Fulvhe, like Jupiter e., is the son of Gelus and Terva, In his deified or mundane character, he is " Heaven" or the animated Kosmos; while in his human character he is the son and successor of "Heaven " as universal sovereign, and the "Firet_Man," or Avatar, who' appears after a Deluge which destroys a previous world in consequence of the degeneration of its inhabitants; that is to say, he is the person whom Moses calls Noah, in the Jwman character of that Patriarch' as the First Ancestor and universal Sovereign of the present race of mankind. Thus the ancient Chinese, who considered their Empire as being ce-extensive with the world (FE FA), must be regarded as bearing additional testimony to the truth of the Mosaic statement, so incontrovertibly established yy, Faber, Bryant, and others, viz., that all the f mankind spring from Noah as their common ances-for, Thave already, elsewhere, explained how the First Man is deified by the. Heathen, and confounded with his father Heaven or Crelus, the elder Noah; see "Sinensis" papers No. 6, and second part of No. 8. Thus also Vishnore is Noah and a son of Noah, see Fah. Orig. Idol., vol. li, p. 117; and in the narrative of Menu-Satyavrata translated by Sir Win. Jones, we have a Monarch speaking to his own divine essence; Asiat. Res., val. i. p. 230-234. The same deity, in fact, as Eusebius and others testify, is constantly represented in the Heathen systems as Father and Son according ashe is viewed under different aspects.
But the deified Noah or "Heaven" has, according to Chinese history, five chief Avatars who succeed him inthe government of the world, viz. Fuh-he, Shinnung, Hwang-te, Yaou and Shun." These are the "Five Emperors" of the Yih-king, and the first three, being the triplication of the Chaotic Z¢—or elder Noah, are in reality his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet. They are given as a triplication in the ' Mirror of History." These " Five Emperors" we are told in the Lo-ko, Sec iii Eh. 6, FI 2, were deified in consequence of their virtues. Thus we have here five appearances of the Great Father "Heaven" or Noah, whose "Mind" (jj} Theos or Dens) animates tors." Hence, as Noah and his wife, the great Father and Mother. of all things, were promoted to the Sun and Moon, the chief Inminaries; so, five of their principal descendants were promoted to the five principal planets; and we have here, that union of Sabianism and Demonolatry which was brought to a climax at the tower of Babel, and which was carried thence by the i. ous divisions of the one family of mankind, on their dispersion, to the remotest parts of the world, including China. These seven gods, viz., Sun, Moon, and 5 Pianets are the or Seven Overseers of the Heavens mentioned in the Shoo-king (see Canon of Shun), and correspond to the Tophesemin of Sanchoniatho, &c. The Five Emperors are also represented by different planetary colours, viz., White, Azure, Black, Red, and Yellow. Now these planetary colours of the Five Em-errors or animated planets were evidently rived from Babel, for, we find such colours used in the "Temple of the Seven Spheres," or the Temple of Birs-Nimrud at Borsippa (seo Smith's Bib, Dic. Art, "Tower of Babel") which consisted of seven stages of which the following is the plan given by Dr. Smith, with the colours of each stage stated each, although the bodies are different and hence we are told distinctly that Shang-te or the animated Kosmos is "Heaven and the Five Emperors." This la illustrated by Diagram in Sinensis" paper No. 8, first part; and is a natural consequence of the Theocrasia common to all the Pagan systems.
According to Chinese Cosmogony the first-born god from Chaos is Light, which in the Confucian system is the Intelligent
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