e along with an ark and take them all in. He told
him to pick out seven saints. And the fish towed the ark along tied to
its horns, and took them in and carried them to the top of a mountain,
where he hitched the ark to a tree. When the waters receded, they came
out and followed them down until they reached the plain. There were
the same number--eight--in this ark as there were with Noah.

I find that the myth of the virgin mother is universal. The virgin
mother is the earth. I find also in countries the idea of a trinity.
In Egypt I find Isis, Osiris, and Horus. This idea prevailed in
Central America among the Aztecs. We find the myth of the judgment
almost universal. I imagine men have seen so much injustice here that
they naturally expect that there must be some day of final judgment
somewhere. Nearly every theist is driven to the necessity of having
another world in which his god may correct the mistakes he has made in
this. We find on the walls of Egyptian temples pictures of the
judgment; the righteous all go on the right hand, and those unworthy on
the left. The myth of the sun god was universal. Agni was the sun god
of the Hindoos. He was called the most generous of all gods, yet he
ate his own father and mother. Baldur was another sun god; he was a
sun myth. Hercules was a sun god, and so was Samson. Jonah, too, was
a sun god, and was swallowed by a fish. So was Hercules, and a
wonderful thing is that they were swallowed in about the same place,
near Joppa. Where did the big fish go? When the sun went down under
the earth, it was thought to be followed by the fish, which was said to
swallow it, and carry it safely through the under world. The sun thus
came to be represented as the body of a woman with the tail of a fish,
and so the mermaid was born. Another strange thing is that all the sun
gods were born near Christmas. The myth of Red Riding Hood, was known
among the Aztecs. The myth of eucharist came from the story of Ceres
and Bacchus. When the cakes made by the product of the field were
eaten, it was the body of Ceres, and when the wine was drank it was the
blood of Bacchus. From this idea the eucharist was born. There is
nothing original in christianity. Holy water! Another myth. The
Hindoos imagined that the water had its source in the throne of God.
The Egyptians thought the Nile sacred. Greece was settled by Egyptian
colonies, and they carried with them the water of the Nile, a