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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 224

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s. ^ In the emblems below are representations not only of theWater-Mother herself, but also of a duck floating on thefar-extending waters. The fact that Isis is referred to as aduck leads one to conjecture that there existed in Egypt alegend similar to that of Finland :—* Runo, i. 245, 261.… … 491 492 493 In many of these Water-Mother and Princess emblemsthe hairs are carefully arranged as Six—just as in the Jesusemblems (antCy p. 27) the hairs were represented as three.In ancient Mexico the hair of the Great Mother was ^ Tke Burden of Isis, p. 34. 2IO THE LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM…

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