ii. pp. 96 and
187.

[481:1] Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. i. p. 153.

[481:2] Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 133.

[481:3] When Christ Jesus was born, on a sudden there was a great light
in the cave, so that their eyes could not bear it. (Protevangelion,
Apoc. ch. xiv.)

[481:4] "Perseus, Oidipous, Romulus and Cyrus are doomed to bring ruin
on their parents. They are exposed in their infancy on the hill-side,
and rescued by a shepherd. _All the solar heroes begin life in this
way._ Whether, like Apollo, born of the dark night (Leto), or like
Oidipous, of the violet dawn (Iokaste), they are alike destined to bring
destruction on their parents, as the Night and the Dawn are both
destroyed by the Sun." (Fiske: p. 198.)

[481:5] "The exposure of the child in infancy represents the long rays
of the morning sun resting on the hill-side." (Fiske: Myths and
Mythmakers, p. 198.)

The Sun-hero Paris is exposed on the slopes of Ida, Oidipous on the
slopes of Kithairon, and AEsculapius on that of the mountain of Myrtles.
This is the rays of the newly-born sun resting on the mountain-side.
(Cox: Aryan Myths, vol. i. pp. 64 and 80.)

In Sanscrit _Ida_ is the Earth, and so we have the mythical phrase, the
Sun at its birth is exposed on Ida--the hill-side. The light of the sun
must rest on the hill-side long before it reaches the dells beneath.
(See Cox: vol. i. p. 221, and Fiske: p. 114.)

[482:1] Even as late as the seventeenth century, a German writer would
illustrate a thunder-storm destroying a crop of corn, by a picture of a
dragon devouring the produce of the field with his flaming tongue and
iron teeth. (See Fiske: Myths and Mythmakers, p. 17, and Cox: Aryan
Mythology, vol. ii.)

[482:2] The history of the Saviour Hercules is so similar to that of the
Saviour Christ Jesus, that the learned Dr. Parkhurst was forced to say,
"The labors of Hercules seem to have been originally designed as
emblematic memorials of what the REAL Son of God, the Saviour of the
world, was to do and suffer for our sakes, _bringing a cure for all our
ills_, as the Orphic hymn speaks of Hercules."

[482:3] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, pp. 158, 166, and 168.

[482:4] In ancient mythology, all heroes of light were opposed by the
"Old Serpent," the Devil, symbolized by Serpents, Dragons, Sphinxes and
other monsters. The Serpent was, among the ancient Eastern nations, the
symbol of _Evil_, of _Winter_, of _Darkness_ and of _Death_. It also
symbolized