River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-09-29
GODS WITH HORNS
How Scientists Know Period of
Idols Make.
The Tennessee Stone Image Recently
Found, Evidently Was Carved Be-
tween 1895 and 1885 B. C.

."The man who dug up the stone i'm
age with horns and "A teeth in Ten
nessee the other day thought he had
discovered devil and most plain
folk will agree with him." is the OBJ
scrvation of modest New Yorker
who has made many journeys in
search of the stone images of various
lands to the man of facts and figures,
the New York Sun reports
There is a popular tendency to re-
gard all idols as representations of
devils born somewhat of theological
insistence, but there are idols and
idols Just as there are devils and dew
lis and we scientific 'idolators' have
our own way of estimating them.
"AIl so-called idols are not mere
sticks and stones bowed down to by
benighted heather. That is what they
become in the hands of savage and
barbarous peoples, but there is a class
of so-caled idols which have been
constructed by more or less enlight-
ened races of the past to embody
crude scientific facts that the better
educated would understand, while it
did not make any difference If the
ignorant comprehended them or not
| am inclined to think, from the de-
scriptions l have seen, that this Ten
nessee devil Is one of class of OBJ
iectS of which there are a great many
lying around over various American
hnf yynll nm
derstood but which will one day serve
to link up the probable thought and
worship of prehistoric American races
with those of ancient Europe and Asia.
"These objects all speak language
of their own to the scientists. 1t is
easy to suspect such an idol as being
sun god, for most all the ancient
peoples worshiped the sun, but the
horns make it certain. The horns also
make it pretty sure that the image
belongs to a period commencing b. G.
1895 and ending B. c. 1885, when the
sun was in the sign of Taurus, the
bull, at the spring equinox. During
this period all the old gods had horns.
1t was the day of the bull god Osiris
Apis in Egypt, Moloch in PhOenicia,
the Minotaur in Crete, the winged
bulls of Assyria and the golden calf
of the rebellious Israelites. The pas
sage of horned gods from the eastern
to the western hemisphere shows also
| that there was communication of
| some kind.
"Then again we scientific idolators'
fake note of many other things. The
"a teeth are emblematic of the "A
| hours of the day. That is not a new
division of time, but thousands of
years old.
"'KrOnos' or Saturn was the god
of time in those days and he was said
to eat his own children, meaning that
time eventually destroys whatever it
creates. Saturn was called the noe
tural sun and sun god combining
both luminaries was called Bel or
'Baal Sabo,' his name surviving both
in the words sabbath and 'shabbas.'
Bel Sabo' is called Beelzebub (Or
Belzebub) in the Bible and supposed
to be from words meaning Lord of
flies but this is not so. 1t explains,
however, how the sun god got horns
and the name 'BeelZebub,' which is
the complete outfit of perfectly bad
devil, so it is no wonder that the Ten
neSsee gentleman with the spade
thought the crust of his native state
was dangerously thin for folk inhab-
iting moonshine country"