tual symbolization of
circumpolar motion with the fanatical and hideous self-torture
associated with the North American and Hindu modes of representing
the same phenomena, as it throws much light on the development of
certain sides of human nature.

90 Mr. Wm. H. Goodyear, from whose admirable work, the Grammar of the
Lotus, the above quotations are taken, remarks that "the myth of
Horus rising from the lotus, as found in the Egyptian texts, is the
exact counterpart of this idea and as far as Brahmanism is
concerned, is much the older;" also that "it is possible that the
lotus symbolism of Egypt and India dates from a race which divided
into separate branches; it is also possible that the people of India
experienced the influence, direct or indirect, of Egypt."

91 Researches into the origin of the primitive constellations of the
Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians (Robert Brown, jun., F. S. A., M.
R. A. S., vol. I, 1899, p. 357).

92 In Assyria we find one of the oldest temples bearing the name
E-kharsag-kurkura, that stamps the edifice as the reproduction of
the "mountain of all lands" and there are other temples that
likewise bear names in which the idea of a mountain is
introduced.... The zikkurat or "mountain-house"=E-kur was at Nippur,
Sippar, Uruk, Ur and Larsa, "the centre of a considerable group of
buildings; while at Babylon ... the temple area of E-sagila must
have presented the appearance of a little city of itself, shut off
from the rest of the town by a wall which invariably enclosed the
sacred quarter." The name E-kur was used at Nippur, by extension, to
denote the entire sacred precinct which contained the zikkurat or
staged tower, the great court where worshippers assembled, shrines
and other minor structures. The excavations at Nippur have afforded
us, for the first time, a general view of a sacred quarter in an
ancient Babylonian city. The extent of the quarter was considerable.
Dr. Peters' estimate is eight acres for the zikkurat and surrounding
structures.... "A factor that contributed largely to the growth of
the sacred precinct in the large centres was the circumstance that
the political importance of such centres as Nippur, Lagash, Ur,
Babylon and Nineveh led the rulers to group around the worship