especially with the rising, the ongoing, and the waning of the day; and
you remember that this also was the relief of the Sphinx's riddle,--this
same movement from the rising to the setting sun. But prominently, as in
all worship, are our eyes turned toward the East,--toward the
resurrection. In the tomb of Memnon, at Thebes, are wrought two series
of paintings; in the one, through successive stages, the sun is
represented in his course from the East to the West,--and in the other
is represented, through various stages, his return to the Orient. It was
to this Orient that the old king looked, awaiting his regeneration.

Thus, reader, in all nations,--by no mere superstition, but by a
glorious symbolism of Faith,--do the children of the earth lay them down
in their last sleep with their faces to the East.


[2] The worship of this Great Mother is not more wonderful for
its antiquity in time than for its prevalence as regards space. To the
Hindu she was the Lady Isani. She was the Ceres of Roman mythology, the
Cybele of Phrygia and Lydia, and the Disa of the North. According to
Tacitus, (_Germania_, c. 9,) she was worshipped by the ancient Suevi.
She was worshipped by the Muscovite, and representations of her are
found upon the sacred drums of the Laplanders. She swayed the ancient
world, from its southeast corner in India to Scandinavia in the
northwest; and everywhere she is the "Mater Dolorosa." And who is it,
reader, that in the Christian world struggles for life and power under
the name of the Holy Virgin, and through the sad features of the
Madonna?

[3] _Iliad_, I. 63.