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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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o earth-land. Phlox; that is. Light andFire and Flame. For these childrendiscovered fire by rubbing togetherpieces of wood. Also, thev begat off-spring who were of prodigious stature.One was Casius, another Libanus, a THE CANAANITES.—PHCENICIANS. 36a third Antilibanus. Here the mythtouches the earth, for we have thenames of mountains. One of the de-scendants of the giants discovered theart of making- huts, while another in-vented clothing. These set up pillarsto the fire and the winds and offeredsacrifices of beasts. Then arose one ofthe descendants of these Titans, whowas called Chusor, that is, Vulcan. He kingdom of his ancestors, took his sisterGe and begat El, who had for one of hisnames Dagon. He it was that discoveredcorn and invented the plow. El wasoffended at the infidelity of his father,attacked him, drove him from his throne,and took the kingdom. Then he builtByblus, oldest city of the Phoenicians.So the myth wanders on and on throughendless inflections, sometimes running
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SITE OF DAGONS HOUSK, NEAR GAZA.—Drawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. was the father of ironmongers, the in-ventor of the fishhook, the first navi-gator of the sea. Another descendantwas Agros. He was the field. Fromhim came the Agrotes, who were thefarmers, the husbandmen. After this was born Eljon; also aOrigin and de- womau named Beruth. El-i^an Bafi^wJ^ Jon signified the Highest,powers. He took Bcrutli and begat Uranus and Ge; that is, the Heaven and the Earth. Uranus obtained the24 into Hellenic, but more frequently intoSemitic, nomenclature. The El whose genesis is here describedbecame the Baal of the Tyrians. Himthey invoked as the king and guardianof their city. His added name of Mel-karth signified the city king. He wasalso identified with navigation. To BaalMelkarth was reared the splendid an-cient temple at Tyre which so a.ston-ished the wonder-loving Herodotus withthe richness and magfnificence of its vo- 370 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. tive offerings and ceremonial. Baal

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