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SYMBOLOGY OF TAROT
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KYTHERA'S MUSINGS:
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Mithra is sacrificing the
bull in the cave. The characterisitic features of the Mithra monuments
are all represented here: the youths with the upright and the inverted
torch, the snake, the dog, the raven, Helios, the god of the sun, and Selene,
the goddess of the moon. Owing to the Phrygian cap, the resemblance of
the face to that of Alwxander, and the imitation of the motif of
the classical Greek group of Nike sacrificing a bull,...all characteristics
of the Diadochian epoch,...the original of all the works of this type has
been attributed to an artist of Pergamon.
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