[96.1] The Romanised-Celtic cult of a vague group of “Sanctae Virgines,” attested by an inscription found near Lyons (Rhys, Hibbert Lectures, p. 102), counts very little against this induction.
[96.2] The warlike character of these Virgin Goddesses, Athena, Ishtar, might be explained on a sociologic hypothesis that would also account for Amazonism; in modern Albania the girl who refuses marriage is allowed to wear man’s dress and to bear arms, vide Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1910, p. 460.
[96.3] But in a recent paper (Athenische Mittheilungen, 1911, p. 27) Frickenhaus and Müller give reasons for dating the earliest Heraeum to the eighth century. At any rate, the goddess-cult in this locality was vastly older.
CHAPTER VI NOTES
[100.1] Bab. Hym. u. Gebet., p. 11.
[100.2] Jastrow, op. cit., p. 230.
[100.3] In Roscher’s Lexikon, ii. 2371; cf. ib., 2367.
[101.1] Roscher, Lexikon, iii. p. 364.
[101.2] Jeremias, op. cit., iii. p. 250.
[101.3] Langdon, Sum. Babyl. Psalms, p. 83.