Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . t is associated with a serpent, apparently the cobra. Thedesign is spoken of as the spectacle ornament, and it isvery commonly associated with another figure closely resem-bling the letter Z- It is very natural for the inquirer toassociate the twin circles with the sun and earth, or the sun 59 and moon. On one Scottish monument the circles representwheels, and they probably indicate the solar chariot. Asyet I have only been able to meet with the Z and ** spectacleornament once out of Scotland; it is figured on apparentlya Gnostic ^em {The Gnostics
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . t is associated with a serpent, apparently the cobra. Thedesign is spoken of as the spectacle ornament, and it isvery commonly associated with another figure closely resem-bling the letter Z- It is very natural for the inquirer toassociate the twin circles with the sun and earth, or the sun 59 and moon. On one Scottish monument the circles representwheels, and they probably indicate the solar chariot. Asyet I have only been able to meet with the Z and ** spectacleornament once out of Scotland; it is figured on apparentlya Gnostic ^em {The Gnostics and their Remains, by C. , London, 1864, plate ii., fig. 5). In that we see in aserpent cartouche two Z figures, each having the downstroke crossed by a horizontal line, both ends terminatingin a circle; besides them is a six-rayed star, each ray terniii-nating in a circle, precisely resembling the star in Plate iii.,Fig. 3, supra. I can ofier no satisfactory explanation of theemblem. Figures 85, 86, represent a Yorkshire and an Indian. Figure H5.
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