A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . ure, II., pp. 143 if. ^ It is possible to conjecture circumstances which would have tended toencourage speculation in that direction. The capture and deportation ofa god, if followed by the substitution of another hgure in its place and thesubsequent recovery of the original, would have led to the incorporation oftwo figures within one shrine. And a kings ambition to rebuild or beautifya temple might have been extended to the image itself, if the latter hadsuffered damage or decay. CULTUEAL INFLUENCE 295 misfort
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . ure, II., pp. 143 if. ^ It is possible to conjecture circumstances which would have tended toencourage speculation in that direction. The capture and deportation ofa god, if followed by the substitution of another hgure in its place and thesubsequent recovery of the original, would have led to the incorporation oftwo figures within one shrine. And a kings ambition to rebuild or beautifya temple might have been extended to the image itself, if the latter hadsuffered damage or decay. CULTUEAL INFLUENCE 295 misfortunes of the material image, especially if unaccom-panied by national disaster, would have fostered a beliefin the gods existence apart from his visible body of woodor stone. And such a belief eventually developed intothe Babylonian conception of a heavenly division of theuniverse, in which the great gods had their dwelhng,making their presence manifest to men in the stars andplanets that moved across the sky. But this develop-ment marked a great advance upon pure image-worship,.
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