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Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Doane, T. W. (Thomas William)
a personification of the Heavens, 479.
Œdipus, the history of, resembles that of Samson and Hercules, 72;
tears out his eyes, 72;
is a dangerous child, 170;
cheered in his last hours by Antigone, 493;
a personification of the Sun, 493.
Offerings (Votive) made to the Heathen deities, 259.
Olympus, the, of the Pagans, restored, 398.
O. M., or A. U. M., a sacred name among the Hindoos, 372;
an emblem of the Trinity, 352.
Omphale, the amours of Hercules with, 71.
One, the myths of the crucified gods melt into, 492.
One God, worshiped by the ancestors of our race, 384.
Only Begotten Son, common before the Christian era, 193.
Oort, Prof., on the sacred laws of ancient nations, 61.
Ophites, the, worshiped serpents as emblems of Christ, 355.
Orders, religious among all nations of antiquity, 400-404.
Origen, declared the story of creation and fall of man to be allegorical, 100.
Original Sin, the doctrine of, of great antiquity, 184;
the Indians no strangers to, 189.
Ormuzd, the Supreme God of the Persians, 7;
divided the work of creation into six parts, 7.
Orontes, the river, divided by Bacchus, 81.
Osiris, confined in a chest and thrown into the Nile, 90;
a Virgin-born God, 190;
suffers death, 190;
rose from the dead, 222;
the judge of the dead, 245;
performed miracles, 256;
the worship of, of great antiquity, 452;
a personification of the Sun, 484.
Oude, the crucified God Bal-li worshiped at, 188.
Ovid, describes the doctrine of Metempsychosis, 43.
P.
Pagan Religion, the, adopted by the Christians, 384;
was typical of Christianity, 501.
Pan, had a flute of seven pipes, 81.
Pandora, the first woman, in Grecian mythology, 10.
Pantheon, the, a niche always ready in, of the ancients, for a new divinity, 123.
Paraclete, Simon Magus claimed to be the, 164.