The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . caul, no doubt helped-on the holy faith in this divine The inscription Lz&ertas which accompanies the cap oncoins would originally have reference to the god Liber, and thePhrygian falling cap may connect itself with the toppled-overmountain (p. 913). Servius, quoting Suetonius, made pileus ageneric term—like our cap—and included in it three differingpriests-caps : the very light apex, that is the pileus which bore thewool-wrapped rod called the apex (virga, lana circumdata et filocolligata i
The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . caul, no doubt helped-on the holy faith in this divine The inscription Lz&ertas which accompanies the cap oncoins would originally have reference to the god Liber, and thePhrygian falling cap may connect itself with the toppled-overmountain (p. 913). Servius, quoting Suetonius, made pileus ageneric term—like our cap—and included in it three differingpriests-caps : the very light apex, that is the pileus which bore thewool-wrapped rod called the apex (virga, lana circumdata et filocolligata in sEn. ii, 683) ; the tutulus, fuzzy with wool, which ran-up in a point, and was worn by the Flamen and his wife ; and the 1 Ad Parthos procul ite pileatos. Martial x, 72. (Aurel. Victor, &rs. 13 ; PaulinusNolius Cartn. xvii, 242.) 2 Solent pueri pileo insigniri nattirali, quod obstetrices rapiunt et advocatis credulisvendunt, siquidem causidici hoc juvati dicuntur : at iste puer pileum non habuit, seddiadema tenuc etc. (Lampridius, Diadiim. iv.) Mountain^ The Cone. 9^5. galerus, made of the hide of victims. The Flamen Dialis alonewore a white galerus. All the Latin words in pil- seem sacred, and partake of theconfusion which tends to envelop archaic divine terms ; so that inwriting of them one cannot say with any confidence : Mea pila est. Here is the drawing of a coin of Thasos,representing the Dioskouroi with stars overtheir conical bonnets. The inscription is saidto be Sdaiov. (Gesner, Mus. Haym. ii, 107.)(See the heading The Dioscures.) Also of aLacedemonian coin with the conical (or bee-hive ?) bonnets of the Dioskouroi ( cabinetcle la Bibliotheque du roi —given in Guig-niauts Creuzer, plate 216). Here we must indubitably fit on the end-less magic caps of the mystic tales which arenow degraded to the folk and fairy Giant Killers cap of knowledge ; themagic cap of Solomon given in the Persian taleto King Bahrain Ghur by the lord of one of the four K
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