Forlong - Rivers of Life

552
Cave, common birthplace, 82; month
of, 125; sacred eastern, 167, 181;
rites, 183, 253; Korykian, 261-3,
266; saced, 290; gods born in,
474, 483, 496
Cavern excavations, 21; Kent, 24;
West India, 43; etymology of, 200
Cedar, with Mosques, 71
Census of Faiths, 19
Censer, Christian, 131, 138
Cerastes, 378
Cerberus as Passion, 125, 178, 327, 503
Ceremonies of Indian tribes, 54;
Hindoo, 240, 323, 324
Ceres, 22; and plants, 56, 84, 87;
oak of, 89; and sheds, 131, 147;
and crypt, 162, 171, 176, 198; and
yoni, 208, 223, 240, 267, 268 with
fig., 272; the egg, 283, 300; Polybia,
304; in cave with fig., 308;
titles of, 305, 306, 456, 458, 483
Cesar, and shields, 131, 134, 185, 242;
image of Julius 519
Ceylon, Bo-tree of, 35; high priests of,
and trefoil, 36; different names of,
37; land of earlier faiths, 46; and
Boodha’s tooth, 46; Rawana of,
100; serpent in, 119; Adam’s peak
in, 189, 360; cobras in, 255; white
snake in, 291; ark resting in, 355
Chakra, 46, 97, 117
Chalice d’Amertume, 203
Chaos, 93, 105
Charlemagne, 102
Charms, 202, 205, 238, 254, 300, 350;
Christian, 511, 512
Charon and mistletoe, 81; and Karis,
372
Chart, explanation of, 3, 20, 21, 24,
25, 114, 119, 225, 267, 278, 280,
284, 294, 315, 410, 477, 541
Chasuble, 240
Chatra, 102
Chava, 61, 126, 140, 142
Chemorism, 221
Chemosh, 213, 346, 520, 531-3
Cherem, 164, 196
Cherubim, of Jewish ark, 169; of
Phile ark, 192; Jewish, 194, 218;
from Calment, 480
China, Boodhists, 113, 115; Maya of,
in serpent-sea, 116; serpent in,
118; and hill worship, 269
Chinal (Hindostan), 33
Chinese, age of, 23, 25; tree worship
among, 88; and serpent, 94; ancestor
worship of, 540, 541
Chiun, see Kiun
Chon, or Kon, importance of, 496
Chosroes, and true cross, 90
Chrisome, and christening, 334
Christ, blasphemer, 7; worship of,
20; symbolism of, 64; as vine tree,
78; visit of, to Hades, 82; passion
of, 85; and palms, 86; in passionspiel,
87; and serpent, 95; high
places, 115; and cure of blind,
178; effect of teaching of, 179;
Abel, the early, 188; and cup, 196;
in cradle, 202; and cross, 225;
arising up of, 227; how crucified,
228, 229; body and blood of, 243;
Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
as Cnuphis, 274; touching garment
of, 316; ‘the wonderful,’ 319; offspring
of Jahveh, 320; and Python,
321; derivation of, 334; and fish,
338; footprints of, 362; and
Mithras, 365, 471; birth of, 404,
434; cry of, to El, 411; and sun,
413-5; solar meaning of, 416; era
of, 429; resurrection of, 440; crucifixion
of, 443; and Adonis, 454;
birth and burial of, 478; and Apollo,
479; footprints of, 504; portrait of,
504; emblems of, 505.
Christianity, compared with Boodhism,
18; Genesis of, 86; birth of, 90;
and serpent-worship, 99; and
the sword, 102; and phallic
symbols, 122; and ophiolatry, 128,
234, 273; and dragon, 137; basis
of, 143-7; and serpent, 196; and
phallism, 344, 438; and footprints,
361; and solar cult, 413; dogmas
of, not new, 415; festivals of, 424;
borrowed from Egypt, 435; and fire,
etc., 437; and faith of Serapis,
506; and literature, 507; intolerance
of, 514; and immortality, 548
Christians, 14; proportion of, to other
faiths, 17; and oak, 67; and ser-
pent, 96; and Jewish rites, 199;
and fish, 244; and fire, 339, 341;
and Mithraic rites, 509; solar
faith of early, 531
Christmas, 81; Indian equivalent to,
120; Skandinavian, 229, 430
Christolatry, 94, 211
Chronology, of Bible, 188; various,
429; Jewish, 524
Chruacs, 374
Church (Christian), eagle of, 28; serpent
in, 95; idea of (form), 345,
346; and paganism, 502, 503
Chun-Or, 374
Circle, of eternity, 49; or klachan, 84;
female, 110; stone in Orkney, 184;
sacred Isle of Man, 18; stone
among Jews, 193; solar, 240; stone,
explained, 280, 281; solar stones,
484.
Circumcision, by Joshua, 71; in
Africa, 107; by Abraham, 170, 173,
174; god of, 213; how and why of,
294, 384
Cist, worship of, by Nagas, 40; of
Boodhism, 44, 98
Cista Mystica, 98; of Romish Church,
196
Civilisation, grades of, 9; and priests,
12; antiquity of, 21
Clavis, Tau on, 69
Clefts, custom of passing through, 68,
140, 240, 255
Clergy, benefit of, 57, 171
Clog-ads (cloch-ans), 383
Clovis, 102; anointing of, 175; and
serpent goddess, 224
Cluan-ire, 359, 520
Cneph, 123, 143, 234, 295,371
Cnouphis, 274
Co, meaning of, in various words, 497,
498
Cobra de Capello, 28, 39, 223, 249, 255
Cock, 173, 321; fighting, 439, 458,
459, 478
Cœlum, 474
Coins, Tyrian, 97; Cyprus, 98, 104;
phallic, 223; Greece and Asia Minor,
224, 227; Egina, etc., 37; illustrating
pisciolatry, 246; Keltik,
Pl. VI., 2, 279; serpent, 295
Columba, St., and serpent eggs,
255
Columbæ, 70 (note), 76
Conception, the, 304, 438
Concha, goddess of, 132
Concha Veneris, 97, 98, 129, 224,
246; at Parnassus, 263, 279, 295,
348
Conditions, all things product of, 8
Cones, 59; pine, 64,155; of Egyptian
king worshipping, 184; Aaron’s,
190; golden, 213, 216, 231, 245,
439
Confirmation ceremony, 176; Hindoo,
240
Confucius, 14, 115; superior to other
leaders, 178, 536, 547
Constantine and standards, 134, 137;
and sun, 508
Constantinople, triple serpent of, 124;
symbols of ancient and modern
faiths at, 265; hippodrome at, 266,
431; sack of, 507
Corner stone, 59
Cornucopia, 130, 196, 198
Cornwall, threadneedle fêtes in, 89
Coronations, anointing ceremonies at,
174, 318
Corsica, memorial stone, 290, Pl. VII.
Corycian Nymph, see Cave
Cosmogony, teachers of Jewish, 94;
history of Greek, 312
Covenant, tree of, 64; god of, 67, 71;
or law of Lord, 159; ark of, 162;
God of, 170, 173, 174, 210
Creation, worship of, 40; gem showing
idea of, 98; representative
mothers of, 433; savage ideas of,
536, 537
Creeds, decay of, 402
Cremations among Hindoos, 327
Cretans, 378; and Curetes, 393
Crimea, Phallus, Pl. VIII., 4
Crocus, 57
Crom-cruach, Irish, 387
Cromlechs on Mount Nebo, 175; lech
in, 384, 484
Cross, before signature of Roman
Catholic bishops, 3; with alpha
and omega on palm, 61; origin of,
61, 62, 64; early, 65; Manikean,
etc., 68, 69; identity of, with tree,
74; pre-christian, 75, 77, 86;
phallic, 97; origin of Christian,
134; in yoni, 202; mystic, 204;
St. Andrew’s, 207; symbolism of,
227; inquiry as to Christian, 228,
233; serpent of Killarney, 254;
worship of, 458; symbolism of, 503
Croziers, 252, 253
Crux ansata in Nineveh, 59; origin
of cross, 61, 64; with Skands, 65,
77, 192, 199, 240, 245, 317; ancient,
358