. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . eyes of thepeople. Dozens of superstitions are attached to it. Mothershold up their babes to pat the huge beast or kiss its face,barren women touch its brow to remove the curse of sterility,and pilgrims lay offerings of stones, some of them carved, uponits head as a coronet or on the block below its mouth. From the standpoint of art the lion is rather effective in thedistance, as the mutilation of the stone does not then show,and I was impressed by the lifelike appearance of the image
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . eyes of thepeople. Dozens of superstitions are attached to it. Mothershold up their babes to pat the huge beast or kiss its face,barren women touch its brow to remove the curse of sterility,and pilgrims lay offerings of stones, some of them carved, uponits head as a coronet or on the block below its mouth. From the standpoint of art the lion is rather effective in thedistance, as the mutilation of the stone does not then show,and I was impressed by the lifelike appearance of the image asI first rode toward it, an effect which is enhanced by the 1 Masudi (died 951) devotes a para- Belinas also placed other talismans,graph to this monument in his no longer in existence, to the right ofMeadows of Oold, chap. 130, see Les the statue to protect the people ofPrairies dOr, ed. Barbier de Mey- Hamadan against snakes, scorpions,nard, 9. 21-22. insects, and floods. Belinas is com- 2 See p. 159, above. monly explained as a corrupt Oriental 3 Yakut, p. 606, who adds that form for Plinius, m
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