pharae

Updated: June 22, 2025

And he might have added, where eternal truth will be present. In the most primitive times, all the gods appear to have been represented by cubical blocks of stone; and Pausanias says that he saw thirty of these stones in the city of Pharae, which represented as many deities. The first of the kind, it is probable, were dedicated to Hermes, whence they derived their name of "Hermae."

Albert G. Mackey - The Symbolism of Freemasonry