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elf) that one of the side entrancesthat; namely; on the left in entering from the North (cloister) sideis figured with the signs of the Zodiac EXCEPT that the sign Virgo is replaced by the figure of the Madonna and Child。

So strange is the scripture of the sky! Innumerable legends and customs connect the rebirth of the Sun with a Virgin parturition。 Dr。 J。 G。 Frazer in his Part IV of The Golden Bough'1' says: 〃If we may trust the evidence of an obscure scholiast the Greeks 'in the worship of Mithras at Rome' used to celebrate the birth of the luminary by a midnight service; coming out of the inner shrines and crying; 'The Virgin has brought forth! The light is waxing!' (

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