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Not long after, the Libyans also espoused the science; for the Libyan oracle of Ammon was founded in regard of the heavens and his knowledge thereof; whence they represent Ammon with a ram’s head.
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And the Babylonians came to know all these things, even before the others, as they themselves say; but I think that the science reached them long afterward.In the Goddesse of Surrye (2) Lucian is similarly minded as to Babylonian claims of priority in religion; and in the Runaways Philosophy goes successively to India, Ethiopia, Egypt, Babylon, and Greece.
