.

_Hydaspus_, the river, divided by Bacchus, 51.

_Hypatia_, put to death by a Christian mob, 440.

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_Iamos_, left to die among the bushes and violets, 170;
received from Zeus the gift of prophecy, 171.

_Iao_, a name sacred in Egypt, 49;
probably the same as Jehovah, 49;
the crucified, 484.

_Ida_, the earth, 481.

_Idolatry_, practiced by the Hebrews, 107;
adopted by the Christians, 384.

_Idols_, the worship of, among Christians, 397.

_I. H. S._, formerly a monogram of the god Bacchus, and now the
monogram of Christ Jesus, 351.

_Images_, the worship of, among Christians, 397.

_Immaculate Conception_, the, of Jesus, 111;
Crishna, 113;
Buddha, 115;
Codom, 118;
Fo-hi, 119;
and others, 119-130.

_Immortality of the Soul_, the, believed in by all nations of
antiquity, 385.

_Incas_, the, of Peru, married their own sisters, 537.

_India_, a virgin-born god worshiped in, 113;
the story of Herod and the infants of Bethlehem from, 166;
the crucified god in, 186;
the Trinity in, 370;
our religion and nursery tales from, 544.

_Indians_, the, no strangers to the doctrine of original sin, 189;
they believe man to be a fallen being, 189.

_Indra_, worshiped as a crucified god in Nepaul, 187;
his festival days in August, 187;
is identical with Crishna, 484;
a personification of the sun, 484.

_Infant Baptism_, practiced by the Persians, 318;
by the Etruscans, 320;
by the Greeks and Romans, 321;
by the Scandinavians, 321;
by the New Zealanders, 322;
by the Mexicans, 322;
by the Christians, 323;
all identical, 323.

_Innocents_, the, slain at the time of birth of Jesus, 165;
at the birth of Crishna, 166;
at the birth of Abraham, 169.

_Inscriptions_, formerly in Pagan temples, and inscriptions in
Christian churches compared, 397.

_Incense_, burned before idols or images in Pagan temples, 406.

_Iona_, or Yoni, an emblem of the female generative powers, 199.

_Ioenah_, or Juno, suspended in space, 486.

_Irenaeus_, the fourth gospel not known until the time of, 458;
reasons given by, for there being four gospels, 458.

_Iroquois_, the, worshiped a god-ma