In the caves of Ellora is a figure of Indruna seated on a lounge, with her infant son god pointing toward heaven, with the same gestures as of the Italian Madonna and her child. Horus, Ishter, Venus, Juno, and a host of Pagan goddesses, have been called Queen of Heaven, Queen of the Universe, Mother of God, Spouse of God, the Celestial Virgin. The Buddhists believe that Maha Maya, the mother of Gotama, was an immaculate virgin, and conceived him through a divine influence. Perictione, a virgin, immaculately conceived Plato through the influence of the god Apollo. The ancient Mexicans, though they believed in one Almighty Invisible God, had minor deities, the chief among them being the god, born of a virgin, conceived by a ball of light colored feathers floating in the air. Says a writer, “Hundreds of Christs and virgins are being continually born into the world in Russia, and find thousands of worshipers and disciples.” So great is the resemblance of these virgins and goddesses to the alleged character and adoration of Mary, that the Romish Church should be indicted for its false claims to a patent to which it has no right or title. Bishop Newton, of the English Church, asks, “Is not the worship of saints and angels now in all respects the same that the worship of demons was in former times? The name only different, the thing is identically the same ... the very same temples, the very same images, which were once consecrated to Jupiter, and the other demons, are now consecrated to the Virgin Mary and other saints ... the whole of Paganism is consecrated and applied to Popery.” The testimony of Abbe Huc, a Romish priest, of what he saw in Tibet, is not to be doubted. “One cannot fail being struck with their great resemblance with the Catholicism. The Bishop’s crosier, the mitre, the dalmatic, the round hat that the great lamas wear in travel ... the mass, the double chair, the psalmody, the exorcisms, the censer with five chains to it, opening and shutting at will, the blessings of the lamas, who extend their right hands over the heads of the faithful ones, the rosary, the celibacy of the clergy, the penances and retreats, the cultus of the saints, the fasting, the processions, the litanies, and holy water, similarities of the Buddhists with ourselves. Besides, they have the tonsure, relics, and the confessional.” The Catholics, to account for these things, attribute them to the devil. “Bad as he is, the devil may be abused, Be falsely charged and causelessly accused, When men, unwilling to be blamed alone, Shift off their crimes on him, which are their own.” Instead of the thousands of imaginary gods and semi-gods of the ancients, the Christian Church has its calendars of saints. In place of the oracles of mythology, the church has its priests, who presume to know all the purposes of the Almighty and to speak for Him. The old system in new clothes.