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 202
For in ancient symbolism, a part of 125 a symbol stands for the whole; as here, the horns representthe bull, and the glans the phallus. Above the third altaris a tortoise, whose protruded head and neck reminded theinitiated of the phallus; and the altars are covered with apattern drawn from the… … Figure 175. Fig. 175. At the top are the sun-symbols, as before.Beneath is the horse-shoe-like head-dress of Isis, and thereare two altars marked with the tortoise-emblem in front.Over both rises the erect serpent, and upon one lies the headof an arrow or a dart, both male symbols. The…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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