"Ideograph" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spirits into gods seems to have been aided by that study of the heavens and of the heavenly bodies for which the Babylonians were immemorially famous. At all events, the ideograph which denotes "a god" is an eight-rayed star, from which we may perhaps infer that, at the time of the invention of the picture-writing out of which the cuneiform characters grew, the gods and the ...
— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce |
