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¹ Taylor, *Catalogue Raisonnec*, II, p. III-IV. This author maintains that this system had its origin in Egypt; according to him Siva's bull is nothing but a replica of the bull Apis of the ancient Pharaohs. The worship of the bull passed afterwards from Egypt to Palestine, in the time of the great national schism of Jeroboam (1000 B.C.); from Palestine it migrated to Mesopotamia and finally found its way to Benares in 700 or 800.