imborne, or Painting; Brecdil, or Sculpture; Swenge, or Music;
Tilono, or Drama; Timpango, or Dancing; Olshodesdil, or Architecture,
etc., etc. In the lower section there were tableaux cast in high
relief illustrating the qualities of the soul developed by art, viz.:
Omodrilon, or Imagination; Diandarn, or Emotion; Samadoan, or
Conscience; Voedli, or Faith; Lentilmid, or Tenderness; Delidoa, or
Truth, etc.

The final section or tapering apex of the throne was thirty feet in
greatest width and thirty-six feet in height. It contained a throne
and three divisions. The lowest division contained the gods Hielano,
or Magic; Bishano, or Sorcery; Nidialano, or Astrology; Padomano, or
Soothsaying, etc.

The intermediate division contained the gods Niano, or Witchcraft;
Redohano, or Wizardry; Oxemano, or Diablerie; Biccano, or the Oracle;
Amano, or Seership; Kielano, or Augury; Tocderano, or Prophecy;
Jiracano, or Geomancy; Jocdilano, or Necromancy, etc.

The third division contained the gods Orphitano, or Conjuration;
Orielano, or Divination; Pridano, or Clairvoyance; Cideshano, or
Electro-biology; Omdohlopano, or Theosophy; Bischanamano, or
Spiritualism, etc.

The climax of all was the throne of the goddess. It was a seat of
aloe-green velvet that, revolving slowly in the centre of the
supporting throne, presented the goddess to every section of the vast
audience. Thus seated, the goddess radiated an Orient splendor,
herself a blaze of beauty and the focus of every eye. The music of an
introductory opera warbled its soft strains with breathless execution.
It seemed the carolling of a thousand nightingales, mingling with the
musical crying of silver trumpets and the clear electric chiming of
golden bells.

CHAPTER XX.

THE WORSHIP OF LYONE, SUPREME GODDESS.

The worship of the goddess began with the appearance on a revolving
stage between the nearest worshippers and the base of the throne
itself of a veritable forest of trees about one hundred feet in width.
There were trees like magnolias, oaks, elms and others splendid in
foliage, and amid these there was an undergrowth of beds of the most
brilliant flowers.

It was the work of the magicians and sorcerers!

There were thickets of camellias and rhododendrons, amid which bloomed
flowers like scarlet geraniums, primroses, violets and poppies. What
appeared to be apple, peach, cherry and hawthorn trees, all in full
bloom, tossed their white and pink foam of fl