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Places of Worship
26 pictures
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Animals mentioned in the Holy Bible
7 pictures
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Pictures of the Bible
18 pictures
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The Holy Bible
212 pictures in 4 sub-albums
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Judaism
5 pictures
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Hinduism
63 pictures
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Christianity
258 pictures
249 pictures in 5 sub-albums
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The figure represents a tortoise. When one sees a resemblance between this creature's head and neck and the linga, one can understand why both in. India and in Greece the animal should be regarded as sacred to the goddess personifying the female creator, and why in Hindoo myths it is said to support the world.
103 visits
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Jesus Christ
89 visits
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Jesus Christ
96 visits
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The Recording Angel and Star of Redemption
423 visits
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St. Antony's Lean Persecutor
422 visits
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The Devil
895 visits
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Constantine the Great, founder of Constantinople, had the monogram of Christ placed on the labarum, or imperial stamdard; It was the Greek letter X (chi) with a P (rbo) placed perpendicularly though it, forming the first two letters of the name Christ, in Greek
1218 visits
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From Pugin's "Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament"
854 visits
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As men became more and more accustomed to these idols and less and less spiritual in their worship they would ventrure to give expression to their ideas of the unseen gods. Other materials were used, and as might be required by the materials, other shapes were of necessity given. At first, it would seem, that only representations of animals were attempted, then, asin the teraphim, the head of a man was attached to various animal forms, as also in Dagon, the fish-god, which has a human figure, terminating in a fish
1346 visits
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Finding it difficult to fasten their thoughts on invisible, intangible beings, men, at the beginning. probably sought to aid their worship be selecting some object to represent the being worshiped.
1110 visits
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Devil
613 visits
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Devil
597 visits
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Devil
593 visits
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Devil
631 visits
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Devils chasing a rabbit
629 visits
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Devil
595 visits
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Sculptures and medals abound in the East, containing hieroglyphic symbols of the creation. The most remarkable, however, of these symbolic devices is that erected, and at this day to be seen, in one of the temples of Japan. The temple itself, in which this fine monument of Oriental genius is elevated, is called Daibod, and stands in Meaco, a great and flourishing city of Japan.
The principal image in this design displays itself in the form of a vast bull, the emblem of prolific heat and the generative energy by which creation was formed, butting with its horns against the egg, which floated on the waters of the abyss. The status of the bull itself is formed of massy gold, with a great knob on its back, and a golden collar about its neck, embossed with precious stones.
1354 visits
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The Egg of Creation, encompassed with the Agathodaimon, or Good Genius
983 visits
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St Mary
663 visits
