Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions / Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning

INDEX.

T. W. Doane

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rose from the dead, 228;

a personification of the sun, 492.

Baga, the, of the cuneiform inscriptions a name of the Supreme Being, 391;

is in English associated with an ugly fiend, 391.

Balaam, his ass speaks, 91;

parallels to in Egypt, Chaldea and Greece, 91.

Bala-rama, the brother of Crishna, 74;

the Indian Hercules, 74.

Baldur, called "The Good," 129;

"The Beneficent Saviour," 129;

Son of the Supreme God Odin, 129;

is put to death and rises again, 224;

a personification of the sun, 479.

Bambino, the, at Rome is black, 336.

Baptism, a heathen rite adopted by the Christians, 317;

practiced in Mongolia and Thibet, 317;

by the Brahmins, 317;

by the followers of Zoroaster, 318;

administered in the Mithraic mysteries, 319;

performed by the ancient Egyptians, 319.

Baptismal fonts, used by the Pagans, 406.

Bar-Cochba, the "Son of a Star," 144;

believed to be the Messiah, 432.

Beads (see Rosary).

Beatitudes, the, the prophet of, 527.

Belief, or faith, salvation by, existed in the earliest times, 184.

Bellerophon, a mighty Grecian hero, 75.

Belus, the tower of, 34.

Benares, the Hindoo Jerusalem, 296.

Berosus, on the flood, 22.

Bible, the Egyptian, the oldest in the world, 24.

Birth, the Miraculous, of Jesus, 111;

Crishna, 113;

Buddha, 115;

Codom, 118;

Fuh-he, 119;

Lao-Kiun, 120;

Yu, Hau-Ki, 120;

Confucius, 121;

Horus, 122;

Zoroaster, 123;

and others, 123-131.

Birth-day, the, of the gods, on December 25th, 364.

Birth-place, the, of Christ Jesus, in a cave, 154;

the, of other saviours, in a cave, 155-158.

Black God, the, crucified, 201.

Black Mother, the, and child, 336.

Bochia, of the Persians, performed miracles, 256.

Bochica, a god of the Muyscas, 130.

Bodhisatwa, a name of Buddha, 115.

Books, sacred, among heathen nations, 61.

Brahma, the first person in Hindoo Trinity, of Raam-ses, 123;

of Zoroaster, 123;

of Hercules, 124;

of Bacchus, 125;

of Perseus, 125;

of Mercury, 126;

Apollo, 126;

of Quetzalcoatle, 129.

Confession, the, of sins, of Pagan origin, 403.

Confirmation, the, of children, of Pagan origin, 319.

Confucius, was of supernatural origin, 121;

had seventy-two disciples, 121;

author of the "Golden Rule," 415.

Confusion of Tongues, the "Scripture" account of, 33;

the Armenian tradition, 35;

the Hindoo legend of, 35;

the Mexican legend of, 36.

Constantine (Saint), the first Roman emperor to check free thought, 444;

accepts the Christian faith, 444;

commits murders, 444;

baptized on his death-bed, 445;

the first Roman emperor who embraced the Christian faith, 446;

his edicts against heretics, 446;

his effigies engraved on Roman coins, 446;

conferred dignities on the Christians, 446.

Coronis, the mother of Æsculapius, 128;

impregnated by a god, 128.

Creation, the, Hebrew legend of, 1;

two different and contradictory accounts of, 5;

Bishop Colenso on, 5;

Persian legend of, 7;

Etruscan legend of, 7;

Hebrew legend of, borrowed from Chaldeans, 98.

Creator, the, Jesus considered, 247;

Crishna, according to the Hindoos, 247;

Lauther, according to the Chinese, 248;

Iao, according to the Chaldeans, 248;

Ormuzd, according to the Persians, 249;

Narduk, according to the Assyrians, 249;

Adonis and Prometheus believed to be, 249.

Creed, the Apostles', 385;

compared with the Pagan, 385;

not known before the fourth century, 385;

additions to since A. D. 600, 385.

Crescent, the, an emblem of the female generative principle, 328.

CrÈstos, the, was the Logos, 487.

Crishna, born of the Virgin Devaki, 113;

the greatest of all the Avatars, 113;

is "Vishnu himself in human form," 113;

his birth announced in the heavens by a star, 278;

spoke to his mother shortly after birth, 279;

adored by cowherds, full of interpolations and errors, 454.

Greece, the gods and goddesses of, personifications of natural objects, 467.

Greeks, the ancient, boasted of their "Golden Age," 10;

had a tradition of the "Islands of the Blessed," and the "Garden of the Hesperides," 11;

had records of a Deluge, 26;

considered that the births of great men were announced by celestial signs, 207;

had the rite of baptism, 320;

worshiped the virgin mother, and child, 342;

adored the cross, 344;

celebrated the birth of their gods on December 25th, 364;

worshiped a trinity, 374.

"Grove," the, of the Old Testament, is the "Ashera" of the Pagans, 47.

Gruter (inscriptions of), 397.

Gymnosophists, the, and the Essenes, the same, 423.

Hair, long, attributes of the sun, 71;

worn by all sun-gods, 71, 72.

HÂu-Ki, Chinese sage, of supernatural origin, 120.

Heathen, the, the religion of, same as Christian, 384.

Heaven, all nations believed in a, 389;

is born of the sky, 391, 559.

Heavenly host, the, sang praises at the birth of Jesus, 146;

parallels to, 146-149.

Hebrew people, the, history of, commences with the Exodus, 52-55.

Hebrews, the gospel of the, 455.

Hell, Christ Jesus descended into, 211;

Crishna descended into, 213;

Zoroaster descended into, 213;

Osiris, Horus, Adonis, Bacchus, Hercules, Mercury, all descended into, 213;

built by priests, 391.

Hercules, compared with Samson, 66-72;

a personification of the Sun, 73, 485;

all nations had their, 76;

was the son of Jupiter, 124;

was exposed when an infant, 170;

was called the "Saviour," 193;

the "Only begotten," 193;

is put to death, 485;

is comforted by Iole, 493.

Heretics, the first, 134;

denied the crucifixion of "the Christ," 511;

denied that "the Christ" ever came in the flesh, 512.

Heri, means "Saviour," 112;

Crishna so called, 112.

Hermes, or Mercury, the son of Jupiter and a mortal mother, 125;

is born in a cave, 156;

was called the "Saviour," 195;

the "Logos" and "Messenger of God," 195.

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the martyrdom of, has been gratefully acknowledged, 527;

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Pantheon, the, a niche always ready in, of the ancients, for a new divinity, 123.

Paraclete, Simon Magus claimed to be the, 164.

Paradise, all nations believed in a, 389, 390.

Parsees, the, direct descendants of the Persians, 25;

say that man was once destroyed by a deluge, 25.

Parnassus, Mount, the ark of Deucalion rested on, 26.

Parthenon, the, at Athens, sacred to Minerva, 333.

Passover, the, celebrated by the Jews on the same day that the Heathens celebrated the resurrections of their Gods, 226;

the Jews used eggs in the feast of, 228.

Patriarchs, the, all stories of, unhistorical, 54.

Paul, St., a minister of the Gospel which had been preached to every creature under heaven, 514.

Pentateuch, the, never ascribed to Moses in the inscriptions of Hebrew manuscripts, 92;

ascribed to Moses after the Babylonian captivity, 92;

origin of, 93, 96.

Perictione, a Virgin mother, 127.

Perseus, shut up in a chest, and cast into the sea, 89;

the son of Jupiter by the Virgin Danae, 124;

a temple erected to him in Athens, 124;

a dangerous child, 169.

Persia, pre-Christian crosses found in, 343, 344.

Persians, the, denominate the first man Adama, 7;

had a legend of creation corresponding with the Hebrew, 8;

had a legend of the war in heaven, 387.

Peru, crosses found in, 349;

worship of a Trinity found in, 378.

Peruvians, the, adored the cross, 349;

worshiped a Trinity, 378.

Peter, St., has the keys of Janus, 399.

Phallic tree, the, is introduced into the narrative in Genesis, 47.

Phallic worship, the story of Jacob setting up a pillar alludes to, 46;

practiced by the nations of antiquity, 46, 47.

Phallic Emblems, in Christian churches, 358.

Phallus, the, a "Hermes," set up on the road-side, was the symbol of, 46.

Pamphylian Sea, the, divided by Alexander, 55.

Pharaoh, his dreams, 88;

parallel to, 89.

Phenician deity, the principal, was El, 484.

Philo, considered the fictions of Genesis allegories, 100;

says nothing about Jesus, or the Christians, 564.

Philosophers, the, of ancient Greece, called Christians, 409.

Philosophy, the Christian religion called a, 567.

Phoedrus, the river, dried up by Isis, 55.

Phoenicians, the, offered the fairest of their children to the gods, 41.

Phoenix, the, lived 600 years, 426.

Phrygians, the, worshiped the god Atys, 190.

Pilate, pillaged the temple treasury, 521;

>, 238;

of Arthur, 238;

of Quetzalcoatle, 239.

Seed of the Woman, the, bruised the head of the Serpent, according to the mythology of all nations, 482.

Semele, the mother of Bacchus, 124

Semi-ramis, the Supreme Dove crucified, 486.

Senators, the Cardinals of Roman Christianity wear the robes once worn by Romans, 400.

Serapis, the god, worshiped in Alexandria in Egypt, 342;

a cross found in the temple of, 342.

Serpent, the, seduced the first woman, 3;

in Eden, an Aryan story, 99;

an emblem of Christ Jesus, 355;

Moses set up, as an object of worship, 355;

worshiped by the Christians, 355;

symbolized the Sun, 490;

called the Word, or Divine Wisdom, 490.

Seven, the number, sacred among all nations of antiquity, 31.

Seventh-day, the, kept sacred by the ancients, 392, 393.

Seventy-two, Confucius had, disciples, 121.

"Shams-on," the Sun in Arabic, 73.

Sharon, the Rose of, Jesus called, 486.

Shepherds, the infant Jesus worshiped by, 150.

Shoo-king, the, a sacred book of the Chinese, 25;

speaks of the deluge, 25.

Siamese, the, had a virgin-born god, 118.

Simon Magus, believed to be a god, 129;

his picture placed among the gods in Rome, 129;

professed to be the "Word of God," the "Paraclete," or "Comforter," 164;

performed great miracles, 125.

Sin-Bearer, the, Bacchus called, 193.

Sin, Original, the doctrine of, believed in by Heathen nations, 181, 184.

Siva, the third god in the Hindoo Trinity, 369;

the Hindoos held a festival in honor of, 392.

Skylla delivers Nisos into the power of his enemies, 72;

a Solar Myth, 72.

Slaughter, the, of the innocents at the time of Jesus, 165;

parallels to, 166-172.

Sochiquetzal, mother of Quetzalcoatle, 129;

a Virgin Mother, 129;

called the "Queen of Heaven," 129.

Socrates, visited at his birth by Wise Men, and presented with gifts, 152.

Sol, crucified in the heavens, 484.

Soma, a god of the Hindoos, 306;

gave his body and blood to man, 306.

Sommona Codom (see Codom).

Son of a Star (see Bar-Cochba).

Son of God, the Heathen worshiped a mediating deity who had the title of, 111-129.

Son of the Sun, the name Raam-ses means, 123.

"Sons of Heaven," the virgin-born men of China called,

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