The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . al cylinder of Sennacherib exhibits above a sacred treea crowned human torso issuing from a circle which has a birdswing, extended feet, and fanned each side of the central figure anotherbust issues from the wing, giving us atriad. Layard describes it as a wingedfigure in a circle, here represented as atriad with three heads ; and he adds the mythic human figure with the wingsand tail of a bird, inclosed in a circle,was the symbol of the triune god, thesupreme deity of the Assyrians and of the Persia
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . al cylinder of Sennacherib exhibits above a sacred treea crowned human torso issuing from a circle which has a birdswing, extended feet, and fanned each side of the central figure anotherbust issues from the wing, giving us atriad. Layard describes it as a wingedfigure in a circle, here represented as atriad with three heads ; and he adds the mythic human figure with the wingsand tail of a bird, inclosed in a circle,was the symbol of the triune god, thesupreme deity of the Assyrians and of the Persians, their suc-cessors in the empire of the A similar but single figureis given by Mr. Dosabhai Framji in his History of the Parses,apparently as a type of Ahura Mazda. Here is another, and apparently imperfect, symbol which isgiven in the Empire of the Hittites from one ofSchlumbergers terra-cotta seals. I know not whetherit is to be taken for a winged man, or rather a man- .bird ; the reverse of the seal exhibits a gallopingwinged-horse (or mare) with the wings outspread—. a Hittite Pegasus. I add one more, taken from an ancient whiteagate cylinder with cuneiform writing in Ker-PortersTravels (plate 80). Similar figures to the first of these, of which Perrot and Chipiezsay that the god, from the tenor of the inscriptions, cannot be
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