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 99
been mentioned, being the symbol of Regeneration. In The Labyrinth Komensky strengthens his fellow-sufFerers with the assurance, We have a most watchfulguardian, protector, defender—the Almighty God Himself :therefore let us rejoice. ^ Fig. 223 depicts the foreseeing, watchful, and unsleepingEye of… … 223 its skin. In Egypt the spotted skin of a leopard wasalways suspended near the images of Osiris, who washimself represented as a crouching leopard surmounted byan open eye. The name Osiris is said by Plutarch to havebeen understood as Os = many and Iri = eye, i.e. the many-eyed.* Figs. 224 to…
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