. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . he counterpart of that in the Figure 3. >«v Figure 4. crux ansata and we readily see that g||EH|j is an emblem of the Vm&, Ariel, or four greatgods (see Vol. I., p. 89), quite as effective as the Figure 5. borne by the Egyptian deities. The Figure 6. celestial Virgin is represented, in an ancient bas-relief in Anatolia, and figured
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . he counterpart of that in the Figure 3. >«v Figure 4. crux ansata and we readily see that g||EH|j is an emblem of the Vm&, Ariel, or four greatgods (see Vol. I., p. 89), quite as effective as the Figure 5. borne by the Egyptian deities. The Figure 6. celestial Virgin is represented, in an ancient bas-relief in Anatolia, and figured by F. Lajard, in his Culte de Venus, as carrying an ornament of this shape (Fig. 6), in which the handle of the cross passes through a lotus flower, and divides the oval which represents the cross-bar of the key. It is to be noticed further that this Virgin bears in her other hand a staff, surmounted by the crescent moon (Fig. 7), Fig. 7. another emblem of Ariel; that she is standing M on a lioness (see Fig. 13, Vol. I., p. 102), is accompanied by an antelope, and is crowned with a turret or fortress (see Note 5, Vol. L, p. 52). The key, then, represented the quadruplegodhead of the Assyrians, the trinity in unity, andthe Virgin of the Koman 192 Keys] There is another signification of the keys, lessancient, but no less important than the above, viz.,that amongst the Romans they were the symbol ofthe wifes authority in her husbands her the slaves and domestics came for their sup-plies. She was the giver of all good things storedWithin the threshold. Hence the Church is saidto possess the keys, as the wife of the bridegroom;and the power which the bride possesses shedelegates to another man besides her spouse, viz.,the Pope of Borne, whoever he may be. The key, moreover, tests for us the antiquity ofcertain portions of the Old Testament. We find, forexample, a key made use of by the servants ofEglon, king of Moab (Judges iii. 25). We find thesame word used
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