A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS
NOTES TO SECTION 14
[1] [Gen. 1:1.]
[2] [Goodwin, in Chabas, Melanges, 3rd ser. vol. 1.]
[3] [Gen. 1:1]
[4] [Discuss.]
[5] [Rosellini, Mon. Cult. 21.]
[6] [N. A., ch. 10. f. 39; Stehelin, Rab. Lit., 2. 15-16.]
[7] [Ch. 17. 'I do as ye do to the Seven Great Spirits in the service of their Lord, the Creator [or Judgment]. Anup made their places on that day [they answer] of our coming to you. Let him explain it. The Gods, Lords of Truth, I am Thoth and Astes Lord of the West; the Chiefs behind Osiris are Amset, Hapi, Tuautmutf, and Kabhsenuf. These same are behind the constellation of the Thigh [Ursa major] of the Northern heaven.' Birch's tr.]
[8] [4:17.]
[9] [2 Kin. 3:9.]
[10] [Ps. 68:17.]
[11] [Sepher Herazim, after Bartolocci, Bib. Rab. vol. 1. 229-30.]
[12] [f. 23, ch. 3.]
[13] [Source.]
[14] [Bartolocci, Bib. Rab. vol. 1. 228-9.]
[15] [Source.]
[16] [Ch. 4:19.]
[17] [1 Cor. 11:13.]
[18] [78:25.]
[19] [Bartolocci. Bib. Rab.]
[20] [Ginsburgh, The Kabbalah.]
[21] [Ch. 92. 'My Soul is from the beginning, from the reckoning of years.' Birch's tr.]
[23] [Personal communication?]
[24] [Wilkinson, Mat. Hier.19.]
[25] [Dict., 17 D.]
[26] [40:19.]
[27] [8:22]
[28] [Source.]
[29] [Source.]
[30] [I.e. Shu-King, Pt.2. bk. 1. 5. SBE, 3, 39.]
[31] [Chalmers, in Legge, Ch. Cl. 3. 93.]
[32] [Tr. Oppert, in Ledraine, Hist. Israel.]
[33] [Job 40:19.]
[34] [Prov. 8:22.]
[35] [Ib. 9:1.]
[36] [Ch. 57. 'Sefkhabu built his house for him. Num has set up his wall for him. When the North wind comes to the heaven [roof], he sits in the South; when the South wind comes to the heaven [roof], he sits in the North; when the West wind, he sits in the East; when the East wind, he sits in the West, the eyebrows drawn down to his nose.' Birch's tr.]
[37] [Source.]
[38] [Source.]
[39] [Gen. 18:11.]
[40] [1 Sam. 26:12.]
[41] [See Moor]
[42] [(1799) - discuss.]
[43] [Ch. 17. 'Rusta is the Southern Gateway, Anrutf is the Northern Gateway of the abode of Osiris. For the Pool of the two Truths is Abydos, or it is the path by which his father Tum goes when he goes forth to the fields of the Aahenru, approaching to the Region of the Horizon.' Birch's tr.]
[44] [Ch. 147. 'I have prepared things in Abydos, I have got ready a path in Rusta.' Birch's tr.]
[45] [Ch. 125. 'The Osiris has seen the Pool of the Perseas which is in the midst of the Rusta [Plains].' Birch's tr.]
[46] [Ch. 145. 'Hail, keepers of the Seven chief Staircases! made the staircases of Osiris, guarding their Halls. Oh! keeping the things which belong in the doors of Osiris daily. The Osiris knows you, he knows your names, born in Rusta when the Gods passed, making adoration to the Lord of the Horizon, with the body of the Osiris, in the region of Tu.' Birch's tr.]
[47] [Gen. 18:10, 14.]
[48] [Ex. 27:4.]
[49] [Powell, Nat. 29/1/1880.]
[50] [11:2.]
[51] [Dumichen, Temp. Ins. 1:29.]
[52] [Pap. Prince of Wales, BM. Birch, 'Description of the Papyrus of Nas-Khem.']
[53] [Rit. 17. 'I do as ye do to the Seven Great Spirits in the service of their Lord, the Creator [or Judgment]. Anup made their places on that day [they answer] of our coming to you. Let him explain it. The Gods, Lords of Truth, I am Thoth and Astes Lord of the West; the Chiefs behind Osiris are Amset, Hapi, Tuautmutf, and Kabhsenuf. These same are behind the constellation of the Thigh [Ursa major] of the Northern heaven.' Birch's tr.]
[54] [21:6; 22:8, 9, 28.]
[55] [Ex. 12:12.]
[56] [Burton, Ex. Hier. 34]
[57] [Pl. in ARSB.]
[58] [Source.]
[59] [Egypt's Place, vol. 4. 323.]
[60] [Mic. 5:5.]
[61] [Title unknown.]
[62] [Champollion, Mon. de l'Egypt, pl. 176.]
[63] [Cat. Rel.? in Gale?]
[64] [Gen. 1.]
[65] [Hammer-Purgstall, in Knight.]
[66] [Bancroft, Native Races, 3. 352. 'She was
represented with a crown on her head, a vase in her right hand, and on her left
arm a shield with a great flower painted thereon; her garments and her sandals
were red. The first of the Mexican goddesses was, following the same authority,
Cioacoatl, or Civacoatl, the goddess of adverse things, such as poverty,
down-heartedness, and toil. She appeared often in the guise of a great lady,
wearing such apparel as was used in the palace; she was also heard at night in
the air shouting and even roaring. Besides her name Cioacoatl, which means
snake-woman, she was known as Tonantzin, that is to say, our mother.
She was arrayed in white robes, and her hair was arranged in front, over her
forehead, in little curls that crossed each other. It was a custom with her to
carry a cradle on her shoulders, as one that carries a child in it, and after
setting it down in the market-place beside the other women, to disappear. When
this cradle was examined, there was found a stone knife in it, and with this the
priests slew their sacrificial victims.
The goddess of Sahagun's description most resembling the Toci of other writers
is the one that he calls upon the codices Vaticanus and Tellerianus,
says: Tonacacigua, alias Tuchiquetzal (plucking rose), and Chicomecouatl (seven
serpents); wife of Tonacatlecotle; the cause of sterility, famine, and miseries
of life ... Amongst Sahagun's superior deities is found Civacoatl, the
serpent-woman, also called Tonantzin, our mother; and he, sober as he
is in Scriptural allusions, calls her Eve, and ascribes to her, as the
interpreters [of the codices] to Tonatacinga, all the miseries and adverse
things of the world. This analogy is, if I am not mistaken, the only foundation
for all the allusions to Eve and her history, before, during, and after the sin,
which the interpreters have tried to extract from paintings which indicate
nothing of the kind. They were certainly mistaken in saying that their
Tonacacinga was also called Chicomecouatl, seven serpents. They should
have said Civacoatl, the serpent-woman. Chicomecoatl, instead of being
the cause of sterility, famine, etc., is, according to Sahagun, the goddess of
abundance, that which supplies both eating and drinking: probably the same as
Tzinteotl, or Cinteotl, the goddess of maize (from centli, maize), which
he does not mention.']
[67] [Drummond, Oed. Jud., pl. 3.]
[68] [Gen. 41:26.]
[69] [Jud. 5:28 ?]
[70] [Source—as above?]
[71] [1 Samuel 17:4.]
[72] [Calmet, Dict., pl. 16. fig. 13.]
[73] [Landseer, Sabean Res., 361.]
[74] [Ex. 32:4, 8: Deut. 9:16.]
[75] [Job 9:9; 38:31.]
[76] [Heb. und Chald.]
[77] [Stanley, Hist. of Phil., p. 9.]
[78] [Lardner, Mus. Sc. p. 153. (Chambers).?]
[79] [2 Kin. 18:34.]
[80] [Discuss.]
[81] ['Gr. Ins. of Khorsabad,' 48. RP, 9, 19, Oppert.]
[82] [Judg. 10:6.]
[83] [Concil.?]
[84] [Source.]
[85] [Source.]
[86] [Movers, Kr. Unt.75.]
[87] [Gen. 1:14.]
[88] [Amos 5:26.]
[89] [Lev. 24:10, 11.]
[90] [Lex. Chald.?]
[91] [Adv. Her.]
[92] [Source.]
[93] [Oed. Jud. 2. ch. 2. pp. 114-115.]
[94] [Planisphere in Drummond, pl. 16.]
[95] [Source.]
[96] [See list of words, BB 1:138.]
[97] [Lundy, Mon. Christ. J., fig. 26.]
[98] [Birch, Gal. 20.]
[99] [Job 33:7.]
[100] [Gen & Sc. 155.]
[101] [Gen. 5.]
[102] [Gen. 5:29.]
[103] [Rit. 17. 'I do as ye do to the Seven Great Spirits in the service of their Lord, the Creator [or Judgment]. Anup made their places on that day [they answer] of our coming to you. Let him explain it. The Gods, Lords of Truth, I am Thoth and Astes Lord of the West; the Chiefs behind Osiris are Amset, Hapi, Tuautmutf, and Kabhsenuf. These same are behind the constellation of the Thigh [Ursa major] of the Northern heaven.' Birch's tr.]
[104] [Ch. 48:3.]
[105] [Ch. 61:9.]
[107] [Ch. 4:4]
[108] [RP, 8, 98. Brugsch.]
[109] [Num. 24:17.]
[110] [Compare Is. 47:1, 2, in Hebrew.]
[111] [49:25; Num. 24:4; Ruth 1:20, 21.]
[112] [Lepsius, Ein. 108.]
[113] [Ann./Hist.]
[114] [49:25.]
[115] [2:17.]
[116] [Deut. 32:17; Ps. 106:37.]
[117] [Rev. 12:4.]
[118] [Deut. 28:13.]
[119] [Jer. 2:27]
[120] [Is. 9:14, 15.]
[121] [Jer. 15:9.]
[122] [Job 38:6, 7. ]
[123] [Zech. 4;10.]
[124] [Is. 54:1, 5.]
[125] [Hos. 2:19.]
[126] [Amos 5:8.]
[127] [Source.]
[128] [Ch. 4:1.]
[129] [Ch. 43:18, 19.]
[130] [Source.]
[131] [Buxtorf, Lex Chald. 2001.]
[132] [5.26.]
[133] [Ez. 7:15.]
[134] [Job 23:3.]
[135] [Ez. 8:3, 5]
[136] [Obad. 4.]
[137] [Ex. 34:14.]
[138] [Bunsen, Egypt's Place, 3. 41.]
[139] [Source.]
[140] [Old Egypt. Calendar Ast. Observ., Moures.]
[141] [Job 31:15.]
[142] [Ez. 6:7.]
[143] [Ib. 5:15.]
[144] [Ps. 27:5.]
[145] [Job 22:14; 24:15.]
[146] [Ps. 138:15.]
[147] [Ps. 91:1.]
[148] [Ps. 81:7.]
[149] [Is. 28:17.]
[150] [Ch. 83. 'I have been secret as secret, or the ... tortoise of the God, knowing what they have in their bellies.' Birch's tr.]
[151] [Zech. 5:6.]
[152] [65:4.]
[153] [Num. 11:34.]
[154] [Ez. 16:24.]
[155] [Dan. 2:32; Num. 5:21, 27.]
[156] [Jos. 18:24.]
[157] [Jarchi, in Chag. fol. 5 c. 1.]
[158] [Cod. Jevamoth (Jebamoth), Bartolocci, Bib. Rab., vol. 3. 466.]
[159] [Gen. 15:19.]
[160] [1 Kin. 14:24; 15:12; 22:46.]
[161] [4:14, 16.]
[162] [Nat. Un. See also Knight, p. 60?]
[163] [Basnage, Hist. Jews. 193-4.]
[164] [Judg. 6:24.]
[165] [7:14.]
[166] [Ex. 17:15.]
[167] [Ezra. 7:15.]
[168] [E.I.H. 4.14. Unable to identify this pub.]
[169] [Smith, Early Hist. 19.]
[170] [Is. 14:13.]
[171] [Is. 29:3.]
[172] [Eph. Gram. or Lex.?]
[173] [Source.]
[174] [Sale, Koran, ch.
27. 'And she tarried not long before she presented herself unto Solomon, and
said, I have viewed a country which thou hast not viewed; and I come unto thee
from Saba, with a certain piece of news. I found a woman to reign over them, who
is provided with everything requisite for a prince, and hath a magnificent
throne.'
'And Solomon said, O nobles, which of you will bring unto me her throne, before
they come and surrender themselves unto me? A terrible genius answered, I will
bring it unto thee, before thou arise from thy place: for I am able to perform
it, and may be trusted. And one with whom was the knowledge of the scriptures
said, I will bring it unto thee, in the twinkling of an eye. And when Solomon
saw the throne placed before him, he said, This is a favor of my LORD, that he
may make trial of me, whether I will be grateful, or whether I will be
ungrateful; and he who is grateful is grateful to his own advantage, but if any
shall be ungrateful, verily my LORD is self-sufficient and munificent. And
Solomon said unto his servants, Alter her throne, that she may not
know it, to the end we may see whether she be rightly directed, or whether she
be one of those who are not rightly directed.
And when she was come unto Solomon, it was said unto her, is thy throne like
this? She answered, As though it were the same. And we have had knowledge
bestowed on us before this, and have been resigned unto God. But that which she
worshipped, besides GOD, had turned her aside from the truth; for she was of an
unbelieving people.
It was said unto her, Enter the palace. And when she saw it, she imagined it to
be a great water; and she discovered her legs, by lifting up her robe to pass
through it. Whereupon Solomon said unto her, Verily this is
a palace evenly floored with glass.
Then said the queen, O LORD, verily I have dealt unjustly with my own soul; and
I resign myself, together with Solomon, unto GOD, the LORD of all creatures.'
Note h: 'This queen the Arabs name Balkîs: some make her the daughter of al
Hodhâd Ebn Sharhabil, and others of Sharahîl Ebn Malec; but they all agree she
was a descendant of Yárab Ebn Kahtân. She is placed the twenty-second in Dr.
Pocock's list of the kings of Yaman.']
[175] [Song of Solomon 6:4]
[176] [Source.]
[177] [Hotten, History of Signboards.]
[178] [Elliot, Hor. Apoc. 4. 30.]
[179] [Rev. 17:9.]
[180] [Stanley, Jew. Church. 110. (99). See also Plutarch, I and O.]