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So then this religion of conserving a sacred fire for the use of Sacrifices seems to have been as well the most uni versal as the most ancient of all religions & to have spread into all nations before other religions took place. And therefore the Medes & Persians who united without a common standing Council had no other Temples than the Prytanea. For when several cities uniting under one common council let their proper fires go out: their Temples still continuing seem to have given a beginning to such Temples as were without a fire.
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And indeed it seems to me that Temples in all nations had their original from the Prytanea. Whence I seem to gather that the Chineses till those days had only open Prytanea without houses such as were in use among the Medes or Persians.Īnd in general the Vestal worship was of old so common and universal that a it was part of the Theology of the ancient inhabitants of the Island Crete that Vesta found out the building of houses & for this benefit almost all men placed her in their houses & vouchsafed her honours & sacrifices. And b Bardasanes a Syrian who lived in the reign of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus, writes that amongst the Seres (or inhabitants of China) the worship of Images was then prohibited by a law & that in all that very large region there was not a Temple to be seen. And travel lours report the same thing of China ‡ ‡ And travellors report the same thing of China. v Benjamin Tudensis found the same fire worshipped in certain Islands of the East Indies which he calls Chenerag. And the t Indians still keep this sacred fire & call it Homan.
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The same worship was in use also among the Tartars, as William de Rubruquis & Iohn Plancarpinius inform us. In Ireland one of these fires was conserved till of late years by the Moncks of Kildare under the name of Brigets fire & the Cænobium was called the house of fire. For its to be conceived that the Vestal Temples of all nations as well as of the Medes & Persians were at first nothing more then open round areas with a fire in the middle, till towns & cities united under common councils & built them more sumptuously. Tis said that there are some pieces of antiquity of the same form & structure in Denmark. For it is an area compassed circularly with two rows of very great stones with passages on all sides for people to go in and out at. In England neare Salisbury there is a piece of antiquity called Stonehenge which seems to be an ancient Prytanæum. Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins.Further coding errors rectified by John Young.Updated to Newton V3.0 (TEI P5 Schema) by Michael Hawkins.Minor coding errors rectified by Michael Hawkins.Second check against microfilm, with coding reviewed and updated to Newton v2.1 DTD, by John Young.Coding audited and updated to Newton v2.0 DTD by Michael Hawkins.Tagged and checked against microfilm by John Young.Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young.Switching to the diplomatic view of this text will show 198 deletions, reveal 134 additions and not apply 249 editorial regularizations. Additions are silently included within the body text and deleted text is not displayed. Editorial interventions are applied to expand abbreviations and correct textual mistakes. Normalized transcriptions provide a tidied-up view of the original text. You are currently reading the normalized version of this text.In such cases, we have simply followed the pagination of the original. The manuscript is in considerable disorder: it is here presented, so far as possible, in what appears to be the intended sequence, but there are a number of instances where the text at the end of one page cannot possibly link to that at the beginning of any other.
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41, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel Extract from Draft chapters of a treatise on the origin of religion and its corruption