The first striking circumstance in which the history of Pythagoras agrees with the history of Jesus is, that they were natives of nearly the same county; the former being born at Sidon, the latter at Bethlehem, both in Sytria. The father of Pythgoras, as well as the father of Jesus, was prophetically informed that his wife should bring forth a son, who should be a benefactor to mankind. They were both born when their mothers were from home on journeys, Joseph and his wife having gone up to Bethlehem to be taxed, and the father of Pythagoras having travelled from Samos, his residence, to Sidon, about his mercantile concerns. Pythais [Pythasis], the mother of Pythagorus, had a connexion with an Apolloniacal spectre, or ghost, of the God Apollo, or God Sol (of course this must have been a holy ghost, and here we have the Holy Ghost) which, afterward appeared to her husband, and told him that he must have no connexion with his wife during her pregancy -- a story evidently the same as that relating to Joseph and Mary. From theses peculiar circumstances, Pythagorus was known by the same title as Jesus, namely, the son of God; and was supposed by the multitutde to be under the influence of Divine inspiration.
Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis
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