The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . s. 5 and6 are graffitti from a Jewish cemetery near Carthage ; and No. 7 isJewish, apparently, and is carved on a pillar of the El Kebirmosque of Gazza, as a memorial of one Hanania, son of Jacob,as a Hebrew and Greek title shows. Captain Conder says (Hethand Moab, pp. 276, 2S6) that the seven-branched candlestkkis the commonest house-mark or lucky emblem at the present dayin Jerusalem. Seven.~\ The Number Seven. 957 The Tree of Seven branches on the Babylonian seal representing the temptation of Adam andEve
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . s. 5 and6 are graffitti from a Jewish cemetery near Carthage ; and No. 7 isJewish, apparently, and is carved on a pillar of the El Kebirmosque of Gazza, as a memorial of one Hanania, son of Jacob,as a Hebrew and Greek title shows. Captain Conder says (Hethand Moab, pp. 276, 2S6) that the seven-branched candlestkkis the commonest house-mark or lucky emblem at the present dayin Jerusalem. Seven.~\ The Number Seven. 957 The Tree of Seven branches on the Babylonian seal representing the temptation of Adam andEve, and the tree of life(British Museum) bears anobvious resemblance to thecandlestick and its tripod;though the objects hangingat each side of the trunk are,it would seem, fruits. I have to express my best thanks to Budge for the use of this picture from his Babylonian Life andHistory, p. 156. Sir George Birdwoods chapter on the Eastern art-patternsformed of the knop, or fruit, and flower of the Horn, which hetakes to be the date-palm deserves the investigators
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