But tho they usually make them in this shape, yet there are some, especially in _Lapponia Tornensis_, who worship a meer stump. They have no Image of the Sun, either because he is conspicuous enough of himself, or because in the mystery of their Religion he is the same with _Thor_: but _Storjunkar_ is represented with a stone, as is clearly proved by several writers, and easily deduced from others. The form of this stone (if we will believe _Olaus Petri Neuren._) was like a Bird, _Samuel Rheen_ saies it somtimes represents a man, and somtimes som other creature. The truth is its shape is so rude, that they may sooner fancy it like somthing themselves, then perswade other People that it is so. In the mean time their fancy is so strong, that they really believe it represents their _Storjunkar_, and worship it accordingly. Neither do they use any art in polishing it, but take it as they find it upon the banks of Lakes and Rivers. In this shape therefore they worship it, not as tho it were so made by chance, but by the immediate will and procurement of their god _Storjunkar_, that it might be sacred to him. Thus they erect it as his image, and call it _Kied Kie Jubmal_ i. e. the stone God. The rudeness of these Images gave _Tornæus_ occasion to deny that they had any shape at all, only made rough and hollow by the falling of water upon them, tho their hallowness without doubt occasioned the _Laplanders_ fancy of their likeness to something: but he confesses that in an Island made by a Cataract of the River _Tornatræsk_ called _Darra_, there are found _Seitæ_, just in the shape of a man, one of them very tall, and hard by 4 others something lower, with a kind of Cap on their heads. But because the passage into the Island is dangerous by reason of the Cataract, the _Laplanders_ are forc’t to desist from going to that place, so that it is impossible now to know how those stones are worshipped, or how they came there. These stones are not set up by themselves, but lie 3 or 4 together, according as they find them; the first of which they honor with the title of _Storjunkar_, the second they call _Acte_, or _Storjunkars_ wife; the third his Son or Daughter, and the rest his Servants. And this they do because they would not have their _Storjunkar_, who is _Thors_ Viceroy, in a worse condition then other Roial Prefects, whom they usually see thus accompanied by their Wives and Children, and Attendants. His representation is as follows [Illustration]