On Non-Sepulchral Rude Stone Monuments.
M. J. Walhouse · The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland · 1878
In old Greece heaps of stones, called Hermaia, were commonly raised at crossways and oni boundaries.They were sacred to Hermes, and each passer-by threw a stone on as an offering to the god.Homer (' Odyssey," xvi, 471) melt ions snbch a lheap iear Ithaca.Strabo saw similar heaps on the roads in Egypt (xvii, p. 818) * The missionaries, Huc and Gabet, encountered similar large heaps on the great plateau in Chinese Tartary, there called Oboes, and stuck over witli boughs oln which strips of inscribed paper are hung.MM.Huc and Gahet say the Tartars uorslhip the Spirit of the MouL11tain at tlhem.This content downloaded from 195.78.