out his eyes, 72;
is a dangerous child, 170;
cheered in his last hours by Antigone, 493;
a personification of the Sun, 493.

_Offerings_ (Votive) made to the Heathen deities, 259.

_Olympus_, the, of the Pagans, restored, 398.

_O. M._, or _A. U. M._, a sacred name among the Hindoos, 372;
an emblem of the Trinity, 352.

_Omphale_, the amours of Hercules with, 71.

_One_, the myths of the crucified gods melt into, 492.

_One God_, worshiped by the ancestors of our race, 384.

_Only Begotten Son_, common before the Christian era, 193.

_Oort, Prof._, on the sacred laws of ancient nations, 61.

_Ophites_, the, worshiped serpents as emblems of Christ, 355.

_Orders_, religious among all nations of antiquity, 400-404.

_Origen_, declared the story of creation and fall of man to be
allegorical, 100.

_Original_ Sin, the doctrine of, of great antiquity, 184;
the Indians no strangers to, 189.

_Ormuzd_, the Supreme God of the Persians, 7;
divided the work of creation into six parts, 7.

_Orontes_, the river, divided by Bacchus, 81.

_Osiris_, confined in a chest and thrown into the Nile, 90;
a Virgin-born God, 190;
suffers death, 190;
rose from the dead, 222;
the judge of the dead, 245;
performed miracles, 256;
the worship of, of great antiquity, 452;
a personification of the Sun, 484.

_Oude_, the crucified God Bal-li worshiped at, 188.

_Ovid_, describes the doctrine of Metempsychosis, 43.

P.

_Pagan Religion_, the, adopted by the Christians, 384;
was typical of Christianity, 501.

_Pan_, had a flute of seven pipes, 81.

_Pandora_, the first woman, in Grecian mythology, 10.

_Pantheon_, the, a niche always ready in, of the ancients, for a
new divinity, 123.

_Paraclete_, Simon Magus claimed to be the, 164.

_Paradise_, all nations believed in a, 389, 390.

_Parsees_, the, direct descendants of the Persians, 25;
say that man was once destroyed by a deluge, 25.

_Parnassus_, Mount, the ark of Deucalion rested on, 26.

_Parthenon_, the, at Athens, sacred to Minerva, 333.

_Passover_, the, celebrated by the Jews on the same day that the
Heathens celebrated the resurrections of their Gods, 226;
the Jews used eggs in