Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 115. Fmme lie. 78Figure 117 ia a Buddhist symbol, or rather a copy of. Figure 117. Maityna Bodhisatwa, from the monastery of Gopach, in thevalley of Nepaul. It is taken from Journal of Royal AsiaticSociety, vol. xviii., p. 394. The horse-shoe, like the vesicapiscis of the Eoman church, indicates the yoni; the last,taken from some cow, mare, or donkey, being used in easternparts where we now use their shoes, to keep off the evil is remarkable that some nations should use the femaleorgan, or an effigy thereof, as a charm against ill lu
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 115. Fmme lie. 78Figure 117 ia a Buddhist symbol, or rather a copy of. Figure 117. Maityna Bodhisatwa, from the monastery of Gopach, in thevalley of Nepaul. It is taken from Journal of Royal AsiaticSociety, vol. xviii., p. 394. The horse-shoe, like the vesicapiscis of the Eoman church, indicates the yoni; the last,taken from some cow, mare, or donkey, being used in easternparts where we now use their shoes, to keep off the evil is remarkable that some nations should use the femaleorgan, or an effigy thereof, as a charm against ill luck, whilstothers adopt the male symbol. In Ireland, as we havepreviously remarked, a female shamelessly exhibiting her-self, and called Shelah-na-gig, was to be seen in stone overthe door of certain churches, within the last century. From the resemblance in the shape of the horse-shoe tothe * grove of the Assyrian worshippers, and from the manstanding within it as the symbolic pine tree stands in theMesopotamian, ^Asherah, I think we may fairly conclude 79 that the Indian, like, the Shemitic emblem, typifies the uniono
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