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 509
Pigs. 293 and 294.—From Archaic Sculpturings (Mann, L. M.).This old world-wide symbol seems to crop up in Pictlandtwisted and changed in a curious fashion. ^ One of thesefantastic forms is, I think, the feathered elphin or anten-naed solar face of Fig. 293. … Fig. 295.—From Christian Icoiwgraphij (Didrou). Among the ancients the word Eva, not only denoted life,but it also meant serpent: the jumbled traditions of theHebrews associated Eve and the Serpent unfavourably, butaccording to an early sect of Gnostic Christians known asthe Ophites, i.e., Evites,…
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