ORDINARY MEETING, Marcu 21, 1887. 
D. Howarp, Hsq., Vicz-Pres., Comm. Soc., In THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following Elections were announced :— 
MempBers:—W. Dunbar, Esq., C.E., M.T.E., South Africa; S. M. 
Tweddill, Esq., South Africa. \ 
Assoctates :— G, B. Buckton, Esq., F.R.S., Surrey ; G@ C. Bompas, Esq., 
F.G.S., London. 
Also the presentation of the following work for the Library :— 
“The Mineral Springs of Keswick.” By J. Postlethwaite, Esq., F.G.S. 
The following Paper was then read by the Author :— 
KRISHNA, AND SOLAR MYTHS. By the Rev. Ricnarp 
Cottins, M.A., late Principal of Cottayam College, 
Travancore. 
AS the human apprehension, or idea of the Divine, 
described as anthropomorphism, crystallised, in more 
national philosophies than one, into the same theory of some 
local Divine Saviour manifested in a human person or 
character? This would seem to be the hypothesis of not a 
few of our modern writers. Thus it is quite fashionable to 
represent Jesus Christ as the Semitic development of this idea, 
parallel with, for instance, the Hindu developments of Krishna 
and Buddha. Again, some have not hesitated to represent 
the story of Jesus Christ as eclectic, shining with borrowed 
rays, for which it is much indebted to Hindu intuitions or 
speculations. Lately an attempt has been made to intensify 
and centralise this anthropomorphic theory, by representing 
Krishna, Buddha, and many others, together with Jesus 
Christ himself, as parallel national adaptations of an original 
myth of the Sun-God. This view is taken in a series 
of articles in a publication called Knowledge, where 
Mr. Richard Proctor sums up _ the three following 
features as everywhere presented by the adaptations 
of the ancient solar myth: “First, the Sun-God was 
announced by a star; secondly, he was born in a cave; 
and, thirdly, sacrificial offerings were presented to him.” 
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