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 373
n Micah the idea of Carmel is coupled withthat of a fruitful rod, or a spike of the staff of life : Feedthy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, whichdwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel.^ The word Carmel, according to the recognised authori-ties, means not only… … camel is gimel; and gimel, the third letter of the Hebrewalphabet, is believed to have taken its form from the camelshump. There must therefore have been some peculiar sig-nificance attaching to the camels hump, and if Guildford beequivalent to Camelot, we may perhaps rightly assume thatGil is a…
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