Historical
accounts of
Adonis:
Bible Myths
and their Parallels
in
other Religions
Thomas W. Doane, 1882.
INTRODUCTION.
V
[ FOURTH
EDITION ]
“All truth
is safe,
and nothing else
is safe;
and he who
keeps back the truth,
or withholds it
from men,
from motives
of expediency,
is either
a coward
or a criminal,
or both.”
November, 1882.
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INDEX
of Subjects:
Adonis,
boys were immolated to, 41;
Osiris received under the
name of Adonis, 90;
is born in a cave
near Bethlehem,
ceremonies in
honor of Adonis, 155-156;
is born of
a Virgin, 191;
has title of
“Saviour,” 191, 217;
is slain, 191;
“God of Light,”
&c, 196;
virgin-born “Saviours,” 201;
descended into Hell, 210, 213;
is put
to death,
rose from the dead, 217-219;
his temple at Bethlehem, 220;
“The devil has his Christs,” and does not deny that
Adonis was one, 221,
laid out on
a litter,
&c., 223-224,
Agony of the
fair Adonis, 226;
is creator of
the world, 249;
mystical wine and bread were used
during the Mysteries of, 311;
the mother of Adonis was Myrrha, 332;
his birth on
December 25th, 364;
a Type
of Christ Jesus, 408;
called by another name,
turned into Christ Jesus, 413;
Christ Jesus, Buddha, Mithras,
Osiris, Horus, Hercules, Bacchus,
Adonis and other personifications of
the SUN
born on the same day, 474;
the ancients wept for Tammuz, the fair Adonis,
and other Sun-gods, 483 1;
a personification
of the Sun, 484;
in Hebrew
“ My Lord,”
was called the Dove, 485;
changed into a red rose,
one and the same with the
“Rose of Sharon,” 487;
killed by the same boar who
put the god Adonis to death, 488;
mysteries of: Osiris, Isis,
Horus, Atys, Cybele, Ceres,
Proserpine, Venus, Adonis, Bona Dea
and Priapus are all
susceptible of one explanation, 492;
at the winter solstice, the ancients wept and
mourned for Tammuz, the fair Adonis;
became the mourning for Christ Jesus, 495;
sacred legends, “Lighten our darkness,
we beseech thee,
Adonai,” 499-500;
universal veneration for the Sun:
the Adonis of Hyblos, 507.
Page 31.
“We find that
in all
religions of antiquity
the number seven—
which applied to
the sun,
moon
and the five planets
known to the ancients
is a
sacred number,
represented in
all kinds
and sorts
of forms.” a
Each day
in the Week
is consecrated to
a planet, and
the Sun
and Moon.
Sunday is
“Dies Solis,” sacred to
the sun.
Monday, “Dies Lunae,”
sacred to the moon.
Tuesday, sacred to
Tuiso
of Mars.
Wednesday, sacred to
Odin or Wodin,
and to Mercury.
Thursday, sacred
to Thor and others.
Friday, sacred
to Freia:
Venus.
Saturday, sacred
to Saturn.
“The (ancient) Egyptians assigned
a day of the week
to the sun,
moon,
and five planets,
and the number
SEVEN was
held there in
great reverence.”
a
“ Everything of importance
was calculated by,
and fitted into,
this number
(SEVEN)
by the
Aryan philosophers, —ideas
as well as localities.”
(Isis Unveiled, vol. ii. p. 407.)
b
Each one being
consecrated to
a planet.
First, to Saturn;
second, to Jupiter;
third, to Mars; fourth,
to the Sun;
fifth, to Venus;
sixth, to Mercury; seventh,
to the Moon.
(The Pentateuch Examined,
vol. iv. p. 269. See also
The Angel Messiah, p. 100.)
Quoted in
Prog. Relig. Ideas,
vol. i. p. 267.
c
Each of which
had the name
of a planet.
See Bonwick’s:
Egyptian Belief, p. 404.
d
On each
of which
the name
of a planet
was engraved.
e
“ There was
to be seen
in Laconia, seven columns
erected in honor of
the seven planets.”
(Dupuis: Origin of
Religious Belief, p. 34.)
f
“ The
Jews believed that
the Throne
of Jehovah was surrounded
by his seven
high chiefs:
Gabriel, Michael, Raphael,
Uriel, &c.”
(Bible for Learners,
vol. iii. p. 46.)
g
Each one being
consecrated to
a planet,
and the Sun
and Moon.
Sunday,
“Dies Solis”
sacred to the SUN.
Monday,
“Dies Lunae,”
sacred to the MOON.
Tuesday, sacred
to Tuiso
or MARS.
Wednesday, sacred
to Odin
or Woden, and
to MERCURY.
Thursday, sacred
to Thor
and others.
Friday, sacred
to Freia
and VENUS.
Saturday, sacred
to SATURN.
“ The (ancient)
Egyptians assigned
a day
of the week
to the SUN, MOON,
and
five planets,
and the number
SEVEN
was held there
in great reverence.”
(Kenrick: Egypt, i. 238.)
h
“ The Egyptian priests
chanted the
seven
vowels
as a hymn
addressed
to Serapis.”
(The Rosicrucians,
p. 143.)
i
Sura: the Sun-god
of the Hindoos.
Page 354.
Fish Day
was called
“Dies Veneris:”
Venus’s day.
It was
an emblem
of fecundity.
The most ancient
symbol of the
productive power was
a fish, and
it is accordingly
found to be
the universal symbol
upon many of
the earliest coins. 1
Pythagoras and
his followers
did not eat fish.
They were ascetics,
and the eating
of fish was supposed
to tend to
carnal desires.
This ancient superstition is entertained
by many
even at the
present day.
The fish
was the earliest
symbol of Christ Jesus.
Fig. No. 33
is a
design from
the catacombs. 2
This cross-fish
is not unlike
the sacred monogram.
1
Knight, Ancient Art
and Mythology, p. 111.
2
Lillie: Buddha and
Early Buddhism, p. 227.
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