Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 139
rforms theall-sustaining office of the turtle in Indian cosmog-ony, and that earthquakes and other convulsions ofnature are caused by its occasional movementsfrom one side to the other. The devil is constantlyat work trying to persuade the whale to dive andthus destroy the world. Once the whale was… … 124 Animal Symbolism In architecture sometimes only the ship isrepresented, and the whale left to the imaginationof the beholder, as for example in the old Normanchurch at Alne, or the whale is given and the shipomitted, one object being deemed sufficient tosuggest the other. In the miniatures of…
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