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 867
Figs. 492 to 502.—Paper-marked Mediseval Emblems, Showing Circle andSerpent like the intestines . From Lcs Filigranes (Briquet, C. M.). 838 AECHAIC ENGLAND … Figs. 492 to 502 exhibit further varieties of this circle and Serpent design—the symbol offructifying Life — and some ofthese examples bear a curiousresemblance to the twists andconvolutions of the entrails. InEgypt, Apep, the Giant Serpent,was said to have— resembledthe intestines : ^ the word…
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