The grotesque in church art . ned and bearing the disc ; but the disc beganto be shewn as a tambourine, and she herself was styledthe mistress of dance and jest. As in the cosmogony ofone of the Egyptian Trinities she was the Third Person,as Supreme Love, the Greeks held her to be the same asAphrodite. The name of the sun-disc was Aten, and itsworship was kindred to that of Ra, the mid-day sun. TheHebrew Adonai and the Syriac Adonis have been consideredto be derived from this word Aten. Several examples of bird-compounds are in the Exeterseries of misericordes of the thirteenth century. They a
The grotesque in church art . ned and bearing the disc ; but the disc beganto be shewn as a tambourine, and she herself was styledthe mistress of dance and jest. As in the cosmogony ofone of the Egyptian Trinities she was the Third Person,as Supreme Love, the Greeks held her to be the same asAphrodite. The name of the sun-disc was Aten, and itsworship was kindred to that of Ra, the mid-day sun. TheHebrew Adonai and the Syriac Adonis have been consideredto be derived from this word Aten. Several examples of bird-compounds are in the Exeterseries of misericordes of the thirteenth century. They arerenderings in wood of the older Anglo-Saxon style of design,and are ludicrously grotesque. It is scarcely to be considered that the compound figureswere influenced by the prevalence of mumming in the periodsof the various carvings. In this, as in many other respects,the traditions of the carvers art protected it from being-coloured by the aspect of the times, except in a limiteddegree, shewn in distinctly isolated IIIKU-COMIOUNI), BXB I
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