[161] III. 1, 7; iii. 9, 7; v. 1, 1; v. 2, 1, and 2; iii. 7, 2; x. 4, 2, and 3. [162] Cf. Volney, "Die Ruinen," 1791 (Reclam), note 83 to chap. xiii. This is the reason why the infant Christ was represented in early Christian pictures lying in his mother's lap or in a cradle between an Ox and an Ass. [163] Jeremias, "Babylonisches im Neuen Testament," 35, note 1. Cf. Dupuis, op. cit., 111 sqq. [164] Dupuis, op. cit., 143 sq. [165] Cf. also Winckler, "Die babylonische Geisteskultur Wissenschaft u. Bildung," 1907. Jeremias, "Babylonisches im N.T.," 62 sqq. The astral references of the Christ myth are very beautifully shown in the "Thomakapelle" at Karlsruhe, where the Master has depicted in costly profusion and unconscious insight the chief points of the Gospel "history" in connection with the signs of the Zodiac and the stars--the riddle of the Christ story and its solution! As is well known, the theological faculty in Heidelburg conferred an "honorary doctorate of theology" upon the Master. [166] "Le Lalita Vistara, traduit du sanscrit en français," i. 76 sqq. [167] Further in R. Seydel, "Die Buddhalegende u. das Leben Jesu," 2nd ed., 1897, and in his "Das Evangelium von Jesus in seinem Verhältnis zur Buddhasage u. Buddhalegende," 1882. Also Van den Bergh van Eysinga, "Indische Einflüsse auf evang. Erzählungen," 2nd ed., 1909. Cf. also O. Pfleiderer, "Das Christusbild," 23 sqq. [168] "Urchristentum," i. 411 sq. [169] Robertson, "Christianity and Mythology," 1900, 129-302. [170] Op. cit., 25 sqq., 239-244; cf., on the other hand, Paul W. Schmidt, "Die Geschichte Jesu erläutert," 1904, 16. [171] Cf. also Seydel, "Evangelium von Jesus," 305 sqq.; "Buddha-Legende," 46 sqq. Also Émile Burnouf, "La Science des Religions," 4th ed., 1885, 105. [172] R. Kessler, "Realenz. f. prot. Theol. u. Kirche," xii. 163. [173] Foucaux, "Le Lalita Vistara," i. 40. [174] Hippolytus, op. cit., 9, 10; Epiphanius, op. cit., 30, 53. [175] Cf. Pfleiderer, "Christusbild," 14 sq. [176] Cf. also Max Müller, "Natural Religion"; Bergaigne, "La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rigveda," 1878-83; Holtzmann, "Agni nach den Vorstellungen des Mahâbhârata," 1878. [177] Rgv. iii. 1, 9, 10. [178] Id. ii. 23; i. 7; xcv. 2, 5; x. 2, 7; viii. 29, 3. [179] Id. iii. 5, 10; i. 148, 1. Cf. also Adalb. Kuhn, "Die Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertrankes," 2nd ed., 1886-9. In Mazdeism also the light is indissolubly connected with the air, passing as this does as its bearer. Cf. F. Cumont, "Textes et monuments," i. 228, ii. 87 sq., and his "Mystères de Mithra." [180] Il., xi. 20; cf. Movers, op. cit., 242 sq. [181] Cf. John x. 3, 7, 9. [182] O. Gruppe, "Griech. Mythologie," 1900, ii. 1328, note 10.