as.
There is also to be seen a trinity of stones "those of Janus (Chemosh),
Petros and Ion, all solar terms and connected with the sitting or
sinking down to rest of the Kuros."

Messrs. Maundrell and Sandys, who in 1697 visited all the holy places
in and around Jerusalem, state that the entire city, but especially
the sites of Moriah, Zion, and suburbs were hotbeds of fire and phallic
worship as usually developed still in the East.

The topography of ancient Delphi, on the site of which was built the
village of Kastri, and at which place excavations are now being made
under the direction of the American School of Archaeology, has ever been
a place of peculiar interest to the mystic. Here are to be found all the
natural features and objects which gladden the heart and stimulate the
imagination of a solo-phallic worshipper. The holy Mt. Parnassus, the
fountain of Kastali, the deep cave said to be Pythian, and the remnants
of huge sepulchres hewn in the rocks all conspire to make of this spot
a perfect abode for the god, or goddess, of fertility. Here, too, is a
beautiful lake and near it a sacred fig-tree which has been struck by
lightning, or, "touched by holy fire." Of this sacred place Forlong
writes:

"Christianity has never neglected this so-called Pagan shrine, nor yet
misunderstood it, if we may judge by the saint she has located here, for
Mr. Hobhouse found in the rocky chasm dipped in the dews of Castaly, but
safe in a rocky niche, a Christian shrine; and close by a hut called the
church of St. John; yea verily of Ione, she who had once reigned here
supreme; whilst on a green plot a few yards below the basin, in a little
grove of olive trees, stood the monastery of Panhagia or Holy Virgin, so
that here we still have and beside her sacred form in the cleft, men who
have consecrated their manhood to the old Mother and Queen of Heaven,
just as if she of Syria had never been heard of.

"Doubtless they knew little of what civilized Europe calls Christianity,
for I have spent many days conversing with such men, and seen
little difference between them and those similarly placed in the far
East--fervid Christians though Greeks and Syrians are."

Perhaps nothing shows the extent to which the religion of the pagans has
been retained by Christianity more than does the worship of the serpent.
It has been said that this reptile enters into every mythology extant.
Ferguson is authority for the statement that "he is to be