the Western waters."
(Cox: Aryan Myths, vol. i. p. 223.)

[493:5] See Ibid. vol. i. p. 80.

[493:6] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. 49.

[493:7] Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. i. p. 223.

[494:1] See Tales of Ancient Greece, p. xxxi.

[494:2] PETRAEUS was an interchangeable synonym of the name Oceanus.

[494:3] "Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far
from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee." (Matt. xvi. 22.)

[494:4] See Potter's AEschylus.

[494:5] Matt. xxvii. 45.

[494:6] As the Sun dies, or sinks in the West, blacker and blacker grows
the evening shades, till there is darkness on the face of the earth.
Then from the high heavens comes down the thick clouds, and the din of
its thunder crashes through the air. (Description of the death of
Hercules, Tales of Ancient Greece, pp. 61, 62.)

[494:7] It Is the battle of the clouds over the dead or dying Sun, which
is to be seen in the legendary history of many Sun-gods. (Cox: Aryan
Mythology, vol. ii. p. 91.)

[494:8] This was one of the latest additions of the Sun-myth to the
history of _Christ_ Jesus. This has been proved not only to have been an
invention after the Apostles' time, but even after the time of Eusebius
(A. D. 325). The doctrine of the descent into hell was not in the
ancient creeds or rules of faith. It is not to be found in the rules of
faith delivered by Irenaeus (A. D. 190), by Origen (A. D. 230), or by
Tertullian (A. D. 200-210). It is not expressed in those creeds which
were made by the Councils as larger explications of the Apostles' Creed;
not in the Nicene, or Constantinopolitan; not in those of Ephesus, or
Chalcedon; not in those confessions made at Sardica, Antioch, Selencia,
Sirmium, &c.

[495:1] At the end of his career, the Sun enters the _lowest regions_,
the bowels of the earth, therefore nearly all Sun-gods are made to
"descend into hell," and remain there for three days and three nights,
for the reason that from the 22d to the 25th of December, the Sun
apparently remains in the same place. Thus Jonah, a personification of
the Sun (see Chap. IX.), who remains three days and three nights in the
bowels of the earth--typified by a fish--is made to pay: "Out of the
belly of hell cried I, and thou heardst my voice."

[495:2] See Chapter XXII.

[495:3] Baring-Gould: Curious Myths, p. 260.

"The mighty Lord appeared in the form of a man, and enlightened those
places which had ever before been in darkness;