Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations (1873)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876 · London and Liverpool, Printed for the author · leaf 281
Virgin, or the Queen of Heaven, associated with thefather, or the king. As these have been derivedfrom ancient Babylonian sources (Lajard, sur le Cultede Venus), we see that modern ideas of the RomanChurch are in consonance with very ancient ones.In one of the Figures, 16, it is clear that the… … In Plate III., Vol. I., she is surrounded withsuch symbols as the grape, the wheat-ear, the figand the pomegranate, precisely in the same manneras was Venus, Isis, Rhea, Ceres, or any other goddessof ancient Greece, Rome and Asia. If there were any other evidence required to provethe identity of…
Religions · Names, Personal · Rites and ceremonies · Symbolism
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