Notices of the Heve Language_, p. 26
(Shea's Lib. Am. Linguistics).
[68-1] I refer to the four "ultimate elementary particles" of
Empedocles. The number was sacred to Hermes, and lay at the root of the
physical philosophy of Pythagoras. The quotation in the text is from the
"Golden Verses," given in Passow's lexicon under the word ~tetraktys:
nai ma ton hametera psycha paradonta tetraktyn, pagan aenaou physeos~.
"The most sacred of all things," said this famous teacher, "is Number;
and next to it, that which gives Names;" a truth that the lapse of three
thousand years is just enabling us to appreciate.
[68-2] Ximenes, _Or. de los Indios_, etc., p. 5.
[68-3] See Sepp, _Heidenthum und dessen Bedeutung fuer das Christenthum_,
i. p. 464 sqq., a work full of learning, but written in the wildest vein
of Joseph de Maistre's school of Romanizing mythology.
[69-1] Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, ii. p. 227, _Le Livre Sacre des
Quiches_, introd. p. ccxlii. The four provinces of Peru were Anti, Cunti,
Chincha, and Colla.
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