_," for the benefit of which _he offered a
mystical sacrifice_.[484:3]

The crucified _Iao_ ("Divine Love" personified) is the crucified Adonis,
the Sun. The Lord and Saviour Adonis was called _Iao_.[484:4]

_Osiris_, the Egyptian Saviour, was crucified in the heavens. To the
Egyptian the cross was the symbol of immortality, an emblem of the
_Sun_, and the god himself was crucified to the tree, which denoted his
fructifying power.[484:5]

_Horus_ was also crucified in the heavens. He was represented, like
Crishna and Christ Jesus, with _outstretched arms in the vault of
heaven_.[484:6]

The story of the crucifixion of _Prometheus_ was allegorical, for
Prometheus was only a title of the SUN, expressing _providence_ or
_foresight_, wherefore his being _crucified_ in the extremities of the
earth, signified originally no more than the restriction of the power of
the SUN during the winter months.[484:7]

Who was _Ixion_, bound on the wheel? He was none other than the god
_Sol_, crucified in the heavens.[484:8] Whatever be the origin of the
name, _Ixion_ is the "_Sun of noonday_," crucified in the heavens, whose
four-spoked wheel, in the words of Pindar, is seen whirling in the
highest heaven.[484:9]

The _wheel_ upon which Ixion and criminals were said to have been
extended _was a cross_, although the name of the thing was dissembled
among Christians; it was a St. Andrew's cross, of which two spokes
confined the arms, and two the legs. (See Fig. No. 35.)

The allegorical tales of the triumphs and misfortunes of the _Sun_-gods
of the ancient Greeks and Romans, signify the alternate exertion of the
generative and destructive attributes.

[Illustration: Fig. No. 35]

_Hercules_ is torn limb from limb; and in this catastrophe we see the
_blood-red sunset_ which closes the career of Hercules.[485:1] The
Sun-god cannot rise to the life of the blessed gods until he has been
slain. The morning cannot come until the Eos who closed the previous day
has faded away and died in the black abyss of night.

_Achilleus_ and _Meleagros_ represent alike the _short-lived Sun_, whose
course is one of toil for others, ending in an early death, after a
series of wonderful victories alternating with periods of darkness and
gloom.[485:2]

In the tales of the Trojan war, it is related of Achilleus that he
expires at the Skaian, or _western gates of the evening_. He is slain by
Paris, who here appears as the Pani, or dark power, who blot