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 718
ediseval creduHty believedthat this so-called Asiatic phanton, in whose countrystood the Fountain of Youth and many other marvels, wasattended by seven kings, twelve archbishops, and 365 counts:the seventy-two kings and their kingdoms said to be thetributaries of Prester John may be connoted with… … 700 AECHAIC ENGLAND [CHAP. seventy-two dodecans of the Egyptian and Assyrian Zodiac :these seventy-two dodecans I have already connoted withthe seventy-two stones constituting the circle of LongMeg. Facing the throne of Prester John—all of whosesubjects were virtuous and happy—stood a…
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