Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations (1868)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876 · London and Liverpool, Printed for the author · leaf 315
nity. Fig. 19, a Buddist emblem, represents Mary as a horse - shoe, insteadof a crescent. Thewhole figure indi-cates the mystic four,the Mar and Ri ofthe Chaldeans. I must now againcall my readers at-tention to Fig. 1(p. 53, Vol. I.), Fig.6 (p. 90, ihid.) Figs.16 and 17 (pp. 106,107, ibid.) Fig. 62… … 263 Egyptians, Hindoos, Greeks and Romans representedcertain deities as black. Diana of the Ephesians,whose figure is represented on page 105, Voh i.,was black. Juggernauts face, Narayen and Cristna,in India, are painted black, and Cneph, Osiris andhis bull, Isis and Horus, Buddha, Mercury and…
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