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The 'Ring with Wings.' - Assyrian Form

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The 'Ring with Wings.' - Assyrian Form.png Showing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the SunThumbnailsThe Ptolemaic idea of the UniverseShowing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the SunThumbnailsThe Ptolemaic idea of the UniverseShowing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the SunThumbnailsThe Ptolemaic idea of the UniverseShowing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the SunThumbnailsThe Ptolemaic idea of the UniverseShowing how the Tail of a Comet is directed away from the SunThumbnailsThe Ptolemaic idea of the Universe

The 'Ring with Wings.' - Assyrian Form

It should, however, be here mentioned that Mr. E.W. Maunder has pointed out the probability that we have a very ancient symbolic representation of the corona [of an eclipse] in the "winged circle," "winged disc," or "ring with wings," as it is variously called, which appears so often upon Assyrian and Egyptian monuments, as the symbol of the Deity.