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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 123. and the dove hovering over it, are all symbolical; butthough the author of it is right in his grouping, it is clearthat he is not aware of its full signification. The readerwill readily gather their true meaning from our articles uponthe Akk and Water, and from our remarks upon the Dovein Ancient Faiths, second edition. 84 Figure 124 is copied from Malleis Gcmme AntlcheFlnurntc, vol. 3, plate xl. In the original, the figure upon
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Figure 124. the pillar is very conspicuously phallic, and the whole com-position indicates what was associated with the worship ofPriapus. This so-called god was regarded much in thesame light as St. Cosmo and vSt. Damian were at Isernia,and St. Foutin in Christian France. And it is not at allsurprising that a church, which has deified or made saints ofa spear and cloak, under the names Longinus and Amphi-bolus, should also adopt the god of the gardens, andconsecrate him as an object for Christian worship, and givehim an appropriate name and emblem. But the patron saintof Lampsacus was not really a deity, only a sort of saint,whose business it was to attend to certain parts. The idea ofguardian angels was once common, see Matt, xviii. 10, where 86 we read, that each child has a guardian in heaven, who looksafter his infantile charge. As the pagan Hymen and Lucinaattended upon weddings and parturitions, so the ChristianCosmo and Damian attended to spouses, and assisted inmaking them fr

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