n called Tarengawagan, 131.

_Isaac_, offered as a sacrifice by Abraham, 38;
parallels to, 39-41.

_Isis_, mother of Horus, 122;
a virgin mother, 327;
represented on Egyptian monuments with an infant in her arms, 327;
she is styled "Our Lady," "Queen of Heaven," "Mother of God,"
&c., 327.

_Islands of the Blessed_, 11;
meaning of, 101, 559, 560.

_Islands of the Sea_, Western countries called the, by the Hebrews,
103.

_Israel_, the religion of, same as the Heathen, 107, 108.

_Italy_, effigies of a black crucified man, in, 197;
the cross adored in, before Christian era, 345.

_Ixion_, bound on the wheel, is the crucified Sun, 484.

_Izdubar_, the Lion-killer of the Babylonians, 74;
the foundation for the Samson and the Hercules myths, 105;
the cuneiform inscriptions speak of, 105.

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_Jacob_, his vision of the ladder, 42;
explained, 42, 104.

_Janus_, the keys of, transferred to Peter, 399.

_Japanese_, the American race descended from the same stock as the,
538.

_Jason_, a dangerous child, 171;
brought up by Cheiron, 171;
the same name as Jesus, 196.

_Jehovah_, the name, esteemed sacred among the Egyptians, 48;
the same as Y-ha-ho, 48;
well known to the Heathens, 49.

_Jehovistic writer_, the, of the Pentateuch, 93.

_Jemshid_, devoured by a great monster, 18.

_Jerusalem_, Jews taken at the Ebionite sack of, were sold to the
Grecians, 103.

_Jesuits_, the, in China, appalled at finding, in that country, a
counterpart to the Virgin of Judea, 119.

_Jesus_, not born of a Virgin according to the Ebionites or
Nazarenes, 134;
the day, month or year of his birth not known, 359;
was an historical personage, 506;
no clearly defined traces of, in history, 517;
his person indistinct, 517;
assumed the character of "Messiah," 520;
a native of Galilee, 520;
a zealot, 522;
is put to death by the Romans, 522;
not crucified by the Jews, 524;
the martyrdom of, has been gratefully acknowledged, 527;
nothing original in the teachings of, 529.

_Jews_, the, where their history begins, 54;
driven out of Egypt, 52;
worshiped Baal and Moloch, 108;
their religi