514 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. The same author makes the worship of Apollo. 
VIII. r % 
or the Sun, the peculiar mythology of the city '; 
* s confirmed by the curious symbols of 
the Propylcea, before which Orestes pays his 
adoration 2 . Apollo, as a type of the Sun, was the 
same divinity as Bacchus; and the two Panthers 
supporting the pillar represent a species of 
animal well known to have been sacred to the 
Indian Bacchus. This divinity, also, the Osiris 
Characte- J 
of Egypt, was often represented by the simple 
type of an orb ; hence the introduction of the 
orbicular symbols : and among the different 
forms of images set up by antient nations in 
honour of the Sun, that of a pillar is known to 
have been one. There was an image of Apollo 
which had this form at Amyclce 3 -, and the Sun- 
images mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures seem 
to have been of the same nature. In the book 
of the Jewish Law, immediately preceding the 
passage where the Israelites are commanded to 
abstain from the worship of (t the sun, or moon, 
or any of the hast of heaven," it is forbidden 
to them to set up any idolatrous pillar*. All 
(1) Soph. Elect, v. 1393, *. T. X. 
(2) Ibid. v. 1301. 
(3) Vid. Pausan. in Laconic, c. 19. p. 257- ed. Kuhnii. 
(4) DeuteroTtamy, xvi. 22; xvii. 3. 
