248 Dr. Wall on the UJe of Symbols . 
count of the wars of the Gods.* This image of 
Jupiter was not confined folely to the Libyan 
temple, as we find from lome paflages in Hero¬ 
dotus,! an d many remains of ^Egyptian fuper- 
perftition which are (fill preferved.! As Jupiter, 
therefore, was fo frequently worfhipped under 
the form of a ram, or a figure with a ram’s head, 
or at lead wearing the horns of a ram, it is not 
improbable, that the fymbol of this planet was 
taken from thefe images. It might originally 
be the perfedl head of a ram, or only one horn. 
The crofs annexed to it (fee fig. 1. in the ■plate) 
may be an imperfedt remainder of the outline of 
the head of the ram, or with more probability 
we may imagine, that it was originally annexe4 
* Bella canit fuperum : falfoque in Honore Gigantas 
Ponit, et extenuat magnorum Fa£ta Deoruxn, 
EmifTumque ima de fede Typhoea terrse 
Caelitibus feciffe metum, cundtofq dediffe 
Terga fugae: donee feffos Aigyptia tellus 
Ceperit, & feptem diferetus in Oftia Nilus. 
Hue quoque terrigenam venifle Typhoea narrat, 
Et fe mentitis fuperos celafie figuris: 
Duxquegregis, dixit, fit Jupiter; unde recurvis 
Nunc quoque formatus Libys eft cum Cornibus Hammon. 
Ovid. Met. V. 319. 
f Herod. Euterp. 42. 
t See a beautiful engraving from a Medallian, repre- 
fenting Helius Serepis in Mr. Bryant’s Mythology, vol. II. 
PI. 12. and fix prefentations of Jupiter Hammon in Mont- 
fauccn’s Antiquities, PI. 14. Tom. I. 
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