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 206 ANCIENT RELIGION OF TliE of the bricks is not perceptible, the whole wall appearing rather like an uniform mass, than a congeries of parts. The Jbuf'th or rude class of temples is in con- struction so distinct from those described, that some have, though erroneously, considered them to have been structures dedicated to a different worship. They are constructed, like those of the first and seco7id class, of hewn stone, but neither so well cut nor so well fashioned. In the plan of the temples themselves, we hardly trace any marks of design ; they appear a heavy mass of solid ma- terials, and nothing else. The interior abounds in sculptures, generally rude, and not unfrequent- ly half-finished. One of the first objects that strikes us at Sukuh, in the very threshold of one of the entrances, is a representation, in relief, of the Phallus and Yoni, in the most unequivocal and disgusting nakedness. The former is represented, both at Sukuh and Katto, in a piece of statuary six feet long. One group represents a person in the act of striking off human heads. Representa- tions of stags, tortoises, and snakes, none of them seen in the better order of temples, are frequent. The figures are distorted and monstrous. We see a dog in the dress of a man, a boar with horns, and an elephant with four pairs of tusks. We here discover, for the first time, representations of no* - 7 ;