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Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Doane, T. W. (Thomas William)
Phœnicians, the, offered the fairest of their children to the gods, 41.
Phœnix, the, lived 600 years, 426.
Phrygians, the, worshiped the god Atys, 190.
Pilate, pillaged the temple treasury, 521;
crucified Jesus, 526.
Pillars of Hercules, the, 79.
Pious Frauds, 231.
Pisces, the sign of, applied to Christ Jesus, 355-504.
Plato, believed to have been the son of a pure virgin, 127.
Platonists, the, believed in a Trinity, 375.
Pole, or Pillar, a, worshiped by the ancients, 46, 47.
Polynesian Mythology, in, a fish is emblematic of the earth, 80.
Pontius Pilate (see Pilate).
Poo-ta-la, the name of a Buddhist monastery found in China, 401.
Pope, the, thrusts out his foot to be kissed as the Roman Emperors were in the habit of doing, 400.
Portuguese, the, call the mountain in Ceylon, Pico d' Adama, 13.
Porus, the troops of, carried on their standards the figure of a man, 198.
Prayers, for the dead, made by Buddhist priests, 401.
Priests, the Buddhist, have fasting, prayers for the dead, holy water, rosaries of beads, the worship of relics, and a monastic habit resembling the Franciscans, 401.
Priestesses, among the ancients, similar to the modern nuns, 403, 404.
Primeval male, the, offered himself a sacrifice for the gods, 181.
Prithivi, the Earth worshiped under the name of, by the Hindoos, 477.
Prometheus, a deity who united the divine and human nature in one person, 124;
a crucified Saviour, 192;
an earthquake happened at the time of the death of, 207;
the story of the crucifixion of, allegorical, 484;
a title of the Sun, 484.
Prophet, the, of the Beatitudes, does but repeat the words of others, 526.
Protogenia, mother of Aethlius, 125.
Ptolemy (Soter), believed to have been of divine origin, 127.
Puranas, the, 451.
Purgatory, the doctrine of, of pre-Christian origin, 389.
Purim, the feast of, 44;
the book of Esther written for the purpose of describing, 44.
Pyrrha, the wife of Deucalion, 26;
was saved from the Deluge by entering an ark with her husband, 26.
Pythagoras, taught that souls dwelt in the Galaxy, 45;
had divine honors paid to him, 128;
his mother impregnated through a spectre, 128.
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