heel, of Brynhild enfolded within the dragon's
coils, of Meleagros dying as the torch of doom is burnt out, of Baldur,
the brave and pure, smitten by the fatal mistletoe, and of Crishna and
others being crucified.

In Egyptian mythology, Set, the destroyer, triumphs in the _West_. He is
the personification of _Darkness_ and _Winter_, and the Sun-god whom he
puts to death, is Horus the Saviour. (See Renouf's Hibbert Lectures, pp.
112-115.)

[483:2] "In the _Rig-Veda_ the god _Vishnu_ is often named as a
manifestation of the _Solar_ energy, or rather as a form of the Sun."
(Indian Wisdom, p. 322.)

[483:3] Crishna says: "I am Vishnu, Brahma, _Indra_, and the source as
well as the destruction of things, the creator and the annihilator of
the whole aggregate of existences." (Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p.
131.)

[484:1] See Chap. XX.

[484:2] _Indra_, who was represented as a crucified god, is also the
_Sun_. No sooner is he born than he speaks to his mother. Like Apollo
and all other Sun-gods he has _golden locks_, and like them he is
possessed of an inscrutable wisdom. He is also born of a virgin--the
Dawn. Crishna and Indra are one. (See Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. i. pp.
88 and 341; vol. ii. p. 131.)

[484:3] Wake: Phallism, &c., p. 55.

[484:4] See Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 113.

[484:5] Ibid. pp. 115 and 125.

[484:6] See Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 157.

[484:7] Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 88.

A great number of the Solar heroes or Sun-gods are forced to endure
being bound, which indicates the tied-up power of the sun in winter.
(Goldzhier: Hebrew Mythology, p. 406.)

[484:8] The Sun, as climbing the heights of heaven, is an arrogant
being, given to making exorbitant claims, who must be bound to the fiery
cross. "The phrases which described the Sun as revolving daily on his
four-spoked _cross_, or as doomed to sink in the sky when his orb had
reached the zenith, would give rise to the stories of _Ixion_ on his
flaming wheel." (Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 27.)

[484:9] "So was Ixion bound on the fiery wheel, and the sons of men see
the flaming spokes day by day as it whirls in the high heaven."

[485:1] Cox: Tales of Ancient Greece, p. xxxii.

[485:2] Ibid. p. xxxiii.

[485:3] "That the story of the Trojan war is almost wholly mythical, has
been conceded even by the stoutest champions of Homeric unity." (Rev. G.
W. Cox.)

[485:4] See Mueller's Science of Religion, p.