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There he set himself to civilize the rude inhabitants, until soon recalled and once more reinstated in office; and to this day there is a shrine dedicated to his memory, containing the following inscription: "Wherever he passed, he purified."
The messenger stated that in the course of a fortnight a deputation consisting of the high priest and several leading functionaries of the temple, with a retinue of the lower clergy and attendants, would set out from Bubastes by water in order to receive the sacred cat, and to conduct her with all due ceremony to the shrine of Bubastes. Mysa was delighted at the honor which had befallen her cat.
At any rate Ashera, like Baal, is not the name of one historic deity, but a name applied to the goddess of each place all over the country. The character of Canaanite religion is clearly revealed in its apparatus of worship. In Canaan we find that Semitic worship is addressed to pairs of deities; there is a god and a goddess at each shrine.
From the roof of the shrine a stairway ran overhead to the roof of the temple and so to the inner pylon tower. "Yonder, Stranger, the holy Goddess dwells within the Alabaster Shrine," said the priest. "By that stair she passes to the temple roof, and thence to the pylon top.
It is with this latter cult-centre that we have here to do. She was a goddess of the woods, of the animal kingdom, of birth, and so of women; and almost all the dedicatory inscriptions which have been found near her shrine were put up by women. She was worshipped above all by the people of Aricia, and she seems to have been the patron deity of the town.
At the time of which we are now speaking Lucina had not as yet done much; for, in truth, Charley had been married but little over twelve months; but there appeared every reason to believe that the goddess would be propitious. There was already one little rocking shrine, up in that cosy temple opening out of Katie's bedroom we beg her pardon, we should have said Mrs.
Here was somebody more wretched, more desolate, more utterly lonely than himself a soft, fearful, feminine somebody, ill-fitted to fight the world with those frail, white hands. Hitherto he had blindly worshiped at one shrine, and now the image was shattered, the shrine was empty so appallingly empty that he was ready to fill it at any cost.
Still he thought it a good omen that she had bidden him thus, though some might have read it otherwise. Godwin entered the church, walking softly on the rushes with which its nave was strewn, and by the light of the lamp that burnt there always, saw Rosamund kneeling before a little shrine, her gracious head bowed upon her hands, praying earnestly. Of what, he wondered of what?
He spoke to her back. Laughing again, she had turned from him to the gilt shrine and plucked a flower from it. She was fixing it in her hair when she faced him. "To-night," she said, "we travel north. You are" she paused, smiling "you are my impresario, and Lola Lola makes her curtsy again!" She caught her black skirt in her hand and curtsied to him with an extravagant grace.
Do not turn this beautiful temple of ancient days into a mere mill for decrees and budgets; but sweep it and purify it, and render it a fitting shrine for the homage and tribute of antique loyalty "that proud submission, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom."
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