"All the Eastern writers agree in placing the birth of Beddou 1027 B.
C. The doctrines of this Deity prevailed over Japan, China, and Ceylon.
According to the sacred tenets of his religion, 'God is incessantly
rendering himself incarnate,' but his greatest and most solemn
incarnation was three thousand years ago, in the province of Cashmere,
under the name of Fot, or Beddou. He was believed to have sprung from
the right intercostal of a virgin of the royal blood, who, when she
became a mother, did not the less continue to be a virgin; that the king
of the country, uneasy at his birth, was desirous to put him to death,
and hence caused all the males that were born at the same period to be
put to death, and also that, being saved by shepherds, he lived in
the desert to the age of thirty years, at which time he opened his
commission, preaching the doctrines of truth, and casting out devils;
that he performed a multitude of the most astonishing miracles, spent
his life fasting, and in the severest mortifications, and at his death
bequeathed to his disciples the volume in which the principles of his
religion are contained."
Here, it will be observed, are some very striking counterparts to
the miraculous incidents found related in the Gospel history of Jesus
Christ. And no less analogous is the no less well-authenticated story
of Quexalcote of Mexico, which the Rev. Mr. Maurice concedes to be, and
Lord Kingsborough and Niebuhr (in his history of Rome) prove to be much
older than the Gospel account of Jesus Christ According to Maurice's
"Ind. Ant.," Humboldt's "Researches in Mexico," Lord Kingsbor-ough's
"Mexican Ant.," and other works, the incarnate God Quexalcote was born
(about 300 B. C.) of a spotless virgin, by the name Chimalman, and led a
life of the deepest humility and piety; retired to a wilderness, fasted
forty days, was worshipped as a God, and was finally crucified between
two thieves; after which he was buried and descended into hell, but
rose again the third day. The following is a part of Lord Kingsborough's
testimony in the case: "The temptation of Quexalcote, the fast of forty
days ordained by the Mexican ritual, the cup with which he was presented
to drink (on the cross), the reed which was his sign, the 'Morning
Star,' which he is designated, the 'Teoteepall, or Divine Stone,'
which was laid on his altar, and which was likewise an object of
adoration,--all these circumstances, connected with many others relating
to Quexalcote of Mexico, but which are here omitted, are very curious
and mysterious." (Vol. vi. p. 237, Mexican Ant.)
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