. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . ience had human life begun at the Pole. Theepitaph of Anaxagoras declared that he had unveiled the mysteriesof things and discovered the secrets of the Pole, and to him. isgiven, by Diogenes Laertius, the assertion that in the beginning thestars revolved in a tholiform manner, that is like the doKo^ or domeof an observatory ; he also said it was a motion not utto, under,but Trep), around, the earth ; while at first the pole star alwaysappeared in the zenith, but afterwards acquired a certain
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . ience had human life begun at the Pole. Theepitaph of Anaxagoras declared that he had unveiled the mysteriesof things and discovered the secrets of the Pole, and to him. isgiven, by Diogenes Laertius, the assertion that in the beginning thestars revolved in a tholiform manner, that is like the doKo^ or domeof an observatory ; he also said it was a motion not utto, under,but Trep), around, the earth ; while at first the pole star alwaysappeared in the zenith, but afterwards acquired a certain , although the passage is disputed, used the illustrationof a hat rotating on a mans head. In the late Mr. R. A. ProctorsNew Theory of Achilles Shield, I believe he argued that when theconstellations were arranged, the celestial equator must have beenon, or taken as on, the horizon.* 1 Allens Ao-can Tales, 1889, p. 26. - Rydbergs Tent. Myth., 396. 3 Commentary on the Memoirs on the Seasons of the King Tsu, cited by G. Schlegel,p. 107. VOL. II. 6oo The Night of the Gods. [ The. The Wheel-God. § 15. The Wheel-God.—A well-known Assyrian personage,sometimes depicted upright against a wheel, and sometimes withthe trunk of his body as it were engaged in or issuing from awheel,^ seems to be Dayan-Same, the Judge of Heaven, the Polar deity, Assur, who is without^^^ companion, a real monarch ofv^^^ the Empyrean. He holds abow with which he impels atriple-pointed dart, which darthas been accepted as a symbol ofthe thunderbolt. The rock in-scriptions of Behistun and Per-sepolis are said to show Ahura Mazda thus represented. But thepresentation will, perhaps, prove to have also belonged to theearlier self-subsisting Zervan Akarana, the first principle of allthings ; which produced the dual co-principles Ahura and Ahriman,^and with whom, as Boundless Time, the Greek Kronos must bebracketed. This was long ago indicated by Eudemos {apudDamascius^ ed. Kopp, p. 384) ; and Zervan Akar
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