Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ing them-selves to be far more skilful in depicting the Almighty thanthe carpenters and goldsmiths of the time of Isaiah (xl. 18,19, xli. 6, 7, xliv. 9-19), who used no such contrivance. Figure 24 is another representation of the solar disc, inwhich it is marked with a cross. This probably originatedin the wheel of a chariot having four spokes, and thesun being likened to a charioteer. The chariots of the sunare referred to in 2 Kings xxiii. 11 as idolatrous these the wheel was symbolic. The identification of thisemblem with the sun is
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ing them-selves to be far more skilful in depicting the Almighty thanthe carpenters and goldsmiths of the time of Isaiah (xl. 18,19, xli. 6, 7, xliv. 9-19), who used no such contrivance. Figure 24 is another representation of the solar disc, inwhich it is marked with a cross. This probably originatedin the wheel of a chariot having four spokes, and thesun being likened to a charioteer. The chariots of the sunare referred to in 2 Kings xxiii. 11 as idolatrous these the wheel was symbolic. The identification of thisemblem with the sun is very easy, for it has repeatedly beenfound in Mesopotamian gems in conjunction with the a very remarkable one figured in Rawlinsons AncientMonarchies, vol. ii., p. 249, the cross is contrived as fivecircles. It is remarkable that in many papal pictures thewafer and the cup are depicted precisely as the sun andmoon in conjunction. See Pugins Architectural Glossary,plate iv., fig. 5. Figures 25, 26, 27, are simply varieties of the solar. Figure 26. Figure 27. wheel, intended to represent the idea of the sun and moon,the mystic triad and unit, the arba> or four. In Figure 37 26, the mural ornament is introduced, that being symbolic offeminine virginity. For explanation of Figure 27, seeFigures 35, 36. Figure 28 is copied from Lajard, Op, plate xiv. author states that he has taken it from a drawing of anEgyptian stele, made by M. E. Prisse (Monum. Egypt.,plate xxxvii.), and that the original is in the British
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