Identifier: ancientpaganmode00inma (find matches)
Title: Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876 Newton, John, M.R.C.S.E
Subjects: Symbolism Christian art and symbolism
Publisher: New York : P. Eckler
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Figure 26. Figure 27. wheel, intended to represent the idea of the sun and moon,the mystic triad and unit, the arba> or four. In Figure 37 26, the mural ornament is introduced, that being symbolic offeminine virginity. For explanation of Figure 27, seeFigures 35, 36. Figure 28 is copied from Lajard, Op, Cit.y plate xiv. F.That author states that he has taken it from a drawing of anEgyptian stele, made by M. E. Prisse (Monum. Egypt.,plate xxxvii.), and that the original is in the British
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Figure 28. Museum. There is an imperfect copy of it in Rawlinson*sHerodotus, vol. ii. The original is too indelicate to berepresented fully. Isis, the central figure, is wholly nude,with the exception of her head-dress, and neck and breastornaments. In one hand she holds two blades of cornapparently, whilst in the other she has three lotus flowers,two being egg-shaped, but the central one fully expanded;with these, which evidently symbolise the mystic triad,is associated a circle emblematic of the yoni, thus indicatingthe fourfold creator. Isis stands upon a lioness; on oneside of her stands a clothed male figure, holding in one handthe crux ansata, and in the other an upright spear. On theopposite side is a male figure wholly nude, like the goddess,save his head-dress and collar, the ends of which arearranged so as to form a cross. His hand points to aflagellum ; behind him is a covert reference to the triad, 38 whilst in front Osiris offers undisguised homage to Isis. Thehead-dress

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