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burned and sacrifices were made in memory of the deceased.&quot; 

 Various peoples make shelters for such incipient altars or de 

 veloped altars. By the Mosquitos &quot; a rude hut is constructed 

 over the grave, serving as a receptacle for the choice food, 

 drink/ etc. In Africa the Wakhutu &quot; usually erect small 

 pent-houses over them [the graves], where they place offer 

 ings of food.&quot; Major Serpa Pinto s work contains a cut 

 representing a native chief s mausoleum, in which we see the 

 grave covered by a building on six wooden columns a 

 building needing but additional columns to make it like a 

 small Greek temple. Similarly in Borneo. The drawing of 

 &quot; Bajah Dinda s family sepulchre,&quot; given by Bock, shows 

 development of the grave-shed into a temple of the oriental 

 type. A like connexion existed among the Greeks. 



* The heroon was a kind of chapel raised to the memory of a 

 hero. ... It was at first a funeral monument (o-^/xa) surrounded by a 

 sacred enclosure (re/Lieyos) ; but the importance of the worship there 

 rendered to the heroes soon converted it into a real * hieron [temple].&quot; 



And in our own time Mohammedans, notwithstanding their 

 professed monotheism, show us a like transformation with 

 great clearness. A saint s mausoleum in Egypt, is a &quot; sacred 

 edifice.&quot; People passing by, stop and become &quot;pious 

 worshippers&quot; of &quot;our lord Abdallah.&quot; &quot;In the corner of 

 the sanctuary stands a wax candle as long and thick as 

 an elephant s tusk ; &quot; and there is a surrounding court 

 with &quot;niches for prayer, and the graves of the favoured 

 dead.&quot; The last quotation implies something more. 



Along with development of grave-heaps into altars and grave- 

 sheds into religious edifices, and food for the ghost into sacri 

 fices, there goes on the development of praise and prayer. 

 Instance, in addition to the above, the old account Dapper 

 gives, translated by Ogilby, which describes how the negroes 

 near the Gambia erected small huts over graves, &quot; whither 

 their surviving Friends and Acquaintance at set-times repair, 

 to ask pardon for any offences or injuries done them while 

 alive.&quot; 



