Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 34
full. Whether the moons horns were first placed onmale or female gods, very little affects the mainquestion under discussion. The confusions in mythology are infinite. It seems, then, easy to understand how, as beforesuggested, that horns, the symbols which we haveshown to denote the highest power… … Fig. 3. Our head of Jupiter (Fig. 3) is from an ancientgem, and may be fairly taken as a typical repre-sentation of the god. Many examples exist of Roman engraving, which,though slightly differing, arealmost identical in generaldesign, and although wemight begin much earlier,yet for our purpose…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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