Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 54
ric Art.On Plate VI. are given some of these sacred signs,taken from the Industrial Arts of Denmark.M For fullinformation of the theories and particulars concerningthem, the reader is recommended to consult that veryinteresting work, because in these pages it is only possibleto consider them as… … ELEMENTS OE PRIMITIVE ART. 4i signs. The different forms, assumed both in thestraight and curved lined series, represent the variousgods supposed to exist in the sun. The forms shownin Figs. 9 and 10 are called sun snakes. They wereused to symbolize the suns path through the heavens,and also…
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