human
as originally intimately connected with the divining rod. He refers to Hogarth's
gpt
Analysis of Beauty, in which the great satirical artist gives an engraving of what he terms a
human
which represents a
gpt
branch of the ash tree. Brand seems to endorse Mr. Gostling's opinion, as expressed in the
human
Antiquarian Repertory, who says,
gpt
I should rather style it a distemper or distortion of nature; for it seems the effect of a wound by some insect, which, piercing to the heart of the plant with its proboscis, poisons that, while the bark remains uninjured and proceeds in its growth, but formed into various stripes, flatness, and curves, for want of the support which nature designed it. The beauty some of these arrive at might well consecrate them to the fopperies of heathenism, and their rarity occasions imitations of them by art. The pastoral staff of the Church of Rome seems to have been formed from the vegetable litui, though the general idea is, I know, that it is an imitation of the shepherd's crook. Gostling's paper is accompanied by engravings of
human
Brand speaks of one of these curious
gpt
which he saw in the possession of an old woman at Beeralstown, in Devonshire, as
human
He was very anxious to purchase it, but the old lady refused to
gpt
Mythology of the Aryan Nations, is very explicit on this point. He says,--
human
The wooden emblem carries us, however, more directly to the natural mythology of the subject. The rod acquired an inherent vitality, and put forth leaves and branches in the Thyrsoi of the Dionysiac worshippers and the Seistron of Egyptian priests. It became the tree of life, and reappeared as the rod of wealth and happiness given by Apollôn to Hermes, the mystic spear which Abaris received from the Hyperborean Sun-god, and which came daily to Phoibus in his exile laden with all good things. It was seen as the lituus of the augur, the crooked staff of the shepherd, the sceptre of the king, and the divining rod which pointed out hidden springs or treasures to modern conjurors. In a form which adhered still more strictly to the first idea the emblem became the stauros or cross of Osiris, and a new source of mythology was thus laid open. To the Egyptians the cross thus became the symbol of immortality, and the god himself was crucified to a tree which denoted his fructifying power.... It is peculiar neither to the Egyptians nor Assyrians, neither to Greeks, Latins, Gauls, Germans or Hindus. Mr. Cox includes among its various forms the