. The serpent symbol, and the worship of the reciprocal principles of nature in America . and the chiefest place of glorywas to be near the sun.—{Gomera in Purchas, vol. iii. p. 1137.) It is not necessary to om- purpose to point out the parallelisms be-tween the Mexican notion of nine heavens and those which were enter-tained by many nations of the East. It may be mentioned, neverthe-less, that the Scandinavians not only had nine superior spheres, orheavens, but also nine inferior ones, between which the earth and manoccupied a middle place. In the Voluspa, the prophetess says :— i call to min
. The serpent symbol, and the worship of the reciprocal principles of nature in America . and the chiefest place of glorywas to be near the sun.—{Gomera in Purchas, vol. iii. p. 1137.) It is not necessary to om- purpose to point out the parallelisms be-tween the Mexican notion of nine heavens and those which were enter-tained by many nations of the East. It may be mentioned, neverthe-less, that the Scandinavians not only had nine superior spheres, orheavens, but also nine inferior ones, between which the earth and manoccupied a middle place. In the Voluspa, the prophetess says :— i call to mind nine worldsAnd nine heavens. The giant Vafthrudner also boasts of having seen the nine worlds; andthe dwarf Alvis tells Thor, All the nine worldsHave I travelled through,And every being known. The Prose Edda says: Bad men go to Hela, and from her to Nifl-hel, that is, down to the ninth world. The superior heaven, Gimle, isthe abode of the Supreme Being, and the place to which the good mayaspire.—(See Pigotts Scandinavian Mythology, p. 18.) no AMERICAN ARCH^OLOGICAL Fig. 20.—Stone Pedestal at Uxmal. The above engraving represents a stone seat or pedestal, found byMr. Stephens at Uxmal, in Yucatan, which seems to have been designedto sustain a .statue, after the manner shown in the bas-relief at Palenque.*• It is cai-ved out of a single block of stone, and measui-es three feettwo inches in length, and two feet in height. It seems intended torepresent a double-headed cat or lynx.—(Stephens^ Yucatan, vol. 182.)
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