. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . observed that 1906 alone gives the object reversed. It wouldalso appear {Troja, p. 126) that the Italian hut-urns give a quadruped Ti-aits. As. Sec. Japan, v, 14 (1S76). WAor/s.~\ Whorls. 1023 as well as a tripod symbol, thus : Sjjjjj^ • ^^ ^^^ t)e the CDrrect position, all such signs may represent primitive altars formedof upright and horizontal great flat stones. There are also a largenumber of other whorls which bear a more complicated symbol,mentioned by Dr. Schliemann as burning altars, or altars with
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . observed that 1906 alone gives the object reversed. It wouldalso appear {Troja, p. 126) that the Italian hut-urns give a quadruped Ti-aits. As. Sec. Japan, v, 14 (1S76). WAor/s.~\ Whorls. 1023 as well as a tripod symbol, thus : Sjjjjj^ • ^^ ^^^ t)e the CDrrect position, all such signs may represent primitive altars formedof upright and horizontal great flat stones. There are also a largenumber of other whorls which bear a more complicated symbol,mentioned by Dr. Schliemann as burning altars, or altars withflames {Ilios, pp. 417, 418, etc.), but these would lead me too farafield. I now proceed to the other distinct category of Mountainwhorls. In these I would propose to see a representationof Mount Chakrawan, the wall of the world, the crystal annularmountain, or rather mountain-range, which encircles the system,and which must also be identified with the Iranian AlbordJ(p. 887). Whorls 1902—of which two other views have been 1902.
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