BY D. EMBLETOI^, M.D. 



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would not be unreasonable to take both words as expressive of 

 roundness, applied in the one case to an egg, in the other to an 

 eye. The English eye, however, must be traced back to the 

 Anglo-Saxon edge, Gothic augo, German auge, words akin to 

 Sanskrit akshi, the Latin ocidus, the Greek ooro-e; whereas the 

 German JEi, which in Old High German forms its plural eigir, is 

 identical with the English egg, the Latin ovum, the Greek wov, 

 and possibly connected with a/vis, bird." 



The figurative Mundane Egg, in process of incubation, or being 

 protected by the Serpent, which was itself also anciently an ob- 

 ject of worship, has been found represented on an ancient coin of 

 Tyre with the inscription '' Turiorum." It is figured in '' Ce- 

 ramic Art of Eemote Ages," Plate 47, fig. 8 (Maurice after Gro- 

 novius, Yol. I.), by my late friend Mr. J. B. Waring. A copy 

 of the figure of this Phoenician coin representing the Serpent 

 and Mundane Egg, etc., is here given. Woodcut ]N'o. 1. 



Mr. Waring thereon remarks: ''In the Tyrian coins, Nos. 7 

 and 8, the earliest of which is stated to be posterior to the time 

 of Alexander the Great, we see, beside the Serpent and Mundane 

 Egg, and the Serpent and Ambrosial Stone, the Murex shell 

 from which the Tyrian purple dye was obtained, and tlic Palm, 

 an emblem common to the Phoenicians and Jews. Mr. Gliddon, 

 in a very valuable note to Chapter V. in Squiers' ' Serpent Wor- 

 ship,' points out that this symbol of the Serpent and Mundane 

 Egg was not usual among the Egyptians, and lie considers that 



