A new system, or an analysis of ancient mythology

His design was certainly very ingenious and carried out with a wonderful display of learning. He failed, however; and I shall be obliged to take notice of the nature of his failure. It appears to me, as far as my research can provide clarity, that most ancient names—not only of places, but of persons—have a clear and consistent pattern original: "analogy". There is likewise a great correspondence to be observed in scientific terms and in the titles that were of old bestowed upon magistrates and rulers. The same observation may be extended even to plants and minerals, as well as to animals—especially to those that were considered at all sacred.

Their names seem to be composed of the same, or similar, elements and bear a manifest relation to the religion used among the Amonians The author's term for the descendants of Ham, whom he believes established a global sun-worshiping civilization and to the deity whom they adored. This deity was the Sun; and most of the ancient names will be found to be a collection of titles bestowed upon that luminary. Because of this, a clear correspondence appears between them—a circumstance that is quite foreign to the system of Bochart Samuel Bochart (1599–1667), a French scholar whose work on biblical geography the author is challenging. His etymologies the study of the origin of words are destitute of this supporting evidence and have not the least pattern to support them.

In consequence of this, I have ventured to provide a list of some Amonian terms which occur in the mythology of Greece and in the histories of other nations. Most ancient names seem to have been composed out of these elements, and they may be broken down again into these same principles by a simple and logical unfolding original: "evolution," here meaning the process of analyzing a word into its component parts. I subjoin to these a short interpretation, and at the same time, I provide different examples of names and titles that are compounded in this way. From this, the reader will see plainly my method of analysis and the basis of my etymological inquiries.