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Title: The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Forster, Charles, d. 1871
Subjects: Inscriptions -- Egypt Sinai Inscriptions, Semitic Semitic languages Egyptian language -- Writing Alphabet
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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anmyth, which we look for in vain in the classicfables of Hyacinthus, Adonis, or Narcissus. Inthe amputated foot^ an allusion may possiblybe intended to Gen. v. 15. — He (the ser-pent) shall bruise thy heel. Patriarchal tra-dition, however, once thus branched off intoallegory, it is needless to pursue further: enoughthat, in this wonderful monument, from thechamber of Osiris at Phylce, we recover irre-fragable testimony to the Mosaic records, in aperfect representation of the Fall; and full in-formation also, upon a point of unrevealed his-tory, lost for so many thousand years to theJewish and Christian worlds, in the discoverythat the pomegranate-tree is the tree of liNow- LEDGE. This monument of primeval tradition does notstand alone. The same temple of Osiris atPhiloe contains a second picture, less circum-stantial, yet hardly less significant, since it isbrought home to the Fall by the more fullpictorial representation which has just beenexamined. o 4 200 THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT.
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