I.

_Iamos_, left to die among the bushes and violets, 170; received from Zeus the gift of prophecy, 171.

_Iao_, a name sacred in Egypt, 49; probably the same as Jehovah, 49; the crucified, 484.

_Ida_, the earth, 481.

_Idolatry_, practiced by the Hebrews, 107; adopted by the Christians, 384.

_Idols_, the worship of, among Christians, 397.

_I. H. S._, formerly a monogram of the god Bacchus, and now the monogram of Christ Jesus, 351.

_Images_, the worship of, among Christians, 397.

_Immaculate Conception_, the, of Jesus, 111; Crishna, 113; Buddha, 115; Codom, 118; Fo-hi, 119; and others, 119-130.

_Immortality of the Soul_, the, believed in by all nations of antiquity, 385.

_Incas_, the, of Peru, married their own sisters, 537.

_India_, a virgin-born god worshiped in, 113; the story of Herod and the infants of Bethlehem from, 166; the crucified god in, 186; the Trinity in, 370; our religion and nursery tales from, 544.

_Indians_, the, no strangers to the doctrine of original sin, 189; they believe man to be a fallen being, 189.

_Indra_, worshiped as a crucified god in Nepaul, 187; his festival days in August, 187; is identical with Crishna, 484; a personification of the sun, 484.

_Infant Baptism_, practiced by the Persians, 318; by the Etruscans, 320; by the Greeks and Romans, 321; by the Scandinavians, 321; by the New Zealanders, 322; by the Mexicans, 322; by the Christians, 323; all identical, 323.

_Innocents_, the, slain at the time of birth of Jesus, 165; at the birth of Crishna, 166; at the birth of Abraham, 169.

_Inscriptions_, formerly in Pagan temples, and inscriptions in Christian churches compared, 397.

_Incense_, burned before idols or images in Pagan temples, 406.

_Iona_, or Yoni, an emblem of the female generative powers, 199.

_Iönah_, or Juno, suspended in space, 486.

_Irenæus_, the fourth gospel not known until the time of, 458; reasons given by, for there being four gospels, 458.

_Iroquois_, the, worshiped a god-man called Tarengawagan, 131.

_Isaac_, offered as a sacrifice by Abraham, 38; parallels to, 39-41.

_Isis_, mother of Horus, 122; a virgin mother, 327; represented on Egyptian monuments with an infant in her arms, 327; she is styled "Our Lady," "Queen of Heaven," "Mother of God," &c., 327.

_Islands of the Blessed_, 11; meaning of, 101, 559, 560.

_Islands of the Sea_, Western countries called the, by the Hebrews, 103.

_Israel_, the religion of, same as the Heathen, 107, 108.

_Italy_, effigies of a black crucified man, in, 197; the cross adored in, before Christian era, 345.

_Ixion_, bound on the wheel, is the crucified Sun, 484.

_Izdubar_, the Lion-killer of the Babylonians, 74; the foundation for the Samson and the Hercules myths, 105; the cuneiform inscriptions speak of, 105.

J.

_Jacob_, his vision of the ladder, 42; explained, 42, 104.

_Janus_, the keys of, transferred to Peter, 399.

_Japanese_, the American race descended from the same stock as the, 538.

_Jason_, a dangerous child, 171; brought up by Cheiron, 171; the same name as Jesus, 196.

_Jehovah_, the name, esteemed sacred among the Egyptians, 48; the same as Y-ha-ho, 48; well known to the Heathens, 49.

_Jehovistic writer_, the, of the Pentateuch, 93.

_Jemshid_, devoured by a great monster, 18.

_Jerusalem_, Jews taken at the Ebionite sack of, were sold to the Grecians, 103.

_Jesuits_, the, in China, appalled at finding, in that country, a counterpart to the Virgin of Judea, 119.

_Jesus_, not born of a Virgin according to the Ebionites or Nazarenes, 134; the day, month or year of his birth not known, 359; was an historical personage, 506; no clearly defined traces of, in history, 517; his person indistinct, 517; assumed the character of "Messiah," 520; a native of Galilee, 520; a zealot, 522; is put to death by the Romans, 522; not crucified by the Jews, 524; the martyrdom of, has been gratefully acknowledged, 527; nothing original in the teachings of, 529.

_Jews_, the, where their history begins, 54; driven out of Egypt, 52; worshiped Baal and Moloch, 108; their religion the same as other nations, 108; did not crucify Jesus, 524.

_John_, the same name as Jonah, 83; the gospel according to, 457; Irenæus the author of, 458.

_John the Baptist_, his birth-day is on the day of the Summer Solstice, 499.

_Jonah_, swallowed by a big fish, 77; parallels to, 78, 79; the meaning of, 79; the Sun called, 80; identified with Dagon and Oannes, 82, 83; the same as John, 84; the myth of, explained, 105.

_Jordan_, the river, considered sacred, 318.

_Josephus_, does not speak of Jesus, 564.

_Joshua_, arrests the course of the Sun, 91; parallel to, 91.

_Jove_, the Sons of, numerous, 125; the Supreme God, 125.

_Judea_, the Virgin of, 111; a counterpart to, found by the first Christian missionaries in China, 119.

_Judaism_, its doctrine and precepts, by I. M. Wise, referred to, 527.

_Judge of the Dead_, Jesus, 244; Sons of God, 244; Buddha, 244; Crishna, 245; Osiris, 245; Aeacus, 245; no examples of Jesus as, in early Christian art, 246.

_Julius Cæsar_ (see Cæsar).

_Juno_, the "Queen of Heaven," 333; was represented standing on the crescent moon, 333; considered the protectress of woman, 333; often represented with a dove on her head, 357; suspended in space, 486.

_Jupiter_, the Supreme God of the Pagans, 125; a statue of, in St. Peter's, Rome, 397.

_Justin Martyr_, on the work of the Devil, 124, 265.

K.

_Kadmus_, king of Thebes, 124.

_Kaffirs_, the, practice circumcision, 86.

_Kama_, attempts the life of Crishna, 166; is a personification of Night, 481.

_Ke-lin_, the, appeared at the birth of Confucius, 121.

_Key_, the, which unlocks the door to the mystery, 441.

_Knichahan_, the Supreme God of the Mayas of Yucatan, 130.

_Kings_, the, of Egypt considered divine, 122.

_Kronos_, the myth of, explained, 559.

_Kung-foo-tsze_ (see Confucius).