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 131
ore suo that it arose from the corruption of a word meaningsomething originally different. This constellation was onceknown as the Sheepfold ;^ and it would appear fromthe emblems herewith that the Great Bear was regarded asa symbol of the Great Spirit, the Triple Perfection (notethe three circles… … sist for long periods upon their own fat, and that thus bythe simple system of analogy underlying all symbolism theBear became elevated into an emblem of the Self-Existent,the Everlasting, the I AM. The foliage among which theGreat Bear in the ornament herewith is seated is the mysticAmaranth, a…
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