a panta, taper pepromena kosmoi]
[Greek: Protogonoio Phanetos epigraphe mantipolos cheir.]

The first of them is said to have been coeval with the world.

[1112][Greek: Proten kurbin opopen atermonos helika kosmou,]
[Greek: Ein heni panta pherousan, hosa skeptouchos Ophion]
[Greek: Enusen.]

From hence we find, that Hermon, or Harmonia, was a Deity, to whom the
first writing is ascribed. The same is said of Hermes. [1113][Greek: Hermes
legetai Theon en Aiguptoi grammata protos heurein.] The invention is also
attributed to Taut, or Thoth. [1114][Greek: Protos esti Taautos, ho ton
grammaton ten heuresin epinoesas,--hon Aiguptioi men ekalesan Thouth,
Alexandreis de Thoth, Hermen de Hellenes metephrasan.] Cadmus is said not
only to have brought letters into Greece, but to have been the inventor of
them: from whence we may fairly conclude, that under the characters of
Hermon, Hermes, Taut, Thoth, and Cadmus, one person is alluded to. The
Deity called by the Greeks Harmonia, was introduced among the Canaanites
very early by people from Egypt: and was worshipped in Sidon, and the
adjacent country, by the name of [1115]Baal Hermon.

Europa likewise was a Deity; according to Lucian the same as Astarte, who
was worshipped at Hierapolis in Syria. He visited the temple, and had this
information from the priests: [1116][Greek: hos de moi tis ton Hireon
apegeto, Europes esti (to agalma) tes Kadmou adelphees.] He is speaking of
the statue in the temple, which the priests told him belonged to a Goddess,
the same as Europa, the sister of Cadmus. She was also esteemed the same as
Rhea; which Rhea we know was the reputed mother of the gods, and
particularly the mother of Jupiter.

[1117][Greek: Est' an Rheia tekoi paida Kronoi en philoteti.]

Pindar speaks of Europa, as the [1118]daughter of Tityus: and by Herodotus
she is made the mother of [1119]Sarpedon and Minos.

I have mentioned, that Cadmus was the same as the Egyptian Thoth; and it is
manifest from his being Hermes, and from the invention of letters being
attributed to him. Similar to the account given of Cadmus is the history of
a personage called by the Greeks Caanthus; this history contains an epitome
of the voyage undertaken by Cadmus, though with some small variation.
Caanthus is said to have been the son of Oceanus; which in the language of
Egypt is the same as the son of Ogus, and Oguges; a different name for the
same [1120]person. Ogus, and with the redupli