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456 IVORY GROUP: BOY-GOD ADORING GODDESS

What, indeed, can be more beautiful and natural than the relationship

Both

same which the attitude of the boy-God itself suggests ? Standing on tiptoe with
pair: his face slightly upturned he has the appearance of actually gazing at the

Fig. 318. Group of Boy-God adoring Goddess (Restored Drawing by
Monsieur E. Gillieron, fils).

Child slightly higher figure, and the obvious restoration of the right arm as lifted
adoring to tne level of the peak of his tiara, shown in Fig. 318, is only needed to

Mother supply the act of salutation. It is the Divine Child adoring; the Mother
Goddess. L \ J °

Goddess.

The relation of this youthful male to the mature female figure, the