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 109
ion with that adored by a Christian divine, in asubsequent figure. (See Ancient Faiths, second edition,Vol. i., p. 83, et seq., and Vol. n., p. 648.) Figure 19 is copied from Lajard (Op. Cit.), plate xxii.,fig. 5. It is the impression of an ancient gem, and represents a man clothed with a fish, the… … Figure 19. will be recognised that the fishs head is represented asof the same form as the modern bishops mitre. Figure 20 represents two equilateral triangles, infolded so
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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