The Egyptian Pimander says: "I deliver the imthe avenging Demon who loves the guilty and s them with fire." In the New Testament we have her, Spirit and Son.

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notion of a "triad of gods " is unauthorized by the id Sama Vedas. Vishnu was a god of the Gangesrs who was the impersonation of the beneficent influof Nature. Çiva was regarded in the valleys of the laya and the southern part of the Deccan as the unreed mighty Power of Nature producing new life out struction. Soon after Buddha first succeeded in his ings the Brahmans found themselves unable to contest three at once. They therefore adopted first Vishnu Life in Nature) and ascribed to Brahima only the attrie of creation, to Vishnu the preservation of the world. er they adopted also Çiva, the Destroyer. Thus the ahman trinity (Brahma,Vishnu and Çiva) was completed. e fuller development of this Hindu trinity-doctrine bengs to a period later than the Epic poems, that is, later an the second century of our era.'

Sanchoniathon gives us a specimen very much resembling he trinity in Genesis x.

"There were born to Saturn (Noah) in Peraea, three sons, Kronos of the same name with his father, Zeus-Belus and Apollon."-Sanchon. Book I. vi.

Shem (the Sun), Iaphet (Phut, Aphthas, Pthah, Iapetos the Greek Titan, Zeus-Bel) and Cham (Apollo Chomaeus, Baal fervoris, Phut, Puthios, the Hot Deity), in the Bible, are only another version of the Phoenician fable in Sanchoniathon."

Among the immediate offspring of these gods several names of deities are at once recognized. Madai and Iavan (Evan) are names of Bacchus, Tubal is the Egyptian Tob a

3 Champollion, Egypte, Univ. pitt. 142.
See Movers, 265, 360, et passim.

2 Duncker, ii. 215.

name of El, Adoni, Iah, &c.' Among the sons of Cham, Misraim, Phut (Ptah) and Canaan are gods of the Phonicians and Egyptians, and the kingdoms Babel, Arach and Accad are named with names of the Sun. Elam, Shem, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Abar or Eber, Assur, Obal, Ophir and Iobab are all deity-names. Uzal is Asal or Sol the Sun. The principles which lie at the foundation of the tenth chapter of Genesis are the naming of countries after the gods of the nations and the assumption that the gods had been men !

1 Gen. x. 2.

A bower like the garden of youth, a bed of roses bathed in the waters of life! A Persian Fable.

Est ager, indigenae Tamaseum nomine dicunt

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medio nitet arbor in arvo.-Ovid, Met. x.

There was God and Matter, Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, in all things opposed to one another from the Beginning.-Mani, on the Mysteries.

Two females attend the Hindu god Varuna in Hades.' Osiris appears in the under-world attended by two females Isis and Nephthys. Isis is his goddess corresponding to Ceres. Nephthys would seem to be the Infernal Isis the wife of Typhon the ruler in hell. Osiris had his evil side which is Typhon, the Pluto of the infernal regions.' Ceres and Proserpine would correspond to the two goddesses of Varuna and Osiris. Osiris is Dionysus and Pluto. To Ptah also and to Athom the office of presiding in Amenthe was occasionally attributed. Hel, the Sun, becomes Hell, Pluto. Ausel the Sun, Sel, Sol, becomes Sheol (Hades). Iarbas (Apollo), Baal-Iarob, Arab, gives the names Ereb-us to hell, Orpheus to Pluto (?) and Rephaim to the manes. Lacchos, Aiakos, Aguieus (Iauk, Ukko) is Eacus in hell.

Aeacus is his father who laws to "the Silent" (shades) there
Gives, where a heavy rock urges Sisyphus Aeolides!

The Supreme acknowledges Aeacus, and Jupiter

Confesses that the offspring is his own.-Ovid, Met. xiii.

'Zeitschr. der D. M. G. ix. 243.
'Kenrick, i. 334, 340.

2 Kenrick, i. 356, 343.

4 Ibid. 340.

Amanus, the Sun, is Minos (Manu) a judge in Hades. Mentu is the Sun, Mantus and Rhad-amanthus forms of Pluto. Xamolxis the sun-god, the Deity of the Getae, was also god of the dead. At the five-year festivals a man was offered to him in sacrifice. Herodotus says the only deity of the Massagetae was the Sun, to whom they offered horses as did the Persians and Hindus.' Varuna the Hindu Saturn is the yellow old man in hell. He sits on a throne on all four sides of which passages open to the hells. In Egypt Osiris judges the dead in the under-world. Atus or Attes, Tius, Deus, Ad, is Dis (Pluto). Adonis is Aidoneus (Hades). Baladan, Belitan (Baal) is Plutōn. In Hindustan, Yama the sun-god, "son of the Sun" and brother of Manu, is Ruler of the dead." The Mexican Sun (Tonatiuh) conducted to heaven the souls of those who died in war. Mercury, the Arcadian sun-god, conducted to the shades the souls of suitors. Summanus (Esmun the starry Heaven) is both Jupiter and Pluto. Nebo is Mercury (Sol); Anubis is the nether Mercury.'

According to the Egyptian doctrine, the Sun at the fifth hour visited the Elysian fields." Horus and Thoth (sun-gods) weigh the souls in hell. Phre-Atmou is the Celestial Sun (like Tammuz). Atmou (Adam) weighs the souls in the under-world before their transmigration takes place."

For Iahoh weighs the spirits!-Proverbs, xvi. 2.

Mine is the government, men and women of Egypt! Mine, the Most Holy, Author of the services before the Most Holy in the temples of both Egypts

'Arad-Amantus, Erd-Amantus.

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2 Mill, Hist. British India, i. 211;

Herodot. chap. iv. § xciv.; Beloe, vol. ii. p. 393. Kuhn, Zeitschr. for 1853, p. 183; Beloe's Herodot. i. 183. Kuhn, Zeitschr. iv. 101, 123. Lord Kingsborough, vi. 205; Mexique, 25.

Etrusker, Trans. Berlin Akad.; Eschenburg, Manual, 416.

"Gerhard, Gotth. der

Anob is the Sun. Anub-is was by some thought to be Saturn.-Plutarch, de Iside, xliv. He is a god of the souls in Hades. Compare Anob, 1 Chron. iv. 8, Noph, a land, and "Nob the city of the priests" of Neb, Anubis.1 Sam. xxii. 19.