The Open court . Fig. 8. A PersianCameo. Fig. 7. Assyrian Cylinder. {Layard, Cidte de Mitra, pi. xxx., No. 7. Lenor- mant, V., p. 248.) parently identified with neither and is believed to be an invisiblewitness of the homage paid him at his statue. The Babylonian trinity was thought to be male and female,and it is notev/orthy that the female representative of the divine. Fig. g. Merodach Delivering the Moon-God from the Evil Spirits.(From a Babylonian cylinder. Reproduced from Smiths Chaldean Account 0/Genesis.) father Anu, the god-mother Anna, also called Istar, was worshippedunder the symbol
The Open court . Fig. 8. A PersianCameo. Fig. 7. Assyrian Cylinder. {Layard, Cidte de Mitra, pi. xxx., No. 7. Lenor- mant, V., p. 248.) parently identified with neither and is believed to be an invisiblewitness of the homage paid him at his statue. The Babylonian trinity was thought to be male and female,and it is notev/orthy that the female representative of the divine. Fig. g. Merodach Delivering the Moon-God from the Evil Spirits.(From a Babylonian cylinder. Reproduced from Smiths Chaldean Account 0/Genesis.) father Anu, the god-mother Anna, also called Istar, was worshippedunder the symbol of a dove. (Fig. 5). There is no trace of it inMazdaism, but the dove as an emblem of most significant spiritu-ality reappears, in a purer and nobler form, in Christianity, while 1 Both cameos are at the Louvre in the Cabinet des 448 and 493. See Lenormant, /./. V., Ik MAZDAISM. there is no trace of the conventional representation of AhuraMazda. As to the picture of Ahura Mazda, we have to add that V. Williams Jackson explains the ring in the hands of AhuraMazda as the Circle of Sovereignty,^ and interprets the loop withstreamers in which the figure floats as a variation of the same idea,for in some of the pictures it appears as a chaplet, or waist-garlandwith It is not possible that the loop with streamers is originally adis
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