. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. eirarms, to cut themselves with knives andswords. As the fury arose, they wouldutter forth moans and incoherent proph-ecies. Some bewailed their sins. Sometook up knotted whips and beat them-selves until their backs were lashed intogore. The dancing grew w
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. eirarms, to cut themselves with knives andswords. As the fury arose, they wouldutter forth moans and incoherent proph-ecies. Some bewailed their sins. Sometook up knotted whips and beat them-selves until their backs were lashed intogore. The dancing grew wilder andthe scourging more dreadful, until theexhaiisted performers sank half-uncon-scious to the earth. Then the eunuchpriests gathered from the crowds suchgifts as might be had for the treasuryof the goddess. It was customary forthose who came to the altars to bringmoney or articles of food, such as wine, milk, cheese, and meal. At evening,when the ceremonies of the day weredone, the companies were gathered to-gether and feasted, though they whohad been most active in the ceremonieswere half-dead from exhaustion. As we have said, the Canaanitesgenerally chose the mountains and hill-tops as the places for their Hilltops of ca-altars. It was the custom TdTattuT^rron such high places to places,set up stones and pillars of wood. These. IMAGE OF ASTARTE. effigies were sacred to the gods of Ca-naan. Sometimes they bore the figuresof bulls, and sometimes, as in the caseof Dagon, the combined forms of menand fishes. Some of the effigies wererude statues of men, others of were androgynous, having thecharacter of both man and reader of the Old Testament Scrip-ture will have noted the horror and ani-mosity with which the Hebrews re-garded these high places of Canaan. 344 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The races who thus worshiped in ] At tlie fire festival it was the customdegraded rites the ancient divinities of j to cut and trim large trees into rudeBabvlonia were littl
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