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)
ciousness, and both the one and the other weresymbolic of the female creator. In all the sistra, 160 In a gold cross found near Naples, depicted in plate xxxv., fig. 4, of TwoEssays on the Worship of Priapus (London, 1865), and one which was probablyworn as a talisman, the triad and the unit are… … 745 Sistra] moreover, which we haveever seen depicted, thereis a marked resemblanceto the Hindoo yoni. SeeSacti and Yoni. The sistrum, more-over, was only used in theworship of Isis; it wasone of her special symbols(Ovid. Met. ix. 784, Amor.ii. 13, Pontic. Epis. i.38); and any one, whowill take the…
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