The Meeting Place of Geology And History Microform
The Meeting Place of Geology And History Microform
John William Dawson
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Oppert regards the legend of Tammuz and Ishtar as a solar myth, and supposes that the story of Cain and Abel was based on it. But a family history of crime and sorrow is a much more real and probable thing as a basis for tradition than a solar myth, and naturalists at least will be disposed to invert the theory, and to believe that the simple Bible story was 1 From the Semitic title ' Adonai, ' my Lord. 2 Ezekiel viii. 14. 3 Sayce, Hibbert Lectures. L 162 GEOLOGY AND HISTORY the foundation of a...ll the varied cults and superstitions that clustered round Ishtar and Tammuz, as well as personages like Osiris and Isis, who seem to have been later avatars, or revivals of the same tale. It would be easy to show that the deluge story has intimate connections with other ancient myths and superstitions, as well as with the results of modern archaeology and geology. But were this all, our inquiry, however interesting and curious, would have little practical value. It has two important bearings on the present time.
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