Calcutta, without its Hebrew derivation being suspected. The four arms of Siva are often represented with appendages like wings; he has _three_ eyes and a _fourth_ in the crescent, obtained by him at the churning of the ocean, as Pâncha Mukhti Siva has four heads. In this god we recognize the description given by Ezekiel, in the first chapter of his book, of his vision, in which he beholds the “likeness of a man” in the four living creatures, who had “four faces, four wings,” who had one pair of “straight feet ... which sparkled like the color _of burnished_ brass ... and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.” It is the throne and heaven of Siva that the prophet describes in saying “... and there was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone ... and I saw as the color of amber (gold) as the appearance of fire around about ... from his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire” (_Ezekiel_ i. 27). “And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace” (_Revelation_ i. 15). “As for their faces ... one had the face of a cherub, and the face of a lion ... they also had the face of _an ox_ and the face of an eagle” (_Ezekiel_ i. 10, x. 14). This _fourfold_ appearance which we find in the two _cherubims_ of gold on the two ends of the ark; these symbolic four _faces_ being adopted, moreover, later, one by each evangelist, as may be easily ascertained from the pictures of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,[465] prefixed to their respective gospels in the Roman Vulgate and Greek _Bibles_. “Taaut, the great god of the Phœnicians,” says Sanchoniathon, “to express the character of Saturn or Kronos, made his image having four eyes ... two before, two behind, open and closed, and four wings, two expanded, two folded. The eyes denote that the god sees in sleep, and sleeps in waking; the position of the wings that he flies in rest, and rests in flying.”