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Excerpt from The Great Mother of Gods: A Thesis Vesta9 was the highest flight his imagination took, While the host of other deities - and they were as numerous as the acts and duties of the worshiper's life - remained en tirely abstract and formless. The acquisition of the Sibyl line Books, then, occurred at a time when Rome had prac tically no acquaintance with the religions of the East; and the event may be regarded as the first pronounced step in the process which finally resulted in the denationalization of the old-roman religion and the enthronement of a turba deorum whose worship was not in harmony with the genius of the early Romans, and which came to be in harmony with the genius of the later Romans only by reason of the change which that genius gradually underwent. The in troduction of the Books is to be regarded primarily as a manifestation in the development of a new religious sys tem; as a cause it is to be regarded only in so far as It fa cilitated that development in a peculiar manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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