Kennedy

(Rl. Asiatic Soc. Journal, April 1898, pp. 253-7), agreeing with papers that we wrote fifteen years earlier. [Others place Ophir in Arabia, near Sheba, see Gen. x, 28, 29.—Eb.] There is no mistaking the cult of the Zimbabwe gold-mining colonists: for they exhibit, as Mr Bent shows in his volume (p. 280), the worship of the solar, or heaven father (as among Greeks, Arabs, Latins, and over all the world), regarding him as giver of all increase, of family, fields, and flocks, adored with sacrifices and oblations. Therefore at the Zimbabwe, as in India, are seen phallic pillars surmounted by birds, which denote the divine soul (lingam) or spirit of the Creator. We gave a similar emblem, in miniature, twenty years ago (Rivers of Life, i, fig. 92), from a sacred box in a temple near Faizibid in Oudh, Before such the Sivaites worship, _ offering flowers and grains, The birds are usually the chattering Jove-birds or parakeets.