Eve the mother of, 15.

_Types_ of Christ Jesus, Crishna, Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules,
Adonis, Osiris, Horus, &c., all of them were, 408;
all the sun-gods of Paganism were, 500.

_Typhon_, the destroying principle in the Egyptian Trinity,
corresponding to the Siva of the Hindoos, 561.

U.

_Upright Emblem_, the, or the "Ashera," stood in the temple at
Jerusalem, 47.

_Uriel_, the angel, borrowed from Chaldean sources, 109.

_Ushas_, the flame-red chariot of, compared to the fiery chariot of
Elijah, 90.

_Utsthala_, the island of, 78.

V.

_Valentine, St._, formerly the Scandinavian god Vila, 399.

_Valhalla_, the Scandinavian Paradise, 390.

_Vasudeva_, a name of Crishna, 114.

_Vedas_, the, antiquity of, 450.

_Vedic Poems_, the, show the origin and growth of Greek and
Teutonic mythology, 468.

_Venus_, the Dove was sacred to the goddess, 357.

_Vernal equinox_, the, festivals held at the time of, by the
nations of antiquity, 392.

_Vespasian_, the Miracles of, 268, 269.

_Vestal Virgins_, the, were bound by a solemn vow to preserve their
chastity for a space of thirty years, 403.

_Vicar_ of God on Earth, the Grand Lama of the Tartars considered
to be the, 118.

_Vila_, the god, of the Scandinavians, changed to St. Valentine, 399.

_Virgin_, the worship of a, before the Christian era, 326.

_Virgo_, the, of the Zodiac personified as a Virgin Mother.

_Vishnu_, appeared as a fish, at the time of the Deluge, 25;
the mediating or preserving God in the Hindoo Trinity, 369.

_Votan_, of Guatemala, 130.

_Votive_ offerings, given by the Heathen to their gods, and now
practiced by the Christians, 258, 259.

_Vows of Chastity_, taken by the males and females who entered
Pagan monasteries, 402, 403.

W.

_War in Heaven_, the, believed in by the principal nations of
antiquity, 368.

_Wasi_, the priest and law-giver of the Cherokees, 130.

_Water_, purification from sin by, a Pagan ceremony, 317-323.

_Wednesday_, Woden's or Odin's day, 393.

_Welsh_, the, as late as the seventeenth century, during eclipses,
ran about beating kettles and pans, 536.

_West_, the sun-gods die in the, 493.

_Wisdom_, Ga