und their concurrence
essential to the perfection of their offspring, and that Vishnu, at the
request of the goddess, effected a reconciliation between them."(51)

49) See The Evolution of Women, p. 303.

50) Asiatic Researches, vol. iii., pp. 125-132.

51) Asiatic Researches, "Egypt and the Nile," vol. iii., pp. 361-363.

The people who were dominant in Asia long before the rise of the
late Assyrian monarchy, are said to be those whom scriptural writers
represent as Cushim, and the Hindoos as Cushas. They were the
descendants of Cush, or Cuth, and were believed to have been the
architects of the Tower of Babel. Epiphanius, Eusebius, and others
assert that at the time of the building of this tower there existed two
rival beliefs, the one demonstrated as Scuthism, the other as Ionism, or
Hellenism, the latter of which embodied the worship of the Great Mother,
or the female element, which was worshipped in the shape of the
mystic "Iona or Dove." The Scuths, on the other hand, believed in the
pre-eminence of a Great Father, or, perhaps I should say, in a Deity
composed of a triad containing the elements of a male parent. Upon
this subject the learned Faber remarks: "I am much mistaken if some
dissension on these points did not prevail at Babel itself; and I think
there is reason for believing that the altercation between the rival
sects aided the confusion of languages in producing the dispersion."(52)

52) Pagan Idolatry, book vi., ch. ii.

Those who believed in the superiority of the male in the processes of
reproduction, adored the male element in the Deity, while those who
held that the female is the more important, worshipped the female energy
throughout Nature under one or another of its symbols, sometimes as a
woman with her child and sometimes as a dove, but oftener as an ark,
box, or chest.

It is evident from the sacred writings of the Hindoos that in India,
during a period of several thousand years, there existed various sects,
those who worshipped the male as the only creative force, others who
adored the female as the origin of life, and those who paid homage to
both, as alike important in the office of reproduction.

It would seem that the fierce wars which had devastated the land had
ceased prior to the beginning of the Tower of Babel. According to the
testimony of Moses, the Lord himself declared "Behold the people is
one." This unanimity of belief, as is plainly show