Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . is frequently found in rock-carvings ofthe Bronze Age, as well as in Egyptian hieroglyphs,Minoan carvings, &c. At a little distance from thesethere lay two large pendants of jasper, then an axe-head in white jade,^ then another jasper pendant. Allthese objects were ranged with evident intention ensuite^forming a straight line which coincided exactly withone of the diagonals of the chamber, running fromnorth-west to south-east. In one of the corners of thechamber were found loi axe-heads in jade, jadite, and 1 See Revue Archeologique, t. xii., 1865, Fouille
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . is frequently found in rock-carvings ofthe Bronze Age, as well as in Egyptian hieroglyphs,Minoan carvings, &c. At a little distance from thesethere lay two large pendants of jasper, then an axe-head in white jade,^ then another jasper pendant. Allthese objects were ranged with evident intention ensuite^forming a straight line which coincided exactly withone of the diagonals of the chamber, running fromnorth-west to south-east. In one of the corners of thechamber were found loi axe-heads in jade, jadite, and 1 See Revue Archeologique, t. xii., 1865, Fouilles de Ren^Galles. Jade is not found in the native state in Europe, nor nearer thanChina. 63 MYTHS OF THE CELTIC RACE fibrolite. There were no traces of bones or cinders, nofunerary urn ; the structure was a cenotaph. Arewe not here, asks Bertrand, in presence of someceremony relating to the practices of magic ? Chiromancy at Gavrinis In connexion with the great sepulchral monumentof Gavrinis a very curious observation was made by.
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