Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . mote ages and in far distant climes. It is clear from all these facts that the fish is a symbolnot only of woman, but of the yoni. PLATE 11. Is supposed to represent Oannes, Dagon, or some other fishgod. It is copied from Lajard, Sur le Culte de Venus,pi. xxii., 1, la, and is thus described, Statuette inedite, degres houiller ou micace, dun brun verdatre. Elle porte pardevant, sur une bande perpendiculaire, un legende en carac-teres Syriaques tres anciens {Cabinet de M. Lambertya Lyon). I can find no clue to the signification of theinscription. It
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . mote ages and in far distant climes. It is clear from all these facts that the fish is a symbolnot only of woman, but of the yoni. PLATE 11. Is supposed to represent Oannes, Dagon, or some other fishgod. It is copied from Lajard, Sur le Culte de Venus,pi. xxii., 1, la, and is thus described, Statuette inedite, degres houiller ou micace, dun brun verdatre. Elle porte pardevant, sur une bande perpendiculaire, un legende en carac-teres Syriaques tres anciens {Cabinet de M. Lambertya Lyon). I can find no clue to the signification of theinscription. It would seem paradoxical to say that there issomething in common between the bull-headed deity andOannes. It is so, nevertheless. One indicates, par excel-lence, physical, and the other sexual, power. That Oannesmay, for the Assyrians, represent a man who played a partwith them similar to that of Penn among the Indians ofPennsylvania, I do not deny; but, when we find a similarfish-god in Philistia and Hindostan, and know that Crishna PLATE
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