This story the Egyptians delighted to repeat under numberless disguises.

The groundwork and meaning are the same, whether the actors are Osiris, Isis and Set, Ptah, Hapi and the Virgin Cow, or the many other actors of this drama.

There, too, among a brown race of men, the light-god was deemed to be not of their own hue, but "light colored, white or yellow," of comely countenance, bright eyes and golden hair.

Again, he is the one who invented the calendar, taught the arts, established the rituals, revealed the medical virtues of plants, recommended peace, and again was identified as one of the brothers of the cardinal points.[1] [Footnote 1: See Dr.C.P.Tiele, _History of the Egyptian Religion_, pp.
93, 95, 99, et al.] The story of the virgin-mother points, in America as it did in the old world, to the notion of the dawn bringing forth the sun.

It was one of the commonest myths in both continents, and in a period of human thought when miracles were supposed to be part of the order of things had in it nothing difficult of credence.