[8] Cumont, “Myst. de Mithra,” 101. [↑]

[9] Rgv. x. 16. [↑]

[10] Id. x. 16, 6. [↑]

[11] Id. lx.; cf. also Burnouf, op. cit., 176 sqq. [↑]

[12] Op. cit., vii. 3. He is Jahwe, the King of Jeru-Salem itself (Josephus, “Ant.,” x. 2), and corresponds to the Phœnician Moloch (Melech) Sidyk, who offered his only born son, Jehud, to the people as an expiation. Cf. supra, p. 77. [↑]

[13] Op. cit., xix. 13, xxxii. 29, xliv. 17, xvi. 25. [↑]

[14] Op. cit., lxv. 11. [↑]

[15] As is well known, the Germanic first man, Mannus, according to Tacitus, was a son of the hermaphrodite Thuisto. [↑]

[16] [Lev. xxiv. 5–9]. [↑]

[17] [Jos. iv. 1] sqq.; ch. [v]. [↑]