Note 46 — XIX. EXCREMENT GODS OF ROMANS AND EGYPTIANS.

“Is Maurice’s reference to Lucian correct? There is nothing of the kind in the Deâ Syrâ, nor can I find it elsewhere in his works, though the Index by Rentz is practically a Concordance. Still, I do not affirm that it is not there.”—(Personal letter from Professor W. Robertson Smith, Christ College, Cambridge, England.)

By a reference to page 36, it will be seen that Sakya-muni eats his own excrement, and one of the Bourkans or gods of the Kalmucks is represented as addicted to the same filthy habit.