Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Scythian () The Scythians were a barbarous nomadic tribe of Indo-Germanic origin living in the region between the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea. The Greek colonists who settled on the northern shores of the Black Sea in the 7th cent. b.c. found the South Russian steppe in their possession. Their name Scythians is first … Continue reading “Scythian”

Scythes in Greek mvthology, was a son of Hercules and Echidna. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

SCYTH See HARVEST. SEA. See under WATERS. Fuente: A Symbolical Dictionary

Scyllius in Greek mythology, was a surname of Jupiter in Crete. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Scyllis in Greek mythology, was a celebrated architect, who was supposed to be the son of Daedalus by a paramour of unknown name. whose father lived at Gortys, in Crete. Many of the buildings in Sicily were attributed to him and his brother Dipoenus. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Scylla in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Typhon and Echidna, or of Neptune and the nymph Cratais. The descriptions of this marine monster are sufficiently striking, though they were never followed in the formative arts. Homer makes her to dwell by a rock which reached to the skies, and whose brow was constantly crowned … Continue reading “Scylla”

Scutum Fidei (shield of faith), a sacred device frequently represented in stone and wood carving, on monumental brasses, in stained glass, and ancient paintings, in which the doctrines’ of the Trinity in Unity and the Unity in Trinity were set forth for the instruction of the faithful The example in the accompanying wood-cut is from … Continue reading “Scutum Fidei”

Scutum SEE POME. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Scutcheon (old form, scouchon; Latin, scutum = a shield), besides signifying an escutcheon, is also an old name for the angles of buildings or parts of buildings, such as window-jambs, etc., but apparently for those only which are greater than right angles. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Scutari, Archdiocese of (SCUTARENSIS) The first known bishop was Bassus (387). The bishops of Scutari were at first subject to the Metropolitan of Salonica, Primate of all Illyricum, but when Justinian I transferred the primacy to Achrida, they became suffragans of the latter see. In the early Middle Ages Scutari was suffragan of Dioclea. From … Continue reading “Scutari, Archdiocese of”