. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . 754 The Night of the Gods. \The. worn fragments merely/ In like manner the two-headed (damaged) Hittite eagle at lasili-Kaia (Babelon,p. 198) or at Eyuk- and Boghaz-Keui[Keui or KoT = village ; boghaz = pass]may be the ancestor of the Austrian^^^ Idllii/r^^^ imperial bird. In any case it clearly seemsa dual bird with double body as well astwo heads, and probably conveys the common notion of divineduality merely. The same Austrian spread-eagle may be seen, surrounded byfour elephants, on a gold coin from th
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . 754 The Night of the Gods. \The. worn fragments merely/ In like manner the two-headed (damaged) Hittite eagle at lasili-Kaia (Babelon,p. 198) or at Eyuk- and Boghaz-Keui[Keui or KoT = village ; boghaz = pass]may be the ancestor of the Austrian^^^ Idllii/r^^^ imperial bird. In any case it clearly seemsa dual bird with double body as well astwo heads, and probably conveys the common notion of divineduality merely. The same Austrian spread-eagle may be seen, surrounded byfour elephants, on a gold coin from the collection of Tippoo Sahibin Moors Hindu Pantheon, plate 103. [The Reader must also be referred to the important discussionof the Eagle and the Vermilion Bird under the heading of the FourLiving Creatures, p. 185.] The most primitive shape of the chief god of the Blackfellows,Pund-jel, is that of an eagle-hawk, and he and the antagonisticcrow between them created everything.^ Yehl the god of theNorth American Thlinkeets, according to Bancroft, is a raven orflies in a cranes skin. Odin had his hawk-skin. This raven
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