. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . s. The double end to one of the four points of the emblem,which occurs twice on each of the whorls numbered 1872 and 1911,can scarcely be accidental or a mere slip of the hand ; but onemust be slow to build upon this, because the incisions or scratchesare very rude, and also because examples of a mixed emblem, halfright and half reversed, are common. Whether this—and evenwhether the total reversal was due to ignorance, carelessness, ordesign, who shall now say ; but supposing it to be due to design,we may
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . s. The double end to one of the four points of the emblem,which occurs twice on each of the whorls numbered 1872 and 1911,can scarcely be accidental or a mere slip of the hand ; but onemust be slow to build upon this, because the incisions or scratchesare very rude, and also because examples of a mixed emblem, halfright and half reversed, are common. Whether this—and evenwhether the total reversal was due to ignorance, carelessness, ordesign, who shall now say ; but supposing it to be due to design,we may perhaps see in this variety of the suastika (if I may looselyemploy a now convenient term) a combination of the supernaland infernal emblems : or, again—-for it is well-known that thereversed suastika was used as a female symbol—an epicene emblemembracing the male and female duality of most of the primevalcosmogonies.^ I now insert some drawings of this mixed symbol,all again taken from Dr. Schliemanns wonderful Ilios (1880):— i85i. iS6j. 1865. 1866. 1870. .4n ^ -^ dP r£ =51. 1991.
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