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)
ly, however, she has been figuredas a female. Amongst the ancients, the two lumi-naries were usually re- Figure 24.presented thus: Fig. 24.In the same way theyare still representedover many of the altarsof the Roman Catholictemples. By a fiction,it was supposed thatthe sun impregnatedthe moon; and… … 326 Moon] Figure 25.
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