azement than this semi-worship of animals.^ Later theology has suc-ceeded in giving more or lesssubtle and specious explana-tions of these forms of worship.Each of these animals hasbeen assigned, as symbol orattribute, to one of the greaterdeities. As for ourselves wehave no doubt that theseobjects… … Fig. 37.—The goddess Bast. (From a bronze inthe Louvre. Actual size.) The EoYrTLAN Religion and the Plastic Arts. 55 brineine it into cultivation, imasfination deified these animals,some for the services which they rendered, others for theterror which they inspired ; and it was the same with…
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