Chapter 1828

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A good proof that all the Gods, and religious beliefs, and myths have come from the North, which was also the cradle of physical man, lies in several suggestive words which have originated and remain to this day among the northern tribes in their primeval significance; but, although there was a time when all the nations were of “one lip,” these words have received a different meaning with the Greeks and Latins. One such word is mann, man, a living being, and manes, dead men. The Laplanders call their corpses to this day manee (Voyage de Rénard en Laponie, i. 184). Mannus is the ancestor of the German race; the Hindû Manu, the thinking being, from man; the Egyptian Menes; and Minos, the King of Crete, judge of the infernal regions after his death—all proceed from the same word or root.