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 283
19, a Buddhist emblem, represents Mary as a horse-shoe, instead Figure 19. of a crescent. Thewhole figure indi-cates the mystic four,the Alar and Rl ofthe Chaldaeans. I must now againcall my readers at-tention to Fig. 1 p.53, Vol. I., Fig. 6,p. 90, ibid., Figs. 16and 17, pp. 106, 107,ibid., Fig.… … 263 Mary] Egyptians, Hindoos, Greeks and Romans representedcertain deities as black. Diana of the Ephesians,whose figure is represented on page 105, Vol. I.,was black. Juggernauts face, Narayen and Christna,in India, are painted black, and Cneph, Osiris andhis bull, Isis and Horus, Buddha, Mercury…
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