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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129 many towns of France, women and children carried in pro-cession at the end of their palm-branches a phallus made ofbread, which they called, undisguisedly, la pine, whencethe festival was called La Fete des Pinnes. The pine having been blest by the priest, the women carefully pre-served it during the following year as an amulet. (Dulaure,Hist, des differens Cultes.) Again, the Greek name for the palm-tree, jylicenix, wasalso the name of that mythi6al Egyptian bird, sacred toOsiris, and a symbol of the resurrection. With some earlyChristian writers, Christ was **the Phoenix. The date-palmis figured as a tree of life on an Egyptian sepulchral tablet,older than the Exodus, now preserved in the museum atBerlin. Two arms issue from the top of the tree; one ofwhich presents a tray of dates to the deceased, whilst theother gives him water, the water of life. The tree oflife is represented by a date-palm on some of the earliestChristian mosaics at Eome. Something very like the Assy-rian A

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