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 91
o regard the statue as an efiigy ofthe celestia mother and child, or as the representationof some devoi: lady who has been spared during her preg-nancy, her parturition, or from some disease affecting herself 28 and child. Analogy would lead us to infer that the Queen ofHeaven is intended. Figure… … Figure 11. Figure 12. Indra is equivalent to Jupiter Tonans, and is represented asseated on an elephant; the waterspout is the trunk of thiselephant, and the iris is his bow, which it is not auspiciousto point out, Moors Pantheon, p. 260. He is representedvery much as if he were a satyr, Moors…
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