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 144
receives herhospitably; but nothing that the hostess does induces theguest to depose her grief for a moment. In despair themortal bethinks her of a scheme, shaves off what is calledin Isaiah the hair of the feet and then exposes herself tothe goddess. Ceres fixes her eyes upon the denuded spot,… … Figure 96. a cornelian cylinder, in the collection of the late Sir WilliamOuseley, and is supposed to represent Cannes, or Bel andtwo fish gods, the authors of fecundity. It_is thoughtthat Dagon of the Philistines resembled the toTlfetHessupportinff~the central one. Figure 97 is a side view of…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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