172 2 Kings iii. 4-24. And for the explanation of the supposed miracle, see W. Robertson Smith, _The Old Testament in the Jewish Church_2 (London and Edinburgh, 1892), pp. 146 _sq._ I have to thank Professor Kennett for the suggestion that the Moabites took the ruddy light on the water for an omen of blood rather than for actual gore. M35 The influence of music on religion. 173 1 Samuel xvi. 14-23. 174 J. H. Newman, _Sermons preached before the University of Oxford_, No. xv. pp. 346 _sq._ (third edition). 175 It would be interesting to pursue a similar line of inquiry in regard to the other arts. What was the influence of Phidias on Greek religion? How much does Catholicism owe to Fra Angelico? M36 The function of string music in Greek and Semitic ritual. 176 Pindar, _Pyth._ ii. 15 _sq._ 177 On the lyre and the flute in Greek religion and Greek thought, see L. R. Farnell, _The Cults of the Greek States_ (Oxford, 1896-1909), iv. 243 _sqq._ 178 Pindar, _Pyth._ i. 13 _sqq._ 179 This seems to be the view also of Dr. Farnell, who rightly connects the musical with the prophetic side of Apollo’s character (_op. cit._ iv. 245). M37 Traditions as to the death of Cinyras. 180 Hyginus, _Fab._ 242. So in the version of the story which made Adonis the son of Theias, the father is said to have killed himself when he learned what he had done (Antoninus Liberalis, _Transform._ 34). 181 Scholiast and Eustathius on Homer, _Iliad_, xi. 20. Compare F. C. Movers, _Die Phoenizier_, i. 243 _sq._; W. H. Engel, _Kypros_, ii. 109-116; Stoll, _s.v._ “Kinyras,” in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie_, ii. 1191. 182 Anacreon, cited by Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ vii. 154. Nonnus also refers to the long life of Cinyras (_Dionys._ xxxii. 212 _sq._). _ 183 Encyclopaedia Britannica_,9 xiv. 858. M38 Sacred prostitution of Western Asia. M39 Theory of its secular origin.