They [...] are excellent weather-prophets; but they appear to think that they can add power to the natural phenomena by singing and performing ritual dances, and so on.
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They [...] are excellent weather-prophets; but they appear to think that they can add power to the natural phenomena by singing and performing ritual dances, and so on.
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"Diodorus," he says, "distinctly states that the hawk, in Egypt, was venerated because it foretold the future." (Birds generally act as weather-prophets.)
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