"Among the people of Bogota (South America) the Sun and Moon were, likewise, the chief objects of veneration." "The Sun was the chief object of religious worship among the Natchez," &c. [Vol. v. b. iv. p. 373-4.] The latter, perhaps, were located upon the Mississippi, when the Tyrian-Americans coasted the Gulf of Mexico, as the Tribe of Natchez was the only one in that part of the Continent, that practised the Tyrian Customs. Upon an _emblem_ of this Goddess, will be established one of the strongest analogies. The reader will be startled at the following proposition,--but it is no less the fact,--and it is given with peculiar force to sustain identity--viz., _that the emblem of the_ CROSS (as seen at Palenque) _proves the Mexican Aborigines to have been Tyrians_! In the first book of Kings [ch. xi.] it is recorded that SOLOMON among his wives, had many Sidonians,--that they "turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his GOD, as was the heart of DAVID his father.--For SOLOMON went after [worshipped] _Ashtoreth, the Goddess of the Sidonians_." (_i. e._ Tyrians.) It was in consequence of this departure from THE GOD of Israel, that Ahijah prophecied to Jeroboam, that he should have _Ten of the Tribes_ of Abraham for his kingdom, in the time of Solomon's Son and successor,--Rehoboam. Ashtoreth is Astartē: the Goddess of the Sidonians and Tyrians,--they are one and the same. Without attempting here a refutation of the assertion by atheistical or deistical writers, that the _monogram_ of CHRIST (☧) was known _six centuries_ before The Nativity,--it will be sufficient for our present purpose to establish, that the _Cross_ was a Tyrian emblem, _more than three hundred years anterior_ to the time of Tiberius,--for of that period (332 B. C.) we must again remark, we are illustrating. It was, also, known in the time of Solomon, for he worshipped the Tyrian Astartē,--whose symbol was the Cross,--and this was more than _one thousand years before the Crucifixion_! Here then is a more remote period for a knowledge of the Cross, as an emblem, than that assumed by sceptics;--it is brought forward because it is the truth,--and why did not deistical writers trace it to the time of Solomon?--they knew, if they did, that it would prove a strong link in the chain of Christianity, and therefore, for their own purposes they avoided it! We will shew this as we proceed.