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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 514

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that a pair of barrowsappeared at the mouth (see ante, page 335). This head ofthe Eve or serpent was a stone circle distant about a milefrom the larger peripheries, and the whole design coveredupwards of two miles of country. As already noted theserpent was the symbol of immortality and rejuvenes-… … Fig. 801.—From Ancient Pagan and Modem Clwibtian Syinbolisiii, (iDuiau, C. W.).i by Christianity is evident from the emblems illustratedon p. 499, and that the French possessed the tradition ofGood Eva or the Good Serpent is manifest from Fig. 300. Copied by Higgins, Anacalypsis, on the authority…

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