. Transactions and journal of proceedings . Fig 11 Front of Cross-slab tioiii Kilmoiie Cliapel, KiiUcoliii. nowat Coi-Mwall Fig 12 -Ji;u k of Cross-slab from Kilraorie Chapel, atCorsewall House. Archaic MJ llie pagan coiiceplion, absorbed into the early Christian ideas,was that the bird represented the disembodied spirit whirhwas reputed to \ oyage here and there with a hghtningcelerity, like the Hash of a swallow on the wing. The pincers or tongs and anvil on the other side of thelower human figure at Corsewall House have also a reconditesvmbolism. These tools appa
. Transactions and journal of proceedings . Fig 11 Front of Cross-slab tioiii Kilmoiie Cliapel, KiiUcoliii. nowat Coi-Mwall Fig 12 -Ji;u k of Cross-slab from Kilraorie Chapel, atCorsewall House. Archaic MJ llie pagan coiiceplion, absorbed into the early Christian ideas,was that the bird represented the disembodied spirit whirhwas reputed to \ oyage here and there with a hghtningcelerity, like the Hash of a swallow on the wing. The pincers or tongs and anvil on the other side of thelower human figure at Corsewall House have also a reconditesvmbolism. These tools apparently represent the labournecessarv to induce a gradual transformation from raw orcrude nialerial condition to the spiritual one. These emblemsoccur with the same meaning on the back of the Dunfallandystone, near Pitlochry. The symbolic group on the lower portion of the frontof the Corsewall House stone is therefore to be read asfollows—that humanity with spiritual help and heroic effortcan improve its position. On the back of the same cross-slab is also cut a cross,on the shaft of which are two hunting horns placed vis-a-v
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