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 153
Figure 112. 76 chies, vol. i., p. 176, symbolises Ishtar, the Assyrian representative of Devi, Parvati, Isis, Astarte, Venus, and Mary.The virgin and child are to be found everywhere, even inancient Mexico. Figure 113 is copied from Lajard, Sur le Culte de Venus, … Figure 113. plate xix., fig. 6, and represents the male and female as thesun and moon, thus identifying the symbolic sex of thoseluminaries. The legend in the Pehlevi characters has notbeen interpreted. Figure 114 is taken from a mediaeval woodcut, lent to meby my friend, Mr. John Newton, to whom I…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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