The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . It will be seen that 1871 shows what must be meant for theright suastika, in rude but cursive form, four times over; that thereare also four crosses, which I take to be a simpler form of the four 1 I have already under the heading of The Palace suggested yet anothertheory which is not without its weight and its attractions ; and it is in no wise incon-sistent with the present considerations. Footprint^ The Suastika. 53 rays of the wheel ; and that the mixed symbol occurs but the foregoing I add four
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . It will be seen that 1871 shows what must be meant for theright suastika, in rude but cursive form, four times over; that thereare also four crosses, which I take to be a simpler form of the four 1 I have already under the heading of The Palace suggested yet anothertheory which is not without its weight and its attractions ; and it is in no wise incon-sistent with the present considerations. Footprint^ The Suastika. 53 rays of the wheel ; and that the mixed symbol occurs but the foregoing I add four examples of the pure right and purereversed suastika, occurring together on the same whorl: 1S79. *f y^^. Near Vishegrad in Bosnia, at Zejeb, a group of masons-marks (?) is cut in the rocks, and excites the wonder of many Among them is the following, which is identical with 1947. rV^ R> the divisions of the globe on p. 162, and resembles the figures onthese whorls. This curved cross or suastika must thus, I inclineto say, represent the cardinal division of the sphere, and thecurvature may be simply spherical ; or, do they represent fourwings ? Not alone that, but may not the angular suastika be amerely stiffened, conventional development of the curved symbol ?But upon this again see The Palace. To these is appended a corresponding example from theBuddha footprints at Amaravati. It is taken from one heel (the 1 J. de Asbuth : Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1S90. p. 2S. 654 The Night of the Gods. \_Buddhd s right?); and the similar pair of suastikas on the other heel areboth right. In fact, of the eleven suastikas nowdiscernible on this pair of footprints, only the one givenhere is
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