The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . The engraving he gives of the date-palm- horn from Rawlnsonresembles the seven-branched candlestick. His remarks andengravings of another horn or soma, a Sarcostemma,2 are alsovery valuable. Some independent remarks of Prof. Robertson Smiths (not metwith until the foregoing was written) seem to support me. It isvery noteworthy that the details of the capitals of the brazenpillars [Jachin and Boaz] are those of candlesticks or cressets. They 1 Industrial Arts of India, 1SS4, p. 419. Ibid., pp. 429, 431. 95§ T
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . The engraving he gives of the date-palm- horn from Rawlnsonresembles the seven-branched candlestick. His remarks andengravings of another horn or soma, a Sarcostemma,2 are alsovery valuable. Some independent remarks of Prof. Robertson Smiths (not metwith until the foregoing was written) seem to support me. It isvery noteworthy that the details of the capitals of the brazenpillars [Jachin and Boaz] are those of candlesticks or cressets. They 1 Industrial Arts of India, 1SS4, p. 419. Ibid., pp. 429, 431. 95§ The Night of the Gods. [The Number seem to have been built on the model of altar-candlesticks onPhoenician monuments. In most of the Assyrian examples it isnot easy to draw the line between the candelabrum and the sacredtree. The Hebrew pillar-altars had also associations with thesacred tree, as appears from their adornment of pomegranates ; butso had the golden As I seek to identify tree-trunk,pillar, and candlestick, with the Universe-axis, these passages arevery sa
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