ry accounts of, 5;
Bishop Colenso on, 5;
Persian legend of, 7;
Etruscan legend of, 7;
Hebrew legend of, borrowed from Chaldeans, 98.

_Creator_, the, Jesus considered, 247;
Crishna, according to the Hindoos, 247;
Lauther, according to the Chinese, 248;
Iao, according to the Chaldeans, 248;
Ormuzd, according to the Persians, 249;
Narduk, according to the Assyrians, 249;
Adonis and Prometheus believed to be, 249.

_Creed_, the Apostles', 385;
compared with the Pagan, 385;
not known before the fourth century, 385;
additions to since A. D. 600, 385.

_Crescent_, the, an emblem of the female generative principle, 328.

_Crestos_, the, was the Logos, 487.

_Crishna_, born of the Virgin Devaki, 113;
the greatest of all the Avatars, 113;
is "Vishnu himself in human form," 113;
his birth announced in the heavens by a star, 278;
spoke to his mother shortly after birth, 279;
adored by cowherds, 279;
presented with gifts, 279;
was of royal descent, 280;
performed miracles, 281;
was crucified, 280;
descended into hell, 282;
rose from the dead, 282;
a personification of the sun, 483.

_Cross_, the, used as a religious symbol before the Christian era,
338;
adored in India, 340;
adored by the Buddhists of Thibet, 340;
found on Egyptian monuments, 342;
found under the temple of Serapis, 342;
universally adored before the Christian era, 339-347.

_Crucifixes_, the earliest Christian, described, 203-205.

_Crucifixion_, the, of Jesus, 180;
of "Saviours" before the Christian era, 181-193;
of all the gods, explained, 484, 485.

_Crux Ansata_, the, of Egypt, 341.

_Cuneiform Inscriptions_, the, of Babylonians, relate the legends
of creation and fall of man, 9, 98.

_Cybele_, the goddess, called "Mother of God," 333.

_Cyril, St._, caused the death of Hypatia, 440.

_Cyrus_, king of Persia, 127;
considered divine, 127;
called the "Christ," 127, 196;
believed to be the Messiah, 433;
sun myth added to the history of, 506.

D.

_Dag_, a, Hercules swallowed up by, 78.

_Dagon_, a fish-god of the Philistines, 82;
identical with the Indian fish Avatar of Vishnu,