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bolt of it, is only for the sake of symmetry. The fancy 

 of the artist, and the traditions of art, should, I think, 

 never be lost sight of in interpreting these hieroglyphics. 



With these data, the interpretation given of that god 

 of the tempest, with his thunderbolt and stream of 

 water, becomes interesting, 



I herewith give a variety of these supposed ' tempest 

 gods,' taken from Lajard's ' Culte de Mithra ' cylinders. 



a /> 



Fig. 87.— (a) pi. 28, fig. 5 ; [b] pi. 30, fig. I, ' Culte de Mithra.' 



c d 



{c) pi. 37, fig. I ; {d) pi. 37, fig. 3, ' Culte de Mithra.' 



