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 176
Figure 160. Figure 161. Figure 162. of Isis (iii Fig. 161), and with the double triangle (inFig. 162). Figure 163 represents a tortoise. When one sees a … Figure 163. resemblance between this creatures head and neck and thelinga, one can understand why both in India and in Greece theanimal should be regarded as sacred to the goddess personifying the female creator, and why in Hindoo myths it issaid to support the world. In the British Museum there…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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