Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, With Some Others, Described

• The dignity of the study of antiquities, Page 1, 46
• Religion the principal purpose of life, 6, 7, 55, 85, 100
• The patriarchal and Christian religion the same, 4, 6, 62, 68, 89, 102
• Publick religion began with Adam’s grandson, Enos, 2, 6
• Exercis’d in a publick place call’d a temple, 3, 7, 25
• A temple was an open circle of stones, 4, 8
• Groves planted as cathedrals, summer-temples, 4, 5
• Groves and temples equivocal, ibid.
• The Druid temples were patriarchal, 4, 5, 102
• Heathen remains of patriarchal temples, 5, 8, 33, 52, 83
• Our patriarchal round temples often dedicated to the sun, 9, 67
• Likewise to dead heroes who built them, 13, 84, 95, 98, 101
• Publick religion was on a stated day, the sabbath, 6, 36, 68
• Heathen remains of the sabbath, 68
• The ordinary service of publick religion was call’d invoking, 3, 4, 6
• Heathen remains of invoking, 4, 6
• This implies an expected mediator, Messiah, 3, 6
• Jehovah was the Messiah who appear’d visibly, 3, 6
• Knowledge of the nature of the deity, the highest wisdom, 7, 85, 90
• From that knowledge idolatry first began, 62, 84, 89, 101
• Sacrificing was the extraordinary service of religion, 4, 38
• At the four solar ingresses, 68
• Temples were form’d on figures of the symbol of the deity, 8, 9, 92
• Whence thought prophylactic, to guard the ashes of the dead, 41, 52, 82, 95
• When desecrated to idolatry, the Mosaic tabernacle was order’d; square and cover’d, 3, 5, 8, 14, 24, 62, 72

• Three kinds of Druid or patriarchal temples, from the threefold symbol of the deity. First, the circle, 9
• The circle, the symbol of the Supreme, 54, 61
• The Supreme, as invisible, had no picture, no name, 3, 50, 62, 98
• Called As, Atys, Hesus, by the Druids, 100
• Rowldrich temple described, as an example of the first kind, 10
• The requisites of a Druid temple drawn up, 10, 13

• The Second kind of temple, the circle and snake, Dracontium, 9, 54
• ABURY, a serpentine temple of the second kind, described, 14
• Another at Shap in Northumberland, 62
• Another at Classerness, ibid.
• Of the symbol of the snake, 49, 54, 56, 92
• It means the divine Son, 55, 60, 61, 62, 93, 94
• The Druids’ great regard to it, 56
• The natural history of the serpent, 50, 57
• Origin of serpent worship, 59
• Of symbols in general, 55
• It was the ancient form of writing, 56
• The divine Son call’d Phtha, νους ἑτερος, mind, creator, wisdom, word, Logos, 50, 61, 62, 88
• He was Jehovah, the Mediator, who appeared visibly, 3
• He was called the NAME, 3, 6, 100
• Called Belenus by the Druids, 100
• Of the kebla or central obelisc in our temples, called ambre, 5, 23, 24, 67, 100
• Became idols, 5, 67
• The petra ambrosia of the heathen, 24, 75, 82
• Of the cove, or ansæ, 5, 23, 100
• Kist vaen, 13
• Indicative of the divine presence, 24
• The Hakpen, or snake’s head, 15, 31, 32
• Heathen remains of such, 33, 84, 97
• The snake’s tail, 36, 37, 52

• The whole symbol of the deity was a circle, snake, and wings; call’d Cnephtha, 9, 29, 54, 62, 92, 93
• Heathen remain of this in Medusa’s head, 69, 93
• The Third sort of Druid temple form’d like the circle and wings, alate temples, 9, 76, 83, 92
• This figure call’d Cneph, means the divine spirit, or anima mundi, 62, 92, 93
• An alate temple of the Druids on the banks of the Humber, described, 92
• An alate temple on Navestock-common, 96
• Another in Cornwall, 97
• Another in the isle of Scianach, ibid.
• Hence the Mercury of the heathen, 84, 98, 101
• The same as Neptune, 84, 94, 98
• Same as Taranus, Thoth, 101
• Same as Hermes, 98
• Same as Canaan, ibid.
• An alate temple over the tomb of Canaan, ibid.
• By the lake Canopus, 96
• In the isle Chios, 98
• In the isle of Cyprus, 97
• At the tomb of Hermes or Lud, 98
• At the tomb of Memnon, 95
• Over the tomb of Neptune or Tarsis, 98
• In the isle of Rhodes, 95, 97
• In the isle of Tenos, 97
• The crab likewise a symbol of the anima mundi, 76

• Serpentine temples, Dracontia, built by the ancients, 9, 61
• By Phut or Typhon, son of Cham, 61, 63
• The history of Phut, 64
• His effigies, 66
• The patriarchal and heathen genealogy, 65
• The heroical effigies of Phut’s mother, 66

• Dracontia built by the Tyrian Hercules, 70, 75, 76
• He was a great navigator, and had the use of the compass, 97
• His history and time fixed, 53, 71
• He planted Britain, 53, 77, 78
• He was king in Egypt when Abraham went thither, 72
• He learn’d religion and other things from Abraham, 74, 76
• He built temples wherever he came, thence call’d Saxanus, 74
• He brought the use of alphabet-writing hither, 73
• He had a son call’d Isaac, 76
• Apher, grandson of Abraham, a companion of Hercules in planting Britain, 70, 77
• Of Albion and Bergion, 77

• Dracontia built by Cadmus, 34, 80
• History of Cadmus son of Canaan, 79
• The Cadmonites related to the Jews, 84
• Serpentine temples at Acon, 75
• At Colchis, 69
• By Damascus, 84
• By the tomb of Orpheus, 95
• By the river Orontes, 69
• At Parnassus, 67
• In the isle of Rhodes, 95
• At Sarephtha, 82
• At Tyre, 75

• The Druid measure, cubit, stadium, 11, 19, 31
• A demonstration of the Druid works prior to roman times, 26, 43, 45
• A Druid celt or hatchet found at Abury, 27
• Another at Stonehenge, 41
• The time of founding Abury conjectured, 52
• The founder’s tumulus, Silbury-hill, 41
• A conjecture concerning his name, 42
• A conjecture concerning the time of his death, 44
• The founder of Abury’s bridle dug up, 42

• Antediluvian bones, 17, 35
• The formation of sarsens, 16
• British beads, urns, &c. dug up, 44, 45
• Heathen barrows like ours, 42, 44, 46, 52, 66, 98
• Conjecture concerning the age of Abury, from the wear of the weather, 17, 38
• From the Variation of the magnetic needle, 51, 52
• Of the use of the loadstone of old, 51, 96
• Seems to have been known to Noah, to Japhet, to Phut, to Hercules, 97
• A magnetic needle among the constellations, ibid.

• The origin of alphabet-writing, 56, 73
• The patriarchal genealogy, 65
• Origin of Egyptian learning from Abraham and Joseph, 72, 74
• The reason of the Mosaic institution, 8, 62, 72
• Of mythology, the oldest heathen history, 13, 31, 33, 63, 76, 83
• Our present reports at the Druid temples the same mythology, 5, 13, 76, 83
• Why EI inscrib’d on the door at Delphos, 100
• Temples made on account of sepulchres, 13, 41
• Typhon’s couch, what it means, 66, 98
• The atlantic islands, where, 14
• Of Solomon’s temple, 38, 39
• The astonishing tumulus of Silbury, 41, 42, 43
• Of british chariots, 42
• Why antient temples regarded the east, 50, 51
• Origin of animal-worship, 55
• Origin of the Phallus, 60

• The Roman road, Runway, Via Badonica, 26, 30, 32, 43
• A demonstration that ’tis later than our works, 26, 27, 43
• A demonstration that ’tis later than the Wansdike, 27
• King Divitiacus founder of Devizes, 27
• Cunetio Marlborough, 19, 26
• Verlucio Hedington, 27

ETYMOLOGY.

• Abl, Hal, Healle, 19
• Au, Aux, Awy, ibid
• As, Ata, Atys, 100
• Atlas, 9
• Apher, 77
• Avim, Hevæus, 81, 98
• Athamanes, 71
• Belenus, Baal, Bel, Belus, 100
• Bratanac, 77
• Beth, 5
• Canopus, 94, 96
• Cnephtha, 93
• Cronius, 97
• Cneph, 92
• Cromlechen, 49
• Dionysus, 11, 98
• Efi, 100
• Esar-haddon, ibid.
• Elohim, 71
• Elagabalus, 24
• Gilgal, 11
• Genessa, Geneva, Gnaphalus, Gnavus, 96
• Gable, Gaveloc, 9, 24, 29
• Hesus, 100
• Har, 67
• Hakpen, 16, 31, 32, 75, 76
• Hycsi, 71, 78
• Javelin, 9, 24, 25
• Kibla, ibid.
• Kist-vaen, 12, 49
• Knave, Knap, 96
• Kneph, 62
• Magus, 38, 55, 69
• Neptune, 94
• Nebula, Nebulo, 96
• Nahas, 67
• Nesi, 72
• Ogmius, 73
• Parnassus, Larnassus, 67
• Ptha, 62, 93
• Rhwl drwyg, 11, 12
• Rhode, Rod, 97
• Sarsens, 16, 48
• Sarephtha, 82
• Scianach, 97
• Taramis, Thoth, 101
• Themis, 67
• Titans, 71
• Tempe, Temple, 7, 25
• Knowledge of the nature of the deity, the most valuable, 7, 85, 90, 100
• Of divine geniture, a metaphysical discourse, 49, 50, 85, 99
• Of divine procession, 100
• This doctrine is discoverable by reason, 85, 99, 100
• The Druids came from Phœnicia, 38, 42, 51, 73, 78
• The Druids were not idolaters, preface, 24, 51, 85
• They were a great and learned people, 38, 49, 76
• They were disciples of Abraham, 5, 35, 73, 74, 76, 85
• Of the patriarchal religion, 11, 37, 51, 55, 62, 69, 85, 102
• They observ’d the sabbath, 6, 35
• A proof that the patriarchs observ’d the sabbath, 68
• Tithe paid by the patriarchs, 68
• Baptism and sponsors in the patriarchal religion, 76
• The Druids built our temples of stones untouch’d of tool, 20, 21, 39
• Groves not their only temples, 5
• They bore a celt on a staff ordinarily, 27
• Abaris a hyperborean Druid, 96
• Chyndonax a gallic arch-druid, 49
• They believ’d a future state, and resurrection of the body, 13, 40, 41, 46, 82
• They knew Messiah was to be born at the end of the year, 72
• The yule festival then, 76
• They knew the mysterious nature of the deity, 6, 7, 9, 90
• As the patriarchs, the ancient priests and philosophers, 4, 6, 9, 85, 89, 94, 100
• They believ’d the unity of the divine nature, 100
• All this deducible from reason, 6, 85, 100
• They had knowledge of the cross, 101
• They knew alphabet-writing, 56
• Notions of the magic of the Druids, 21, 38, 69
• Druid houses, 12, 27, 47, 48, 94
• Druid celt or hatchet, 27
• Sharp flints, 33