DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7416#0170
160
ensuing day will belong to the Moon, and so on through the week,
according to the seemingly capricious order in which all nations,
Using the hebdomadal computation of time, have placed them.
195. The Disa or Isa of the North was represented by a conic
figure enveloped in a net, similar to the cortina of Apollo on the
medals of Cos, Chersonesus in Crete, Naples in Italy, and the
Syrian kings; but instead of having the serpent coiled round it, as
in the first, or some symbol or figure of Apollo placed upon it, as
in the rest, it is terminated in a human head. 1 This goddess is
unquestionably the Isis whom the ancient Suevi, according to
Tacitus, worshipped; 2 for the initial letter of the first name appears
to be an article or prefix joined to it; and the Egyptian Isis was
occasionally represented enveloped in a net, exactly as the Scandi-
navian goddess was at Upsal.3 This goddess is delineated on the
sacred drums of the Laplanders, accompanied by a child, similar to
the Horus of the Egyptians, who so often appears in the lap of Isis
on the religious monuments of that people. 4 The ancient Musco-
vites also worshipped a sacred group, composed of an old woman
with one male child in her lap and another standing by her, which
probably represented Isis and her offspring. They had likewise
■another idol, called the golden heifer, which seems to have been the
animal symbol of the same personage.5
396. Common observation would teach the inhabitants of
polar climates that the primitive state of water was ice; the name
of which, in all the northern dialects, has so near an affinity with
that of the goddess, that there can be no doubt of their having been
originally the same, though it is equally a title of the corresponding
personification in the East Indies. The conic form also unques-
tionably means the egg; there being in the Albani collection a
1 Ol. Rudbeck. Atlant. vol. ii. c. v. p. 219.
* De M. G. c. ix.
3 Isiac Table, and 01. Rudbeck. ib. p. 209 and 210.
+ Ib. p. 280.
5 Ib. c. vi. p. 512 and 513.
ensuing day will belong to the Moon, and so on through the week,
according to the seemingly capricious order in which all nations,
Using the hebdomadal computation of time, have placed them.
195. The Disa or Isa of the North was represented by a conic
figure enveloped in a net, similar to the cortina of Apollo on the
medals of Cos, Chersonesus in Crete, Naples in Italy, and the
Syrian kings; but instead of having the serpent coiled round it, as
in the first, or some symbol or figure of Apollo placed upon it, as
in the rest, it is terminated in a human head. 1 This goddess is
unquestionably the Isis whom the ancient Suevi, according to
Tacitus, worshipped; 2 for the initial letter of the first name appears
to be an article or prefix joined to it; and the Egyptian Isis was
occasionally represented enveloped in a net, exactly as the Scandi-
navian goddess was at Upsal.3 This goddess is delineated on the
sacred drums of the Laplanders, accompanied by a child, similar to
the Horus of the Egyptians, who so often appears in the lap of Isis
on the religious monuments of that people. 4 The ancient Musco-
vites also worshipped a sacred group, composed of an old woman
with one male child in her lap and another standing by her, which
probably represented Isis and her offspring. They had likewise
■another idol, called the golden heifer, which seems to have been the
animal symbol of the same personage.5
396. Common observation would teach the inhabitants of
polar climates that the primitive state of water was ice; the name
of which, in all the northern dialects, has so near an affinity with
that of the goddess, that there can be no doubt of their having been
originally the same, though it is equally a title of the corresponding
personification in the East Indies. The conic form also unques-
tionably means the egg; there being in the Albani collection a
1 Ol. Rudbeck. Atlant. vol. ii. c. v. p. 219.
* De M. G. c. ix.
3 Isiac Table, and 01. Rudbeck. ib. p. 209 and 210.
+ Ib. p. 280.
5 Ib. c. vi. p. 512 and 513.