the feast of, 228.

_Patriarchs_, the, all stories of, unhistorical, 54.

_Paul, St._, a minister of the Gospel which had been preached to
every creature under heaven, 514.

_Pentateuch_, the, never ascribed to Moses in the inscriptions of
Hebrew manuscripts, 92;
ascribed to Moses after the Babylonian captivity, 92;
origin of, 93, 96.

_Perictione_, a Virgin mother, 127.

_Perseus_, shut up in a chest, and cast into the sea, 89;
the son of Jupiter by the Virgin Danae, 124;
a temple erected to him in Athens, 124;
a dangerous child, 169.

_Persia_, pre-Christian crosses found in, 343, 344.

_Persians_, the, denominate the first man Adama, 7;
had a legend of creation corresponding with the Hebrew, 8;
had a legend of the war in heaven, 387.

_Peru_, crosses found in, 349;
worship of a Trinity found in, 378.

_Peruvians_, the, adored the cross, 349;
worshiped a Trinity, 378.

_Peter, St._, has the keys of Janus, 399.

_Phallic tree_, the, is introduced into the narrative in Genesis, 47.

_Phallic worship_, the story of Jacob setting up a pillar alludes
to, 46;
practiced by the nations of antiquity, 46, 47.

_Phallic Emblems_, in Christian churches, 358.

_Phallus_, the, a "Hermes," set up on the road-side, was the symbol
of, 46.

_Pamphylian Sea_, the, divided by Alexander, 55.

_Pharaoh_, his dreams, 88;
parallel to, 89.

_Phenician deity_, the principal, was El, 484.

_Philo_, considered the fictions of Genesis allegories, 100;
says nothing about Jesus, or the Christians, 564.

_Philosophers_, the, of ancient Greece, called Christians, 409.

_Philosophy_, the Christian religion called a, 567.

_Phoedrus_, the river, dried up by Isis, 55.

_Phoenicians_, the, offered the fairest of their children to the
gods, 41.

_Phoenix_, the, lived 600 years, 426.

_Phrygians_, the, worshiped the god Atys, 190.

_Pilate_, pillaged the temple treasury, 521;
crucified Jesus, 526.

_Pillars_ of Hercules, the, 79.

_Pious Frauds_, 231.

_Pisces_, the sign of, applied to Christ Jesus, 355-504.

_Plato_, believed to have been the son of a pure virgin, 127.

_Platonists_, the, believed in a Trinity, 375.

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