The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, (14768608332)

Identifier: imageofcrossligh00dixouoft (find matches)
Title: The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, the dove, floral decorations, the easter egg, and other heathen symbols
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Dixon, B. Homer (Bernard Homer), 1819-1899
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies
Publisher: Toronto, Hunter
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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tion of 1559 expressly forbids the emblem of the HolyGhost in the form of a dove, and the Second Command-ment forbids all likenesses or similitudes for religiouspurposes. At Meigle, in Scotland, is a cross engraved on a stone,and above each limb is a boar and a hog or sow, evidentlythe symbols of Tammuz andAstart^,withotherfigures,(seeFrontispiece,) and on the reverse, a fish, serpent, mirror, menand horsemen, and the peculiar Z figure, sometimes styleda sceptre; and on another stone in the same place is acentaur, bearing in each hand an object, one of which atleast appears to be a cross, and under his arm, extendingbeyond the horses back, is a branch. This may possiblyrefer to tree worship, which generally accompanied thesun and serpent worship. At Glammis, is another cross,with a lion above one limb, which was the emblemof the Sun-god under the name of Mithra, opposite towhich is a centaui-, holding, not the bow, but a battle-axein each hand. This may have been intended to represent
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PBE-CHEISTIAN CKOSS AT GLAMMIS, SCOTLAND. 14 The Image of the Cross. Centaurus himself, who was a son of Apollo, the Sun-god,who was another form of Tammuz. King Malcolm was murdered at Glammis, accordingto some histories, and the murderers were drowned inendeavouring to escape; but there are three differentaccounts of his death. So little are these monumentsunderstood that this cross is called King Malcolms grave-stone, while in the Statistical Account of Scotland (Vol.IX.) it is said that the lion and centaur are supposed torepresent the shocking barbarity of the crime, and the fishon the reverse to be symbolical of the lake in which themurderers were drowned. Fish, however, frequently oc-cur on these stones, in connection with which it may beadded that Dio and Herodian expressly state that theCaledonians did not eal fish !* There is another cross nearGlammis also associated by tradition w^ith King Malcolm,but upon it are two small animals, apparently fawns, andtwo long-tailed anima