. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. commanding the admiration of all that gaze uponits transcendent beauty. Not so. The worship of the Paphian Venus was derivedby the Cypriots from the Phoenicians, and by them from the Assyrians,^^ and wasstamped with the character of the remotest antiquity. The only visible object of ado-ration was a white block of uncertain material, and resembling in shape a cone, withthe upper part truncated (fig. 64).^^ The altars also did not, as with the other gods, reekwith the blood of victims; but the flame of the sacred fire never ceased, and the fumesof frankincen
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. commanding the admiration of all that gaze uponits transcendent beauty. Not so. The worship of the Paphian Venus was derivedby the Cypriots from the Phoenicians, and by them from the Assyrians,^^ and wasstamped with the character of the remotest antiquity. The only visible object of ado-ration was a white block of uncertain material, and resembling in shape a cone, withthe upper part truncated (fig. 64).^^ The altars also did not, as with the other gods, reekwith the blood of victims; but the flame of the sacred fire never ceased, and the fumesof frankincense pervaded the Once in every year the population, of both sexes, 2 Pint. Cato Min. 35.■■^ Pausan. Attica, i. 14, 6. uyaXpa ovk av iiKCKjais «XXw toj 7^ Tvvpa^idi XeuKi/, rj §€ uXt; ayv cmm desB, non effigie humana, continuus orbislatiore initio tenuem in ambitum, metfe modo,exsurgens. Tac. Hist. ii. 3. Sangiiinem arte obfimdere vetitum, precibus Maxim. Tjr. 38. Simula- et igue puro altaria adolentur. Tac. Hist. ii. Fig. 64.—Temple of Ve •■i. From If. F. Miiuter and G. U. Hetschs Temph of Inphos. Copenhagen, 1^2 The image of tbe goddess is here represented as a cone ending in a point, but it is said that the summit was doves at the two opposite angles of the ro<tf are n<.t intended for real doves, but figures carved in stone or semicircular court in front was where the sacred doves were fed, as may be collected from the coin on the nextprtgf*. In the middle of the ctnirt is the altar on which the incense was burnt. The above sketch must be regarded onlyas giving a general idea of the shrine. K 2 [ 45] .ST. PAULS FISST CIBCUIT. [Chap. VIII. .streamed in from all parts of the island to Paphos; and a grand triumphal procession,like the Panathenasa at Athens, moved thence, in honour of the »oddess to OldPaphos, the spot where her worship had been at first cultivated (figs. 65 and 66).^*
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