Origin and history of the American flag and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 80
a s conquered by the Romans, the conquerors adopted the worship of Isis, and con-secrated her equinoctial feast as Noster Domina Dies (Our LadyDay), and qualified her the Heavens open gate; Star of the Sea;Queen of the Heavenly Spheres; and introduced the feast and labarumor banner of Isis and her… … Egyptian Standards. 50 The Symbols, Standards, and Banners The invention of standards is attributed, with great probability, tothe Egyptians, as they had the earhcst organized military forces ofwhich we have any knowledge, and it is equally proba])lo that theHebrews obtained the idea, or at least…
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