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Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)

Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 143

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, Pan had horns; therefore we cannotwonder if we find those of the bull, the ram, the goatused indifferently, and often wrongly. When we find our modern devil then withthe horns of any one of thoseanimals, our chain of sequence isnot broken, for they have beenconventional symbols even fromRoman… … Museo Campidoglio, Rome. Fig. 54. 132 King, Gnostics, \t. 83; Symbolica Diana Efihcsia, p. 10: Apu-leius quoque Isin, Deum Matrem, Minervam, Junonem, Hecatem, Cerem,Venerem, Proserpinam, Hecatem unam, eandemque esse pra;dicat.

Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian

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