Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . er and Ushas washis wife. Now these beings were the seasons. That Lordof Beings was the year. That wife Ushas was the daughterof the Dawn. Then both these beings and that Lord of Beings,the year, impregnated Ushas and a boy (Agni) was born. ^ In this passage we plainly see that the young sun-god, oryear, Agni is the daughter of Ushas, our Black Durga. Heopens the year in Aries, and has a complicated quaternity ofseasons for a father like Rama, and, as I shall show, the fivesons of Panda. The passage of the year was imaged as theflight of a horse
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . er and Ushas washis wife. Now these beings were the seasons. That Lordof Beings was the year. That wife Ushas was the daughterof the Dawn. Then both these beings and that Lord of Beings,the year, impregnated Ushas and a boy (Agni) was born. ^ In this passage we plainly see that the young sun-god, oryear, Agni is the daughter of Ushas, our Black Durga. Heopens the year in Aries, and has a complicated quaternity ofseasons for a father like Rama, and, as I shall show, the fivesons of Panda. The passage of the year was imaged as theflight of a horse round the world. Hence the horse selected horse was cast loose like the scapegoat of theJews. For an entire year he roamed free, and then was sacri-ficed with great pomp. Another Vedic hymn explains the wings— Thine arms, O shining god, are like the wings of thesparrowhawk. O horse, thy birth is noble and worthy of our praise. ^ 1 Rig Veda, 3. 7. 6 ; portions of hymns 6, 7, 8. 2 ^atapatha Brahm., 6. i. 3. 8. ^ Rig Veda, ii. 3- INDIAN ZODIAC. 33 I The wings of the horse are the flames, the wings of theheavenly bird, the doves of Agni,as one hymn calls them. On theother side of the zodiac, Agni is Ga-ruda, the divine spirit, as I shallshow. This explains the first stage ofRamas life. He is the year bornfrom the ichor of the horse sacrifice, ^ the dead year. I copy a winged horse from Buddha Gaya (Fig. 22). The Bull. That there are in reality only six year-gods, each figuringin the wintry half-year as well as the six months of summer,might be inferred from the Bull alone. Vriha, the Bull. Root word, wish, to rain. Whencealso Vritra, the Scorpio, as I shall show, of the Rig Veda. Riidra, one who roars. The name of Siva as the godof the tempests. Thus Benfey in his Sanskrit Dictionary. Rudra in the summer half-year roars Hke a bull. In thewintry half-year he roars like the terrible Indian the one he is Taurus, in the other Scorpio. In the RigVeda the de
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