tion and retention of the
old Pagan name of Dies Solis or Sunday, for the weekly Christian
festival," which was recommended by Constantine to his subjects,
Pagan and Christian alike, as "the venerable day of the Sun."

152 "No country in the world can compare with India for the exposition
of the pyramidal cross.... The body of the great temple of Bindh
madhu (formerly the boast of the ancient city of Benares ...
demolished in the seventeenth century) was constructed in the figure
of a colossal cross, with a lofty dome at the centre, above which
rose a massive structure of a pyramidal form. At the four
extremities of the cross there were four other pyramids.... A
similar building existed at Mhuttra.... By pyramidal towers placed
crosswise the Hindoo also displayed the all-pervading sign of the
cross. At the famous temple of Chillambrum, on the Coromandel coast,
there were _seven_ lofty walls, one within the other, round a
central quadrangle, and as many pyramidal gateways in the midst of
each side which forms the limbs of a vast cross" (Faber, quoted by
Donelly in Atlantis, p. 335).

153 "The Tur-vasu, or people whose creating god (vasu) was the pole
(tur), when united with the traders of the south, became the
mercantile mariners of the Indian Ocean, who had imposed their rule
and traditions both on the lands of Northern India and on those of
the twin rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris.... From India, the only
land on the Indian Ocean where they could build sea-going ships,
they extended their trade, forms of government and national myths,
first to the Euphratean kingdoms and afterwards to Egypt and Syria,
where they were known to the Greeks as the Phoenicians" (p. 356).

"These people had seven parent stars whose names are preserved.
Professor Sayce has identified the first of these, Sugi, with 'the
star of the Wain' and states that it means the
'creating-spirit-reed' or the northern khu=bird, the 'reed of the
bird, the mother of life.' Sugi is therefore an additional name for
the Bear to that of Bel, distributor of waters.... In both names the
metaphor is the same, for it is from the reeds at the source of the
rivers, their point of distribution, that the rivers are born....
Both names denoted the star that led the year a