Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-11-11

principal temples and his oracles. Pausa-
Mas, indeed gives to Apollon the title ofan
Egyptian divinity; but for this it was not
necessary that he should have been born in
Egypt. 1t was enough that he was there
regarded as god, and that is what Pausa-
Mas intends. He wished to say that the
Egyptians worshiped him, and this nestab-
fishes yet another analogy between NapoT
leon and the sun. For, they say that In
Egypt, Napoleon was regarded as clothed
with asupernatural character as the friend
a MOhammed, and that he there received
homage which partook of alteration.
3. They pretend that his mother was
named Letitia; but under the name of Lett
tia, which means .j0g they intend the Au-
rora, whose springing light spreads joy
throughout nature. Aurora, which brings
forth the sun to the world, as poets say, by
opening to him with rosy fingers the gates
OF the east. Now it is very remarkable
,thatin Greek mythology emotherofApol-
lon is called Leto; but while from Leto the
Romans made LatOne, mother OF Apollon,
they have preferred in our age to make OF
it Letitia, because LBtitia is the substan-
tive of the verb LRtor, or OF the unused Le-
to, which means to inspire joy. 1t is then
certain that this Letitia, like her son, is
drawn from the Greek mythology. --H.3
4. Next they narratc that this son of Le-
titia had three sisters; and it is indubitable
that these three sisters are the three graces,
which, with the muses., their companions,
were the ornament and the charm Of the
court Apollo, their brother.
3. They say that this modern Apolon had
four brothers; but these four brothers are
the four seasons OF the year. Here, let
none be disturbed at seeing the seasons rep
resented by men rather than by women,
since, in French, OF the four seasons, one
only, autumn, is feminine, and our gram
marians are not agreed with regard to that.
OF the four brothers of Napoleon. three
were kings; the Spring, which reigns over
flowers; Summer, which reigns over har-
vest; and Autumn, which reigns over fruits
And as these three seasons derive all their
powerful influence from the sun, they tell
us that the three brothers of Napoleon de-
rive from him their royalty, and reign only
by him. And when it is added that of the
four brothers of Napoleon there was one
who was not king, this is because of the
four seasons there is one, Winter, which
reigns over nothing. But if, to weaken
our parallel, any should affirm that Winter
is not without empire, and should attribute
TO him the mOurniul principalty of frost
and snow, which in that sad season whiten
our fields, our answer is athand. This, say
we, is just what is sought to be indicated
by that vain and ridiculous principality
with which they pretend that this brother
of Napoleon was clothed after the fall of all
his family, a principalty which they have
chosen to attach to the village of Canine,
because Canine comes from CAM, which
means the white hairs of the winter of old
age. "Cum geLidaS creScit CAMS in nsOntiJuS
h,lnlor."
Hence the pretended Prince of Canine is
nothing more than winter persOniiied; win
ter, which commences when there remains
nothing of the three fine seasons, and when
the sun is at the furthest remove from our
country, invaded by the spirited chiidron Of
the North, name which the poets give to
the winds that, coming from those cOun-
tries, discolor vItr fields and cover them
with an odius white. This has furnished
the subject of that fabulous invasion of the
people of the North into France, where
they are said to have made to disappear q
drapeau of divers colors with which it was
embelished, substituting for it a white flag,
which was to cover everything after the
withdrawal of the fabulous Napoleon.
6. According to the same fables Napoleon
had two wives; and so two were attributed
to the sun-the moon by the Greeks and
the earth by the Egyptians; with this re-
markable difference-that by one the sun
had no posterity, and by the other he had
one son, one only son, Horus, sun, of Osiris
and lsis-that is, of the sun and the earth.
This is an Egyptian allegory, in which Ho-
rus, born of the earth, impregnated by
the sun, represents the fruits of agriculture,
and the birth of the pretended son of Ma
.poleOn is placed at the Goth of March, the
ON hanoncn in tla tho
productions OF agriculture begin their great
development.
7. They say that Napoleon put an end to
devastating scOurge which terrorized all
France, and which is called the Hydra of
Revolution. But hydra is serpent, and
this is the serpent Python, an enormous
reptile, which was in Greece the cause of
extreme terror, which Apollon scattered by
killing the monster-his first exploit
Hence the story that Napoleon began his
reign by eXtinguishing the French Revolu-
tion is as chimerical as all the rest; for rev.
Clution is derived from the Latin word req
olatoS, which means a serpent coiled upon
himself. 1t is Python, and nothing more.
s. The celebrated warrior of the nine
teenth century had twelve marshals of his
empire at the head of his armies, and four
in non-activity; but the twelve are the
twelve signs of the zodiac marching under
the orders of the sun Napoleon, and each
commanding division of the innumerable
army of stars, which is called in the Bible
the heavenly host. These are the twelve
marshals who, according to our fabulous
chronicles, were in active service under the
Emperor Napoleon; and the four others are
the Cardinal points, which, immovable in
the midst of general motion, are well rep
resented by the non-activity ascribed to
them. All these marshals are purely SYM
bolic beings which had no more reality than
their chief.
Finally, the sun rises in the east and sets
in the west, as every one knows; but for
spectators, situated at the extremity of the
earth, the sun seems in the morning to come
up out OF the eastern sea, and at evening
to plunge into the western. 1t isthus that
allpoets have painted his rising and setting.
Here we see what we ought to understand
when they tell us that Napoleon came from
Egypt by the eastern sea to reign over
France, and that he disappeared in the
western sea after reign of twelve years,
which are none other than the twelvehour
OF the day, the hours in which the sun
shines above the horizon. Hereigned but
a day." says the author of Nouvelles Mes
sentences, in speaking OF Napoleon, and
the manner in which he describes his eleva-
tion, his decline and his fall proves that
this charming poet (Casimer Delayigne),
like ourselves, sees in Napoleon only an,
image of the sun. This is proved by his
name, by the name of his mother, his three
sisters, his four brothers, his two wives, his
son, his Marshals, and his exploits. 1t is
proved by the place of his birth, by the re-
gion whence they say he came, in entering
upon his career of triumph, by the time Of
through that career, by the coun-