untries, and called
them _Ephesian_, from the city _Ephesus_, where they were first taught. The
_Curetes_, by their manufacturing copper and iron, and making swords, and
armour, and edged tools for hewing and carving of wood, brought into
_Europe_ a new way of fighting; and gave _Minos_ an opportunity of building
a Fleet, and gaining the dominion of the seas; and set on foot the trades
of Smiths and Carpenters in _Greece_, which are the foundation of manual
trades: the [158] fleet of _Minos_ was without sails, and _Daedalus_ fled
from him by adding sails to his vessel; and therefore ships with sails were
not used by the _Greeks_ before the flight of _Daedalus_, and death of
_Minos_, who was slain in pursuing him to _Sicily_, in the Reign of
_Rehoboam_. _Daedalus_ and his nephew _Talus_, in the latter part of the
Reign of _Solomon_, invented the chip-ax, and saw, and wimble, and
perpendicular, and compass, and turning-lath, and glew, and the potter's
wheel; and his father _Eupalamus_ invented the anchor: and these things
gave a beginning to manual Arts and Trades in _Europe_.

The [159] _Curetes_, who thus introduced Letters, and Music, and Poetry,
and Dancing, and Arts, and attended on the Sacrifices, were no less active
about religious institutions, and for their skill and knowledge and
mystical practices, were accounted wise men and conjurers by the vulgar. In
_Phrygia_ their mysteries were about _Rhea_, called _Magna Mater_, and from
the places where she was worshipped, _Cybele_, _Berecynthia_,
_Pessinuntia_, _Dindymene_, _Mygdonia_, and _Idaea Phrygia_: and in _Crete_,
and the _Terra Curetum_, they were about _Jupiter Olympius_, the son of the
_Cretan Rhea_: they represented, [160] that when _Jupiter_ was born in
_Crete_, his mother _Rhea_ caused him to be educated in a cave in mount
_Ida_, under their care and tuition; and [161] that they danced about him
in armour, with great noise, that his father _Saturn_ might not hear him
cry; and when he was grown up, assisted him in conquering his father, and
his father's friends; and in memory of these things instituted their
mysteries. _Bochart_ [162] brings them from _Palestine_, and thinks that
they had the name of _Curetes_ from the people among the _Philistims_
called _Crethim_, or _Cerethites_: _Ezek._ xxv. 16. _Zeph._ ii. 5. 1 _Sam._
xxx. 14, for the _Philistims_ conquered _Zidon_, and mixed with the
_Zidonians_.

The two first Kings of _Crete_, who reigned after the