The grotesque in church art . g, is apparently similar to the Egyptianhieroglyphic |, the Greek £ European s. It may be worthwhile to suggest that the greatly-discussed collar of ss, wornby the lords chief justices, and others in authority, mayhave its origin in this hieroglyphic as a symbol of sovereignty,rather than in any of thearbitrary ascriptions of amediaeval initial. The weapon is evi-dently a form of the falx,or falcula, for it was withsuch a one (and here wesee further distribution ofthe myth) that Jupiterwounded Typhon, andsuch was the instrumentwith which Perseus slewthe sea-dragon
The grotesque in church art . g, is apparently similar to the Egyptianhieroglyphic |, the Greek £ European s. It may be worthwhile to suggest that the greatly-discussed collar of ss, wornby the lords chief justices, and others in authority, mayhave its origin in this hieroglyphic as a symbol of sovereignty,rather than in any of thearbitrary ascriptions of amediaeval initial. The weapon is evi-dently a form of the falx,or falcula, for it was withsuch a one (and here wesee further distribution ofthe myth) that Jupiterwounded Typhon, andsuch was the instrumentwith which Perseus slewthe sea-dragon : the falx, the pruning-hook, sickle or scythe, is an emblem of Saturn, andthe oldest representation of it in that connection shew it insimple curved form. Saturns sickle became a scythe, and theplanet deity thus armed became, on account of the lengthof his periodical revolution, our familiar figure of Father , the father of Horus, is styled the cause of Egyptian regal coin bears a man cutting corn with a. THE SLAVING OK THE SNAIL, BEVERLEY MINSTER. 58 THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCH ART. sickle of semi-circular blade. In many parts of England, thesickle is spoken of simply as a hook. Apparently the carver of the Beverley misericorde wasconscious he had rendered the shell very badly, for in the sidesupporter of the carving he had placed, by way of reminder
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