. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE serpent or reptile, and the face of a girl.( Spinx avis est penna, serpens pede, frontepuella.) The only considerable differencebetween the example at Upavon and that onthe mappa is that in the latter the sphinxseems to have two forelegs, and in the formertwo hind legs. The tail at Upavon is verycurious, just like a fox terriers shortened tail. An illustration of a sphinx is given byMr. E. P. Evans, from a capital in the Abbey ofVezelai. Here a man is riding on a dragon-likebasilisk, and the sphi
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE serpent or reptile, and the face of a girl.( Spinx avis est penna, serpens pede, frontepuella.) The only considerable differencebetween the example at Upavon and that onthe mappa is that in the latter the sphinxseems to have two forelegs, and in the formertwo hind legs. The tail at Upavon is verycurious, just like a fox terriers shortened tail. An illustration of a sphinx is given byMr. E. P. Evans, from a capital in the Abbey ofVezelai. Here a man is riding on a dragon-likebasilisk, and the sphinx (here with four legs) isholding a crystal to beat back the basilisksvenom. Mr. Evans gives as a meaning of thiscarving the idea of spiritual knowledge andstrength overcoming evil. Most curious creatures are the terrebolen,which can fairly come into this book onlybecause they have a place in the terrebolen—a name corrupted fromTTvpofioXoL xlOoi (or fire casting stones) arealso called in the Bestiaries igniferi lapides. They were stones found in a
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