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Excerpt from The Biblical Illustrator, or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations: Expository, Scientific, Geographical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered From a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible; Galatians
Tiara Bmerous Tsunaucms. - The Phrygian religion, adopted by the Gauls, was a demonstrative nature-worship, both sensuous and startling. The coitus was orgiastic, with wild music and dances led by the Corybantes - not without the usual accommniments of impurities and other abominations, though it might have mystic initiations and secret teachings. Rhea, or Cybele, the mother of the gods, was the chief object of adoration, and derived a surname from the places where her service was established. The great Mother appears on the coins of all the cities, and many coins found in the mine of the Wall of Hadrian have her efiigy. At Paesinae her image was supposed to have fallen from heaven, and there she was called Agdistes. Though the statue was taken to Rome during the war with Hannibal, the city retained a sacred pro-eminence. Strabo says that her priests were a sort of sovereigns endowed with large revenues, and that the Attalian kings built for her a magnificent temple. The Gauls are supposed to have been accustomed to somewhat similar religious ordinances in their national ao-called Druidin. But the Druidical system, long supposed to be so specially characteristicviii introduction TO the epistle TO the galatians.
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