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

Hence it will follow that the Titans of ancient mythology ought to be divided into two distinct classes: the former of which, consisting of Cronus and his seven children, mentioned by Sanchoniatho, and enumerated by the Orphic poet, is the arkite Ogdoad The group of eight people, typically Noah and his family, saved in the Ark; while the latter, consisting of the other Titans, who are feigned to have fought against Jupiter, and to have been overthrown by that deity, comprehends all the persons who were destroyed by the flood. To this division of the Titans I have been obliged to have recourse, in order to account for the seeming contrariety of their being sometimes described as the impious opponents of heaven, and sometimes as the great gods of the Gentiles: nor do I see how it can be accounted for on any other principles, though upon this point I differ apparently, though I believe not really, from Mr. Bryant. In his last letter to me he says, "There seems to me to be no occasion to make any division of the Titans, eight of whom..."