The worship of the serpent traced throughout the world, attesting the temptation and fall of man by the instrumentality of a serpent tempter / By the Rev. John Bathurst Deane.

  • Deane, John Bathurst, 1797-1887.
Date:
1833
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    and only do not praise them so highly as I honour them, because one is beyond, and both above all praise. To the kindness of the latter I have been still more indebted since the publication of the first edition of this treatise. Many valuable correc- tions, noticed as they occur, have been volun- tarily communicated by Mr. Faber; and it is to me a source of no little gratification, that in my first effort to be useful, I have obtained the encouragement of the first of Christian scholars. The Worship of the Serpent had already attracted the notice of the learned, when Bryant and Faber, each improving upon the discoveries of his predecessors, fixed its data upon a lasting basis. It was deemed a fit field for the recrea- tion of the unwearied genius of Dr. Stukeley, whose work upon Abury is a masterpiece of ingenuity, and a key to the most obscure part of Ophiolatreia—the figure of the serpent tem- ples. On this interesting subject nothing was even guessed at, until his master-hand evoked, as by the wave of a magician’s wand, the Python of Delphi in the wilds of Wiltshire. Other eminent writers, among whom Bishop