as that of the people of Bayeux, comes from Beli
Casa, dwelling, sanctuary of Belus--Belus and Osiris, the same divinity!

"There is nothing," says Mangou de la Londe, "opposed to the idea that
druidical monuments existed near Bayeux." "This country," adds M.
Roussel, "is like the country in which the Egyptians built the temple of
Jupiter Ammon."

So then there was a temple in which riches were shut up. All the Celtic
monuments contain them.

"In 1715," relates Dom Martin, "one Sieur Heribel exhumed in the
vicinity of Bayeux, several argil vases full of bones, and concluded (in
accordance with tradition and authorities which had disappeared) that
this place, a necropolis, was the Mount Faunus in which the Golden Calf
is buried."

In the first place, where is Mount Faunus? The authors do not point it
out. The natives know nothing about it. It would be necessary to devote
themselves to excavations, and with that view they forwarded a petition
to the prefect, to which they got no response.

Perhaps Mount Faunus had disappeared, and was not a hill but a barrow?

Several of them contain skeletons that have the position of the foetus
in the mother's womb. This meant that for them the tomb was, as it were,
a second gestation, preparing them for another life. Therefore the
barrow symbolises the female organ, just as the raised stone is the male
organ.

In fact, where menhirs are found, an obscene creed has persisted.
Witness what took place at Guerande, at Chichebouche, at Croissic, at
Livarot. In former times the towers, the pyramids, the wax tapers, the
boundaries of roads, and even the trees had a phallic meaning. Bouvard
and Pecuchet collected whipple-trees of carriages, legs of armchairs,
bolts of cellars, apothecaries' pestles. When people came to see them
they would ask, "What do you think that is like?" and then they would
confide the secret. And, if anyone uttered an exclamation, they would
shrug their shoulders in pity.

One evening as they were dreaming about the dogmas of the Druids, the
abbe cautiously stole in.

Immediately they showed the museum, beginning with the church window;
but they longed to reach the new compartment--that of the phallus. The
ecclesiastic stopped them, considering the exhibition indecent. He came
to demand back his baptismal font.

Bouvard and Pecuchet begged for another fortnight, the time necessary
for taking a moulding of it.

"The sooner the better," said the abbe.

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