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Show Rainbow After D u'je Parcel ol riy Brushes Baltimore Professor Says Ancients Didn't Kead Tablets Correctly BALTIMORE. March 31 The rainbow alter tho deluge, de- rlbed In the book of Genesis IX: 13. wus not a rainbow after all, but a collection of great fly brushes of the ancient, oriental Kods, declares Prpfaaaor Paul Haupt of Johns Hopkins uniersit Announcement Announce-ment of bis discovery was made by Dr. lluupt at Goucher college at a session of th. American Oriental society, which Is holding Its 133rd annual conclave in this city. The mistake In Genesis, Professor Profes-sor Haupt said, probably Is due to a iiilsuu,.' rst.in.iing of a character on one of the old cuneiform tablets. tab-lets. The word for "bow" could very easily be mistaken for "fly brush," he said. These huge feather feath-er brushes wero in vogue umong the old rubrs in A- t ... and tZn pi and were regarded as undent s m-bols m-bols of sovereignty In the orient. According to Dr. Haupt, the ancients an-cients naturally guvo their KOds credit for having fl brushes, and, in l'.iii. In line 164 of the flood tablet the word "fly brush" appears ap-pears as big as life. The passage says that "when -I see stars the prods gather around the offerer like a swarm of flies (because there had been offerings during the flood) she is so incensed that she takes the great fly brushes "of her father Anu (king of the gods) to drive away tho gods." op |