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On Symbols And Symbolism,
wear more than / bw . ' different colours on their dress . Vergobretus is the only instance of the prince blazoning seven colours , to signify his supreme power , for this seems really to have been a species of heraldry , but it may be accounted for that he had been consecrated by the Druids , or it may have occurred at the period when the ecclesiastical began to succumb to the ciiil
authority . As signs of office , they bore in their hand a white staff [ slatau drui' each ) , which on one hand has degenerated to the magician ' s and harlequin ' s wand , and on the other , designates the highest regal officers of the realm , as the earl-marshal , the great chamberlain ; ancl shortened , becomes the grand aspiration of every military hero hi the marshal's staff . They wore
differing species of buttons , to distinguish the differing grades of the order ( exactly similar to the practice of mandarins , in China , at the present day ) ; ancl the ovis serpentum , the famed serpent's egg , worked in gold on then- mantle , was the
cognizance especially confined to the Archdruid . In many representations Druids are figured with the horned moon in their hands , as she is seen six clays after the full ; and in some with a cornucopia or horn of plenty , with a full moon shining over it ; but however varied in other respects , in dress ancl attributes , one emblem is common to every grade ancl representation , this is
the exact pentalpha or pentagon upon their shoes . Schedius , " De Diis Germanorum" ( p . 281 ) , goes so far as to say that their shoes were made of wood in the form of a pentagon , regular French sabots , in this strange and inconvenient shape . " Plutarchus in qutest . Bom . author est Romanes nobiles in ealceamentis lunulas gessissetecte ut docerent quod sicut auscultare Luna vult
estan-, pr _ tiori et esse secundaria , respectans assidue juxta Parmenidem , solis radios—sic et Druyd _ e sapientissimi homines , quo a plebe separentur singnlaris formce calceis usi sunt . Namque ex ligno constabant etpentagoni erant . Unde et calceamentum hoe philosophicum figura mathematica ' der drudden Fuss . ' "
This connection with the feet and the situation in which the pentagon is found on British coins , at the horse ' s feet , ivould connect it with the superstition of the horse-shoe , which having descended to us from the Romans , has spread into every country in Europe . In Berlin the writer once occupied apartments in which no less than three of these charms were nailed on the
threshold , and in Temme's "Volksagen von Pommern , " he tells us that the sailors in that province invariably nail a horse-shoe ( one found preferred ) to the mast , to preserve the ship from lightning ; but this universal faith ramifies into so many different branches that a mere transient notice could not exhaust the subject . If ive look to the reason of this great veneration of the pent-
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On Symbols And Symbolism,
wear more than / bw . ' different colours on their dress . Vergobretus is the only instance of the prince blazoning seven colours , to signify his supreme power , for this seems really to have been a species of heraldry , but it may be accounted for that he had been consecrated by the Druids , or it may have occurred at the period when the ecclesiastical began to succumb to the ciiil
authority . As signs of office , they bore in their hand a white staff [ slatau drui' each ) , which on one hand has degenerated to the magician ' s and harlequin ' s wand , and on the other , designates the highest regal officers of the realm , as the earl-marshal , the great chamberlain ; ancl shortened , becomes the grand aspiration of every military hero hi the marshal's staff . They wore
differing species of buttons , to distinguish the differing grades of the order ( exactly similar to the practice of mandarins , in China , at the present day ) ; ancl the ovis serpentum , the famed serpent's egg , worked in gold on then- mantle , was the
cognizance especially confined to the Archdruid . In many representations Druids are figured with the horned moon in their hands , as she is seen six clays after the full ; and in some with a cornucopia or horn of plenty , with a full moon shining over it ; but however varied in other respects , in dress ancl attributes , one emblem is common to every grade ancl representation , this is
the exact pentalpha or pentagon upon their shoes . Schedius , " De Diis Germanorum" ( p . 281 ) , goes so far as to say that their shoes were made of wood in the form of a pentagon , regular French sabots , in this strange and inconvenient shape . " Plutarchus in qutest . Bom . author est Romanes nobiles in ealceamentis lunulas gessissetecte ut docerent quod sicut auscultare Luna vult
estan-, pr _ tiori et esse secundaria , respectans assidue juxta Parmenidem , solis radios—sic et Druyd _ e sapientissimi homines , quo a plebe separentur singnlaris formce calceis usi sunt . Namque ex ligno constabant etpentagoni erant . Unde et calceamentum hoe philosophicum figura mathematica ' der drudden Fuss . ' "
This connection with the feet and the situation in which the pentagon is found on British coins , at the horse ' s feet , ivould connect it with the superstition of the horse-shoe , which having descended to us from the Romans , has spread into every country in Europe . In Berlin the writer once occupied apartments in which no less than three of these charms were nailed on the
threshold , and in Temme's "Volksagen von Pommern , " he tells us that the sailors in that province invariably nail a horse-shoe ( one found preferred ) to the mast , to preserve the ship from lightning ; but this universal faith ramifies into so many different branches that a mere transient notice could not exhaust the subject . If ive look to the reason of this great veneration of the pent-