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210 ANCIENt RELIGION 0^ THE as single images, but always, as far as my experi- ence goes, in numbers together ; and when an- other object of worship exists, always looking to- wards it. In a word, in short, they appear to re- present not deities themselves, but sages worship- ping Siwa. The images of the second class are of a more ambiguous character than those now noticed ; but, connected with the circumstances under which they are found, I have no doubt may be identified with the same worship as the last, when it had decay- ed, and, with it, the arts which ministered to it. Images of this class are found near the temples, constructed of brick, and in a ruder state at the stone temples in the mountain Lawu. In the sculpture of these, the rude inhabitants appear as if left to themselves, and, forgetting the principles of the more decent Hinduism, pourtrayed in the first class of temples, to have remembered only its grosser parts, and to have allowed their imagi- nations to wanton without guide, when they deli- neated the rest. In this condition of the Hindu- ism of Java, the rUde images are wholly destitute of the characteristic emblems of the Hindu gods. They are generally monstrous, being partly only human. One of the most frequent is a human figure with wings over the neck or shoulders, and with spurs like a cock. This figure is found both at Suku and Mojopahit. At Katto, alone, is sculptured a