When Moses came down from off the Mount, he found the children of Israel dancing around a golden calf, which his brother Aaron had made, and, as his "anger waxed hot," he cast the tables of stone on the ground, and broke them.[58:3] Moses again saw the Lord on the Mount, however, and received two more tables of stone.[58:4] When he came down this time from off Mount Sinai, "the skin of his face did shine."[58:5] These two tables of stone contained the _Ten Commandments_,[59:1] so it is said, which the Jews and Christians of the present day are supposed to take for their standard. They are, in substance, as follows: 1--To have no other God but Jehovah. 2--To make no image for purpose of worship. 3--Not to take Jehovah's name in vain. 4--Not to work on the Sabbath-day. 5--To honor their parents. 6--Not to kill. 7--Not to commit adultery. 8--Not to steal. 9--Not to bear false witness against a neighbor. 10--Not to covet.[59:2] We have already seen, in the last chapter, that Bacchus was called the "_Law-giver_," and that his laws were written on _two tables of stone_.[59:3] This feature in the Hebrew legend was evidently copied from that related of Bacchus, but, the idea of his (Moses) receiving the commandments from the Lord on a _mountain_ was obviously taken from the _Persian_ legend related of Zoroaster. Prof. Max Müller says: "What applies to the religion of Moses applies to that of Zoroaster. It is placed before us as a complete system from the first, _revealed by Ahuramazda_ (Ormuzd), _proclaimed by Zoroaster_."[59:4] The disciples of Zoroaster, in their profusion of legends of the master, relate that one day, as he prayed _on a high mountain_, in the midst of thunders and lightnings ("fire from heaven"), the Lord himself appeared before him, and delivered unto him the "Book of the Law." While the King of Persia and the people were assembled together, Zoroaster came down from the mountain unharmed, bringing with him the "Book of the Law," which had been revealed to him by Ormuzd. They call this book the _Zend-Avesta_, which signifies the _Living Word_.[59:5] According to the religion of the Cretans, Minos, their law-giver, ascended a _mountain_ (Mount Dicta) and there received from the Supreme Lord (Zeus) the sacred laws which he brought down with him.[60:1] Almost all nations of antiquity have legends of their holy men ascending a _mountain_ to ask counsel of the gods, such places being invested with peculiar sanctity, and deemed nearer to the deities than other portions of the earth.[60:2] According to Egyptian belief, it is Thoth, the Deity itself, that speaks and reveals to his elect among men the will of God and the arcana of divine things. Portions of them are expressly stated to have been written by the very finger of Thoth himself; to have been the work and composition of the great god.[60:3] Diodorus, the Grecian historian, says: