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The lost language of symbolism : an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies (1912)

Bayley, Harold · New York : Barnes & Noble · leaf 151

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370 371 372 373 the spokes and the Perfect One was regarded as both centreand circumference.* The simplest form of Sun Wheel or the ExcellentWheel of Good Law is a circle quartered into four seg- <£^^ … ments. In figs. 375 and 376 this idea is seen somewhatelaborated, and we shall meet later with other forms, someinfinitely more complex. Underneath fig. 379 is a capital B, and at times thissacred initial was, like Y, employed as a separate symbol.The letter B stood for Brahma, the Breath of all…

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