Accordingly, all the ancient
spheres--the Persian, Indian, Egyptian, Barbaric, and Mexican--were
surrounded by the figure of a serpent _holding its tail in its mouth_."
(Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 249.)

[489:5] Wake: Phallism, p. 42.

[489:6] See Cox: Aryan Mytho., vol. ii. p. 128.

[490:1] Being the most intimately connected with the reproduction of
life on earth, the _Linga_ became the symbol under which the _Sun_,
invoked with a thousand names, has been worshiped throughout the world
as the restorer of the powers of nature after the long sleep or death of
Winter. In the brazen _Serpent_ of the Pentateuch, the two emblems of
the _Cross_ and _Serpent_, the quiescent and energizing _Phallos_, are
united. (Cox: Aryan Mytho. vol. ii. pp. 113-118.)

[490:2] Wake: Phallism, &c., p. 60.

[491:1] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 155.

[491:2] Wake: Phallism in Anct. Religs., p. 72.

[491:3] Ibid. p. 73. Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 195.

[491:4] Faber: Orig. Pagan Idol., in Squire, p. 158.

[491:5] Ibid.

[491:6] Kenrick's Egypt, vol. i. p. 375.

[491:7] Ibid.

[491:8] Squire: p. 161.

[491:9] Ibid. p. 185.

[492:1] Squire: p. 169.

[492:2] Lundy: Monumental Christianity, p. 185.

[492:3] "SAVIOUR was a common title of the SUN-gods of antiquity."
(Wake: Phallism in Anct. Religs., p. 55.)

The ancient Greek writers speak of the Sun, as the "Generator and
Nourisher of all Things;" the "Ruler of the World;" the "First of the
Gods," and the "Supreme Lord of all Beings." (Knight: Ancient Art and
Mytho., p. 37.)

Pausanias (500 B. C.) speaks of "The Sun having the surname of SAVIOUR."
(Ibid. p. 98, _note_.)

"There is a very remarkable figure copied in Payne Knight's Work, in
which we see on a man's shoulders a _cock's_ head, whilst on the
pediment are placed the words: "THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD." (Inman: Anct.
Faiths, vol. i. p. 537.) This refers to the SUN. The cock being the
natural herald of the day, he was therefore sacred, among the ancients,
to the Sun." (See Knight: Anct. Art and Mytho., p. 70, and Lardner: vol.
viii. p. 377.)

[493:1] The name _Jesus_ is the same as _Joshua_, and signifies
_Saviour_.

[493:2] Justin Martyr: Dialog. Cum Typho. Quoted in Gibbon's Rome, vol.
i. p. 582.

[493:3] Matt. xxvii. 55.

[493:4] The ever-faithful woman who is always near at the death of the
Sun-god is "the fair and tender light which sheds its soft hue over the
Eastern heaven as the Sun sinks in death beneath