The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . hink 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 I mustnot now overburden this already too lengthy section of mybook ; referring students
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . hink 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 I mustnot now overburden this already too lengthy section of mybook ; referring students to Dr. Schliemanns own seductive thoughweighty pages. I shall wind up with the important ball or sphere1999 which exhibits the suastika, the world-tree and a host ofconstellations. The ball is represented whole and also in the detailof its eight right spherical triangles. It appears very probable,wrote Dr. Schliemann (Troja, p. 128), that the primitive artistintended to represent on these, as well as on numerous similarterra-cotta balls found by me at Hissarlik, the starry I trust that under the headings, Wheel, Buddhas Footprint,Suastika, and Whorls, I have now presented such a considerablebody of facts of similar tendency as to justify me in ascribing, withsome probability, to the decoration of many of Dr. SchliemannsHissarlik antiquities an origin consonant with an extremely remoteworship of the heavens, the starry spheres, their revolution, and theirgod and gods. The symbolism of a few of the objects may speakto some, of a contemporaneous, or a long prior science of astronomy,which was well advanced. An incredibly ancient and accuratesystem of celestial lore may have vanished, just as the Trojan artof soldering gold to gold without silver or borax is lost (Troja,p. 109) ; but for my part I am content to attribute much of all this T02S The Night of the Gods. [Whorls inexact symbolism to popular faith, to a supremely engrossingbelief in sacred astrology and in the e
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