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 99
se note, coa or coo, has,in the Shemitic, some resemblance to an invitation toamorous gratification; in Latin coi, coite ; the oval, symbolof the yoni; the basket, or bag, emblematic of the scrotum,and apparently the lotus. The trinity and unity are carriedby the second priest. Figure 2 is copied… … Figure 2. peuples, par le E. P. Dom ....... a Paris, 1739. The group of figures represents Isis and Horus in an unusual attitude.They are enclosed in a framework of the flowers of theEgyptian bean, or of the lotus. This framework may becompared to the Assyrian grove, and another in which theVirgin…
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