. Transactions and journal of proceedings . e been found is so far away as Edinburgh Castle,where they have been noticed incised on a rock. The Swastika seen ox the Craigxarget Stoxe. This s\ mbol is a four-limbed figure (the f\ffot f)rgammadion). It was a pagan symbol of good omen and ofgreat antiquity, and was widely spread over most parts ofthe globe. It is frequently employed on the monuments insemi-disguised form with key-patterns and interlacing decora-tion. But in its pure form it is sparingly met with on theScottish monuments and in the early Christian founded upon
. Transactions and journal of proceedings . e been found is so far away as Edinburgh Castle,where they have been noticed incised on a rock. The Swastika seen ox the Craigxarget Stoxe. This s\ mbol is a four-limbed figure (the f\ffot f)rgammadion). It was a pagan symbol of good omen and ofgreat antiquity, and was widely spread over most parts ofthe globe. It is frequently employed on the monuments insemi-disguised form with key-patterns and interlacing decora-tion. But in its pure form it is sparingly met with on theScottish monuments and in the early Christian founded upon the .curviiinear variant occur some-what rarely in Bronze Age decorative and symbolic work bothin Britain and on the Continent. It is found, in its rectilinear 16 X., 59; Archl. CoU. of A,/r ,n„1 Cdllomn,. 11. 17 If 1st. (if fliinhrrhilul. vol. p. 2- I niul ilhistinl idii. 142 Archaic Sculpturings. variant with terminal pellets, on the Craignarget stone (). On a monument at Meigle^^ it occurs as a group of four. Fig. 9—Cross-slab at Craignarget. men placed in swastika form, one hand of each man holdingthe foot of the other, an attitude which indicates the unbreak-able character of the association of each figure with its neigh-bours. This elaborate variant of the symbol seems to symbolizeaptly the four quarters of the earth, each quarter being repre-sented by a man. The four quarters make a complete circle,and therefore all humanity through love and affinity shouldjoin from the four parts and form one inseparable bond ofbrotherhood. IS , vol. xii., p. 425, pis. and ; T^., 304. figs. 318b and 319. Archaic 143 This same idea is doubtless conveyed by the swastika onthe Craignarget stone. The Two Discs. On the cross-slab the discs arc shown, oneon either side of the top limb of the cross, as on the slabat Ardimersav, Islay.^^ The two discs occupy this situationon a cross-slab at Cladh Bhile, Argyle
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