food. The supremacy of King Zeus was firmly established ; he pre- 

 sided over councils of the gods to deliberate great matters, and was 

 not bound or fettered by any recognised restraint. With Athena and 

 Apollo, he formed a supreme triad, himself being the head, Athena 

 the reason or wisdom of the Divine Father, and Apollo the mouth, 

 revealer of his counsel, and loving son, who is always of one will with 

 his father. With Apollo was closely associated Prometheus, the great 

 benefactor and liberator of the race of man, who, according to that 

 beautiful tragedy of "yEschylus," brought salvation to the world in 

 spite of Jupiter, his father and torturer, by whom he was crucified on 

 a rock, where he remained in fearful anguish until liberated by 

 Hercules. Here we find the old Vedic saviour redeeming the world 

 from the darkness and misery of night or winter, the same drama 

 precisely as that described in connection with the Eastern Aryan 

 mythology. In both instances the apparent daily and annual ascension 

 and decline of the sun is depicted : in the one case it rises again after 

 its period of defeat in winter, or night, as the sun-god Indra, afterwards 

 Surya, and still later Krishna ; while in the other case it resuscitates the 

 earth as Prometheus, the benefactor of mankind. Just as Prometheus 

 was but the Greek counterpart of the Hindu Krishna, so also were 

 Apollo, Hercules, lao, and Dionysos precisely the same. Each was 

 the new-born sun, bringing back light and glory to suffering humanity j 

 and each passed through the very same periods of power, decline, and 

 misery before being born again. 



Zeus was the sun-god par excellence, residing on the summit of 

 Olympus, or in the highest part of the heavenly vault, during the 

 summer months, when he was called Olympian Zeus, and down in 

 Hades during the winter period, when he was known as the Stygian 

 Zeus; and thus the oracle of the Klarion Apollon taught that the 

 supreme God was called, according to the seasons of the year, Hades, 

 Zeus, Helios, and lao. Apollo and Prometheus, although saviour 

 sun-gods, representing the new-born sun victorious over death and 

 winter, were yet one with Zeus, and merely repetitions of the same 

 character under different names. So, in like manner, Hercules was 

 not only son of Zeus, but Zeus himself, and may be traced right 

 through the complete annual circuit in his twelve labours, from Hades 

 to Olympus, and from Olympus to Hades again. Dionysos was, in 

 reality, not an Aryan deity, but of Egyptian origin, having been intro- 

 duced into Greece at a very early time, either from 'Egypt, where he was 

 worshipped as Mises, or, more probably, from Phoenicia, where he was 

 worshipped under the name of les, which accounts for the fact that 

 hero personifications of Dionysos in later times were accorded the 

 designation of lesous, ('IiyeroDc, or in capitals IH2OY2 Latin Jesus\ 



