[553]. Rossellini: “Monumenti dell’ Egitto, etc.” Tom. 3. Tav. 23. (Cited by Robertson: Ibid., p. 142.)
[554]. Zöckler: Ibid., p. 7. In the representation of the birth of a king in Luxor one sees the following: The logos and messenger of the gods, the bird-headed Thoth, makes known to the maiden Queen Mautmes that she is to give birth to a son. In the following scene, Kneph and Athor hold the Crux ansata to her mouth so that she may be impregnated by this in a spiritual (symbolic) manner. Sharp: “Egyptian Mythology,” p. 18. (Cited by Robertson: “Evangelical Myths,” p. 43.)
[555]. The statues of the phallic Hermes used as boundary stones were often in the form of a cross with the head pointed (W. Payne Knight: “Worship of Priapus,” p. 30). In Old English the cross is called rod.
[556]. Robertson (Ibid., p. 140) mentions the fact that the Mexican priests and sacrificers clothed themselves in the skin of a slain woman, and placed themselves with arms stretched out like a cross before the god of war.
[557]. “Indian Antiquities,” VI, 49.
[558]. The primitive Egyptian cross form is meant: Τ.
[559]. Zöckler: Ibid., p. 19. The bud is plainly phallic. See the above-mentioned dream of the young woman.
[560]. I am indebted for my information about these researches to Professor Fiechter of Stuttgart.
[561]. Zöckler: Ibid., p. 33.
[562]. The sacrifice is submerged in the water, that is, in the mother.