the Mexican temples; this one had a mirror on his. This divinity was held in awful veneration a8 the great not here the backside LA vessel one; explains the idea ;——tliee three faces, and heads combined ; but one vessel ;—-one of eee man ; tbe other two younger. ‘Here is Indian brads u | relative to their one Great Spini—God ; the Shi g 3 And the sentiment is further corre ‘and the Spirit. { The ts the triune vessel, Se to hold ’ figures are viVeN Ona Indians hold to one ‘ te cann ot be said ; They are considered as three devices for the same object. tariied the } ’ to thre e “As it is weil ascer- Supreme Spirit; ti ey ‘ : prin cipa i ; gods. wa No evidence of such a thing exists, but in these various triune emblems. And these, it is contended, do uot amount to ahy- hy such amc such thin thing;e: but to theiras ancient : belieref f in the triune God of Israel, . Let the reader here recollec t the account given by ss sa 2 a ee ssace , Chapman, ; bes ee 3 iu the Union Mission, of the . = 4 T . re ° . 5 . ¢ plain their religious customs, when S, we tire ; ’ ~ols > : oul toform a treaty of peace, he Says; ** About two — Be ANCE eet iD ° Hy, a4) he . . . | , and ina line with the path, were three ches of grass, which had bee Culand piled about bree feet apart, as an embl em of him, whom they worshipped.” Her th re . *2_» “ i 7 the, -aart« 7 99 “¥ “ ‘ ae ae a ; ne ws ay » ° ~ 3 em ° “iyotra 3 - : y this : : and formed the Great Spirit -— a ta il s——a : ' . >° ae sf avout tory ee et St peek CRDIEM: OF cercte of about four feet diameter. was offered another long prayer. ‘Then each One stepping on the circle, the y pas sed on. The Chief lt Beem : the : that both . Aa * these a a were representations of their Mr. C. upon the incident remarks Perhaps the i ete May imagine ous ee: ous e was the station for the priest to stand : r halted a i St Bias eae See that some Ba ; w faint allusion to the lost of Israel may be discovered in the select numW ich reamers : he ttnre ; (which he a had ete before Stated, they be- Pe ae int oe , mat ‘gods; or that the builders of these temples designed any such thing. ‘he view they had of the God of the mirror, shows they could not hold to three princi4 pal deities. And it bas been universally testified of| the great body of the Indians of America, that they hold\ to but one great Supreme Spirit. But yet when they \ represent this one God, there is something in him threefold. The South Americans must have three temples, while yet they had but one temple of the mirror or The North Americans must have Supreme God. huge high piaces, or pyramids in three) only three (and And the writer informs that only in one 0 a place. these is found the-mirror; as in the three temples 9 ‘The triune Sonth America, only one has the mirror. Piate, as . _ three distinct this, that they believed in a religious embiem. ee But it is not evident from . ee mirror representing the other was not. Vays ™ the i. eS and ; oe pedesials; € a the it a fillet and cake. with was deemed by the wri- RRR yee nn on of the head and shouiders of third. Each head has upon the hair. plated. Phis too ee placed “Ww me were gods to ex- the midIt vives a mmr me two . to ee ee other the images of the made body body. > PO divinities, only that 4 OTR RS principal Ta A qugen, three F _— also, that No evidence is here, those people held to a id Miew of one of these hea ds, with strony and well orined features. It pives a iront view of anot her of them. Anda view of what the writer calls the three principal gods of the South Americans, is truly but one God ?—the great unknown God of the universe! or elsewhere exhibited, that . etn e nse does not discover ; =~ who . Repent But Yr : h bit three | Vi€WS Ol a Mais s head and Vith the arms Cut of: close to the discover (continues the writer) a strong trace of a Knowledge of the true God, derived by tradition from the first patriarchs?” Truly we may exclaim with this writer; *‘ Who does not discover here some knowledze of the true God of Israel and a manifest traditionary view of him??? thre 5 vessel aforenoted: and is een sea eo a Re & +7 ee " te does if ry) a Who Le \} a universe. , » - of the ‘ yy a God ; L. re unknown , ae images placed > - had ets C gods ISRAEL. es Other AND Se erated by the foleg lowing fact, gtven also in the Arch»ology. Another emblem vy as found ina tu Shs Nash wile, ay res. i ¢onessee, and is nowein. the es museu m of Meoe x ue of Lexington, Kentucky. It is formed o} clay, ce Metre deity was represented as enjoying perpetual youth and beauty. JUDAH a THE > 214 |
