[484:3] Wake: Phallism, &c., p. 55.
[484:4] See Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 113.
[484:5] Ibid. pp. 115 and 125.
[484:6] See Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 157.
[484:7] Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 88.
A great number of the Solar heroes or Sun-gods are forced to endure being bound, which indicates the tied-up power of the sun in winter. (Goldzhier: Hebrew Mythology, p. 406.)
[484:8] The Sun, as climbing the heights of heaven, is an arrogant being, given to making exorbitant claims, who must be bound to the fiery cross. "The phrases which described the Sun as revolving daily on his four-spoked cross, or as doomed to sink in the sky when his orb had reached the zenith, would give rise to the stories of Ixion on his flaming wheel." (Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 27.)
[484:9] "So was Ixion bound on the fiery wheel, and the sons of men see the flaming spokes day by day as it whirls in the high heaven."
[485:1] Cox: Tales of Ancient Greece, p. xxxii.
[485:2] Ibid. p. xxxiii.