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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Review.
tion , in which , according to Hindoo notions , it should be placed , ancl formed in the manner in which it must have been constructed , with the view of representing the descending or setting Sun , to which it fronts . For the Elephant , or sign of the Solar descent , is placed superior to the Lion ' s feet , or sign of the Solar ascent , —
the feet ofthe Lion symbolising the setting Sim ; above which is placed the Elephant , or emblem of Hades . The shaft of the Tower forms the Linga of the Hindoos , and in all Temples , agreeably to Brahminical notions , the entrance of the Temple constitutes the Bomannee , or consort of Mahadeva Linga : the Elephent placed , therefore , at the entrance of " the Little Steeple , " is a
compound of the Lion , or Sing , the peculiar emblem of the goddess Bomannee , and the Elephant of Indra , —both being essential component parts of Hindoo Mythology . The destroying deity oi Hindoostan is Cal , and his consort is the well-known Calee , who equally gives her name to Calcutta ancl
Caledonia ; her most celebrated temple being erected on a ghaut upon the banks of what is at present called the old Ganges , and Calee-donia , or Calee-dun—implying " Black Calee , " is the precise epithet by which in Hindoostan this destroying Goddess is still recognized . The consort of Calee is Cal , " the destroyer , " ancl at the
termination of the present age , or Calee Yug , that is , the age of Calee , he will , it is imagined by Hindoos , appear riding on a horse . This representation forms tbe tenth Avatar , or Calankee ; and hence the horse is worshipped , and placed under almost every Banyan Tree in Bengal ; ancl constructed exactly in the same shape in which we find the figure upon the western front of the Brechin
Tower . This horse is the destructive deity of the waters , —Calee being the goddess of the Ganges ; and hence the horse , or consort of Calee , appears in the Scottish Calpi , or Celpi , an evil spirit , which , in the shape of a horse , is said to reside in the rivers of Scotland .
But the deity of tbe waters , beneath the shape of a horse , has been , from the remotest periods of antiquity , the emblem of maritime nations . Thus Neptune is fabled to have created the Horse , ancl thus also Dido , the leader of a maritime colony from Phcenicia , was directed by an oracle to establish the City of Carthage on a spot where the head of a horse should be discovered buried beneath the surface ofthe ground ; and the representation of
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Review.
tion , in which , according to Hindoo notions , it should be placed , ancl formed in the manner in which it must have been constructed , with the view of representing the descending or setting Sun , to which it fronts . For the Elephant , or sign of the Solar descent , is placed superior to the Lion ' s feet , or sign of the Solar ascent , —
the feet ofthe Lion symbolising the setting Sim ; above which is placed the Elephant , or emblem of Hades . The shaft of the Tower forms the Linga of the Hindoos , and in all Temples , agreeably to Brahminical notions , the entrance of the Temple constitutes the Bomannee , or consort of Mahadeva Linga : the Elephent placed , therefore , at the entrance of " the Little Steeple , " is a
compound of the Lion , or Sing , the peculiar emblem of the goddess Bomannee , and the Elephant of Indra , —both being essential component parts of Hindoo Mythology . The destroying deity oi Hindoostan is Cal , and his consort is the well-known Calee , who equally gives her name to Calcutta ancl
Caledonia ; her most celebrated temple being erected on a ghaut upon the banks of what is at present called the old Ganges , and Calee-donia , or Calee-dun—implying " Black Calee , " is the precise epithet by which in Hindoostan this destroying Goddess is still recognized . The consort of Calee is Cal , " the destroyer , " ancl at the
termination of the present age , or Calee Yug , that is , the age of Calee , he will , it is imagined by Hindoos , appear riding on a horse . This representation forms tbe tenth Avatar , or Calankee ; and hence the horse is worshipped , and placed under almost every Banyan Tree in Bengal ; ancl constructed exactly in the same shape in which we find the figure upon the western front of the Brechin
Tower . This horse is the destructive deity of the waters , —Calee being the goddess of the Ganges ; and hence the horse , or consort of Calee , appears in the Scottish Calpi , or Celpi , an evil spirit , which , in the shape of a horse , is said to reside in the rivers of Scotland .
But the deity of tbe waters , beneath the shape of a horse , has been , from the remotest periods of antiquity , the emblem of maritime nations . Thus Neptune is fabled to have created the Horse , ancl thus also Dido , the leader of a maritime colony from Phcenicia , was directed by an oracle to establish the City of Carthage on a spot where the head of a horse should be discovered buried beneath the surface ofthe ground ; and the representation of