V.
_Valentine, St._, formerly the Scandinavian god Vila, 399.
_Valhalla_, the Scandinavian Paradise, 390.
_Vasudeva_, a name of Crishna, 114.
_Vedas_, the, antiquity of, 450.
_Vedic Poems_, the, show the origin and growth of Greek and Teutonic mythology, 468.
_Venus_, the Dove was sacred to the goddess, 357.
_Vernal equinox_, the, festivals held at the time of, by the nations of antiquity, 392.
_Vespasian_, the Miracles of, 268, 269.
_Vestal Virgins_, the, were bound by a solemn vow to preserve their chastity for a space of thirty years, 403.
_Vicar_ of God on Earth, the Grand Lama of the Tartars considered to be the, 118.
_Vila_, the god, of the Scandinavians, changed to St. Valentine, 399.
_Virgin_, the worship of a, before the Christian era, 326.
_Virgo_, the, of the Zodiac personified as a Virgin Mother.
_Vishnu_, appeared as a fish, at the time of the Deluge, 25; the mediating or preserving God in the Hindoo Trinity, 369.
_Votan_, of Guatemala, 130.
_Votive_ offerings, given by the Heathen to their gods, and now practiced by the Christians, 258, 259.
_Vows of Chastity_, taken by the males and females who entered Pagan monasteries, 402, 403.
W.
_War in Heaven_, the, believed in by the principal nations of antiquity, 368.
_Wasi_, the priest and law-giver of the Cherokees, 130.
_Water_, purification from sin by, a Pagan ceremony, 317-323.
_Wednesday_, Woden's or Odin's day, 393.
_Welsh_, the, as late as the seventeenth century, during eclipses, ran about beating kettles and pans, 536.
_West_, the sun-gods die in the, 493.
_Wisdom_, Ganesa the god of, 117.
_Wise Men_, worshiped the infant Jesus, 150; worshiped the infant Crishna, 151; worshiped the infant Buddha, 151; and others, 151, 152.
_Wittoba_, the god, crucified, 185.
_Wodin_, or Odin, the supreme god of the Scandinavians, 393.
_Wolf_, the, an emblem of the Destroying power, 80.
_Word_, or Logos, the, of John's Gospel, of Pagan origin, 374.
_World_, the, destroy by a deluge, whenever all the planets met in the sign of Capricorn, 103.