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Article OPHIOLOGY AND SERPENT SYMBOLISM. ← Page 9 of 9
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Ophiology And Serpent Symbolism.
AA'ith hither-asiastic mysticism . Herein appears the Taiuology of Persia mutually acting upon the ophiology of the Syrians expressed in their fornmla : " Taurus draconem genuit et taurum draco . " The former had all the entire meaning of the fruitful equinoctial steer ; the serpent , on the contrary , seems to have lost its significance as the hurtful Aveapon of Ahriman
, and to haA'e taken the character of Salvation and Beneficence . The jirineipal of the deities of the Arabians before Mahomet , and which he destroyed , was named Hobal , composed of the syllable Ho , Huh or Hob , and Baal , the general name for the Deity . We have it in the Egyptian Mythology as Ob Oub , Ab , Oph , Eph , whence the Greek take their 0 < J > IQ , and it forms a component
part in the Deity of Edessa , El-og-ob-ulus , for Avhich the Roman emperors , Helogabulus , thence named because formerly its priest , and Aurelian , expressed such insane veneration . The deity itself there Avas but a small misshapen stone , possibly meteoric , or a Bethulia , as AA'as the Caaba of Mecca , of Avhom the mighty Hobal { vide Sale ' s Iutrod . to the Koran ) might have
been the guardian . This statue Avas formed of red agate , and is remarkable for being a unimane deity , whose missing hand had been replaced by one of gold ; but in this circumstance agreeing remarkably with the Scandinavian god Tyr , Avhose hand had been snapped off by the wolf Eerrir , and explaining the great number of northern sacred images deficient of a hand , on which
Biisching has an express treatise on the occasion of an image of Tyr found thus in Silesia ; but the prevalence of the practice and belief is deeper rooted and wider extended than he imagined , but Avhich Ave cannot at present stop to explain . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Br . ( To be contimied . )
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Ophiology And Serpent Symbolism.
AA'ith hither-asiastic mysticism . Herein appears the Taiuology of Persia mutually acting upon the ophiology of the Syrians expressed in their fornmla : " Taurus draconem genuit et taurum draco . " The former had all the entire meaning of the fruitful equinoctial steer ; the serpent , on the contrary , seems to have lost its significance as the hurtful Aveapon of Ahriman
, and to haA'e taken the character of Salvation and Beneficence . The jirineipal of the deities of the Arabians before Mahomet , and which he destroyed , was named Hobal , composed of the syllable Ho , Huh or Hob , and Baal , the general name for the Deity . We have it in the Egyptian Mythology as Ob Oub , Ab , Oph , Eph , whence the Greek take their 0 < J > IQ , and it forms a component
part in the Deity of Edessa , El-og-ob-ulus , for Avhich the Roman emperors , Helogabulus , thence named because formerly its priest , and Aurelian , expressed such insane veneration . The deity itself there Avas but a small misshapen stone , possibly meteoric , or a Bethulia , as AA'as the Caaba of Mecca , of Avhom the mighty Hobal { vide Sale ' s Iutrod . to the Koran ) might have
been the guardian . This statue Avas formed of red agate , and is remarkable for being a unimane deity , whose missing hand had been replaced by one of gold ; but in this circumstance agreeing remarkably with the Scandinavian god Tyr , Avhose hand had been snapped off by the wolf Eerrir , and explaining the great number of northern sacred images deficient of a hand , on which
Biisching has an express treatise on the occasion of an image of Tyr found thus in Silesia ; but the prevalence of the practice and belief is deeper rooted and wider extended than he imagined , but Avhich Ave cannot at present stop to explain . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Br . ( To be contimied . )