. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . truments and not their singing which isespecially noted. When the hapless voyager is in theirclutches, he is slain ; and the island wherethey dwell is full of the bones of foolish men,who have first been charmed to sleep and thendestroyed. The adventures of Odysseus with the syrenswere depicted, and it was thought that theship in its Christian application meant theChurch. The mast was the Cross of Christ,to which the faithful must cling tightly if theyare to conquer temptation, and the syrens areour temptations on th
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . truments and not their singing which isespecially noted. When the hapless voyager is in theirclutches, he is slain ; and the island wherethey dwell is full of the bones of foolish men,who have first been charmed to sleep and thendestroyed. The adventures of Odysseus with the syrenswere depicted, and it was thought that theship in its Christian application meant theChurch. The mast was the Cross of Christ,to which the faithful must cling tightly if theyare to conquer temptation, and the syrens areour temptations on the sea of life. In a the Musee de Cluny, Paris, among repre-sentations of virtues and vices, one of lusthas a syren on her shield. Sometimes the idea will be varied, and thesyren will tempt a man by offering him a fish,as in thirteenth and fourteenth century Bes-tiaries in the British Museum (Harl. 4751, andSlo. 3544), and in the church at Civaux,France. In the mappa mtmdi a mermaid is drawnin the centre of the Mediterranean, just northof Crete, and the Labyrinth. 198. 51a
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