It might serve as illustration for the relation of the creation, as we read of it at the beginning of the first chapter of the Manava Dharma Sastra, or ordinances of Menu; a book compiled, says the celebrated indianist, H. T. Colebrooke, about 1300 years before the Christian era, and from other and more ancient works of the Brahmins. Said relation completed, however, by the narrative of the myth according to the Egyptians as told by Eusebius in his work _Evangelical Preparations_. Effectively, in the tableau we see represented a luminous egg, emitting rays, and floating in the midst of the waters where it had been deposited by the Supreme Intelligence. In that egg is seated the Creator, his body painted blue, his loins surrounded by a girdle; he holds a sceptre in his left hand; his head is adorned with a plume of feathers; he is surrounded by a serpent, symbol of the Universe. Porphyrius, speaking of Jupiter, the Creator in the Orphic mysteries, says, "the philosophers, that is the initiated, represented him as a man, _seated_, alluding to his immutable essence; _the upper part of the body naked_, because it is in its upper portions (in the skies) that the Universe is seen most uncovered; _clothed from the waist below_ because the terrestrial things are those most hidden from view. _He holds a sceptre in his left hand_ because the heart is on that side, and the heart is the seat of understanding that regulates all the actions of man." [Illustration] And again, "the Egyptians call Kneph the intelligence, or creative power." _Kneph_, or be it _Kaneh_, seems a cognate of _can-hel_, a Maya word the meaning of which is serpent (dragon); they say that this god threw from his mouth an egg in which was produced another god called _Phtha_, (_Thah_ is another Maya word, it means the worker—hence the Maker, the Creator); and Eusebius asserts, "That they represented Kneph, or the Efficient Cause, as a man of a blue color, with a girdle round his loins, a sceptre in his hand, a crown on his head, adorned with a plume of feathers; and that emblematically they figured him under the form of _a serpent_." Will any one with common sense pretend that these conceptions concerning the Creator, we find not only identical, but expressed in like manner and with the same symbols, by the philosophers of India, of Egypt, and of Mayax, are mere coincidences? If they are not the result of hazard, they must have been conceived by the wise men of one of these countries, that, no doubt, in which the civilization was the oldest, and communicated to others; these, in turn, taught them to their neighbors, as we know the Egyptians did to the Greeks. Again, we read in Genesis that at a very early period in man's history, a certain man murdered his brother through jealousy. The victim we are told was named ABEL, his murderer Cain.