A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 502
dove was sacred to this goddess, hence the story ofthe heavenly flight. There wereaccounts of her voluptuousnesswhich would also prove this iden-tity. Serapis (Sarapis). An Egyp-tian goddess whose worship wasintroduced into Greece during thereign of the Ptolemies, and intoRome with that of… … ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 487 r a youth. Nysa was said to be his birthplace. He slew the giantEnceladus. He was a fat, jolly old man, and usually intoxicated;generally supported by other satyrs, or riding on an ass. He waswithal an inspired prophet, and when drunk or asleep was in thepow«r of mortals,…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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