Other figures I shall leave to your own research to unfold. But let me particularly _fasten_ upon your faculty of comparing, the _head-gear_ of the standing figure, in the _second_ division, and that of the crucifixion upon the Nubian temple. Are they not _critically_, _accurately_, and _identically_ the same? Look next at the brute _animals_ that take part in this group! Mind the _grotesqueness_ of their positions, and the _combination_ of their character with that of _man_! then lay your hand upon your breast, and, with the light now streaming in upon you, can you conscientiously believe that the _cross_ which exhibits itself at the other side, was ever the work of Christianity?[389] [Illustration] But as you cannot imagine that O’Connor had gone over to Nubia, in the twelfth century of the Christian era, to get his murdered hostage _deified_ in a pagan temple, built, perhaps, at the very lowest, three thousand years before his time, so neither can you impose upon us, that the Budhists stole a march upon our Christian _supineness_, and, while our different sects were fighting for _who should have most_, and proclaiming “I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ,”[390] imprinted their complexity upon our boasted simplicity, and then suddenly again vanished without having been once seen, felt, heard, discovered, or understood!!! What entanglements will not people plunge themselves into when supporting a bad cause! And how easy is the road which rectitude follows! The Hindoo Puranas corroborate, to an iota, this our Knockmoy crucifixion.[391] _Sulivahana_ is the name which they give to the deity there represented. The meaning of the word is _tree-born_, or, who suffered death upon a tree. He was otherwise called _Dhanandhara_, that is, the _sacred almoner_. And his fame, say the Puranas, reached even to the _Sacred Island_, in the sea of _milk_, that is, of _Doghda_, which signifies milk, and which was the title of the tutelar goddess of Ireland.[392] Avaunt, then, evermore, to the humbug of _back-reckoning_, and the charge of _imposture_ upon the Brahmins! I flatter myself, I have laid an _extinguisher_, for ever, upon that pretext. As I have before presumed to offer a suggestion to the translators of oriental _manuscripts_, I shall take the additional liberty of intimating, which I do with profound submission and respect, to the decipherers of all _hieroglyphics_, whether in Ireland or in the East, that those _arrow-headed_ characters, to be met with at Persepolis, and resembling in their formation our Irish Oghams, _bear reference, both of them, to this mysterious crucifixion_! And that if Mr. Champollion, and other gentlemen interested in the prosecution of those useful points, will attend to this my advice, they will find it a more _certain key to the attainment of their desired object, than all the labour and outlay of centuries heretofore_!