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Faunus was a man (Lemprière, A classical dictionary, 1816)

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Text: none Quote:    FAUNUS, a son of Picus, who is said to have reigned in Italy about 1300 years B. C. His bravery as well as wisdom have given rise to the tradition that he was son of Mars. He raised a temple in honour of the god Pan, called by the Latins Lupercus, at the foot of the Palatine hill, and he exercised hospitality towards strangers with a liberal hand. His great popularity, and his fondness for agriculture, made his subjects revere him as one of their country deities after death. He was represented with all the equipage of the satyrs, and was consulted to give oracles. Dionys. 1, c. 7.--- Virg. AEn. 7, v. 47, 1. 8, v. 314, l. 10, v. 55.--- Horat. 1, od. 17.  Lemprière, John, A classical dictionary , 2nd Amer. from 8th Lon. ed., New York: Printed and published for A. T. Goodrich, and William B. Gilley; Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, and Edward Earle by T. & W. Mercein, 1816, p. FA-FE . Online source:   arc...

Aztec Fall - Aztec Eve (again) (Kingborough, Antiquities of Mexico, 1831, vol. 3)

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Text: none Quote: Kingsborough, Edward King; Dupaix, Guillermo; Aglio, Agostino, lithographer, Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions; The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts , 7 vols., London: Printed by James Moyse ... : Published by Robert Havell ... ; and Colnaghi, Son, and Co. ..., 1831, vol. 3, Codex Borgia,  folio 51 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/AntiquitiesMexiv3King Book Images:

Osiris and Isis made gods? (Diodorus; Oldfather, tr, Diodorus of Sicily, 12 vols., 1933,1989, vol. 1)

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Text: none Quote: [...] On his return to Egypt he [Osiris] brought with him the very greatest presents from every quarter and by reason of the magnitude of his benefactions received the gift of immortality with the approval of all men and honour equal to that offered to the gods of heaven. After this he passed from the midst of men into the company of the gods and received from Isis and Hermes sacrifices and every other highest honour. These also instituted rites for him and introduced many things of a mystic nature, magnifying in this way the power of the god. Diodorus of Sicily, The Library of History , bk. 1, ch. 20. Diodorus, Siculus; Oldfather, Charles Henry, tr., Diodorus of Sicily , 12 vols., Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 1933, 1946,1960,1968, 1989, vol. 1 - Books 1 & 2, 1-34, p. 65 .    22. Isis, they say, after the death of Osiris took a vow never to marry another man, and passed the remain...

Aztec Fall (Brinton, American Hero-Myths, 1882)

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Text: none Quote: [...] a certain Aztec manuscript known as the Codex Telleriano-Remensis . [...] tells how Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca and their brethren were at first gods, and dwelt as stars in the heavens. They passed their time in Paradise, in a Rose Garden, Xochitlycacan ("where the roses are lifted up"); but on a time they began plucking the roses from the great Rose tree in the centre of the garden, and Tonaca-tecutli, in his anger at their action, hurled them to the earth, where they lived as mortals. Brinton, Daniel Garrison, American hero-myths: a study in the native religions of the western continent , Philadelphia: H. C. Watts & Co., 1882, p. 95 . Online Source: archive.org/details/amerheromyths00brinrich Book Images:

Aztec Fall - Aztec Eve (Kingborough, Antiquities of Mexico, 1831, vol. 3)

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Text:  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. ... And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,... Genesis 3:2,3,6 Quote: Kingsborough, Edward King; Dupaix, Guillermo; Aglio, Agostino, lithographer, Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix:...