A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri, Vol. I

therefore more easily overlooked; but yet, when combined together, when viewed in all their different bearings, and when connected with a variety of kindred circumstances, they will be found to afford, if not so palpable, yet certainly a more curious proof of the authenticity of the Book of Genesis.

With respect to the Titans, whom the reader will find to make a very prominent figure in the ensuing pages, it is proper to observe that in elucidating their history, I have been obliged to dissent entirely from the system adopted in that eminently learned work, the Analysis of Ancient Mythology. I have long suspected that the Titanic war, so celebrated in Grecian story, relates to the events of the Deluge, and not to the miraculous overthrow of Nimrod and his followers in the plains of Shinar. This I intimated in a former publication Horæ Mosaicæ, Vol. I, pp. 122, 209; but was at that time prevented, by the extensiveness of my subject, from pursuing the supposition in the manner which I could have wished to have done.