Daily Bible illustrations - being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology - Especially designed for the family circle (1850) (14580210537)

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Title: Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Kitto, John, 1804-1854
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York : R. Carter
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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g all the varioustribes and nations of the American continent, where, from thegreat remoteness, we should expect to find but faint tracesof that event. The Mexicans had traditions of a deluge thatdestroyed all animals with the exception of one man and hiswife, w^ho escaped in the hollow trunk of an ahahuete orcypress (gopher) tree. The children born numerously tothem after the subsidence of the waters were dumb, untilthey received the gift of speech from a dove, which cameand perched itself upon a lofty tree. There are Mexicanpaintings of this event extant, in which Coxcox, the Noahof the Mexicans, and his wife Xochiquetzal, are seated in thetrunk of a tree, covered with leaves, and floating amid thewaters,J; while the goddess of water, called Matalcueje orChalchiuhege, pours down her floods upon the earth. In * Sir William Jones in Asiatic ResearJies, iL 376.t Ibid. ii. 116, 117 ; see also i. 230. X Humboldts Vues des Cordilleras pi. 26, pp. 206, 207; also Herrera, to the same effect
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SIXTH WEEK, 2d DAY. TRADITIONS OF fllE DELUGE. 158 th^ different representations of this scene, men are seenswimming and perishing in the waters, and birds are seenfluttering and dying upon the surface, where they have fallenexhausted. In an allegorical painting, which may be found in plate 15of Humboldts Vues des Cordilleras, a serpent cut asunder,but still hving, is seen shut up in a tank full of water, fromthe midst of which a plant arises. To the left is a woman£rowned with a garland, probably the voluptuous Tlamezqui-mille; while to the right is seen a man shut up in a kind ofjar. A personage is also represented to whose victoriousarm the miserable condition of the serpent is to be ascribed.The allegory thus pictured has reference. Humboldt says, tothe serpent which poisoned the w^ter—the source of allorganic life; to the victory over him, like that of Khrishnaover the dragon Kaliya; to the seduction of the world, andto its purification by water. In this we cannot fail to see

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