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all the world over, is a sort of poet, translating the 

 wanderings of his imagination into suitable pictures in 

 stone, paint, metal, etc. 



Having rejected my own citron - theory, and not 

 finding Dr. Tylor's theory of fertilization sufficiently 

 applicable to all cases, I do not see sufficient grounds 

 for not adhering to my other theory, viz. that of the 

 holy water and ' aspergillum.' Dr. Tylor's authority is 

 great, and he seems supported by Count d'Alviella, 

 another great authority on matters concerning symbols ; 

 yet, in spite of all that, the fertilization theory does 

 not seem to me satisfactory. 



Moreover, in Lajard's ' Culte de Mithra,' there is a 

 cylinder, fig. 36, which is very suggestive. It has 



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Fig. 36. — From Lajard's 'Culte de Mithra,' pi. 31, fig. 4. 



a kneeling figure, with arms uplifted in prayer, under 

 a winged disc. On each side of the disc a jar is 

 pouring water into another jar at the foot of that 

 same ivinged genius, which in one hand holds a bucket, v/ 

 but which, in this case, does not hold a cone in the 



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