[829] “Archæological Society of the Antiquaries of London,” vol. xxv., p. 220.
[830] “Cartas,” 51.
[831] “Hauts Phénomenes de la Magie,” 50.
[832] Genesis xlix.
[833] Dunlap, in his introduction to “Sod, the Mysteries of Adonis,” explains the word “Sod,” as Arcanum; religious mystery on the authority of Shindler’s “Penteglott” (1201). “The SECRET of the Lord is with them that fear Him,” says Psalm xxv. 14. This is a mistranslation of the Christians, for it ought to read “Sod Ihoh (the mysteries of Iohoh) are for those who fear Him” (Dunlap: “Mysteries of Adonis,” xi.). “Al (El) is terrible in the great Sod of the Kedeshim (the priests, the holy, the Initiated), Psalm lxxxix. 7” (Ibid.).
[834] “The members of the priest-colleges were called Sodales,” says Freund’s “Latin Lexicon” (iv. 448). “Sodalities were constituted in the Idæan Mysteries of the Mighty Mother,” writes Cicero (“De Senectute,” 13); Dunlap: “Mysteries of Adonis.”
[835] See Wilkinson: “Ancient Egyptians,” vol. v., p. 65.
[836] Brasseur de Bourbourg: “Mexique,” pp. 135-574.
[837] “Catholic World,” N. Y., January, 1877: Article Nagualism, Voodooism, etc.
[838] In “Hesiod,” Zeus creates his third race of men out of ash-trees. In “Popol-Vuh,” we are told the third race of men is created out of the tree “tzite,” and women are made from the marrow of a reed which was called “sibac.” This also is a strange coincidence.