. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . o o 0 0 O O 0 0> EMS±±± O O O O O O Q OC 245-. Schmidt declines to deal {Troja, p. 129). On the supposition thatthe ball is meant to represent the Universe, the seven upper zones Whorls.] Whorls. 1027 may be the seven heavens, and the lower the seven hells ; the zonewith dots may (or may not) stand for the starry sphere, and thecentral belt with its mixed suastikas on which I have already dweltmay be intended for the central habitable earth. As the matter-of-fact Horatio says to the dreamy Hamlet, perha
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . o o 0 0 O O 0 0> EMS±±± O O O O O O Q OC 245-. Schmidt declines to deal {Troja, p. 129). On the supposition thatthe ball is meant to represent the Universe, the seven upper zones Whorls.] Whorls. 1027 may be the seven heavens, and the lower the seven hells ; the zonewith dots may (or may not) stand for the starry sphere, and thecentral belt with its mixed suastikas on which I have already dweltmay be intended for the central habitable earth. As the matter-of-fact Horatio says to the dreamy Hamlet, perhaps twere toconsider too curiously to consider so. No. 309 is the top of a vase-cover from Ilios, and here again I think we may admit that thereare reminiscences of zones and constella-tions, with perhaps a pair of rivers ; forI incline to the heaven-river rather thanthe lightning theory of all these the whorl No. 1954 we have alsoastrological signs, and perhaps, as beforepointed out, heavenly mountains. , rude as it is, must in all probabilitybe placed in the same list, and there area variety of others, with which
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