. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . red figure of a nude woman,exposing the V?, maar, in the most shamelessmanner, the idea being that the sight brought goodluck. The horse-shoe is the modern representativeof the organ in question. King {Gnostics, p. 219)gives the copy of a gem, in which a figure sits, muchin the same way as the Irish females. She is statedto be Athor, one of the Egyptian goddesses. In theexplanation given of the plate, the position is said tobe assumed in order to show th
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . red figure of a nude woman,exposing the V?, maar, in the most shamelessmanner, the idea being that the sight brought goodluck. The horse-shoe is the modern representativeof the organ in question. King {Gnostics, p. 219)gives the copy of a gem, in which a figure sits, muchin the same way as the Irish females. She is statedto be Athor, one of the Egyptian goddesses. In theexplanation given of the plate, the position is said tobe assumed in order to show the androgynous natureof the divinity. Fig. 19, a Buddhist emblem, represents Mary as a horse-shoe, instead Figure 19. of a crescent. Thewhole figure indi-cates the mystic four,the Alar and Rl ofthe Chaldaeans. I must now againcall my readers at-tention to Fig. 1 , Vol. I., Fig. 6,p. 90, ibid., Figs. 16and 17, pp. 106, 107,ibid., Fig. 62, , ibid., and , Plate III., ibid. There is yet an-other subject con-nected with Mary, themodern virgin, and the ancient celestial goddesses,which is as curious as it is significant. The old. 263 Mary] Egyptians, Hindoos, Greeks and Romans representedcertain deities as black. Diana of the Ephesians,whose figure is represented on page 105, Vol. I.,was black. Juggernauts face, Narayen and Christna,in India, are painted black, and Cneph, Osiris andhis bull, Isis and Horus, Buddha, Mercury and theRoman Terminus were also tj^pified by black Thespians had a temple to Jupiter the Saviour,and to Venus Melainis, who were represented byblack stones. Ammons oracle was founded by blackdoves, and one founded a shrine at Dodona. Therewas a black Venus at Corinth. Venus, Isis, Hecate,Diana, Juno, Metis, Ceres, and Cybele were black;and the Multimammia, at the Campidoglio at Rome,is so too. In the Cathedral at Moulins; at thechapel at Loretto; at the churches of the Annun-ciation, St. Lazars, and St. Stephens, at Genoa; ofSt. Francisco, a
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