. 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 . ,the rib, was selected as the origin of woman, fromits assonance with V?)f, tzela, a fall, the idea in thewriters mind being, woman, the cause of mans fall(tzela), came from the fall (tzaila), of mans conceit being possibly suggested by the resem-blance of the two words to D^, tzelem, the image of God; the notion being that wo
. 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 . ,the rib, was selected as the origin of woman, fromits assonance with V?)f, tzela, a fall, the idea in thewriters mind being, woman, the cause of mans fall(tzela), came from the fall (tzaila), of mans conceit being possibly suggested by the resem-blance of the two words to D^, tzelem, the image of God; the notion being that woman was createdin the image of man, as man was created in theimage of God; and that Adams fall came from thewoman, whom God had made from the fall of his who are familiar with the punning contrivancesof the Hebrews will readily recognise the probabilityof this explanation. Rimmon, P^l (Jos. xv. 32), A pomegranate. The shape ofthis fruit resembles that of the gravid uterus in thefemale, and the abundance of seed which it contains 612 Bimmon] makes it a fitting emblem of the prolific wombof the celestial mother. Its use was adopted largelyin various forms of worship. It was united withbells, in the adornment of the robes of the Jewish Figure high priest. It was introduced as an ornamentinto Solomons temple, where it was united withlilies, and probably with the lotus. In one part ofSyria, it was deified, and a temple erected in itshonour. The Virgin Mary, who has assumed in 613 Rimmon] modern Romanism the position occupied by Ishtar,Astarte, or Ashtoreth, in ancient Paganism, is fre-quently seen adorned by ears of corn, like Ceres; byvine leaves and fruit, as was Venus; and by thepomegranate, as was Mylitta. See Plate 4, Vol. I. Rimmon, or the pomegranate, figures in manyChristian churches, as it did in ancient Syriantemples. The accompanying woodcut, Fig. 42, iscopied from a figure in Pugins Glossary of Ecclesi-astical Ornaments (London, 1868). It contains thedoub
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