Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism. With an essay on Baal worship, on the Assyrian sacred "grove" and other allied symbols by John Newton (1875)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876, Newton, John, M.R.C.S.E · New York J.W. Bouton · leaf 105
regard the statue as an effigy ofthe celestial mother and child, or as the representationof some devout lady who has been spared during her pregnancy, her parturition, or from some disease affecting herself 28 and child. Analogy would lead us to infer that the Queen ofHeaven is intended. Figure 14… … Figure 11. Figure 12. Indra is equivalent to Jupiter Tonans, and is represented asseated on an elephant; the waterspout is the trunk of thiselephant, and the iris is his bow, which it is not auspiciousto point out, Moors Pantheon, p. 260. He is representedvery much as if he were a satyr, Moors…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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