Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 187
ant to be an Angel, so popular indissenting schools, is founded on a venerable Aryan mythand therefore of exceeding interest, but Christian it isnot. ^ Cvrivu^ My/lis, p. 557. 17G ARCHAIC ENGLAND [chap. Lucan, the Roman poet, alluding to the Druids ob-served— If dying mortals doom they sing… … Fig. 45.—Prom Christian Iconography (Didron). The symbolism of the butterfly is crystallised in the wordpsyche, which in Greek meant not only butterfly but alsosoul, and to this day butterflies in some districts of GreatBritain are considered to be souls, though this may havearisen not from an…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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