Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ems. In the one before us a fish, apparentlya dolphin, is borne in one hand. In the other the woman isbearded. These are representations of Ashtaroth—the andro-gyne deity in which the female predominates. Fig. 90 represents an ancient Italian form of tho IndianLing Yoni. It is copied from a part of the Frontispiece ofFabers Dissertation on the Cahirif where it is stated thatthe plate is a copy of a picture of a nymphceum found whenexcavating a foundation for the Barbarini Palace at deserves notice, because the round mound of masonrysurmoun
Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism . ems. In the one before us a fish, apparentlya dolphin, is borne in one hand. In the other the woman isbearded. These are representations of Ashtaroth—the andro-gyne deity in which the female predominates. Fig. 90 represents an ancient Italian form of tho IndianLing Yoni. It is copied from a part of the Frontispiece ofFabers Dissertation on the Cahirif where it is stated thatthe plate is a copy of a picture of a nymphceum found whenexcavating a foundation for the Barbarini Palace at deserves notice, because the round mound of masonrysurmounted by the short pillars is precisely similar tosimilar erections found in Hindostan on the East and 63 America on the West, as well as in various parts of oval in the pediment and the solitary pillar have thesame meaning as the Caaba and hole—the upright stoneand pit revered at Mecca long before Mahomets time—thetree serves to identify the pillar, and vice versa. Apertureswere common in ancient sepulchral monuments, alike in. Figure 90. Hindostan and England ; one perforated stone is preserved asa relic in the precincts of an old church in modern aperture is blackish with the ? grease of many hands,which have been put therein whilst their owners took asacred oath. We have already remarked how ancient Abra-ham and a modern Arab have sworn by the Linga; it istherefore by no means remarkable that some of a differentform of faith should swear-by the Yoni. Figure 91 is stated by Higgins, Anacalypsis, p. 217, tobe a mark on the breast of an Egyptian mummy in the ^A, Figure 91. 64 Museum of University College, London. It is essentiallythe same symbol as the crux ansata, and is emblematic ofthe male triad and the female unit. Figure 92 is simply introduced to show that the papaltiara has not about it anything particularly Christian, a
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