Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs (1872)
vinity. Fig. 19, a Buddhist emblem, represents Mary as a horse - shoe, insteadof a crescent. Thewhole figure indi-cates the mystic four,the Mar and Ri ofthe Chaldseans. 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. L,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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