WHERE MEN WORSHIP BEASTS
Men worship beasts in many lands. Instead of tho beautiful or useful, V3ually it is the dangerous or ugly animals -which, are chosen to bo their gods, says a writer in "Sunday at Home."
In India orthodox Hindus will not kill the doadly holy cobra; and if ono makes up its mind to live in ono of thoir houses, either it is allowed to stay or else it is lured into an earthenware ]ar with a narrow neck, and then taken aerrse a river or some way cCV before being set free. It is a common Indian belief that when a rich man dies without heirs ho returns in the form of a serpent to guard his treasure. To the protection of tlio cobras the ancient Egyptians attributed the preservation of their crops, and these serpents wore encouraged to live amongst cultivation. In Cairo today each quarter has its serpent guardian, and all over Kjjypt there are "serpents of tho house." Crocodiles also were snored to the nncienf. Kgypti.ins. Their mummies, in n perfect state of preservation, have been found in old temple ruin<. Tin: Tln.fii bnboon lived in Ktryjil i.'ir/ (empl<.-.--, arid its mummies also have been found, <;ivfithrd, spiced. jhicl ilemraleil like those of human beings, in tin' riii/is n|" tenjjiii^jux.s- bvJJgvpj,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 9
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218WHERE MEN WORSHIP BEASTS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 9
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