1890.] Fimch-marhed coins of Iliiidusfan, 209 
18. Crescent on a filler, with a ‘Taurine ’ on each side. Fig. 179. 
This is a very interesting symbol, as exhibiting the relationship or 
transition between Planet worship and Nature worship or Sivaism. 
The crescent may either represent the moon, viewed simply as a pla- 
netary object of worship, or as a symbol of the moist or female principle 
in nature, and as such carried on the forehead of Siva (as on the gold 
coins of Vasu Feva) in right of his consort or salcti. The pillar is 
of course an emblem of Mahadev, Siva or Okro and as such may bo also 
regarded as equally a solar emblem, the sun, the great vivifying power 
in nature being the prototype of that deity, while the ‘ Taurine ’ is 
simply a different expression of the same idea. Among other facts well- 
known but little dwelt on by modern Hierophants is that Solomon 
erected in front of the temple, dedicated to the national God of the Jews, 
two pillars, which have been the source of much perplexity, not to say 
sorrow in the breasts of the orthodox, and it seems to me by no means 
improbable that Symbol 18 essentially represents one of these pillars. 
Whether the two were precisely alike, we do not know, but from their 
possessing different names, it is probable there were corresponding 
though perhaps slight differences between them. On the left stood 
‘ Boaz’ a word indicating ^strength,’ and there can be no possible hesita- 
tion in identifying a pillar thus named with the emblem of Baal or 
Mahadev. The pillar on the right was ‘ JacMn ’ one of whose meanings 
(to choose the least offensive one) is ‘stability' which is a feminine 
attribute, attaching, equally with fertility, to mother earth the great 
proto-parent of all. The present symbol exactly represents the idea 
sought to bo perpetuated by Solomon’s “ Boaz and Jachin,” and those 
celebrated pillars may therefore have been similar and paired, to re- 
present the equality of the male and female principles in Nature, or 
may have slightly differed from each other as their different, and very 
symbolical names suggest their having done. 
The two ‘ Taurines ’ in the present symbol are mere repetitions of 
the idea embodied in the central pillar. 
19. Four ‘Taurines ’ united together in cruciform fashion. Fig. 161. 
This symbol is a mere variant of No. 64, (fig. 160) only in this case 
four ‘ Taurines ' are united in place of two. It is a common nature- 
worship symbol on these coins. 
In the catalogue of Greek and Scythic coins in the British Museum, 
PI. XXVIII, fig. 16, on a coin of Hooerkes, Okro, (that is, Mahadev or 
Siva) is represented caiTying a wheel, which is an unusual symbol on 
these coins, but clearly points to the solar attributes of the god. 
Another peculiarity of Okro on these coins is, that where ho is repre- 
