ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828060/49546f0e-ce84-4e70-9b40-7107f16ee305/content/unfig_t_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>HE scales used in the Hung ceremony remind us of those employed by Anubis at the Weighing of Souls in the Judgment Hall of Osiris, but Christian tradition also sanctions their appearance. In mediæval lore, St. Michael seems to have had passed on to him the function of weighing the soul, and we constantly find him so depicted. For example, on the West front of the Church of St. Trophine, Arles, he is shown in the act of performing this task, while beneath him a foul demon is carrying away two of the rejected, (a) The date of the work is not later than 1100 A. D. and the Church shows clear traces of having been built by masons belonging to the Comacine Guild, in the form of their usual sign manual, the lion of Judah, the endless knot, and figures making signs, many similar to those used in the Triad Society. In the cloisters the stoning of St. Stephen is shown and two onlookers are making the so-called sign of fire of the Hung Society, thereby indicating their distress. (b)
