The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric TimesWilson, Thomas
Religion
The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times
Wilson, Thomas
Industries, Primitive; Swastikas; Symbolism
[3] "Des Sciences et Religion," p. 256.
[4] R. P. Greg, "The Fylfot and Swastika," Archæologia, XLVIII, part 2,
1885, p. 298; Goblet d'Alviella, "Migration des Symboles," p. 50
[5] Stephens, "Old Northern Runic Monuments," part II, p. 509; Ludwig
Müller, quoted on p. 778 of this paper; Goblet d'Alviella, "La Migration
des Symboles," p. 45; Haddon, "Evolution in Art," p. 288.
[6] Page 12.
[7] "La Migration des Symboles," pp. 21, 22.
[8] "Le Culte de la Croix avant Jésus-Christ," in the Correspondant,
October 25, 1889, and in Science Catholique, February 15, 1890, p. 163.
[9] Same authorities.
[10] Page 316, et seq.
[11] The native Buddhist monarchs ruled from about B. C. 500 to the
conquest of Alexander, B. C. 330. See "The Swastika on ancient coins,"
Chapter II of this paper, and Waring, "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages," p. 83.
[12] "La Migration des symboles," p. 104.
[13] "Ilios," pp. 347, 348.
[14] Bulletins de la Sociètè d'Anthropologie, 1888, p. 678.
[15] Mr. Gandhi makes the same remark in his letter on the Buddha shell
statue shown in pl. 10 of this paper.
[16] "Ilios," p. 348.
[17] "Lotus de la Bonne Loi," App. VIII, p. 626, note 4.
[18] Archæologia, p. 36.
[19] Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, III, p.
120.
[20] "Lotus de la Bonne Loi," App. VIII, p. 625, note 2.
[21] "Lotus de la Bonne Loi," p. 626.
[22] "Notes on the Religious, Moral, and Political state of India," Journ.
Asiatic Soc. Great Britain, VI, pp. 310-334.
[23] Low, Trans. Roy. Asiatic Soc. of Great Britain, III, pp. 334, 310.
[24] Ibid., p. 299.
[25] Ibid., p. 299.
[26] Low, Trans. Royal Asiatic Soc. of Great Britain, III, p. 310.
[27] Indian Antiquary, II, May, 1873, p. 135.
[28] "Bilsa Topes," p. 17.
[29] "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages," p. 12.
[30] Tenth Congress International d'Anthropologie et d'Archæologie
Prehistoriques, Paris, 1889, p. 474.
[31] Archæologia, XLVII, pt. 1, p. 159.
[32] "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages," p. 11.
[33] See explanation of the Swastika by Mr. Gandhi according to the Jain
tenets, p. 804.
[34] "Ilios," p. 353.
[35] "Alphabetum Tibetarium," Rome, 1762, pp. 211, 460, 725.
[36] Rockhill, "Diary of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet,"
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1894, p. 67.
[37] "Des Sciences et Religion," pp. 252, 257.
[38] Vol. XI.
[39] "La Migration des Symboles," pp. 61-63.
[40] Archæologia, XLVIII, pt. 2, pp. 322, 323.
[41] "Early History of Mankind," p. 257, note C.
[42] "The Book of the Sword," p. 202, note 2.
[43] Burnouf, "Des Sciences et Religion," p. 18.
[44] The two pieces of wood of _Ficus religiosa_, used for kindling fire.
[45] "La Migration des Symboles," p. 63.
[46] Archæologia, XLIII, pt. 2, pp. 324, 325.
[47] "La Migration des Symboles," p. 64.
[48] "Fylfot and Swastika," Archæologia, 1885, p. 293.
[49] "La Migration des Symboles," p. 65.
[50] "Le Dieu gaulois du Soleil et le symbolisme de la roue," Paris, 1886.
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