See also:

• BAETYLUS (Gr. fairvXos, (3aeri)Xzov)

BAETYLUS (Gr. fairvXos, (3aeri)Xzov)  , a word of Semitic origin (=See also:

• BETHEL (Heb. " House of God ")

bethel) denoting a sacred See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone, which was supposed to be endowed with See also:

• LIFE

life . These fetish See also:

• OBJECTS

objects of See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship were meteoric stones, which were dedicated to the gods or revered as symbols of the gods themselves (See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny, Nat . Hiss. xvii . 9; See also:

• PHOTIUS
• PHOTIUS (c. 82o-891)

Photius, See also:

• COD

Cod . 242) . In See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology the See also:

• TERM

term was specially applied to the stone supposed to have been swallowed by Cronus (who feared misfortune from his own See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children) in See also:

• MISTAKE (i.e. take amiss)

mistake for his See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant son See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus, for whom it had been substituted by See also:

• URANUS
• URANUS (Heaven)

Uranus and Gaea, his wife's parents (Elymologicuna Magnum, s.v.) . This stone was carefully preserved at See also:

• DELPHI (the Pytho of Homer and Herodotus; in Boeotian inscriptions BeA4oi, on coins Aa)tg5oi)

Delphi, anointed with oil every See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day and on festal occasions covered with raw See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool (See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias x . 24) . In Phoenician mythology, one of the sons of Uranus is named See also:

• BAETYLUS (Gr. fairvXos, (3aeri)Xzov)

Baetylus . Another famous stone was the effigy of See also:

• RHEA

Rhea See also:

• CYBELE, or CYBEBE (Gr. Ku/3X, Ku,(3i7sn)

Cybele, the See also:

• HOLY

holy stone of See also:

• PESSINUS (IIeaatvoi3r, lleacvoiis)

Pessinus, See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black and of irregular See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, which was brought to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in 204 B.C. and placed in the mouth of the statue of the goddess . In some cases an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt was made to give a more See also:

• REGULAR

regular form to the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original shapeless stone: thus See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo Agyieus was represented by a conical See also:

• PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)

pillar with pointed end,'Zeus Meilichius in the form of a See also:

• PYRAMID

pyramid . Other famous baetylic idols were those in the temples of Zeus Casius at See also:

• SELEUCIA (Gr. EeXeimeta)

Seleucia, and of Zeus Teleios at See also:

• TEGEA

Tegea .

Even in the declining years of paganism, these idols still retained their significance, as is shown by the attacks upon them by ecclesiastical writers . See Munter, Uber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die men See also:

• HIMMEL, FREDERICK HENRY (1765-1814)

Himmel gefallenen Steine (1805); Bosigk, De Baelyliis (1854); and the exhaustive See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by F . See also:

• LENORMANT, FRANCOIS (1837–1883)

Lenormant in Daremberg and Saglio's See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary of Antiquities .