is was known point to this mythology of the
_Dawn_." (Cox: Aryan Myths, vol. i. p. 228.)

[475:4] We also read in the Vishnu Purana that: "The Sun of Achyuta
(God, the Imperishable) _rose in the dawn of Devaki_, to cause the lotus
petal of the universe (_Crishna_) to expand. On the day of his birth the
quarters of the horizon were irradiate with joy," &c.

[475:5] Cox: Aryan Myths, vol. iii. pp. 105, and 130, vol. ii.

[475:6] Ibid. p. 133. See Legends in Chap. XVI.

[475:7] Fiske: Myths and Mythmakers, p. 113.

[476:1] Renouf: Hibbert Lectures, p. 111 and 161.

[476:2] Ibid. p. 161 and 179.

[476:3] Ibid. pp. 179.

[476:4] See Tales of Ancient Greece, pp. xxxi. and 82.

[476:5] The _Bull_ symbolized the productive force in nature, and hence
it was associated with the SUN-gods. This animal was venerated by nearly
all the peoples of antiquity. (Wake: Phallism in Anct. Religs., p. 45.)

[476:6] See Aryan Myths, vol. i. p. 229.

[477:1] See Chap. XXXII.

[477:2] See Tales of Ancient Greece, p. xviii.

[477:3] "The idea entertained by the ancients that these god-begotten
heroes were engendered without any carnal intercourse, and that they
were the sons of Jupiter, is, in plain language, the result of the
ethereal spirit, _i. e._, the Holy Spirit, operating on the virgin
mother _Earth_." (Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 156.)

[477:4] Cox: Aryan Myths, p. 87.

[477:5] See Williams' Hinduism, p. 24, and Mueller's Chips, vol. ii. pp.
277 and 290.

[477:6] See Bulfinch, p. 389.

[477:7] See Renouf's Hibbert Lectures, pp. 110, 111.

[477:8] Manners of the Germans, p. xi.

[478:1] See Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, pp. 81, 99, and 166.

The Moon was called by the ancients, "The Queen;" "The Highest
Princess;" "The Queen of Heaven;" "The Princess and Queen of Heaven;"
&c. She was Istar, Ashera, Diana, Artemis, Isis, Juno, Lucina, Astarte.
(Goldzhier, pp. 158. Knight, pp. 99, 100.)

In the beginning of the eleventh book of Apuleius' Metamorphosis, Isis
is represented as addressing him thus: "I am present; I who am _Nature_,
the parent of things, queen of all the elements, &c., &c. The primitive
Phrygians called me _Pressinuntica, the mother of the gods_; the native
Athenians, Ceropian Minerva; the floating Cyprians, Paphian Venus; the
arrow-bearing Cretans, Dictymian Diana; the three-tongued Sicilians,
Stygian Proserpine; and the inhabitants of Eleusis, the ancient goddess
Ceres. Some again have