[485:3] "That the story of the Trojan war is almost wholly mythical, has been conceded even by the stoutest champions of Homeric unity." (Rev. G. W. Cox.)
[485:4] See Müller's Science of Religion, p. 186.
[485:5] See Calmet's Fragments, vol. ii. pp. 21, 22.
[486:1] Nimrod: vol. i. p. 278, in Anac., i. p. 503.
[486:2] At Miletus was the crucified Apollo—Apollo, who overcome the Serpent or evil principle. Thus Callimachus, celebrating this achievement, in his hymn to Apollo, has these remarkable words:
"Thee thy blest mother bore, and pleased assign'd
The willing Saviour of distressed mankind."
[486:3] These words apply to Christ Jesus, as well as Semiramis, according to the Christian Father Ignatius. In his Epistle to the Church at Ephesus, he says: "Now the virginity of Mary, and he who was born of her, was kept in secret from the prince of this world, as was also the death of our Lord: three of the mysteries the most spoken of throughout the world, yet done in secret by God."
[487:1] The Rosicrucians, p. 260.
[487:2] Ibid.
[488:1] The Sun-gods Apollo, Indra, Wittoba or Crishna, and Christ Jesus, are represented as having their feet pierced with nails (See Cox: Aryan Mytho., vol. ii. p. 23, and Moor's Hindu Pantheon.)