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 157
or is most propitiousor attentive to her duties. It is unnecessary to contest the 80 point, for almost every symbol has more interpretationsgiven to it than one. I have sought in vain for even aplausible reason for the blackness of sacred virgins andchildren, in certain papal shrines, which is… … Figure 119. The legend is in Phoenician, and may be read LNBRB.Levy, in Siegel und Gemmen, Breslau, 1869, reads thelegend yrmrj1?, LKBKBO, but does not attempt to explain it.Figure 120 is also from Lajard, plate i., fig. 8. It represents an act of worship before the symbols of the male and
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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