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 141
sworn by the Linga; it istherefore by no means remarkable that some of a differentform of faith should swear by the Yoni. Figure 91 is stated by Higgins, Anacalypsis, p. 217, tobe a mark on the breast of an Egyptian mummy in the Figure 91. 64 Museum of University College, London. It is… … Figure 92. similar head-dress having been worn by gods or angelsin ancient Assyria, where it appeared crowned by an emblemof the trinity. We may mention, in passing, that as theRomanists adopted the mitre and the tiara from the cursedbrood of Ham, so they adopted the episcopalian crook fromthe…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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