The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . esentation of some such cosmical mythas the Hindu eight oceans surround- ing the central chakra. The seven _ 1S46. Mount Meru form one of the emblemsof the Siamese Buddhas footprint,and the seven annular belts of oceanbetween them form another ; butthere is an eighth, the great, oceanoutside ; the whole system being bounded by the crystal range There need be little doubt, I think, that 1846 givesus thrice the triple fleur-de-lis emblem of the triad of centraldeities (see p. 62). The menti
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . esentation of some such cosmical mythas the Hindu eight oceans surround- ing the central chakra. The seven _ 1S46. Mount Meru form one of the emblemsof the Siamese Buddhas footprint,and the seven annular belts of oceanbetween them form another ; butthere is an eighth, the great, oceanoutside ; the whole system being bounded by the crystal range There need be little doubt, I think, that 1846 givesus thrice the triple fleur-de-lis emblem of the triad of centraldeities (see p. 62). The mention of constellation signs on whorl 1879 leads directlyto what seem without any manner of doubt to be astronomicalsigns on the terra-cotta balls which, it seems hard to deny, representthe heavenly sphere, and foreran our modern celestial globes ;not as what we now call scientific but rather as sacred astrologicalsymbols, it may be even as heavens-idols. The first of these which I present is the ball numbered 1986 inIlios ; of which there are three views. Dr. Julius Schmidt, Director. 1986. of the Athens Observatory, who shows an extreme caution in hisremarks, says : We recognise on the ball 1986 the equator by two parallel 1 Alabasters Wheel of tin Law, 293, 306. 1026 1 he Night of the Gods. [ Whorls. circles, the two arctic circles, and in the arc which stands obliquelyto the equator, the ecliptic ... If the balls were of the year1500 it might be said that at that time there may have lived inJapan, China, Babylon, and Egypt students who knew how to inferfrom the phenomena of the heavens the most important circles ;but such knowledge could at that time scarcely have passed overto the Greeks, or even to Troy [Troja, p. 129). The fact of the finding of the ball in the ruins of the secondcity at Hissarlik, and the other fact that this city belonged to afar back pre-historical time being admitted, I am not in any way concerned here to debate thequestion of the local standardof
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