Remnants of the old Semitic zoolatry perpetuated themselves until the end of paganism and even later.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont
zoolatry was abandoned in the temples, but people continued to regard as divine the lion, the bull, the bear, and the fishes, which the Oriental imagination had seen in the starry vault.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont
zoolatry, 119. See also "Animals."
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont