The Lamb of Christ, found on an altar at Saint Patrick’s Basilica, represents Jesus’s devotion to guiding and leading the Christian people to salvation. In Ancient Greek and Roman pagan traditions, ...

CHRISTIAN APPROPRIATION OF PAGAN SYMBOLS The integration of Christian intellectual and religious life into the Roman world can be seen in a number of different ways: their participation in social ...

Paganism is nature-based and follows ... This is classical mythology and before Christianity, snakes were ancient symbols of feminine divinity, healing, and transformation." Stevi Tsaras, who ...

The other side is filled with Christian symbolism - a figure with a book and a cross, by a fish and a defeated serpent. This stone is not only a 'page-turn' from pagan to Christian beliefs ...