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entangled by the migration of these deities to other 

 countries, and their absorption into the mythology of 

 other peoples. Like the tree of life, they not only 

 changed their names, but their characters, and the 

 stories connected with them, were transformed into 

 something else. It requires a special study of com- 

 parative mythologies to discover a way out of this 

 jungle of gods, goddesses, and devils. 



My object in reproducing the four deities of fig. 8y 

 was to show how persistent the horn emblem has been, 

 and the transformations it has undergone : (a) shows a 

 pair of horns in each hand — a bident in the form of 

 ' Caduceus ; ' (d) shows a quadrident weapon held in the 

 hand, or two pairs of horns ; 



(c) shows a trident in one 

 hand and a bident in an- 

 other — both being horns ; 



(d) shows a trident in the 

 form of a ' fleur-de-lys.' 



All these, and many others, 

 including the horned hands 

 of Italy, the crescent, the 

 horse-shoe, etc., are affiliated 

 to their great ancestors the luck-horns of Assyria. 



Not only Jupiter's double thunderbolt is a horn 

 emblem, but also the trident of Neptune. It is, I 

 think, easy to show how the bident or trident (that 



Fig. 88. — Sphinx of Greek art, from 

 fragment of Daphnoen pottery. 

 Miss Amelia Edwards' ' Pharaohs,' 

 etc., p. 192. 



