Philo explains that there is a vast difference between man as now made and the first man who was made according to the image of God, _De opificio mundi_, c. 46. This idea of an archetypal man was widely spread over Eastern Europe and Asia, and Bousset, _Hauptprobleme der Gnosis_, Göttingen, 1907, Kap. IV., “Der Urmensch,” has collected all or nearly all the references to it in the literature of the period that could be produced up to that date. As to its origin, the issue is still very doubtful. While we should naturally expect to find it in the Babylonian legends, the Tablets of Creation contain no certain allusion to it, while it is certainly to be traced in the Zend Avesta and its related books. Until we are able to compare the dates of these two sources it seems idle to speculate as to which is the original one and which the derived. But see Introduction (pp. lxi-lxiii and note on last page quoted) _supra_. Footnote 136: This is a less primitive and therefore probably later way of accounting for the birth of one spiritual or superhuman being from another, than that of Simon Magus who made his Supreme Being androgyne. Footnote 137: Theocritus, _Idyll_, II. l. 34. For the identity of Hades and Dionysos see Chapter II. vol. I. _supra_. Footnote 138: Pausanias, _Descpt. Graec._ Bk VIII. cc. 17, 20; Arnobius, _adv. Gentes_, Bk V. cc. 5, 7. Cf. Decharme in Daremberg and Saglio’s _Dict. des Antiq._ _s.v._ Cybele. Footnote 139: See Chapter II. vol. I. _supra_. Footnote 140: Clem. Alex. _Protrept_. c. II.; Arnobius, _op. cit_. Bk VI. c. 21, calls it “the well-known senarian verse of a poet of Tarentum,” and connects it with the Sabazian rites, whence it probably found its way to Eleusis. Footnote 141: This relegation of the really Supreme God to an unregarded place in the pantheon is common enough in the history of religions. Thus the Shilluks of the Upper Nile take little notice of their great god Jôk, to whom they only sacrifice once a year, reserving all the rest of their worship for a being intermediate between God and man called Nyakang. See Gleichen, _The Anglo-Egyptian Soudan_, vol. I. pp. 162, 197, and _R.H.R._ 1911, Juillet-Août. Footnote 142: See n. 1, p. 31, _supra_. The _Dea Syria_ was otherwise called Atargatis, of which Derketo was, _teste_ Prof. Garstang, a homonym. See Strong, _The Syrian Goddess_, p. 52 and n. 25. Footnote 143: See n. 1, p. 31, _supra_. Footnote 144: Ramsay, _Cities_, etc., I. p. 9. Footnote 145: Irenaeus, _op. cit_. Bk I. c. 28, p. 227, Harvey. Footnote 146: ἀρσενόθηλυς, Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 1, p. 139, Cruice. Footnote 147: See next note. Footnote 148: