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When the World Shook

CHAPTER IX
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Of course there were differences.
For instance, instead of the crook and the scourge, this divinity held a torch.

Again, in place of the crown of Egypt it wore a winged head-dress, though it is true this was not very far removed from the winged disc of that country.

The wings that sprang from its shoulders, however, suggested Babylonia rather than Egypt, or the Assyrian bulls that are similarly adorned.

All of these symbolical ideas might have been taken from that figure.

But what was it?
What was it?
In a flash the answer came to me.


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