ry particular with that of Christ Jesus) _is called
Aditi_,[475:4] which, in the _Rig-Veda_, is the name for the _Dawn_.
Thus we see the legend is complete. Devaki is Aditi, Aditi is the Dawn,
and the Dawn is the Virgin Mother. "The Saviour of Mankind" who is born
of her is the Sun, the Sun is Crishna, and Crishna is Christ.

In the _Mahabharata_, Crishna is also represented as the "Son of
_Aditi_."[475:5] As the hour of his birth grew near, the mother became
more beautiful, and her form more brilliant.[475:6]

_Indra_, the sun, who was worshiped in some parts of India as a
_Crucified God_, is also represented in the Vedic hymns as the _Son of
the Dawn_. He is said to have been born of Dahana, who is Daphne, a
personification of the Dawn.[475:7]

The _humanity_ of this SOLAR GOD-MAN, this demiurge, is strongly
insisted on in the _Rig-Veda_. He is the son of God, but also the son
of Aditi. He is Purusha, the man, the male. Agni is frequently called
the "Son of man." It is expressly explained that the titles Agni, Indra,
Mitra, &c., all refer to _one Sun god_ under "many names." And when we
find the name of a mortal, _Yama_, who once lived upon earth, included
among these names, the humanity of the demiurge becomes still more
accentuated, and we get at the root idea.

_Horus_, the Egyptian Saviour, was the son of the virgin _Isis_. Now,
this Isis, in Egyptian mythology, is the same as the virgin Devaki in
Hindoo mythology. She is the _Dawn_.[476:1] _Isis_, as we have already
seen, is represented suckling the infant Horus, and, in the words of
Prof. Renouf, we may say, "in whose lap can the _Sun_ be nursed more
fitly than in that of the _Dawn_?"[476:2]

Among the goddesses of Egypt, the highest was Neith, who reigned
inseparably with Amun in the upper sphere. She was called "Mother of the
gods," "Mother of the sun." She was the feminine origin of all things,
as Amun was the male origin. She held the same rank at Sais as Amun did
at Thebes. Her temples there are said to have exceeded in colossal
grandeur anything ever seen before. On one of these was the celebrated
inscription thus deciphered by Champollion:

"I am all that has been, all that is, all that will be. No
mortal has ever raised the veil that conceals me. _My
offspring is the Sun._"

She was mother of the _Sun_-god _Ra_, and, says Prof. Renouf, "is
commonly supposed to represent _Heaven_; but some expressions which are
hardly applicable to