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    12/9/2020 The Gnostics and Their Remains: Description of the Plates: Plate J.

    he Plates: Plate J. Subjects Connected with the Mithraic Mysteries

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    Plate J

    PLATE J.

    SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE MITHRAIC


    MYSTERIES.

    1. This pretty design may be tersely described in a line of Manilius--


    "Quadrijugis et Phœbus equis et Delia bigis."

    Sol and Luna in their appropriate equipages: a heathenish device [paragraph


    continues]
    enough, but the same hand has backed their influence by the
    invocation, "Iao
    p. 443

    Sabaoth, Abraxas;" He, i.e. the living God, protect Aparastathe, the
    bearer of this talisman. Similar formulæ, always attached to women's
    names, very frequently occur.

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    2. The Zoroastrian Dog, of whom and whose office so much has


    been said in the text. The ill-cut Bird is intended for the Raven, the
    usual Mithraic attribute.

    3. The Lion of Baal, the Syrian Sun-god; below, the Scarabæus


    typifying the Creative Power. The Phœnician inscription Osan ēl,"
    God gives strength," is the name of the owner of the signet.. Lévy
    quotes an agate scarabæus at the British Museum exactly similar to
    this gem (a fine sard), a proof of the popularity of both type and
    name.

    4. A unique talismanic device, converting a male Sphinx into a novel


    bird, by the addition of the legs of a crane and the tail of a scorpion.
    It is engraved in the Persian style: my motive for admitting it into the
    present class.

    5. The Zodiacal Lion, guided by its astral Genius in its course


    through the seven planets.

    6. The Sun-god, with radiated head, mounted upon a camel,


    typifying the East. Below is set the fire-altar of Mithraic worship. He
    is followed by Chanticleer, attribute of the god of Day, preceded by
    the Horse--his peculiar sacrifice, as Ovid tells us:--

    "Placat equo Persis radiis Hyperiona cinctum,


    Ne detur Celeri victima tarda deo." (Fasti, I. 305-86.)

    Next: Plate K. Mithraic (continued)

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