Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 277
e stone represents the earth, the circular stone water, the trianglefire, the crescent air orwind, and the spear-headether or heaven. Inmantells us that in Egyptianmythology the pyramid,a Phallic sign, plays animportant part. It be-longs to Siva = the sun= fire = life. By one complex symbol, very… … Fig. 93.—Ornament from Gable end of Bio-do-in at Uji—a temple recently destroyed. It was carved in the year1046 A.U. ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 259 whose emblem — flame—mounts upwards. He is the author andrepresentative of all life upon the globe, and he is connectedby the crescent moon with…
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