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Tin-: CIIALD.EAX RELIGIOX. 63 gratitude ever led to the worship of animals, the docile helpers or the redoubtable enemies of man, in the same degree as it did in Egypt. And yet Chaldaea and Assyria followed the example of Egypt in mixing up the forms of men with those of animals in FIG. 8. Eagle-headed divinity, from Nimroud. Louvre. Alabaster. Height forty inches. Drawn by Saint-Elme Gautier. their sacred statues. This we know both from the texts and the figured monuments. But it was not only in the budding art of a primitive population that such combinations were employed, and it be easy to show that it still subsists in the popular superstitions. As to this worship among the Greeks, see also the paper by M. HF.UZKY, entitled, La Pierre sacrce ct Antibcs (Mcmoircs dc la Societc des Antiqnaircs de France, 1874, p. 99).