. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . tus, inhis Travels in Chaldea (1857), says that scratched upon the edgeof one object found at Warka were the characters </ l*^*^! I I. which approach nearer to the Himyaric than any with which Iam acquainted (p. 226). But when, four years later than Ilios, Dr. Schliemann againmentions in Troja (1884) the sign jJJ it is inverted and slightlyaltered, as TTT and the signs on the hut-urns (which I have notseen) found at Marino, as above, and i;i tombs near Corneto, are given as STTtTP • I11 this latter, as
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . tus, inhis Travels in Chaldea (1857), says that scratched upon the edgeof one object found at Warka were the characters </ l*^*^! I I. which approach nearer to the Himyaric than any with which Iam acquainted (p. 226). But when, four years later than Ilios, Dr. Schliemann againmentions in Troja (1884) the sign jJJ it is inverted and slightlyaltered, as TTT and the signs on the hut-urns (which I have notseen) found at Marino, as above, and i;i tombs near Corneto, are given as STTtTP • I11 this latter, as a Hittite glyph, some scholars have, says Prof Sayce, seen a chair—a tripod, a three-legged stool in fact. Of course, if the sign is to be looked at inthis way—and the amulet (if it be one) No. 1408, when suspended,would tell in that direction—the Mountain theory must be dropped ;and in that case another class of similar marks, with than threeupright strokes, claim attention. I here give the majority of with four uprights is already seen on 1912, and it will be. observed that 1906 alone gives the object reversed. It wouldalso appear {Troja, p. 126) that the Italian hut-urns give a quadruped Ti-aits. As. Sec. Japan, v, 14 (1S76). WAor/s.~\ Whorls. 1023 as well as a tripod symbol, thus : Sjjjjj^ • ^^ ^^^ t)e the CDrrect position, all such signs may represent primitive altars formedof upright and horizontal great flat stones. There are also a largenumber of other whorls which bear a more complicated symbol,mentioned by Dr. Schliemann as burning altars, or altars withflames {Ilios, pp. 417, 418, etc.), but these would lead me too farafield. I now proceed to the other distinct category of Mountainwhorls. In these I would propose to see a representationof Mount Chakrawan, the wall of the world, the crystal annularmountain, or rather mountain-range, which encircles the system,and which must also be identified with the Iranian AlbordJ(p. 887). Whorls 1902—of
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