[534] Pausanias, vii, 22. Cf. Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 160 ff.
[535] H. Spencer, Principles of Sociology, i, 335; Saussaye, Manual of the Science of Religion (Eng. tr.), p. 85 ff.
[536] Gen. xxviii, 18; cf. Smith, Religion of the Semites, 2d ed., p. 203 f.
[537] Hos. iii, 4.
[538] The reference in Jer. ii, 27, Hab. ii, 19 (stones as parents and teachers), seems to be to the cult of foreign deities, represented by images.
[539] On the interpretation of the masseba as a phallus or a kteis see below, §§ 400, 406.
[540] And so in Assyrian and Arabic.
[541] There is no Greek etymology for baitulos, and if it came from without, a Semitic origin is the most probable.
[542] Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica, i, 10, 18.
[543] Hist. Nat., bk. xxxvii, chap. 51.