. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . h fish; so has that of the twostories which follow ; so, as an illustration, T have copied all thefish which are figured in the sculptured stones of Scotland,together with some of the characteristic ornaments which accom-pany them. It is remarkable that, with the exception of two, all these areswimming from the left to the right of an observer, and that anondescript creature which is often figured on the same stoneswith fish, heads the same way. I take the monster to be a repre-sentation of a water animal, a walrus, by an artist who ha
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . h fish; so has that of the twostories which follow ; so, as an illustration, T have copied all thefish which are figured in the sculptured stones of Scotland,together with some of the characteristic ornaments which accom-pany them. It is remarkable that, with the exception of two, all these areswimming from the left to the right of an observer, and that anondescript creature which is often figured on the same stoneswith fish, heads the same way. I take the monster to be a repre-sentation of a water animal, a walrus, by an artist who had neverseen one. As no explanation has yet been found for the symbols, as fishclearly have to do with Celtic mythology, and as Celtic mytho-logy appears to have been mixed with solar and well worship,it seems worth considering whether these symbols may nothave an astronomical n)eaning. One of the signs of theZodiac is and has been for many a day Pisces; and the symbol isK. The sua passes northwards through the constellation in HOW THE EEN WAS SET LP. 539. the spring, and when the sun isswimming south. South and tosame word in Gaelic— south (deas). The sunequinox ; and one of the emblensists of circles, which still standjoined by two crescents which inmonths, and separated by a line, travelling north the fish arethe right are expressed by theFish swimming to the right arecrosses the equator at the vernalns here associated with fish con-fer the sun in our almanacks ;like manner stand for moons orAnother consists of a circle 340 WEST HIGHLAND TALES. MAR A CHUIREADH SUAS AN FHINN. Bha righ aon uair air Eirinn leis am bu duilich cis a leag na Loch-lannaich air Alba s air Eirinn. Bha iad a tighinn air a riogbachdfhein an am fobhair agus samhraidh gam beathachadh fhein air acliuid, s iad nan daoine calma, laidir; ag itheadb s a milleadh nabha na h-Albannaich s na h-Eirionnaich a deanadh ri bliadhna e fios air combairleach a bb aige s dh innis e dha na bha na
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