ek: Euseirou tou Poseidonos]; and to have come
over, and settled in Thessaly, near mount Othrys. According to Antonius
Liberalis, he was very rich in flocks, and a great musician, and
particularly expert in all pastoral measure. To him they attributed the
invention of the pipe. The meaning of the history is, I think, too plain,
after what has preceded, to need a comment. It is fabled of him, that he
was at last turned into a bird called Cerambis, or Cerambix. Terambus and
Cerambis are both antient terms of the same purport: the one properly
expressed is Tor-Ambi; the other Cer-Ambi, the oracular temple of the Sun.

I have taken notice that towers of this sort were the repositories of much
treasure; and they were often consecrated to the Ophite Deity, called Opis
and Oupis. It is the same which Callimachus addresses by the title of
[382][Greek: Oupi, Anass' euopi]: and of whom Cicero speaks, and styles
Upis; [383]quam Graeci Upim paterno nomine appellant. The temple was hence
called Kir-Upis; which the Grecians abridged to [Greek: Grupes]: and
finding many of the Amonian temples in the north, with the device of a
winged serpent upon the frontal, they gave this name to the hieroglyphic.
Hence, I imagine, arose the notion of [Greek: Grupes], or Gryphons; which,
like the dragons abovementioned, were supposed to be guardians of treasure,
and to never sleep. The real conservators of the wealth were the priests.
They kept up a perpetual fire, and an unextinguished light in the night.
From Kir Upis, the place of his residence, a priest was named Grupis; and
from Kir-Uph-On, Gryphon. The Poets have represented the Grupes as animals
of the serpentine kind; and supposed them to have been found in countries
of the Arimaspians, Alazonians, Hyperboreans, and other the most northern
regions, which the Amonians possessed. In some of the temples women
officiated, who were denominated from the Deity they served. The Scholiast
upon Callimachus calls the chief of them Upis; and styles her, and her
associates, [Greek: Koras] [384][Greek: Huperboreous], Hyperborean young
women. The Hyperboreans, Alazonians, Arimaspians, were Scythic nations of
the same family. All the stories about Prometheus, Chimaera, Medusa,
Pegasus, Hydra, as well as of the Grupes, or Gryphons, arose, in great
measure, from the sacred devices upon the entablatures of temples.

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TAPH, TUPH, TAPHOS.

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