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the worship of one of the Babylonian gods. 
and i ome, the roofed tem 
At the very ancient temple of Dodonaean Zeus, in 
Greece, the god was supposed to reside in an oak-tree, 
worships merely a 
of Biblical archeology will also remember the Asherah 
then h int 1 
(C) In the Bora, the novice in the outer circle has his body all 
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painted over with red, but at the close of his novitiate 
formation is to them a source of much rejoicing. 
Among the black races the colour red was the symbol 
of evil, and so Plutarch tells us that the Egyptians 
Sacrificed only red bullocks to Typhon, and that the 
animal was reckoned unfit for this sacrifice if a single 
White or black hair could be found on it; in certain 
of their festivals, the Egyptians assailed with insults 
and revilin 
"Mischievous and malignant spirits, is symbolized by 
