Moor describes this figure as follows: "The cast is nine inches in height, representing the glorious god of day holding the attributes of VISHNU, seated on a seven-headed serpent; his car drawn by a seven-headed horse, driven by the legless ARUN, a personification of the dawn, or AURORA."
From Picart’s Religious CeremonialsThe fish has often been associated with the World Saviors. Vishnu, the Hindu Redeemer, who takes upon himself ten forms for the redemption of the universe, was expelled from the mouth of a fish in his first incarnation. Isis, while nursing the infant Horus, is often shown with a fish on her headdress. Oannes, the Chaldean savior (borrowed from the Brahmins), is depicted with the head and body of a fish, from which his human form protrudes at various points. Jesus was often symbolized by a fish. He told His disciples that they should become "fishers of men." The sign of the fish was also the first monogram of the Christians. The mysterious Greek name of Jesus, ICq¡S, means "a fish." The fish was accepted as a symbol of the Christ by a number of early canonized church fathers. St. Augustine likened the Christ to a fish that had been broiled, and it was also pointed out that the flesh of that Fish was the food of righteous and holy men. MPH
Late 18th CenturyThe deities Krishna and Radha seated on a platform
Late 18th CenturyThe deities Krishna and Radha seated on a swing with female attendants standing at either side.
Shiva with five heads seated beneath a tree on a tiger skin. At his wife Parvati and the sacred bull Nandi.
18th CenturyA lady receiving a guest, the introduction is made by an attendant.
18th CenturyA lady and a gentlemen in their courtyard, a servant is in attendance
18th CenturyRama and Sita are the seated figures; an attendant at the right and Hanuman, the heroic ape of the Ramayana at the left
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Championed the freedom of the will, as a crucial point in his De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio (1524)"To exist is to change, to change is to mature,to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
- Henri-Louis Bergson