Do the rays on the Statue of Libertys crown symbolize the seven continents and seas?
Rays of Crown: The seven rays represent the seven seas and continents of the world. http://www.nps.gov/stli/historyculture/statue-statistics.htm The general appearance of the statue?s head approximates the Roman Sun-god Apollo or the Greek Sun-god Helios as preserved on an ancient marble tablet (today in the Archaeological Museum of Corinth, Corinth, Greece) – Apollo was represented as a solar deity, dressed in a similar robe and having on its head a “radiate crown” with the seven spiked rays of the Helios-Apollo’s sun rays, like the Statue’s nimbus or halo. The ancient Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a statue of Helios with a radiate crown. The Colossus is referred to in the 1883 sonnet The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. Lazarus’s poem was later engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903.
