Har-Moad : or the mountain of the assembly : a series of archeological studies, chiefly from the stand-point of the cuneiform inscriptions (1892)
Miller, O. D. (Orlando Dana), 1821-1888, Whipple, Stephen Munson, 1821- · North Adams, Mass. : S. M. Whipple · leaf 176
on of it.That the main line was considered that drawn from north to south,called Cardo, is a matter of some doubt, I believe, but it is notof material consequence to us at present. (c) There were certain doors, or gates, turning on pivots project-ing from the ends, and belonging to the temples,… … MOSAIC AND BABYLONIAN COSMOGONY. 145 the principal line laid down in surveying land was called Cardo ;and it further explains the application of the same term to thenorth pole, the supposed pivot on which the heavens revolved. Thelower extremity of the universe was conceived to turn upon…
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