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THE THEOLOGY OF THE PHŒNICIANS: FROM SANCHONIATHO.

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HE supposes that the beginning of all things was a dark and condensed windy air, or a breeze of thick air and a Chaos turbid and black as Erebus: and that these were unbounded, and for a long series of ages destitute of form. But when this wind became enamoured of its own first principles (the Chaos), and an intimate union took place, that connexion was called Pothos:1 and it was the beginning of the creation of all things. And it (the Chaos)2 knew not its own production; but from its embrace…

THE THEOLOGY OF THE PHŒNICIANS: FROM SANCHONIATHO.

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