Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene (1891)
Sozinskey, Thomas S., 1852?-1889 · Philadelphia, London : F.A. Davis · leaf 140
- Marduk. Thiswas an embodiment of the chaos of the deep, the prin-ciple of chaos and darkness. He was the serpent of thenight, and may have been primarily the darkness over-come by the sun. 1 Psalms, xci, 6. ^2 Sam., xxiv, 13 et seq., and 2 Kings, xix, 35. … CHAPTER XIY. HYGEIA, THE GODDESS OF HEALTH. The need of a special divinity to preserve people ma state of health was widely felt, even in very earlytimes. In Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and elsewhere, thisneed found pronounced expression. Isis and Istar^and Athene were each, in one way or another,…
Symbolism in medicine
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