Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . n everything which 57 bears upon religious subjects, that there is no proof that thesun was commonly regarded as a male, or the moon as afemale; and he based his strange assertion solely upon theground that in German and some other languages the sun wasrepresented by a feminine, and the moon by a niasculinenoun. The argument is of no value, for a-a^vTTog, x°*P°^»l^vxos, and other Greek and Latin names of the yoni, aremasculine nouns, and Virga and Mentula, the Roman wordsfor the Linga, are feminine. In Hindostan, the sun isalways represented as a
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . n everything which 57 bears upon religious subjects, that there is no proof that thesun was commonly regarded as a male, or the moon as afemale; and he based his strange assertion solely upon theground that in German and some other languages the sun wasrepresented by a feminine, and the moon by a niasculinenoun. The argument is of no value, for a-a^vTTog, x°*P°^»l^vxos, and other Greek and Latin names of the yoni, aremasculine nouns, and Virga and Mentula, the Roman wordsfor the Linga, are feminine. In Hindostan, the sun isalways represented as a God; the moon is occasionally amale, and sometimes a female deity. In ancient Gaulishand Scandinavian figures, the sun was always a male, andthe moon a female. Their identification will be seen inFigure 113—as their conjunction is in the one before us —in the-position of the individuals, and in the fleur-de-lys andoval symbol. Figure 83 may be found in Fabrettis Corpus Inscrip-tumum Italicarum (Turin, 1867), plate xxv., fig. 303 f. The. Figure 83. coins which bear the figures are of brass, and were found atVolaterrse. In one the double head is associated with adolphin and crescent moon on the reverse, and the lettersVelathri, in Etruscan. A similar .inscription exists on theone containing the club. The club, formed as in Figure 83,occurs frequently on Etruscan coins. For example, twoclubs are joined with four balls on a Tudertine coin, havingon the reverse a hand apparently gauntleted for fighting, and 68 four balls arranged in a square. On other coins are tobe seen a bee, a trident, a spear head, and other tripli-form figures, associated with three balls in a triangle ; some-times two, find sometimes The double head withtwo balls is seen on a Telamonian coin, having on thereverse what appears to be a leg with the foot turnedupwards. In a coin of Populonia the club is associated witha spear and two balls, whilst on the reverse is a single must notice, too,
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