The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . Whorls. I HAVE already (p. 649) compared the ancient symbols onthe Trojan whorls to the modern formulae on the Buddhistpraise-machines ; but there is perhaps a closer parallel. Themarkings on many of the whorls bear an almost unmistakableresemblance to written characters. It would be strange indeed ifthese too, should they be ever fully deciphered, turn out to besimilar ascriptions of praise to the supreme heavens-deity. It isalso possible that some of them may be astronomical from this class of
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . Whorls. I HAVE already (p. 649) compared the ancient symbols onthe Trojan whorls to the modern formulae on the Buddhistpraise-machines ; but there is perhaps a closer parallel. Themarkings on many of the whorls bear an almost unmistakableresemblance to written characters. It would be strange indeed ifthese too, should they be ever fully deciphered, turn out to besimilar ascriptions of praise to the supreme heavens-deity. It isalso possible that some of them may be astronomical from this class of whorls bearing what are apparentlyarchaic, rude, ill-formed, characters of writing, there remain severalother marks which seem to me to be symbols attaching to theheavens-worship which this treatise aims at elaborating. I fancythat the World-tree, the Mountain and the heaven-River, already sofully dealt with here (see Index) can also be traced on the whorlsThe illustrations on the opposite page, among others, seem to me tohave reference to the world-tree. Dr. Schliemann has already. bottom. pointed out these trees (Ilios, pp. 367, 383, 413), but I have notbefore found them claimed for the World-tree. The last illustration IO20 The Night of the Gods. \Whorls. 189S, 1S99. 1221 and 1900. 1903. - N , A f^ 2?^
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