THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
The sacredness of the circle in those early ages is 
seen in the Chaldean name (Genesis xxxi. 47) jegar 
sahadutha, ‘the circle of witness’—a name that bore 
Romealso, for 100 yearsafterthe foundation of the city, the 
worship of the gods was celebrated in the open = 
(cf. the Bora), often in sacred groves, and there eer 
temple of Janus, the oldest and. most venerated of 
oman gods, was merely a sacred enclosure on W: a 
building stood till the time of the first Punic Wat 
The pomoerium, or circuit of the walls wie peer ; 
fire-worship 
animal to be sacrificed. cred, com 
(B) In the Bora, the two rings, both of them 5 es 
municate with each other by means of a narrow Fs . 
in which are earthen representations of ce | 
of worship. The inner contains the images oF Tiel 
of the gods, carved on trees, and the iene re = <hr? 
in the outer ring that he faces the passage 40" os 
of the gods, 
(5) The inner shrine is an arrang 
religions. At Babylon, in the temple of 
was built in stages, the worshipper had 
seven stages of Sabaeism before he gee 
this was the topmost of pve and cont 
