. 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 . ne cone, the curved or knobbedstick, the cornucopia, the hymeneal torch, andMahadeva. An examination of Gemme Antiche Figurate, byMaffei, Rome, 1707, leads us to a similar conclusion;and though we have diligently searched throughPierres Antiques Gravees, by Picart (Amsterdam,1724), Signa Antiqua e Museo Jacobi de Wilde 495 Pine Cone )
. 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 . ne cone, the curved or knobbedstick, the cornucopia, the hymeneal torch, andMahadeva. An examination of Gemme Antiche Figurate, byMaffei, Rome, 1707, leads us to a similar conclusion;and though we have diligently searched throughPierres Antiques Gravees, by Picart (Amsterdam,1724), Signa Antiqua e Museo Jacobi de Wilde 495 Pine Cone ) (Amsterdam, 1700), and Antiquities Ex-and Thyrsus ) plained, etc., by George Ogle (London, 1737),we have found nothing to militate against our views,that the thyrsus represents the Linga, and the pinecone its appendages. Indeed it is difficult to examinecopies of the many gems which have come downto modern times, without recognising the greatnumber of symbols which existed for indicating ahidden doctrine to those who were initiated in themysteries, without, at the same time, pointing theattention of the world in general to the inter-pretation. Amongst such pictorial euphemisms, wemust class the rudder, or steering oar (Fig. 39), the Figure 40. Figure dart (Fig. 40), and the hammer (Fig. 41), in additionto those to which we have already directed we finish this essay, we must call the attentionof our readers to the fact, that the emblems of whichwe speak are not uniformly used as symbols. Theywere often quite as harmless, so to speak, as theyare with us. It is only when we find such designshabitually introduced, as typical of a deity, that weinvestigate what was the idea the artist intended toconvey. To the ordinary reader, a torch is simplya light, whereby the wayfarer may escape pit-falls, 496 Pine Cone ) explore a cave, or assist in illuminating aand Thyesus J city; but the torch, when attending themarriage processions by day, had another the wood
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