. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . Lt siipr. pp. 78, 253, 3cS. Mountain^ The Cone. 929 the lituus. The algebraic sign for infinity 00 is not without asimilarity with the points of these In the Phcenician temple of Golgoi (now Athienou) in Cyprus,a cone of grey stone three feet high was found by Cesnola, whichmust have been the idol-stone of the goddess, and accords withthat of Astarte at Paphos described by Tacitus {Hist, ii, 2). Thesimilar stone found at Gozo is mentioned on p. 927. The conical stone of Astarte at Paphos is thus giv
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . Lt siipr. pp. 78, 253, 3cS. Mountain^ The Cone. 929 the lituus. The algebraic sign for infinity 00 is not without asimilarity with the points of these In the Phcenician temple of Golgoi (now Athienou) in Cyprus,a cone of grey stone three feet high was found by Cesnola, whichmust have been the idol-stone of the goddess, and accords withthat of Astarte at Paphos described by Tacitus {Hist, ii, 2). Thesimilar stone found at Gozo is mentioned on p. 927. The conical stone of Astarte at Paphos is thus given, in thecella of her temple, on a Cyprus coin of thereign of Augustus. (Miinter : Die JiinnnlischeGbttin zu Paphos, tab. iv, i.) Other presenta-tions of this holy stone are given under theheading TJie Dokana, p. 254. The Hittite temple at Mabog had, accord-ing to the Greek writer we call Lucian, acone-like column of great height at each sideof the entrance. These are said to have been emblems of thegoddess of fertility.^ Lakshmi, the female principle, the consort of Siva is sometimesrepresented erect wearing a conical In some Siamese statues of Buddha the skull rises in a conicalform, and the tall, pointed, crown of the king is
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