The New York herald., 1920-01-11

| her hold and fell from her seat while the
ram was flying across the strait which
separates Europe from Asia. In memory
of this unfortunate incident the Greeks
called the strait. now the Dardanelles. the
IIellespont.' PhriXus landed safely at
Colchs, at the eastern end of the Black
| Sea- out OF gratitude for his safe deliver
ance he sacrificed the ram, IL being sur
| misable that the ram was grateful also,
and gave the golden fleece to the King
| of Colchis, who hung 1t in the sacred
grove OF Aries (Mars) under guard OF a
sleepless dragon CTyphon, tho Pole
starr"
! Plunket informs us that in the Egyptian
calendars no reference is made to Aries,
but that In Egyptian mythology the i'm
portance of the Ram is fully revealed.
Amen or Amun Ra, the great god of the
| Theban triad, Is often represented with
the head of a Ram. bearing in supplement
| the horns of n Goat. because the sign of
Capricornus had become that of the
| Winter Solstice when the Ram stood for
the vernal Equinox. 1t is curious how.
were typified by the period of rain and
cold, while the warmth of summer was
the state OF the blessed. Even. Jesus
ner5 to goats, drawing upon these old and
we'll known symbols. The Sun. which
enters clothed as the Lamb OF spring.
caves riding upon the Goat of Winter.
The great temple, dedicated to Amen Ra,
at Thebes, which was dedicated to the one
time equinoctial conjunction Of the sun
with d ane 81 sign OF Aries was approaHnen ea,1
headed Sphinxes. At the season OF the
year when Aries specially dominated the
Ecl'ptlc the statue. Of the god Amun was
carried in procession TO the Necropol $,
from which place the constellation Aries
was fully visible. The preparations for
this great festival we're begun before the
full moon next to the Spring. equinox.
and on the fourteenth day of that moon
all Egypt was in JOY over the dominion
of the Ram. The people crowned the Ram
dinary pomp in grand procession and re-
joiced over him TO the utmost. The an
cient Persians. who called Aries "Bara,"
''iS Between 'i 100 and Iioo p. c., when the
Pharaoh Rameses III. dedicated the tenn
pie of Abou Smbel, the sun. when II pene-
trated into tho shrine Of the temple, was
constellation Aries. The Egyptians called
Aries the Lord of the Head"
olcott says that mot only the Egyptians
but all the great civilized nations OF the
East had traditions OF O year beginning
when the Sun and Moon entered the con-
stellation Aries"
Greek ana Roman, Too.
When the Greeks and, eventually, the
Romans entered into possession of Egypt
and desired TO ass mila their Olympian
| worship with the local astronomical curt.
they assimiated the god Jupiter or. Jove
with Aries and pf oduced the far famed
"JupiterT Ammon'; whose Worship thus thus
modified returned 20 the Roman domln-
ions in Europe and produced. in Art, the
well known type or Jupiter head with
rams horns growing from the temples.
The Greeks in their poee ,;b ass9Siatons 9Ss
stellation Aries created the figure OF the
! Apollo Criophoros." or Lamb bearing
Apollo, type OF very great ANTIQUITY as.
vernal equinox had been in the sign OF the
Bun, the same god had been represented,
in Greek archaic art, bearing youn9
ders This figure furnished tho type
| adopted IN later years by the early
Christians as that of their good Shep-
herd The Ptolomaic Eagle which now
sold cons is copied from large brass
coins OF the Greek period In Egypt when
bear. on the other side. n splendid Phidlsn
horns In Egyptian book and tomb paint.
| ing the god Amen-Ra, with the Ram =
head. always had the body colored blue.
had a vast fund of astronomical lore re;
lating TO Aries. which they termed Al
! liamal' and they are evidently well ac-
gualnted with the salient points OF q
Masonic initiation closely akin 70 our
! own, as their candidate, prepared froul
infancy, enters The Arab lodge. LEADING
| the symbolic L"'nb. which Is empioyeu
to illustrate tn, tree successive oblisss-
ticns, In dramatic fashion, afterwards
adornlng the banquet
| There Is curious survival of an anclen,
Arynn term In the English word Ram, ,
VIII ch had originally the Significance =, OF I
! great" elevated" or lifted up" Inc
name OF the Hndoo god, Brahna or
Drama, when II entered the Chaldeann =
tongue, called Aramaic, through ,tne
Peheloi. which is the connecting link
with Sanscrit was turned into "Ab RAM
or Most High Father" already uts
Of Brahms. Ia india