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 207
129 many towns of France, women and children carried in procession at the end of their palm-branches a phallus made ofbread, which they called, undisguisedly, la pine, whencethe festival was called La Fete des Pinnes. The pine having been blest by the priest, the women carefully preserved it during…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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