Pignoria (Lorenzo) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Pignoria was particularly struck by the dignified and pious expression of drawings featuring Japanese bBuddha or Bodhisattva statues with folded and halo – statues in which “the devil seems to have employed the manner of our images in order to impress by his deceptions the souls of the heathen of those lands.
Pignoria’s detection of Egyptian influence in the Far Eastern and American pantheon pointed in a direction that Kircher was to explore throughout his life. . . . Page 115 Figure 12
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Dinesh said:
Pignoria’s detection of Egyptian influence in the Far Eastern and American pantheon pointed in a direction that Kircher was to explore throughout his life. . . . Page 115 Figure 12