Ours, as I have said, in some points resemble your Egyptian rites in honoring Osiris and Isis; but while you Egyptians, Remeses, adore only an abstract attribute of the deity, we adore the hero and the heroic woman—Adonis and Astarte.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham
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