[42.1] Anth. Pal. xi. 269, “I am Heracles, the triumphant son of Zeus; I am not Luke, but they compel me.”
[42.2] Ephemeris Archaiologiké, 1900, πίν. 5.
[43.1] Theocritus, Id. 7, 106.
[43.2] Cults of Greek States, vol. ii. p. 735: R. 25b.
[44.1] Cf. the method of Greco-Egyptian magic of strangling birds before the idol of Eros, in order that their breath may animate it, mentioned in an Abraxas papyrus, Class. Rev. 1896, p. 409.
[45.1] Vide Schrader, Real-Lexikon, s.v. Eid.
[45.2] Ad Nat. i. 12.
[47.1] The Tatu, Tat, or Ded pillar erected in the ritual of Osiris, perhaps as a symbol of the resurrection of the god, had the form of a cross: vide Frazer, Golden Bough(2), ii. p. 141.
[48.1] Vide Palace of Knossos: Provisional Report for year 1903, p. 92: the writer quotes Babylonian and Assyrian examples.
[49.1] Epist. 395: the doctrines of the Orphic sects from the fourth century B.C. onwards also emphasised the kinship of man with God, as the well-known Orphic tablets, found in South Italy and Crete, reveal (Hell. Journ. 3, p. 112: Miss J. Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion: Appendix by Prof. Murray, p. 660). In the pseudo-Platonic Axiochus, p. 371 D, the sick man is assured of salvation as being “of the family of God” γεννήτης τῶν θεῶν.