bes once
worn by Romans, 400.

_Serapis_, the god, worshiped in Alexandria in Egypt, 342;
a cross found in the temple of, 342.

_Serpent_, the, seduced the first woman, 3;
in Eden, an Aryan story, 99;
an emblem of Christ Jesus, 355;
Moses set up, as an object of worship, 355;
worshiped by the Christians, 355;
symbolized the Sun, 490;
called the Word, or Divine Wisdom, 490.

_Seven_, the number, sacred among all nations of antiquity, 31.

_Seventh-day_, the, kept sacred by the ancients, 392, 393.

_Seventy-two_, Confucius had, disciples, 121.

"_Shams-on_," the Sun in Arabic, 73.

_Sharon_, the Rose of, Jesus called, 486.

_Shepherds_, the infant Jesus worshiped by, 150.

_Shoo-king_, the, a sacred book of the Chinese, 25;
speaks of the deluge, 25.

_Siamese_, the, had a virgin-born god, 118.

_Simon Magus_, believed to be a god, 129;
his picture placed among the gods in Rome, 129;
professed to be the "Word of God," the "Paraclete," or
"Comforter," 164;
performed great miracles, 125.

_Sin-Bearer_, the, Bacchus called, 193.

_Sin, Original_, the doctrine of, believed in by Heathen nations,
181, 184.

_Siva_, the third god in the Hindoo Trinity, 369;
the Hindoos held a festival in honor of, 392.

_Skylla delivers_ Nisos into the power of his enemies, 72;
a Solar Myth, 72.

_Slaughter_, the, of the innocents at the time of Jesus, 165;
parallels to, 166-172.

_Sochiquetzal_, mother of Quetzalcoatle, 129;
a Virgin Mother, 129;
called the "Queen of Heaven," 129.

_Socrates_, visited at his birth by Wise Men, and presented with
gifts, 152.

_Sol_, crucified in the heavens, 484.

_Soma_, a god of the Hindoos, 306;
gave his body and blood to man, 306.

_Sommona Codom_ (see Codom).

_Son of a Star_ (see Bar-Cochba).

_Son of God_, the Heathen worshiped a mediating deity who had the
title of, 111-129.

_Son of the Sun_, the name Raam-ses means, 123.

"_Sons of Heaven_," the virgin-born men of China called, 122.

_Song_, the, of the Heavenly Host, 147;
parallels to, 148-150.

_Soul_, the, immortality of, believed in by nations of antiquity, 385.

_Sosiosh_, the virgin-born Messiah, 1