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See also:BAETYLUS (Gr. fairvXos, (3aeri)Xzov) , a word of Semitic origin (=See also: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. These fetish See also:objects of See also:worship were meteoric stones, which were dedicated to the gods or revered as symbols of the gods themselves (See also:Pliny, Nat. Hiss. xvii. 9; See also:Photius, See also:Cod. 242).
In See also:Greek See also:mythology the See also:term was specially applied to the stone supposed to have been swallowed by Cronus (who feared misfortune from his own See also:children) in See also:mistake for his See also:infant son See also:Zeus, for whom it had been substituted by See also:Uranus and Gaea, his wife's parents (Elymologicuna Magnum, s.v.). This stone was carefully preserved at See also:Delphi, anointed with oil every See also:day and on festal occasions covered with raw See also:wool (See also:Pausanias x. 24). In Phoenician mythology, one of the sons of Uranus is named Baetylus. Another famous stone was the effigy of See also:Rhea See also:Cybele, the See also:holy stone of See also:Pessinus, See also:black and of irregular See also:form, which was brought to See also:Rome in 204 B.C. and placed in the mouth of the statue of the goddess. In some cases an See also:attempt was made to give a more See also:regular form to the See also:original shapeless stone: thus See also:Apollo Agyieus was represented by a conical See also:pillar with pointed end,'Zeus Meilichius in the form of a See also:pyramid. Other famous baetylic idols were those in the temples of Zeus Casius at See also:Seleucia, and of Zeus Teleios at See also: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 men See also:Himmel gefallenen Steine (1805); Bosigk, De Baelyliis (1854); and the exhaustive See also:article by F. See also:Lenormant in Daremberg and Saglio's See also:Dictionary of Antiquities.
End of Article: BAETYLUS (Gr. fairvXos, (3aeri)Xzov)
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