. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . block of grey granite. Ethiopian worshiphad become permeated with strange superstitions, and itscreed was degraded, in spite of the strictness with whichthe priests supervised its application and kept watchagainst every attempt to introduce innovations. Towardsthe end of the seventh century some of the famiUesattached to the temple of Am on at Napata had en-deavoured to bring about a kind of religious reform;among other innovations they adopted the practice for the ordinary sacrifice, new rites, the chieffeature of whi
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . block of grey granite. Ethiopian worshiphad become permeated with strange superstitions, and itscreed was degraded, in spite of the strictness with whichthe priests supervised its application and kept watchagainst every attempt to introduce innovations. Towardsthe end of the seventh century some of the famiUesattached to the temple of Am on at Napata had en-deavoured to bring about a kind of religious reform;among other innovations they adopted the practice for the ordinary sacrifice, new rites, the chieffeature of which was the offering of the flesh of the victimraw, instead of roasted with fire. This custom, which wasdoubtless borrowed from the negroes of the Upper Nile,was looked upon as a shameful heresy by the king repaired in state to the temple of Amon, seizedthe priests who professed these seditious beliefs, and burntthem alive. The use of raw meat, nevertheless, was notdiscontinued, and it gained such ground in the course of Encampment de Bacharis. Encampment de Bacharis
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