ome very old Indians who resided there, who assured him that
it was the fact."

He then speaks of the difficulty in accounting for this crucifix being
found among the Indians of Cozumel, and ends by saying:

"But if it be considered that these Indians believed that the
Son of God, whom they called Bacob, _had died upon a cross,
with his arms stretched out upon it_, it cannot appear so
difficult a matter to comprehend that they should have formed
his image according to the religious creed which they
possessed."[201:4]

We shall find, in another chapter, that these virgin-born "_Saviours_"
and "Slain Ones;" Crishna, Osiris, Horus, Attys, Adonis, Bacchus,
&c.--whether torn in pieces, killed by a boar, or crucified--_will all
melt into_ ONE.

We now come to a very important fact not generally known, namely: _There
are no early representations of Christ Jesus suffering on the cross._

Rev. J. P. Lundy, speaking of this, says:

"Why should a fact so well known to the heathen as the
crucifixion be concealed? _And yet its actual realistic
representation never once occurs in the monuments of
Christianity, for more than six or seven centuries._"[202:1]

Mrs. Jameson, in her "History of Our Lord in Art," says:

"The crucifixion is _not_ one of the subjects of early
Christianity. The death of our Lord was represented by various
_types_, but _never in its actual form_.

"The _earliest_ instances of the _crucifixion_ are found in
illustrated manuscripts of various countries, and in those
_ivory and enameled forms_ which are described in the
Introduction. Some of these are ascertained, by historical or
by internal evidence, to have been executed in the _ninth
century_, there is one also, of an extraordinary rude and
fantastic character, in a MS. in the ancient library of St.
Galle, which is ascertained to be of the _eighth century_. _At
all events, there seems no just grounds at present for
assigning an earlier date._"[202:2]

"Early Christian art, such as it appears in the bas-reliefs on
sarcophagi, gave but one solitary incident from the story of
Our Lord's Passion, _and that utterly divested of all
circumstances of suffering_. Our Lord is represented as young
and beautiful, free from bonds, with no '_accursed tree_' on
his shoulders."[202:3]

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