Mercury, the addition of five intercalary days. and one-fourth of a day, as thus expressed decimally 365.25. He is also the God of the Chemists, as he detected the secret operations of nature?

2. Who is Bacchus ?

A. He is called the son of Jupiter by Semele, daughter of Cadmus; the story is perplexed and obscured by contradictory accounts given of him. He is the Osiris of the Egyptians, and the Sri Rhama, and Bhagvat of the Hindus. While Ceres taught the cultivation of grain, Bacchus taught that of the vine; he fostered the manners of a rude people, which is signified by the lions and tigers which he has tamed to draw his chariot. Bacchus is said to have been torn to pieces, which only represents the art of the vintage; he is crowned with grapes, and is attended by noisy worshippers, to indicate the joys of the season and the riches of the harvest; old Silenus follows in his train intoxicated, the same Silenus who was reckoned in the number of the wise men; who awakened from the intoxication of ignorance, chaunted in sublime strains the formation of the world. This account corresponds with the Hindu Bacchus or Bhagvat. He is by the Romans and moderns made the deity of drunkards, and is drawn as a man with two faces, one old and the other young, because wine taken in excess brings on decrepitude, taken in moderation invigorates and preserves the health.

The jolly god comes in,

His hair with ivy twin'd, his clothes a tiger's skiny
Whose golden claws are clutched into a knot>

2. Who was Cybele?

A. She is the reputed mother of the gods and men, and is called Terra or the earth; because in the order of creation, the earth first appeared. She is represented as a majestic woman, her head crowned with towers; in her hand a key, either because the earth contains treasure, or because winter locks up vegetation, which it is one of her attributes to promote; she rides in a chariot, symbolical of the earth, suspended in the atmosphere, and is drawn by lions, because there is nothing, however savage and ungovernable, but motherly tenderness may tame. The towers of her head represent cities, of which she is the goddess. She was called Ops when invoked by the husbandmen; and Uranus as being suspended in the middle of the universe; and as the mother of the constellations. was also called Vesta; and had temples, in which a pure flame was constantly kept burning. Only the pure and the virtuous were allowed to approach her. The virgins who guarded the sacred fire, were put to death if they suffered it to expire. A similar institution was found in Peru upon its discovery; the Virgins of the Sun suffered death, if defiled. The Hindu goddess Goburra, is also crowned with towers, and has the same attributes.

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2. Let your account of the remainder be more brief, as those we have considered shew the allegorical character of the ancient mythology.

A. Juno, as before mentioned, was the sister of Jupiter, or the elementary air; which is also the Hindu goddess Paravati. Her attendant or messenger, is Iris, or the rainbow.

Ceres is the goddess of agriculture and civilization; her head is wreathed with a coronet of wheat in the straw; her Hindu name is Latche mi; and her attributes are the same.

CERES was she who first the furrows plough'd;
Who gave sweet fruits, and easy fruits allow'd;
Ceres first tamed us, with her gentle laws;

From her kind hand, the world subsistence draws.

Diana, called also Luna, or the moon, also Hecate, Lucina, and Opis, she is the goddess of pregnancy; by the Egyptians she was called Bubastis; by the Hindus, Calli; and is represented with a crescent on her forehead.

Minerva, or Pallas, the daughter of Jupiter, called by the Greeks, Athene; by the Hindus, Durga; by the people of Samos, Eagatis. Born from the forehead of Jupiter, she is the goddess of wisdom, and an owl attends her as an emblem of gravity.

Janus was the god of gates and doors, had two faces, whence he was called Bifrons and Biceps, and had a temple at Rome, which was closed whenever the Romans made peace.

JANUS himself before the fane shall wait,
And keep the dreadful issues of the gate
With bolts and iron bars. Within remain's
Imprisoned fury, bound in brazen chains;
High on a trophy, rais'd of useless arms
He sits, and threats the world vain alarms.

The Muses, daughters of Jupiter Mnemosyne, or Memory; they are Calliope, the muse of rhetoric and epic poetry; Clio, of History; Erato, of Romance; Thalia, of Comedy; Melpomene, of Tragedy; Terpsichore, of Dancing; Polyhimnia, of Lyric poetry; Euterpe, of Mu