Celestial INDEXES, cries O’Connor; following which _term_--but with a very different acceptation--the reader must be aware how that, in the early part of our journey, I ascribed to this _enigma_ an astronomical exposition; but herein I was supported not only by expediency but by verity, having, all along, not only connected _Solar_ worship, and its concomitant survey of the stars--which is _Sabianism_--with _Phallic_ worship,--beginning with the former in order to prepare the way for the latter,--but shall proceed in detail until I establish their identity. The Egyptian history, then, of the origin of this deification is what will put this question beyond the possibility of denial, viz. that “Isis having recovered the mangled pieces of her husband’s body, the _genitals excepted_, which the murderers had thrown into the sea, resolving to render him all the honour which his humanity had merited, got made as many waxen statues as there were mangled pieces of his body. Each statue contained a piece of the flesh of the dead monarch. And Isis, after she had summoned in her presence, one by one, the priests of all the different deities in her dominions, gave them each a statue, intimating that, in so doing, she had preferred them to all the other communities of Egypt; and she bound them by a solemn oath that they would keep secret that mark of her favour, and endeavour to prove their sense of it by establishing a form of worship, and paying divine honours to their prince. But that _part_ of the body of Osiris which had not been discovered, was treated with more _particular_ attention by Isis, and she ordered that _it_ should receive _honours more solemn_, and at the same time _more mysterious_, than the other members.”[114] Now as Isis[115] and Osiris--two deities, by the way, which comprehended all nature and all the gods of the ancients--only personated the _Sun_ and _Moon_, the sources of nutrition and vegetative heat, it is very easy to remove the veil of this affectionate mythology, and see that it means nothing more than the mutual dependence and attraction of the sexes upon, and to, each other; while the fact of the Egyptian “_Osiris_,”[116] which in _their_ language signifies the _Sun_, and the Irish “_Budh_,” which in _our language_ signifies the same planet, being _both_ represented by the _same emblematic sign_;[117] and the _name_ of that sign in both languages signifying as well _sign_ as _thing_ signified, gives a stamp to my proof which I defy _ingenuity_ to overthrow. CHAPTER IX.