AMERICAN INDIANS: Otkon (_creator_), Messou (_providence_) Atahuata (_the Logos_). (Called _Otkon_ by the Iroquois, and _Otkee_ by the Virginians). ARMORICA. The korrigans or fays of Armorica are three times three. BRAHMINS: Brahma, Vishnu, Siva. BUDDHISTS: Buddha, Annan Sonsja, Rosia Sonsja. (These are the three idols seen in Buddhist temples; Buddha stands in the middle.) CHRISTIANS: The Father, the Son (_the Logos_), the Holy Ghost. When, in creation, the earth was without form and void, “the Spirit moved over the face,” and put it into order. EGYPTIANS (_Ancient_). Almost every district had its own triad, but the most general were Osiris, Isis, Horus; Eicton, Cneph (_creator_), Phtha. ETRUSCANS. Their college consisted of three times three gods. Lars Porsĕna of Clusium, By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. Lord Macaulay, _Lays of Ancient Rome_ (“Horatius,” 1842). KAMTSCHADALES: Koutkhou (_creator of heaven_), Kouhttigith, his sister (_creator of earth_), Outleigin (_creator of ocean_). PARSEES: Ahura (_the creator_), Vohu Mano (“entity”), Akem Mano (“nonentity”). PERSIANS: Oromasdês or Oromāzês (_the good principle_), Arimanês (_the evil principle_), Mithras (_fecundity_). Others give Zervanê (_god the father_), and omit Mithras from the trinity. PERUVIANS (_Ancient_): Pachama (_goddess mother_), Virakotcha (= _Jupiter_), Mamakotcha (=_Neptune_). They called their Trinity “Tangatanga” (_i.e._, “three in one”). PHŒNICIANS: Kolpia (_the Logos_), Baaut (“darkness”), Mot (“matter”). ROMANS (_Ancient_): Jupiter (_god of heaven_), Neptune (_god of earth and sea_), Pluto (_god of Hades, the under-world_). (Their whole college of gods consisted of four times three deities.) SCANDINAVIANS: Odin (“life”), Hænir (“motion”), Loda (“matter”). TAHITIANS: Taroataihetoomoo (_chief deity_), Tepapa (_the fecund principle_), Tettoomatataya (_their offspring_). Lao-Tseu, the Chinese philosopher, says the divine trinity is: Ki, Hi, Ouei. Orpheus says it is: Phanês (_light_), Urănos (_heaven_), Kronos (_time_). Plato says it is: Tô Agăthon (_goodness_), Nous (_intelligence_), Psuchê (_the mundane soul_). Pythagoras says it is: Monad (_the unit_ or _oneness_), Nous, Psuchê. Vossius says it is: Jupiter (_divine power_), Minerva (_the Logos_), Juno (_divine progenitiveness_). _Subordinate._ The orders of ANGELS are three times three, viz.: (1) Seraphim, (2) Cherubim, (3) Thrones, (4) Dominions, (5) Virtues, (6) Powers, (7) Principalities, (8) Archangels, (9) Angels.--Dionysius, the Areopăgite. In heaven above The effulgent bands in triple circles move. Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, xi. 13 (1575). The CITIES OF REFUGE were three on each side the Jordan.