the relative positions of the
sexes, the male element in the Divinity adored came to be represented
as a man instead of as a child, he was Ammon. He was the sun, yet
notwithstanding the fact that he had drawn to himself the powers of the
sun, he was still, himself, only a production of or emanation from the
female Deity Om, Mother of the Gods and Queen of Heaven. She it was who
had created or brought forth the sun.

There is a tradition which asserts that every morning a melodious sound
is emitted from the first named of these two colossal figures as he
salutes his rosy-fingered Mother whom he acknowledges as the source of
all Light and Wisdom. The bodies are described as being "without motion,
the faces without expression, the eyes looking straight forward, yet a
certain grand simplicity occasions them to be universally admired."

The Goddess Disa or Isa of the North, as delineated on the sacred drums
of the Laplanders, was accompanied by a child similar to the Horus
of the Egyptians.(29) It is observed also that the ancient Muscovites
worshipped a sacred group composed of a mother and her children,
probably a representation of the Egyptian Isis and her offspring, or at
least of the once universal idea of the Deity.

29) Jennings, Phallicism.

The following is from Payne Knight:

"A female Pantheitic figure in silver, with the borders of the drapery
plated with gold, and the whole finished in a manner surpassing almost
anything extant, was among the things found at Macon on the Saone,
in the year 1764, and published by Caylus. It represents Cybele, the
universal mother, with the mural crown on her head, and the wings of
pervasion growing from her shoulders, mixing the productive elements of
heat and moisture by making a libation upon the flames of an altar. On
each side of her head is one of the Discouri, signifying the alternate
influence of the diurnal and nocturnal Sun; and, upon a crescent
supported by the tips of her wings, are the seven planets, each
signified by a bust of its presiding deity resting upon a globe, and
placed in the order of the days of the week named after them.

"In her left hand she holds two cornucopiae, to signify the result of
her operation on the two hemispheres of the Earth; and upon them are the
busts of Apollo and Diana, the presiding deities of these hemispheres,
with a golden disk, intersected by two transverse lines, such as is
observed on other pieces of ancient art,