Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ^istrum of Isis. Figure 62. Sometimes the instrument is oval, and 48 occasionally it terminates below in a horizontal line, insteadof in an acute angle. The inquirer can very readily recog-nise in the emblem the symbol of the female creator. If thereshould be any doubt in his mind, he will be satisfied after areference to Maffeis Gemme Antiche Figurate (Kome, 1707),Tol. ii., plate 61, wherein Diana of the Ephesians is depictedas having a body of the exact shape of the sistrum figured inPayne Knights work on the remains of the worship ofPriapus, et
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ^istrum of Isis. Figure 62. Sometimes the instrument is oval, and 48 occasionally it terminates below in a horizontal line, insteadof in an acute angle. The inquirer can very readily recog-nise in the emblem the symbol of the female creator. If thereshould be any doubt in his mind, he will be satisfied after areference to Maffeis Gemme Antiche Figurate (Kome, 1707),Tol. ii., plate 61, wherein Diana of the Ephesians is depictedas having a body of the exact shape of the sistrum figured inPayne Knights work on the remains of the worship ofPriapus, etc. The bars across the sistrum show that a pure virgin (see Ancient Faiths, second edition,Vol. II., pp. 743-746). On its handle is seen the figure ofa cat—a sacred animal amongst the Egyptians, for the samereason that Isis was figured sometimes as a cow—viz., for itssalacity and its love for its Figure 64. 49 Fiprurcs 63 to 66 arc all drawn from Assyrian sources.
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