[301] Fielding.
[302] Isa. viii. 7, 8.
[303] Gen. vii. 2.
[304] Gen. viii. 10, 11.
[305] The following is an abstract of the Hindoo version of this allegory, as copied from their Puranas:—“Satyavrata, having built the ark, and the flood increasing, it was made fast to the peak of Nau-baudha, with a cable of a prodigious length. During the flood, Brahma, or the creating power, was asleep at the bottom of the abyss: the generative powers of nature, both male and female, were reduced to their simplest elements, the Linga and the Yoni. The Yoni assumed the shape of the hull of a ship, since typified by the Argha, whilst the Linga became the mast. In this manner they were wafted over the deep, under the care and protection of Vishnu. When the waters had retired, the female power of nature appeared immediately in the character of Capoteswari, or the dove, and she was soon joined by her consort, in the shape of Capoteswara.”
[306] See p. 63.
[307] Acts vii. 22.
[308] The date of those Uksi was not the only misconception this historian has committed. He was equally in the dark as to the place whence they came, and, for want of a better name, called them, at a venture, Arabians!
[309] See p. 64.
[310] Most of the oracles in the ancient world were but personifications of this influence—the goddess invariably being the sacred Yoni. And the priestesses so far prevailed upon the credulous worshippers as to make them believe that she actually spoke! The oracle of Delphi, the most venerable in all Greece, obtained its name from the very thing—the first syllable De, signifying divine or sacred; and the second phi, i.e. phith, yoni: the letter l having been inserted only for euphony. Even in the Greek language this import is not yet lost.