. Antiche fedi incarnate in nomi antichi; o, un tentativo di rintracciare la fede religiosa, riti sacri, e sacri emblemi di certe nazioni. Egli virga, il cono di pino, il becco curvo o, la cornucopia, la torcia ipenea, e Mahaeva. Un esame di Gcmme antiche figurate, byMaflfei, Roma, 1707, ci porta ad una conclusione simile; e anche se abbiamo diligentemente cercato attraverso Pierres Antiques Gravees, da Picart (Amsterdam,1724), Signa Antiqua e Museo Jacohi de Wilde 495 (Amsterdam, 1700), e Antiquities spiegato, ecc, da George Ogle (Londra, 1737), non abbiamo un mungle, per avere un fondare
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. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . he virga, the pine cone, the curved or knobbedstick, the cornucopia, the hymeneal torch, andMahadeva. An examination of Gcmme Antiche Figurate, byMaflfei, Rome, 1707, leads us to a similar conclusion;and though we have diligently searched throughPierres Antiques Gravees, by Picart (Amsterdam, 1724), Signa Antiqua e Museo Jacohi de Wilde 495 (Amsterdam, 1700), and Antiquities Explained, etc., by George Ogle (London, 1737), we have foundnothing to militate against our views, that thethyrsus represents the Linga, and the pine coneits appendages. Indeed it is difficult to examinecopies of the many gems which have come downto modern times, without recognising the greatnumber of symbols which existed for indicating ahidden doctrine to those who were initiated in themysteries, without, at the same time, pointing theattention of the world in general to the inter-pretation. Amongst such pictorial euphemisms, wemust class the rudder, or steering oar (Fig. 39), the Figure 39. Figure 40. Figure 41.. dart (Fig. 40), and the hammer (Fig. 41), in additionto those to which we have already directed attention.Ere we finish this essay, we must call the attentionof our readers to the fact, that the emblems of whichwe speak-are not uniformly used as symbols. Theywere often quite as harmless, so to speak, as theyare with us. It is only when we find such designshabitually introduced, as typical of a deity, that weinvestigate what was the idea the artist intended toconvey. To the ordinary reader, a torch is simplya light, whereby the wayfarer may escape pit-falls, 496 explore a cave, or assist in illuminating a city; butthe torch when attending the marriage processionsby day had another meaning. In the woods ofBengal, a tiger would be, to me, a beast to beshunned, or to be hunted and killed; but thepicture of that animal in a temple of the Hindoosconve
