Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 235
emission was emerging. I am still of the opinionthat this was intended to depict the Fire or Breath of Life,and that the hissing hahits of the Swan and Goose causedthose birds to be elevated into the eminence as symbols ofthe Breath. The word qoose or geese is radically (jhost,which literally means… … Fin. 50,—From Christian Tconography (Didron). came the Earth who produced the mountains, and the sea,and the sky.^ In ths emblem here reproduced Chaos or Abyssus isfigured as the youthful apex of a primeval peak ; at thebase are geese, and the creatures midway are evidentlyseals. The seal is the…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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