Pillar_, a, worshiped by the ancients, 46, 47.

_Polynesian Mythology_, in, a fish is emblematic of the earth, 80.

_Pontius Pilate_ (see Pilate).

_Poo-ta-la_, the name of a Buddhist monastery found in China, 401.

_Pope_, the, thrusts out his foot to be kissed as the Roman Emperors
were in the habit of doing, 400.

_Portuguese_, the, call the mountain in Ceylon, Pico d' Adama, 13.

_Porus_, the troops of, carried on their standards the figure of a
man, 198.

_Prayers_, for the dead, made by Buddhist priests, 401.

_Priests_, the Buddhist, have fasting, prayers for the dead, holy
water, rosaries of beads, the worship of relics, and a monastic
habit resembling the Franciscans, 401.

_Priestesses_, among the ancients, similar to the modern nuns, 403,
404.

_Primeval male_, the, offered himself a sacrifice for the gods, 181.

_Prithivi_, the Earth worshiped under the name of, by the Hindoos,
477.

_Prometheus_, a deity who united the divine and human nature in one
person, 124;
a crucified Saviour, 192;
an earthquake happened at the time of the death of, 207;
the story of the crucifixion of, allegorical, 484;
a title of the Sun, 484.

_Prophet_, the, of the Beatitudes, does but repeat the words of
others, 526.

_Protogenia_, mother of Aethlius, 125.

_Ptolemy_ (Soter), believed to have been of divine origin, 127.

_Puranas_, the, 451.

_Purgatory_, the doctrine of, of pre-Christian origin, 389.

_Purim_, the feast of, 44;
the book of Esther written for the purpose of describing, 44.

_Pyrrha_, the wife of Deucalion, 26;
was saved from the Deluge by entering an ark with her husband, 26.

_Pythagoras_, taught that souls dwelt in the Galaxy, 45;
had divine honors paid to him, 128;
his mother impregnated through a spectre, 128.

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_Quetzalcoatle_, the Virgin-born Saviour, 129;
was tempted and fasted, 178;
was crucified, 199;
rose from the dead, 225;
will come again, 239;
is a personification of the Sun, 489.

_Queen of Heaven_, the, was worshiped by all nations of antiquity
before the Christian era, 326-336.

_Quirinius_, a name of Romulus, 126;
educated among shepherds, 208;
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