They too had their virgin-mother goddess, "Our Lady" whose son, the"Lord of Light," was called the "Saviour," bearing an accuratecorrespondence to Isis, Beltis and the many other virgin-goddesses ofthe east with their divine sons.

Their rites of sun and fire worship closely resembled those of theearly Kelts of Britain and Ireland, and like the latter they claimedto be the "children of the sun." An ark or argha was one of theuniversal sacred symbols which we find alike in India, Chaldea,Assyria, Egypt, Greece and amongst the Keltic peoples. LordKingsborough in his _Mexican Antiquities_ (vol. viii. p. 250) says:"As among the Jews the ark was a sort of portable temple in which thedeity was supposed to be continually present, so among the Mexicans,the Cherokees and the Indians of Michoacan and Honduras, an ark washeld in the highest veneration and was considered an object too sacredto be touched by any but the priests."