. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . dgem with fourteen (2 x 7) rays is ex-tracted from Montfaucons Antiquitecxpliqiice (iv, 363). A Roman piece ofsculpture follows which Montfaucon (i,118) calls the youthful Apollo as theSun. If it be the Sun, the solar symbol-ism had then drawn to itself and ab-sorbed the significance of the Sevenrays. Ciampini, in his Vetera Moiiii-metita (part i), says: Publ. Victor inColossosolis,quern Zenodorous Neronidicavit, de quo PHn. (cap. xxiv, ) septennis caput ejus radiis corus-casse tradit. I know of no ot
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . dgem with fourteen (2 x 7) rays is ex-tracted from Montfaucons Antiquitecxpliqiice (iv, 363). A Roman piece ofsculpture follows which Montfaucon (i,118) calls the youthful Apollo as theSun. If it be the Sun, the solar symbol-ism had then drawn to itself and ab-sorbed the significance of the Sevenrays. Ciampini, in his Vetera Moiiii-metita (part i), says: Publ. Victor inColossosolis,quern Zenodorous Neronidicavit, de quo PHn. (cap. xxiv, ) septennis caput ejus radiis corus-casse tradit. I know of no otherexplanation of a seven-rayed Sunwhich approaches in sufficiency thatwhich 1 have here suggested. Weeven find the central Universe-wheel,as well as the seven rays, appropriatedto the Sun—if it be the Sun—in the following design from anEtruscan sculpture, given in Didrons Icouographie Clircticnne ( I cannot imagine how the serious student can satisfy himselfthat such a combination of imagery can ever have begun inSun-worship pure and simple. And we can track the decadent. * Relig. of Sciniles, 46F, 469. Seveii?\ The Nuinhey Seven. 959 idea on into debased mediaeval Christian symbolism. This Lambis also from Didron (fig. 88), who took it from a 13th century manu-script of the Apocalypse in the Arsenal library in Paris. Here therays have become horns ; the seven stars, which are also eyes inthe Apocalypse, have become (as to six of them) actual and impos-
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