Lectures On the Religion of the Semites
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14 210 ORIGIN OF LECT. V nor prominent, and the idea of founding a theory of the origin of sacred stones in general npon them could hardly occur to any one, except on the perfectly gratuitous supposition that the idol or symbol must necessarily be like the god.^ The notion that the sacred stone is a simulacrum of the god seems also to be excluded by the observation that several pillars may stand together as representatives of a single deity. Here, indeed, the evidence must be sifted with some c...are, for a god and a goddess were often worshipped together, and then each would have a pillar.^ But this kind of explanation does not cover all the cases. In the Arabian rite described in Herod, iii. 8, two deities are invoked, but seven sacred stones are anointed with ^ The stone of al-Lat at Taif, in which the goddess was supposed to dwell, is identified by local tradition with a mass which seems to be a natural block m situ, though not one of unusual size or form. See my Kinship, p. 293, and Doughty, ii.
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14 210 ORIGIN OF LECT. V nor prominent, and the idea of founding a theory of the origin of sacred stones in general npon them could hardly occur to any one, except on the perfectly gratuitous supposition that the idol or symbol must necessarily be like the god.^ The notion that the sacred stone is a simulacrum of the god seems also to be excluded by the observation that several pillars may stand together as representatives of a single deity. Here, indeed, the evidence must be sifted with some c...are, for a god and a goddess were often worshipped together, and then each would have a pillar.^ But this kind of explanation does not cover all the cases. In the Arabian rite described in Herod, iii. 8, two deities are invoked, but seven sacred stones are anointed with ^ The stone of al-Lat at Taif, in which the goddess was supposed to dwell, is identified by local tradition with a mass which seems to be a natural block m situ, though not one of unusual size or form. See my Kinship, p. 293, and Doughty, ii.
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