From hence therefore we may observe that these descriptions, the most authentick of any, are neither agreeable unto one another, nor unto the Scutcheons in question. For though they agree in _Ephraim_ and _Judah_, that is, the Ox and the Lion, yet do they differ in those of _Dan_, and _Reuben_, as far as an Eagle is different from a Serpent, and the figure of a Man, Hart, or Mandrake, from three Bars wave. [SN: _The Antiquity of bearing Scutcheons._] Wherein notwithstanding we rather declare the incertainty of Arms in this particular, than any way question their antiquity; for hereof more ancient examples there are, than the Scutcheons of the Tribes, if _Osyris_, _Mizraim_ or _Jupiter_ the Just, were the Son of _Cham_; for of his two Sons, as _Diodorus_ delivereth, the one for his Device gave a Dog, the other a Wolf. And, beside the shield of _Achilles_, and many ancient _Greeks_: if we receive the conjecture of _Vossius_, that the Crow upon _Corvinus_ his head, was but the figure of that Animal upon his helmet, it is an example of Antiquity among the _Romans_. But more widely must we walk, if we follow the doctrine of the _Cabalists_[SN: _Ricius_[4] de cœlesti Agricultura, lib. 4.], who in each of the four banners inscribe a letter of the Tetragrammaton, or quadriliteral name of God: and mysterizing their ensigns, do make the particular ones of the twelve Tribes, accommodable unto the twelve signs in the Zodiack, and twelve moneths in the year: but the Tetrarchical or general banners, of _Judah_, _Reuben_, _Ephraim_, and _Dan_, unto the signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricornus: that is, the four cardinal parts of the Zodiack, and seasons of the year. [4] _Recius_, 1650, 1658, 1669, 1672, 1686. CHAPTER XI Of the Pictures of the _Sibyls_. The Pictures of the _Sibyls_ are very common, and for their Prophesies of Christ in high esteem with Christians; described commonly with youthful faces, and in a defined number. Common pieces making twelve, and many precisely ten; observing therein the account of _Varro_, that is, _Sibylla_, _Delphica_, _Erythræa_, _Samia_, _Cumana_, _Cumæa_, or _Cimmeria_, _Hellespontiaca_, _Lybica_, _Phrygia_, _Tiburtina_, _Persica_. In which enumeration I perceive learned men are not satisfied, and many conclude an irreconcilable incertainty; some making more, others fewer, and not this certain number. For _Suidas_, though he affirm that in divers ages there were ten, yet the same denomination he affordeth unto more; _Boysardus_ in his Tract of Divination hath set forth the Icons of these Ten, yet addeth two others, _Epirotica_, and _Ægyptia_; and some affirm that Prophesying women were generally named _Sibyls_.