The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-02-15
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..

ANC AuoA WIN Jug up TIE SlOuc lui
age with horns and "a teeth in Ten
ncssee the other day thought he had
discovered a devil and most plair
folk will agree with him." is the oh.
%servatiOn Of a 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 w scientific 'idolatOrs' have
u own way of estimating them.
"All 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-called 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 1t
did moi 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 n Of a class Of OBJ
iects OF which there are a great many
lying around over various American
museums that are not very well I'm.
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.
"Yhese objects all speak a language
OF. their own to the scientists. It is
easy to suspect such an idol as being
a u god, for most all the ancient
peoples worshiped the sum-, but the
horns make it certain. The horns also
make it pretty sure that the image
belongs to a period commencing B. c.
1895 and ending B. G. 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. Mo.och in Phoericia,
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
10 the western hemisphere shows also
that there was communication of
some kind.
h again we scientific 'idolatOrs'
take note of MANY other things. h
~ 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 his own children, meaning that
time eventually destroys whatever it
creates. Saturn was called the noe
tural sun and q 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 Cor
BelZebub) in the Bible and supposed
to be from words meaning Lord OF
flies bat this is not so. 1t explains,
however. how the sun god got horns
and h name 'Beelzebub,' which is
the complete outfit of a perfectly bad
devil, so it Is nc wonder that the Ten
nessee gentleman with the spade
thought the crust Of his native state
was dangerously thin for folk inhab-
iting a moonshine country"