The base of the tree (which is, I would note from a theological perspective,
an entirely pagan tradition) was made up of eight large books, representing the eight nights of Hannukah.
Not exact matches
As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «
entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical
pagan tradition.