. The Open court. azir. Though written in a tone ofextreme adulation it makes very interesting reading. P STRANGE FATE OF IDOLS. Reverence for statues of gods and saints which belong to a faded faithis not uncommon in the history of religion. Prof. Frederick Starr sent ussome time ago the photograph of an ancient Mexican idol, which continued tobe worshiped by the natives after their conversion to Christianity. Lately. 700 THE OPEN COURT. however, the bishop underwhose jurisdiction the village stands had orderedto have the idol removed. (See illustration on page 554 of the SeptemberOpen Court.
. The Open court. azir. Though written in a tone ofextreme adulation it makes very interesting reading. P STRANGE FATE OF IDOLS. Reverence for statues of gods and saints which belong to a faded faithis not uncommon in the history of religion. Prof. Frederick Starr sent ussome time ago the photograph of an ancient Mexican idol, which continued tobe worshiped by the natives after their conversion to Christianity. Lately. 700 THE OPEN COURT. however, the bishop underwhose jurisdiction the village stands had orderedto have the idol removed. (See illustration on page 554 of the SeptemberOpen Court.) We know that after the introduction of Christianity certaingods of Germany were worshiped as saints or, as the case happen to be,were turned into demons or devils. Odin was changed into Emperor Bar-barossa, the hero of the German nation, who was believed to sleep in hisenchanted mountain until some distant future when he would return. Hisplace of retirement was attributed to be Odhinberg on the Rhine, the Kyflf-. ST. ANNE IN INDIA. Jiauser in Thuringia and other mountains which popular tradition has trans-figured by legend. The reverse process has also taken place where Christianity after hav-ing made some conquests among natives has given way to prior here reproduce two Hindu idols which are now worshiped in the oldpagan fashion though they have been made by Christian artists and stillbear the evidence of their original destination. They are both preserved inChandor, in the district of Nasik, India. One of them represents St. Anne,the mother of Mary, with her infant on her knees. The artistic work does MISCELLANEOUS. 701 not show to advantage in the reproduction, but we can still see that it isfashioned under the influence of European art, presumably by a European.
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