Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism (1922)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876, Newton, John, M.M.C.B.E · New York, Peter Eckler publishing company · leaf 187
rises the erect serpent, and upon one lies the headof an arrow or a dart, both male symbols. The miphletzethwhich Queen Maachah placed in or near the Asherah, pro-bably resembled these Assyrian phalli, or the Asherim. 126 And now we come to the Asherah, a much more complexand difficult symbol than… … Fignre 176. worshipped by human figures, with eagles heads and wings,who present to it the pine-cone, = the testis, and the basket,= the scrotum (?), intense emblems of the male creator. In
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