. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . conca-vities and profundities, anything, in fact, containing,are fancied typicals of her, as are wells, tanks, such things this is the symbol, 0 or 0. Pyramids, obelises, cones, especially conical andfurcated hills, are Sivaic, and of such this is the 925 Yoni] character, I. IOni was her vocalised attribute, andLinga his (p. 244
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs . conca-vities and profundities, anything, in fact, containing,are fancied typicals of her, as are wells, tanks, such things this is the symbol, 0 or 0. Pyramids, obelises, cones, especially conical andfurcated hills, are Sivaic, and of such this is the 925 Yoni] character, I. IOni was her vocalised attribute, andLinga his (p. 244). The cavity, cavern, or hollow of the ocean iscalled the sea by Hindu sacred writers, independentlyof its waters. Such deep concavity is of coursereceived by the Hindu mystics as a mighty argha, orIOni, typical of Parvati (i. e., mountain-born,referring to that known amongst anatomists as themons veneris), with her sectaries, the medhra, or thewomb of nature. In her virgin character she corre-sponds with Diana and Minerva, and she is alsoconsorted with the tridented deity of the waters(pp. 262-263). Moor then refers to symbols in use in ancientEgypt, and still employed and fully understood inmodern Hindostan, , Fig. 84, and Figs. 49-63, Figure p. 649, supra, and a great number of others, all 926 Yoni] having the same signification, and referring to Par-vati, to Siva, or to both combined. I may still farther be allowed to say that Moor,like many other acute observers, considers that themigration or extension of a race may be traced by theuse of certain proper names, and their associationwith sacred symbols. Thus, he traces the Aryanelement amongst the Greeks, and more sparsely inGreat Britain. In this view he is supported bySalverte, who has written an interesting Essai sur lesnoms d}homines, de peuples, et de lieux, Paris, views of both corroborate the opinion which Iexpressed in Vol. I., that two nations met in Greeceand in other parts of Europe, one migrat
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