Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 90. Hindostan and England ; one perforated stone is preserved asa relic in the precincts of an old church in modern aperture is blackish with the ? grease of many hands,which have been put therein whilst their owners took asacred oath. We have already remarked how ancient Abra-ham and a modern Arab have sworn by the Linga; it istherefore by no means remarkable that some of a differentform of faith should swear-by the Yoni. Figure 91 is stated by Higgins, Anacalypsis, p. 217, tobe a mark on the breast of an Egyptian mummy in the ^A,
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 90. Hindostan and England ; one perforated stone is preserved asa relic in the precincts of an old church in modern aperture is blackish with the ? grease of many hands,which have been put therein whilst their owners took asacred oath. We have already remarked how ancient Abra-ham and a modern Arab have sworn by the Linga; it istherefore by no means remarkable that some of a differentform of faith should swear-by the Yoni. Figure 91 is stated by Higgins, Anacalypsis, p. 217, tobe a mark on the breast of an Egyptian mummy in the ^A, Figure 91. 64 Museum of University College, London. It is essentiallythe same symbol as the crux ansata, and is emblematic ofthe male triad and the female unit. Figure 92 is simply introduced to show that the papaltiara has not about it anything particularly Christian, a. Figure 92. \ similar head-dress having been worn by gods or angelsin ancient Assyi-ia, where it appeared crowned by an emblemof the trinity. We may mention, in passing, that as theRomanists adopted the mitre and the tiara from the cursedbrood of Ham, so they adopted the episcopalian crook fromthe augurs of Etruria, and the artistic form with whichthey clothe their angels from the painters and urn-makers ofMagna Grecia and Central Italy. Figure 93 is the Mithraic lion. It may be seen inHydes Religion of the Ancient Persians, second edition,plate i. It may also be seen in vol. ii., plates 10 and 11, ofMaffeis Gemme Antiche Figurate (Rome, 1707). In plate10 the Mithraic lion has seven stars above it, around whichare placed respectively, words written in Greek, Etruscan 65 and Phoenician characters, ZEDCH. TELKAN. QIDEKH. UNEULK. LNKELLP., apparentlyshowing that the emblem was adopted by the Gnostics, Itwould be unprofitable to dwell upon the meaning of theseletters. After
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