The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . d inJapan, China, Babylon, and Egypt students who knew how to inferfrom the phenomena of the heavens the most important circles ;but such knowledge could at that time scarcely have passed overto the Greeks, or even to Troy [Troja, p. 129). The fact of the finding of the ball in the ruins of the secondcity at Hissarlik, and the other fact that this city belonged to afar back pre-historical time being admitted, I am not in any way concerned here to debate thequestion of the local standardof astronomical knowle
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . d inJapan, China, Babylon, and Egypt students who knew how to inferfrom the phenomena of the heavens the most important circles ;but such knowledge could at that time scarcely have passed overto the Greeks, or even to Troy [Troja, p. 129). The fact of the finding of the ball in the ruins of the secondcity at Hissarlik, and the other fact that this city belonged to afar back pre-historical time being admitted, I am not in any way concerned here to debate thequestion of the local standardof astronomical next illustration is the topof a millstone-shaped whorl,Xo. 1956, on which one mayperhaps see very rude repre-sentations on the flat of suchballs as 1986. The only othersuppositions that occur to meare that they may be separateconstellations, or else that they1956. may be meant for the cakes used in sacrificial banquets to the heavens deity ; the symbolic markingof such cakes being a matter of notoriety everywhere. Thenext ball to be mentioned is 245 of Ilios, with which Dr. ° o ooOoooS o o o o o o o 00
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