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LAMB
A world-symbol of sacrifice :- born in
order to die for human advantage.
"The symbol for lamb in Chinese is composed of sheep and fire, that
is, a sheep on the fire, as though the peculiar appropriation and
destiny of lambs were for sacrificial offerings through fire: idea
not incongruous with the statement of Confucius, that a lamb
constituted an ancient sacrifice of very great importance." - S.
KIDD, China, p. 182.
“In Thebes the reverence for the ram in which the god Amen was
supposed to be incarnate was extended in a modified form to all
rams, and they were held exempt from slaughter, for since the god
had vouchsafed to clothe himself in this form its destruction was a
crime; in other Egyptian cities the animal was slaughtered for food
without scruple." - A. WIEDEMANN, Rel. of Anc. Egyptians, p. 119.
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