. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . The engraving he gives of the date-palm- hom from Rawlnsonresembles the seven-branched candlestick. His remarks andengravings of another hom or soma, a Sarcostemma,^ are alsovery valuable. Some independent remarks of Prof. Robertson Smiths (not metwith until the foregoing was written) seem to support me. It isvery noteworthy that the details of the capitals of the brazenpillars [Jachin and Boaz] arc those of candlesticks or cressets. They Imluitrial Arts of India, 1884, p. 419. Il)id-, PP- 429. 431- 958 Th
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . The engraving he gives of the date-palm- hom from Rawlnsonresembles the seven-branched candlestick. His remarks andengravings of another hom or soma, a Sarcostemma,^ are alsovery valuable. Some independent remarks of Prof. Robertson Smiths (not metwith until the foregoing was written) seem to support me. It isvery noteworthy that the details of the capitals of the brazenpillars [Jachin and Boaz] arc those of candlesticks or cressets. They Imluitrial Arts of India, 1884, p. 419. Il)id-, PP- 429. 431- 958 The Night of the Gods. \The N2Lmber seem to have been built on the model of altar-candlesticks onPhoenician monuments. In most of the Assyrian examples it isnot easy to draw the line between the candelabrum and the sacredtree. The Hebrew pillar-altars had also associations with the^ sacred tree, as appears from their adornment of pomegranates ; butso had the golden candlestick.^ As I seek to identify ivee-tntnk,pillar, and candlex//r/t, with the Universe-axis, these passages arevery sa
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