t 26 and the Phallus and Priapus of Greece and Rome: Whence alfo that general Adoration of the Sun, as the Author of all Fruitfulnefs, which prevailed over the Eaftern, and great Part of the Weitern World. Cufh * or Chus, the Son of Ham, is fuppofed to have been the fecond Zoroafter, and probably deferved the Name as much as his Father. Dr. Hyde t infifts upon a Perfic Zoroafter, (with whom Suidas feems to agree, calling him Zoroafres Perfomedus, and Father of the Magi ), who (if theyare right) mutt be different from thefe abovementioned, becaufe he is stated to have lived fo late as to obtain his Principles of Religion from Abraham, But this Tuition from the Patriarch may well be doubted, Pince the fuppofed Difciple cannot be acquitted of a Sort of philofophical Deifm, if he may of Idolatry itfelf (which Hyde, againft the Opinion of the Fathers, § labours to prove); and therefore could have learned neither of there from the Friend of GOD He even fuppofes, that the Word Brahma or Brahama, among the Egli Indians, might be derived from the Name Abraham; and imagines that Brahamans, or Priefts, is but another Word for Abrahamites. ¶ Cu/h, however, inhabited the Traft about Babylon, or (as Al 2'abari, a Perfian Author of great Authority in the Eaft, affirma) was King of the Territory of Babel;** * Gregorius I.uronenf:s, cited by Mr. Bryant, afferts ; Primogeniti Cham fusi Noëfuit Chus. Hic adPerfas tranfiit, quern Perfm vocita- vere Zoroallrem. Anal. Ant. Myth. Vol. ii. p. izo. t Rel. Vet. Pers. e. xxxii. " SaidAdz: Batrick Myles him Zoro- " daPub, but places him in the Time ofNahor, the Father of rrerah, " before the Days of Abraham." BRYANT'S Anal. Ant. Myth. Vol. ii. p. t*3. l Suions in verb. § 4'heodoras Mopfuefias, or Bp. of Mopfueftia, in particular, wrote three Books againft the Idolatry and Corruption of the Perfian Reli- gion; and concerning the Prefervationof the true Worfhip of GOD, from the Beginning of the World to the Advent of Chri. PrioT. Biblioth. Cod. lxxxi. jr James ii. 23. IT Rel. Vet. Perf, e. z. Ant. Univ. H:ft. Volai. b. r. C. z.. whence
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