Sacred Heart

SACRED HEART - In ancient Babylon, evidenced by its reverence in [Ancient Egypt] One of the sacred symbols of Osiris when he was born again in the arms of his mother Isis as the divine infant. He often is represented holding a heart, or the heart-shaped fruit of the Persea, in one of his hands. [Ancient Rome] See: Bulla; Cupid} [India Vishnu, the Mediatorial god, sometimes wears a heart suspended from his neck.