. The testimony of the rocks; . dthe object, originally but one, pictured in each brokenfragment, with various degrees of distinctness, accordingto the various degrees of injury received by the reflectingmedium. Picture^ too, scarce less certainly than languagespoken and written, testifies to the wide extent of the 298 THE NOACHIAiT DELUGE. tradition. Its symbols are found stamped on coins of oldclassical Greece ; they have been traced amid the ancienthieroglyphics of Egypt, recognized in the sculptured cavesof Hindustan, and detected even in the far west, amongthe picture writings of Mexico.
. The testimony of the rocks; . dthe object, originally but one, pictured in each brokenfragment, with various degrees of distinctness, accordingto the various degrees of injury received by the reflectingmedium. Picture^ too, scarce less certainly than languagespoken and written, testifies to the wide extent of the 298 THE NOACHIAiT DELUGE. tradition. Its symbols are found stamped on coins of oldclassical Greece ; they have been traced amid the ancienthieroglyphics of Egypt, recognized in the sculptured cavesof Hindustan, and detected even in the far west, amongthe picture writings of Mexico. The several glyphic rep-resentatives of the tradition bear, like its various writtenor oral editions, a considerable resemblance to each in the rude paintmgs of the old Mexican, the sameleading idea may be traced as in the classic sculpture ofthe Greek. On what is known to antiquaries as the Apa-msean medal, struck during the reign of Philip the elder,we find the^familiar name of Noe inscribed on a floating Fi^. APAM^AN MEDAL. chest or ark, within which a man and woman are seenseated, and to which a bird on the wing is represented asAnd in an ancient Mexican painting, bearing a branch.* * As was common in Bible illustrations published in our own country acentury and a half ago, the old Greek artist has introduced into his medaltwo points of time. Two of the figures represent Noe and his wife quit-ting the ark; while the other two exhibit them as seated within it. AnEnglish print of the death of Abel, now before me, which dates a littleafter the times of the Revolution, shows, on the same principle, the tAvobrothers, represented by four figures,— two of these quietly oflFering uptheir respective sacrifices in the background, and the other two grapplingIn deadly warfare in front. THE NOACHIAN DELUGE 299 figured by Humboldt, the man and woman who survivedthe age of water are shown shnilarly mclosed in a leaf-tufted box, or hollow trunk of a tree; while a giganti
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