History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . ter of the Nile, was on the vernal equinox (March 21), which was the annunci-ation of the open-ing of its naAi-gation after astormy that day herimage — a statueof solid goldstanding on acrescent andclouds of silver— was carried insolemn proces-sion. She had aglory of twelvegolden starsaround her head,symbolic of thetwelve lunarmon
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . ter of the Nile, was on the vernal equinox (March 21), which was the annunci-ation of the open-ing of its naAi-gation after astormy that day herimage — a statueof solid goldstanding on acrescent andclouds of silver— was carried insolemn proces-sion. She had aglory of twelvegolden starsaround her head,symbolic of thetwelve lunarmonths; and herown shining facerepresented thethirteenth, whichwas the sacredmoon, or the equi-noctial month ofspring. In subsequentages, Avhen Egyptwas conquered by the Eomans, the conquerors adopted the worship of Isis, and con-secrated her equinoctial feast as Nostrce Domince Dies (Our LadyDay), and qualified her the Heavens open gate; Star of the Sea;Queen of the Heavenly Sjjheres ; and introduced the feast and labarunior banner of Isis and her legendary worship into all the conqueredprovinces of the Eoman Empire. Her attributes remind one of the Queen of Heaven of the Chinese mythology of to-day, and ]\Iuril-los paintings of the Virgin ]\ Egjptian Standards. no THE SYM150LS. STANDARDS. AND The invention of stiuidards is attributed, with f,reat itrobal»ility, tothe Kgyptians, as they had the earliest organized military forces ofwhich we have any knowledge, and it is equally probable that theHebrews obtained the idea, or at least the use, of ensigns from theEgyptians. Tlie wandering tribes of shepherds who concpiered Egy])tset one of their pastoral chiefs as king on the throne of Osiris. Thiswarlike shepherd introduced into Egypt the annual oblation of anunblemished lamb or kid, sacred to their conductor, the Angel Gabriel,and bore a lamb as his standard. When the Egyptians recovered their in-dependence, under chieftains styled Phnro,or revenger, the lamb o
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