Mythology of the Ancients--Characteristics of the Pagan Deities-- Doctrine of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature--Creation and the Egg--Creation and the Phallus--The Lotus--Osiris as the active, dispensing, and originating energy--Hesiod and the generative powers--Growth of Phallic Worship. CHAPTER IV. 21 Ancient Monuments of the West--The valley of the Mississippi-- Numerous earth-works of the Western States--Theories as to the origin of the mounds--"The Defence" Theory--The Religious Theory--Earth-work of the "Great Serpent" on Bush Creek--The "Alligator," Ohio--The "Cross," Pickaway County--Structures of Wisconsin--Mr. Pigeon's drawings--Significance of earth-mounds-- The Egg and Man's primitive ideas--The Egg as a symbol--Birth of Brahma--Aristophanes and his "Comedy of the Birds"--The hymn to Protogones--The Chinese and Creation--The Mundane or Orphic Egg--Kneph--Mr. Gliddon's replies to certain inquiries--The Orphic Theogony and the Egg--The Great Unity. CHAPTER V. 38 The Sun and Fire as emblems--The Serpent and the Sun--Taut and the Serpent--Horapollo and the Serpent Symbol--Sanchoniathon and the Serpent--Ancient Mysteries of Osiris, &c.--Rationale of the connection of Solar, Phallic, and Serpent Worship--The Aztec Pantheon--Mexican Gods--The Snake in Mexican Theology--The Great Father and Mother--Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent--Researches of Stephens and Catherwood--Discoveries of Mr. Stephens. CHAPTER VI. 60 Mexican Temple of Montezuma--The Serpent emblem in Mexico--Pyramid of Cholula--Tradition of the giants of Auahuac--The temple of Quetzalcoatl--North American Indians and the Rattlesnake--Indian Tradition of a Great Serpent--Serpents in the Mounds of the West-- Bigotry and folly of the Spanish Conquerors of the West--Wide prevalence of Mexican Ophiolatreia. CHAPTER VII. 77 Egypt as the home of Serpent Worship--Thoth said to be the founder of Ophiolatreia--Cneph the architect of the universe-- Mysteries of Isis--The Isiac table--Frequency of the Serpent symbol--Serapis--In the temples at Luxore, etc.--Discovery at Malta--The Egyptian Basilisk--Mummies--Bracelets--The Caduceus-- Temple of Cneph at Elephantina--Thebes--Story of a priest-- Painting in a tomb at Biban at Malook--Pococke at Raigny. CHAPTER VIII. 84 Derivation of the name "Europe"--Greece colonized by Ophites-- Numerous traces of the Serpent in Greece--Worship of Bacchus-- Story of Ericthonias--Banquet of the Bacchantes--Minerva--Armour of Agamemnon--Serpents at Epidaurus--Story of the pestilence in Rome--Delphi--Mahomet at Atmeidan.