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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 324

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with our goose and ghost,Iakchos will thus resolve itself into the Ever-existentGreat Ghost, Spirit, or Breath, and this high symbolism ofthe Goose will perhaps account for its otherwise inexplicableItalian names oca znd papero. In fig. 717 the Z is blazoned on the Eagle of Om-nipotence, the Bird… … 717 head and the disk of the Sun over it.^ The Greek forHawk is hieraXy a word that has much puzzled philologers,but which obviously is hier, sacred or holy to ■—, ak se, theGreat Light. The Latin for hawk is accipiter, a wordcontaining the piter of Jupiter and resolvable into ak sepitar. Great…

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