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 217
479 Mother, The Serpent, fig. 477, has the head and horns of aBull, implying a combination of Wisdom the Mother andApis the Creator and First Cause. Those who wereinitiated into the mysteries of Osiris were told that Apisought to be regarded as a fair and beautiful image of theirown soul.^ The…
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