TACITUS (C.)................ TAYLOR (CHARLES)... TAYLOR (ROBERT). TAYLOR (THOMAS)....... .The Annals of Cornelius Tacitus, the Roman Historian. The History of Cornelius Tacitus. Translated by Arthur .Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and People of Ger- ....Taylor's Fragments: Being Illustrations of the Manners, ........ .The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, .Syntagma of the evidences of the Christian Religion, by ....Taylor's Mysteries; A Dissertation on the Eleusinian ard THORNTON (THOMAS)........A History of China, from the Earliest Records to the TYLOR (E. B.)........ VISHNU PURANA.. VOLNEY (C. F.). WAKE (0.8.).. Treaty with Great Britain in 1842, by Thomas Thorn- ..Researches Into the Early History of Mankind, and the .Primitive Culture; Researches into the Development of ..The Ruins; or, Meditations on the Revolutions of Em- .See Westropp. ...Ancient Symbol Worship. Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity, by Hodder M. Westropp WILLIAMS (MONIER). WISDOM (APOO.).. ... and C. S. Wake, with Appendix by Alexander Wilder, M. D. London: Trübner & Co., 1874. .Indian Wisdom; or Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethnical Doctrines of the Hindoos, by Monier Williams, M. A., Prof. of Sanscrit in the University of Oxford. London: W. H. Allen, 1875. ..Hinduism; by Monier Williams, M. A., D. C. L., Published under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: 1877. .The Book of Wisdom, Attributed to Solomon, King of Israel. WISE (ISAAC M.)............The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth. A Historic Treatise on the Last Chapters of the Gospel, by Dr. Isaac M. Wise. Cincinnati. ADDITIONS TO THIRD EDITION. Beausobres' Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manicheisme, Amsterdam, 1734; Baronius' Annales Ecclesiastici; Hydes' Historia Religionis Veterum Persarum; Rawlinson's Herodotus; Lenormant's The Beginnings of History; Hardwick's Christ and other Masters; Daillé's Treatise on the Right Use of the Fathers, London, 1841; Apollonius de Tyana, sa vie, ses voyages, et ses prodiges, par Philostrate, Paris, 1862; Sir John Malcom's History of Persia, in 2 vols., London, 1815; Michaelis' Introduction to the New Testament, in 4 vols. edited by Dr. Herbert Marsh, London, 1828; Archbishop Wake's Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers, London, 1719; Jeremiah Jones' Canon of the New Testament, in 3 vols., Oxford, 1793; Milman's History of Christianity; Barrow's Travels in China, London, 1840; Deane's Worship of the Serpent, London, 1833; Baring-Gould's Lost and Hostile Gospels, London, 1874; B. F. Westcott's Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament, 4th Edit., London, 1875; Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, in 6 vols., Amer. ed. 1810; J. W. Rosses' Tacitus and Bracciolini, London, 1878; and the writings of the Christian Fathers, Justin Martyr, St. Clement of Alexandria, Irenæus, Origen, Tertullian and Minucius Felix. BIBLE MYTHS. PART I. THE OLD TESTAMENT. CHAPTER I. THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN. THE Old Testament commences with one of its most interesting myths, that of the Creation and Fall of Man. The story is to be found in the first three chapters of Genesis, the substance of which is as follows: After God created the "Heavens" and the "Earth," he said: "Let there be light, and there was light," and after calling the light Day, and the darkness Night, the first day's work was ended. God then made the "Firmament," which completed the second day's work. Then God caused the dry land to appear, which he called "Earth," and the waters he called "Seas." After this the earth was made to bring forth grass, trees, &c., which completed the third day's work. The next things God created were the "Sun," The idea that the sun, moon and stars were set in the firmament was entertained by most nations of antiquity, but, as strange as it may appear, Pythagoras, the Grecian philosopher, who flourished from 540 to 510 B. c.-as well as other Grecian philosophers-taught that the sun was placed in the centre of the universe, with the planets roving round it in a cir "Moon" and cle, thus making day and night. (See Knight's Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 59, and note.) The Buddhists anciently taught that the universe is composed of limitless systems or worlds, called sakwalas. They are scattered throughout space, and each sakwala has a sun and moon. (See Hardy: Buddhist Legends, pp. 80 and 87.) "Stars," and after he had set them in the Firmament, the fourth day's work was ended.' After these, God created great "whales," and other creatures which inhabit the water, also "winged fowls." This brought the fifth day to a close. The work of creation was finally completed on the sixth day,' when God made "beasts" of every kind, "cattle," 66 creeping things," and lastly "man," whom he created "male and female," in his own image.* 4 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day, from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." After this information, which concludes at the third verse of Genesis ii., strange though it may appear, another account of the Creation commences, which is altogether different from the one we have just related. This account commences thus: "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day (not days) that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens." 6 It then goes on to say that "the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground," which appears to be the first thing he made. After planting a garden eastward in Eden, the Lord God put the man therein, "and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life,' also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of 1 Origen, a Christian Father who flourished about A. D. 230, says: "What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second, and third days, in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars ?" (Quoted in Mysteries of Adoni, p. 176.) 2 "The geologist reckons not by days or by years; the whole six thousand years, which were until lately looked on as the sum of the world's age, are to him but as a unit of measurement in the long succession of past ages." (Sir John Lubbock.) "It is now certain that the vast epochs of time demanded by scientific observation are incompatible both with the six thousand years of the Mosaic chronology, and the six days of the Mosaic creation." (Dean Stanley.) 3 "Let us make man in our own likeness." was said by Ormuzd, the Persian God of Gods, to his WORD. (See Bunsen's Angel Messiah, p. 104.) 4 The number SEVEN was sacred among almost every nation of antiquity. (See ch. ii.) According to Grecian Mythology, the God Prometheus created men, in the image of the gods, out of clay (see Bulfinch: The Age of Fable, p. 25; and Goldzhier: Hebrew Myths, p. 373), and the God Hephaistos was commanded by Zeus to mold of clay the figure of a maiden, into which Athênê, the dawn-goddess, breathed the breath of life. This is Pandora-the gift of all the gods-who is presented to Epimetheus. (See Cox: Aryan Myths, vol. ii., p. 208.) "What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, like a husbandman." (Origen: quoted in Mysteries of Adoni, p. 176.) "There is no way of preserving the literal sense of the first chapter of Genesis, without impiety, and attributing things to God unworthy of him." (St. Augustine.) "The records about the Tree of Life' are |