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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 372

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Fig. 198.—From .47! Essay on Ancient Coins, Medals, and Qems (Walsh, E.). as a fluttering or chanting cock, or as cockheaded. Suchrepresentations were common among the Gnostics, and … Fig. 199.—From The Gnostics and their Bemains (King, C. W.). the legend, papa-pater-patrum, Father, Father of Fathers,is curiously suggestive of Barbara or Varvary: in theGnostic emblem here reproduced is the counterpart to the 362 A-RCHAIC ENG-LANT) [cHAP. cock-headed deity, and the reverse is…

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