[117:1] See Beal: Hist. Buddha, p. 36, _note_. Ganesa, the Indian God of Wisdom, is either represented as an elephant or a man with an elephant's head. (See Moore's Hindu Pantheon, and vol. i. of Asiatic Researches.) [117:2] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. 83. [117:3] Beal: Hist. Buddha, pp. 38, 39. [117:4] Tree and Serpent Worship, p. 131. [118:1] Tree and Serpent Worship, p. 212. [118:2] King: The Gnostics and their Remains, p. 168, and Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 485. R. Spence Hardy says: "The body of the Queen was transparent, and the child could be distinctly seen, like a priest seated upon a throne in the act of saying bana, or like a golden image enclosed in a vase of crystal; so that it could be known how much he grew every succeeding day." (Hardy: Manual of Buddhism, p. 144.) The same thing was said of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Early art represented the infant distinctly visible in her womb. (See Inman's Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism, and chap. xxix. this work.) [118:3] See Bell's Pantheon, vol. ii. p. 34. [118:4] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 185. See also Anacalypsis, vol. i. pp. 162 and 308. [119:1] See Asiatic Res., vol. x., and Anac., vol. i. p. 662. [119:2] Davis: Hist. China, vol. i. p. 161. [119:3] Thornton: Hist. China, vol. i. pp. 21, 22. [119:4] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 184. [120:1] Semedo: Hist. China, p. 89, in Anac., vol. ii. p. 227. [120:2] Thornton: Hist. China, vol. i. pp. 134-137. See also Chambers's Encyclo., art. Lao-tsze. [120:3] Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. pp. 204, 205. [121:1] "The '_toe-print made by God_' has occasioned much speculation of the critics. We may simply draw the conclusion that the poet meant to have his readers believe with him that the conception of his hero was SUPERNATURAL." (James Legge.) [121:2] The Shih-King, Decade ii. Ode 1. [121:3] See Thornton's Hist. China, vol. i. pp. 199, 200, and Buckley's Cities of the Ancient World, pp. 168-170. [121:4] "Le Dieu LA des LAMAS est né d'une _Vierge_: plusieurs princes de l'Asie, entr'autres _l'Empereur Kienlong_, aujourd'hui regnant à la Chine, et qui est de la race de ces Tartares Mandhuis, qui conquirent cet empire en 1644, croit, et assure lui-même, être descendu d'une _Vierge_." (D'Hancarville: Res. Sur l'Orig., p. 186, in Anac., vol. ii. p. 97.) [122:1] See Mahaffy: Proleg. to Anct. Hist., p. 416, and Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 406. [122:2] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 157. [122:3] Renouf: Relig. Anct. Egypt, p. 162. [122:4] See the chapter on "The Worship of the Virgin Mother." [122:5] "O toi vengeur, Dieu fils d'un Dieu; O toi vengeur, Horus, manifesté par Osiris, engendré d'Isis déesee." (Champollion, p. 190.) [122:6] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 406. [122:7] Ibid. p. 247. [122:8] Renouf: Religion of Ancient Egypt, p. 161. [122:9] See Bell's Pantheon, vol. ii. pp. 67 and 147. [122:10] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 248. [123:1] Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 407.