Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . 62. —ATYS. 63.—ANOTHEU RErRESENTATION OF ATYS. CHAPTER VII. SIBYLS AND DOLPHINS AND THEIR RIDERS. SIBYLS—AN AFRICAN SIBYL HEAD-DRESS OF THE VIRGIN PROPHETESSES A MATRON SIBYL (?) DOLPHINS AND THEIR RIDERS APOTHEOSIS OF DE-CEASED CHILDREN STORY OF ARION EADL\TED HEADS THE BULLA. It is not surprising that the Cilician terra-cottas, which, we have seen,embrace so large a field of Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, and Eoman my-thology, should also contai
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . 62. —ATYS. 63.—ANOTHEU RErRESENTATION OF ATYS. CHAPTER VII. SIBYLS AND DOLPHINS AND THEIR RIDERS. SIBYLS—AN AFRICAN SIBYL HEAD-DRESS OF THE VIRGIN PROPHETESSES A MATRON SIBYL (?) DOLPHINS AND THEIR RIDERS APOTHEOSIS OF DE-CEASED CHILDREN STORY OF ARION EADL\TED HEADS THE BULLA. It is not surprising that the Cilician terra-cottas, which, we have seen,embrace so large a field of Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, and Eoman my-thology, should also contain illustrations of oracular beings and virLiiuprophetesses, who played an important part in the rise of Christianity;whose books were largely used by the ancient fathers of the Church, msJustin Martyr, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch, Tertullian, Lact:in-tius, Eusebius, St. Jerome, St. Austin, and others, against the Pagans,and whose prophecies did not fall before the light of a new religion fornearly four centuries after the advent of Jesus. Among the various female heads, forexample, which adorn this interestingcollection, is one (No.
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