. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER Gods, All Religions. NTONY, walking slowly—Thatwas really Hell! Nebuchadnezzar did not dazzleme so much. The Queen of Shebadid not bewitch me so way in which he spoke aboutthe gods filled me with a longing to know them. 1 recollect having seen hundi-eds of them at atime, in the Island of Elephantinum, in the reign ofDioclesian. The Emperor had given up to the nomadsa large territory, on condition that they shjuld protectthe frontiers; and the treaty was c
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTER Gods, All Religions. NTONY, walking slowly—Thatwas really Hell! Nebuchadnezzar did not dazzleme so much. The Queen of Shebadid not bewitch me so way in which he spoke aboutthe gods filled me with a longing to know them. 1 recollect having seen hundi-eds of them at atime, in the Island of Elephantinum, in the reign ofDioclesian. The Emperor had given up to the nomadsa large territory, on condition that they shjuld protectthe frontiers; and the treaty was concluded in thename of the invisible Powers. For the gods of everypeople were ignorant about other people. The Bar-Ijarians had brought forward theirs. They occupiedthe hillocks of sand which line the river. One couldsee them holding their idols between their arms, likegreat paralytic children, or else, sailing amid cataractson trunks of palm-trees, they pointed out from a dis-tance the amulets on their necks and the tattooingson their breasts; and that is not more criminal thanthe religion of the Greeks
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