Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 96. a cornelian cylinder, in the collection of the late Sir WilliamOuseley, and is supposed to represent Oannes, or Bel andtwo fish gods, the authors of fecundity. .It is thoughtthat Dagon of the Philistines resembled the two figuressupporting the central one. Figure 97 is a side view of plate 1. The idol representsa female. Dagon, the fish god, male above, piscine below, was 68 one of the many symbols of an androgyne creator. In thefirst of the Avatars of Vishnu, he is represented as emergingfrom the mouth of a fish, and being a fish himse
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . Figure 96. a cornelian cylinder, in the collection of the late Sir WilliamOuseley, and is supposed to represent Oannes, or Bel andtwo fish gods, the authors of fecundity. .It is thoughtthat Dagon of the Philistines resembled the two figuressupporting the central one. Figure 97 is a side view of plate 1. The idol representsa female. Dagon, the fish god, male above, piscine below, was 68 one of the many symbols of an androgyne creator. In thefirst of the Avatars of Vishnu, he is represented as emergingfrom the mouth of a fish, and being a fish himself; the. Figure 97. legend being that he was to be the saviour of the world ina deluge which was to follow. See Moors Hindu Pantheon,and Colemans Mythology of the Hindus. Figure 98 is a fancy sketch of the fleur-de-lys, the lily ofFrance. It symbolises the male triad, whilst the ringaround it represents the female. The identificationof this emblem of the trinity with the tripliform Maha-Fig. 98. (jeva, and of the ring with his sacti, may be seen inthe next figure. Figure 99, which we have already given on page 46,is one of great value to the inquirer into the signification ofcertain symbols. It has been reintroduced here to show theidentification of the eye, fish, or oval shape, with the yoni,and of the fleur-de-lys with the lingam, which is recognisedby the respective positions of the emblems in front of parti- 69 cular parts of the mystic animals, who both, on theirpart, adore the symboUc palm tree, with its pistil andstamens. The rayed branches of the upper part of the tree,
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