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 85
able Etruscan sculptures, but they donot represent the trinity and unity. It has been reserved forChristian art to crowd our churches with the emblems ofBel and Astarte, Baalim and Ashtoreth, linga and yoni,and to elevate the phallus to the position of the supremedeity, and assign to him a virgin… … 17 PLATE XII. Contains both pagan and Christian emblems. Fig. 1 is from Pugin, plate xviii., and is a very commonfinial representing the trinity. Its shape is too significant torequire an explanation; yet with such emblems our Christianchurches abound, that the Trinity may never be absent fromthe…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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