Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ividing the sheep from the goats,and devils are drawing men and women to perdition, by fixinghooks or pincers on the portions of the body whence their • For those who have not an opportunity of consulting the work referred to,I may observe that the Assyrian godhead consisted of four persons, three beinfmale and one female. The principal god was Asher, the upright one, the of the Hindoo Mahadeva, the great holy one, and of the more modem was associated with Anu, lord of solids and of the lower world, equivalent tothe testis,
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ividing the sheep from the goats,and devils are drawing men and women to perdition, by fixinghooks or pincers on the portions of the body whence their • For those who have not an opportunity of consulting the work referred to,I may observe that the Assyrian godhead consisted of four persons, three beinfmale and one female. The principal god was Asher, the upright one, the of the Hindoo Mahadeva, the great holy one, and of the more modem was associated with Anu, lord of solids and of the lower world, equivalent tothe testis, or egg on the right side. Hea was lord of waters, and representedthe left stone. The three formed the trinity or triad. The female was namedIshtar or Astarte, and was equivalent to the female organ, the yoni or vulva — theicrets of the Greeks. The male god in Egypt was Osiris, the female Isis, and thesenames are frequently used as being euphemistic, and preferable to the names whichare in vulgar use to describe the male and female PLATE ly.
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