The lost language of symbolism : an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies (1912)
Bayley, Harold · New York : Barnes & Noble · leaf 129
r meaning by the S ofSpiritus and the Star-cross of Light. The eagle may herebe regarded as that Hawk of gold which was the symbolof HoRus, and which the sky is said mystically to mirror— The stars seem comets, rushing downTo gem Thy robes, bedew Thy crown,Like the moon-plumes of a strange bird.By… … only do the letters SS support the crown, but the wholedesign is traced in quivering lines, representing the flickeringfire of spirit.^ The heart-shaped body of the bird impliesthe God of Love. The Moon was, as has been seen, the awakener and theassembler of the stars. The Lord and Leader of the…
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