invoked me as _Juno_, others as _Beliona_, others
as Hecate, and others as Rhamnusia: and those who are enlightened by the
emerging rays of the rising _Sun_, the Ethiopians, Ariians and
Egyptians, powerful in ancient learning, who reverence my divinity with
ceremonies perfectly proper, call me by a true appellation, '_Queen
Isis_.'" (Taylor's Mysteries, p. 76.)

[478:2] The "God the Father" of all nations of antiquity was nothing
more than a personification of the _Sky_ or the _Heavens_. "The term
_Heaven_ (pronounced _Thien_) is used everywhere in the Chinese classics
for the _Supreme Power_, ruling and governing all the affairs of men
with an omnipotent and omniscient righteousness and goodness." (James
Legge.)

In one of the Chinese sacred books--the Shu-king--_Heaven_ and _Earth_
are called "Father and Mother of all things." Heaven being the Father,
and Earth the Mother. (Taylor: Primitive Culture, pp. 294-296.)

The "God the Father" of the Indians is _Dyaus_, that is, the _Sky_.
(Williams' Hinduism, p. 24.)

Ormuzd, the god of the ancient Persians, was a personification of the
sky. Herodotus, speaking of the Persians, says: "They are accustomed to
ascend the highest part of the mountains, and offer sacrifice to Jupiter
(Ormuzd), _and they call the whole circle of the heavens by the name of
Jupiter_." (Herodotus, book 1, ch. 131.)

In Greek iconography Zeus is the _Heaven_. As Cicero says: "The
refulgent Heaven above is that which all men call, unanimously, Jove."

The Christian God supreme of the nineteenth century is still _Dyaus_
Pitar, the "Heavenly Father."

[478:3] Williams' Hinduism, p. 24.

[478:4] Mueller: Origin of Religions, pp. 261, 290.

[478:5] Renouf: Hibbert Lectures, pp. 110, 111.

[478:6] See Note 2.

[478:7] See Cox: Tales of Ancient Greece, pp. xxxi. and 82, and Aryan
Mythology, vol. i. p. 229.

[479:1] Quoted by Westropp: Phallic Worship, p. 24.

[479:2] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 66. "In Phenician Mythology Ouranos
(Heaven) weds Ghe (the Earth) and by her becomes father of Oceanus,
Hyperon, Iapetus, Cronos, and other gods." (Phallic Worship, p. 26.)

[479:3] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 64.

[479:4] See Mallet's Northern Antiquities, pp. 80, 93, 94, 406, 510,
511.

[480:1] See Chap. XIV.

[480:2] See Dupuis: Orig. Relig. Belief, p. 234. Higgins' Anacalypsis,
vol. ii. pp. 96, 97, and Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 272.

[480:3] Extracts from the Vedas. Mueller's Chips, vol.