Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-10

The Latter-dsy Saints; l should re-
iert N sIi, except here and there n
SALIENT name aud a few ohsc'ire
though solid facts Let US inVesu-
gate
HiSDOO THBoGoSS.
In the face ofthese $500. 900 gods
the book tells Us that India had
origiuaIiy but one God called Dyaus
Pitar. Pfirr i perhaps the latin pdter
AMI the English ''flther" anu Is 20
used here 10 this day. hlsdus recalls
the Greek has. the deus Of the
L.atins and Portugueeze aud the
Spanish dos. The Celtic names for
God, are also nearly Identical 10
short II means God the Father, or
Father God. de IL generally rep
resented as n triune person. Hindu
scripture and carving Is Osten grot-
esque and III prop0riioned, yet,
when ! think Of this DyGHs f1fzT,
n represented, I always remember
a Greek oil portr.it OF the Trinity
which / oncesaw. II was not n nai
conception % a'cne Ia three and
three but one"
The Great Hindu god Is oflen
represented in three separate per
-0ns. Besides this We find In Hin
du iheogony 4 great serrenis dra'
ronz, winged beings Cl various
sorts, genli, good ard evil. and last
of al insignificant images OF fai,
lean, pretty or houid men or
women (hieroglyphicsl, Lefres, rs u
were. or household gods.
There j. zome resemblance be-
tween the Bible doctrines and the
mythology OF the Hindus. Brahma,
FOR instance, obtained from one lord
lVishuul the promise that the lord
iVishnu) shoull 20 down among
men, he conceived Of a virgin, pre-
serve the Garth and restore the Tacs
or earth from the ravag-s OF Satan
1.-THE demOn-kingl. This l. literally
the history % Bolddha, In Indian
Theology. B0uddha means the
wise
There are different kinds hero
glyphics- Many a reader could not
distinguish between a row Of san
scrlt letters, purely alphabetical, and
n many Chiue-e Characters, chiefly
Geographic. Most alphabeis are
made up Of remnants Of hieroglyphir
systems Of notation OF writing.
Tue Hindu hierlglyphics are sell
dom disfgurci, pGrpus-ly,to 1t into
the cartouche. In Hindu carvings
the cart0uche Il a depression in the
stone, neither oval a. the Egyptian,
nor squared like the ancient Amer
lean. II is square at the bottom and
vaultei or arched at the top. In
these appear human figures with
heads ~ bifks, G.aphahis, i6ises,
rhinoceroses, alligRtOrs, hawks, cats,
etc; very much like the Egyptian;
byt the style, though less stereo-
typed and los propor;ioned, Is
more free, easy, and not 20 much
carved or gagged rs scuiptured.
Being more like sculpture or high
relieE. Hindu hieroglyphics 10
not look 81 stiff and deficient
ia perspective ~ the Egyp-
tan. For all this I claim
neither grace, grandeur OF precision
In favor of Hindu architecture or
carving, mediterranean or modern,
as cOmptrei 70 Egyptian. Hiniu
az. has undergone many relapses
anI defective or fnnOvatel TestOra-
tilns.
The climate Of InJls i - moist
ald wara thai the air, sun aud rain,
with myria,ls OF almost micrOs, opic
fungi conspiTe 10 deiace and reduce
the hardest rocks As effectively n
sunshine AMI frost. Consequently
no really ancient monument are
here % be found. Some centuries
before Christ i the limit. More
over the natives Of India do
not, nor ever did, excel IN
shrts cutting or carving, con-
fning their art TO friable stones
ivory, hard woods, bronze casting
and clay. Indian art, too, Is 50
iskle in it, selection Of ornaments
that zacrei pagpdGs built in modern
times. have occasionally, where
s.0uH be, what the "Reverenjs''
call a god; there, I ny, the pago-
DIS occasionally have = carved Brit
ish soldier, sEouiieTing a gun, or
presenting arms. Yet Il j. largely
from these gods" that the mis-
siauaries draw UP their 50 cr0res.
When FIST I heard %. these numbers
! appealed 10 Whist ! term obscure or
fors ten hieroylyphiC-, for the ma
jlriiy are but such, trEuspiauted hy
Indian at, from Esrp. b India. Ia
= ;yp They often represented vari-
Gus attributes Of one deity. The
Bible cpuli furnish SCORES Of gods II
We were ~ Use each. name OF atsri-
butte of the Deity n represent
Ing another god. A few ex-
/ am Jehovah. Eloz
him, Lori God Ul SIhaoth, Of
Abraham, Of Islac. elc.. angel Of
the L1ri, Holy Spiui, almighty,
werciful, love, Alpha AMI Omega,
etc, etc. Though India may have
had many gods. l consiier 3, 80, coo
an hoax OF q number. Imagine n
directory II gods with 100, 0l1 names,
: book lsrger than Weifs.er's uua-
bfidgei, ami II you pielse, thirty
two such volumes on top Of it
merely names and addresses oil the
gods, let alone attributes, birth,
death, and history aud manner Of
serving each god. Iiesijer. acc1ui /
isg 70 statistics, 70 would make only
a congregation Of lJl u ijJ men,
women and babes - each got. Il
j. preIosfer1u- But ia Summing
uP the idols and hieroglyphics, the
oJari u eiucatiOn easily enough
got thiriy-ihrec cT0res or Gods.
&. q. l..