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The panel to the right of the center one shows Apollo, sun-god and patron-god of the arts, drawn in his chariot, with a procession of devotees. These panels are repeated on the other five faces about the dome. They are among the finest reliefs on the Exposition buildings, and are by Bruno Louis Zimm.
Most probably the god of the Uji was first worshipped by the people of the district rather as the spirit of a former ruler, or the patron-god of a ruling family, than as the spirit of a common ancestor.
It is this craft-knowledge and common professional feeling which is at the basis of all associations of workpeople, from the semi-religious societies of ancient times, which met in secret to worship their patron-god Hephaestos, the god of the metal-workers, or Asclepios, the god of the doctors through the great guilds of the Middle Ages to the trade unions and professional organizations of to-day.
He prescribed ten prayers for persons having time to repeat them, but lightened the duty for busy folk, observing: "Persons whose daily affairs are so multitudinous that they have not time to go through all the prayers, may content themselves with adoring the residence of the Emperor, the domestic god-shelf, kamidana, the spirits of their ancestors, their local patron-god, Ujigami, the deity of their particular calling."
But when this was the case, the necessary result was that the female character of the deity was forgotten. Istar was conceived of as a god, and accordingly on the Moabite Stone Ashtar is identified with Chemosh, the patron-god of Mesha, just as in Southern Arabia also Atthar is a male divinity. The worship of Ashtoreth absorbed that of the other goddesses of Canaan.
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