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terminalia, or rather of the old pillar stones, the emblem or 
representation of the god of the country, or of that sacred 
oak, which was the " Celtic statue of Jupiter" ? 
Though used for various purposes, there can be little 
doubt that the original intention was a representation or 
symbol of Deity. The statements in classic authors make 
this almost certain, as the symbol was adopted by the 
Greeks, &c, to represent several of their gods. Thus the 
Thespians had a stone as a statue of " Love," — the three 
graces and the seven planets were thus S3mibolized ; by 
the Megareans, "Apollo Carinas;" by the Sicyonians, 
" Jupiter Meilichius," and " Diana patroa," were thus repre- 
sented. The Paphian "Venus" was a cone or pyramid; 
the Cadmean " Bacchus " was a wooden pole or stock ; the 
Samian "Juno," and Icarian "Diana," were worshipped by 
a statue made of unfashioned w r ood. 
As some persons suppose them to have been simply 
monumental, from the fact of sepulchral remains being so 
frequently found close to them, it will be necessary to bear 
in mind, what has been mentioned before, that the temples 
themselves, even among the Greeks, were often founded 
upon the tomb of some celebrated person. No one would 
for a moment maintain that the Christian cross was in its 
first intention merely sepulchral, from the fact of its being 
used as a tombstone; nor would lie assert that our cathedrals 
and churches were simply monumental, from the fact of so 
many bodies lying interred w r ithin and around them. 
Neither can any objection be made on the ground of their 
occurring in groups, for, as Colonel Forbes Leslie observes, 
in India they occur in groups, and that in these groups 
there are some one or more still anointed w T ith oil. " Their 
altars were as furrows in the field." 
We may learn something of the origin of the emblem 
itself from its present use, or rather appearance, in India, 
