The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-12


around Jericho and that the same peo .
pie, in Holland, still circle seven times
around the coffin Of the dead, (All Re.
ligions, p 67.) Just as the AIT ecs
practiced seven circles in marriage, and
again, that about the winter solstice
the Egyptians led their sacred COW,
representatives of the moon, seven
times in procession around the temple
of Isis. (See Ancient Egyptians, Vol.
III, p 3S4.) But the seven days, periods
and circles equate with the four and the
three everywhere. Why2 Because three
mofe numbers added to the fonr were
found to agree with many other strange
things on earth and things that move
in the sea above or in "the waters above
the armament" for we must not forget
thaHthe early inhabitants of earth, per.
haps without an exception, regarded
"the waters above the armament" as
some how a continuation of the oceans
which bounded their sight on the earth.
ly horizon.
The moon which the Hindoos called
abba or "water born," was found to pre-.
sent three distinct phases during each
lunation which we class as new, full
and DID," and between the old and new
moon there were assigned three days
and nights for lis death, burial and
resurrection just as three days and
nights were assigned for the suns ere.
turn" at the winter solstice. 1t was
for those reasons that the mson among
the ancient Africans, Hindoos, Greeks,
and others, was nearly always repre-.
sented by triple forms and associated
with life, death, water, publication, &c.
Now we are prepared to understand the
origin of the sacred seven. The Jews
were in perfect accord with all ancient
races who regarded the sanctity of this
number. Why According to jeremiah
XL w., the Jews burned incense and
poured out drink offerings to the moon,
which they called"the queen of heaven"
They got their sacred seven by blending
their triple moon worship with the
worship of the four wind giants which
giants were afterward figured as four
cherubims in the most holy place of
Solomon's temple.
1t seems that to this day, among some
Of the Jews, at the new moon festival
four persons, types of the wind giants,
read the Pentateuch, and, according to
All Religions of the World, p 76, "some
few days after this festival, the Jews,
being assembled at night on terrace,
or in an open court, consecrate this
planet by praising God," "who hath
been pleased to renew the moon and
who will in the same manner renew the
Jews, his elect people," The prayer
concludes with a blessing to God through
the moon the work of his hands; they
then give three leaps which are to be
regarded as transports of Joy.
Notice now, the three leaps represent
the triple types of the moon and the
fact that the Jews hope to be renewed
as that "water born" orb is renewed
shows that it was their chosen symbol
OF new birth. The same idea is found
in every land. In the Hotentot's fable
of the moon, Insect and Hare, the insect
is instructed by the moon thus: "Go
thou to men, and tell them, as 1 die,
and dying live, so ye shall also die and
dying live," &c. (See Muller's Chips,
Vol. V. p S5,) The Zulu negroes in
Africa, like the Jews, leap thrice in the
air when they see the new moon, and
the moon worshippers of the congo fall
on their knees or stand and clap their
hands and exclaim in the presence of
the new moon, $50 may I renew my life
as thou art renewed" (See Primitive
Culture, Vol. II, p. p. 297, 800, &C.,
But the Redskin is no exception, aside
from all his religious formalities, his
very language proves that he too has
ever associated the moon with the ideas
of life, death, water, etc. For example,
in the old Algonkin, Ojibwa and nine or
ten cognate tongues, the radical nip,
"death," furnishes the root for nipa,
"moon !" nipi, "water;" nipa, "sleep,"
and SO on. Truly, the worship of the
"water born moon" has travelled around
the world. This worship gives us key
to unlock the arcana of the sacred seven
and all the triple rites in the mysteries
of man. 1t explains why the Maya In.
dians, in their ceremonies at the rite of
baptism, which in America was practiced
both by immersion and sprinkling, used
the words, caput zihil, which DR.. Brin.
ton tells US, signifies "to be born again."
corresponding exactly with the Latin
renasci, "to be reborn" In the light of
moon worship we can read the following
significant proceeding, taken from a
memoranda of Capt. Woodes Rogers
Voyage: son the 25th of September
1908. passed the Tropic, when about sixty
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