sun of spring, which taketh away the evil of Winter. Such is the
purport of hieroglyphical inscriptions upon papyrus rolls found in
Egypt, and engraved upon obelisks erected in the Nile valley, one of
which has been recently brought to the City of New York and set up in
Central Park. In the East Indies this symbol was represented by the
figure of a bull with the solar disk between his horns; and the
Egyptians, who were of Hindoo origin, perpetuating it in their "Apis,"
it was reproduced in the golden calf of the ancient Israelites. The
Assyrians represented this symbol by the figure of a winged bull with
the face and beard of a man; the Phoenicians, in their "Baal," by the
figure of a man with a bull's head and horns; and the small silver
bull's heads with golden horns, recently discovered by Dr. Schliemann
in the ruins of Mycenae, were jewels worn by the women of that ancient
city, when the Vernal Equinox was in the sign of Taurus.


The Ram.

By deducting 2,150 years from 6,450, we determine that about 4,300
years; ago the Vernal Equinox entered the sign of Aries, and the spring
symbol of solar worship, changing from the bull to the ram, was
represented by ram-headed figures, two of which, found in Egypt, are on
exhibition in the British Museum. Then the text which read the bull of
God, was changed to the Ram of God which taketh away the sins of the
world.


The Lamb.

Ultimately attaching a meek and lowly disposition to the imaginary