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 161
and the dove hovering over it, are all symbolical; butthough the author of it is right in his grouping, it is clearthat he is not aware of its full signification. The readerwill readily gather their true meaning from our articles uponthe ARK and WATER, and from our remarks upon the DOVEin Ancient… … Figure 124. the pillar is very conspicuously phallic, and the whole composition indicates what was associated with the worship ofPriapus. This so-called god was regarded much in thesame light as St. Cosmo and St. Damian were at Isernia,and St. Foutin in Christian France. And it is not at…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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