Sacra Merch

Description: Biblia Sacra

Description: Biblia Sacra Vanitas Vanitatum

Description: Biblia Sacra Adultress Saved

Description: Biblia Sacra Elephants For Sale

Description: Annunciation of Mary Biblia Sacra

Description: Biblia Sacra Nabuchodonosor Rex Babulonis

Description: Biblia Sacra Jesus The Last Temptation

Description: Biblia Sacra He Himself Was Elijah

Description: Biblia Sacra Mary Beneath The Cross

Description: Sculplturae Colocynthidum et florum Physica Sacra. Written by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Illustrated by Johann Melchior Füssli. 17th/18th Century

Description: Biblia Sacra Jesus Walking on The Sea

Description: Biblia Sacra St Peter Standing on a Rock

Description: Biblia Sacra Madonna with grey face and Child

Description: Opus quintae Diei Physica Sacra. Written by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Illustrated by Johann Melchior Füssli. 17th/18th Century

Description: From an original engraving published 1881. Scarab beetles lay their eggs in a pellet which they roll along and the Egyptians saw this action as an image of the sun and its course through the heavens, rolled by a gigantic beetle. Scarabs are associated with the Egyptian god, Khepri because it was Khepri that pushed the sun across the sky. The scarab beetle became an ancient Egyptian symbol for rebirth, the ability to be reborn. Each day the sun disappeared, always to rise again and be reborn the following day. from the middle kingdom onwards scarabs were popular in amulets & other jewellery. The Heart Scarab was often buried with the dead to ensure the rebirth of the deceased in the afterlife Please note with regard to scanned antique...