However, the counterfeit began many years earlier in Babel, when the worship of the mother and her child became an act of religion. This was the work of Nimrod and his wife Semiramis.
The religion was more fully established after the death of Nimrod, when Semiramis became pregnant, supposedly from the sun. Her child was said to be the rebirth of Nimrod in another form as the son of the sun. He was called Tammuz.
Thus there were always three in this false religion -- the father, the mother, and the son, with an emphasis on the mother and her child.
“From Babylon, this worship of the Mother and the Child spread to the ends of the earth. In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were worshipped under the names of Isis and Osiris. In India, as Ini and Iswara; in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother, with the babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms; and even in Tibet, in China, and Japan, the Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of Madonna and her child…” Two Babylons by Alexander Hyslop p20.21.
The research done by Hislop is amazing. Another man did research on his research and found it to be accurate. It is not a book to read as a story, but for research. An excellent source book for the diligent student on the gods of the nations. It is available on the internet.
In harmony with other religions, Rome adopted the trinity, with an emphasis on the Madonna and Child.
In Japan, the Buddhists worship their great divinity, Buddha, with three heads, in the very same form, under the name of “San Pao Fuh” Two Babylons p17.18.
In India, the supreme divinity…. is represented with three heads on one body, under the name of “Eko Deva Trimurtti -- One God, three forms”.
I have a dear friend who was a Catholic. As a child she could not under-stand how God could have three heads and we have only one. After all, we were created in His image! What a relief, at the age of 70, when she learned about the true God and His Son.
The Encyclopedia Britannica states, "Another deity, Brahma, the creator, remains in the background as a demiurge. These three great figures (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva) constitute the so-called Hindu Trinity -- Trimurti, ‘The One or Whole with Three Forms’ ” Encyclopedia Britannica. Article, Hinduism.
Edward Gibbons stated, “If paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians…. was changed, by the church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief.” History of Christianity, Edward Gibbon. Preface.