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 96
RIT 8i Sometimes the 4 is duplicated, so that it reads eitherupwards or downwards. A correspondent has suggestedthat the circle in fig. 206 represents the round world, andthat the two fours symbolise the passage, Whither shallI go from thy Spirit.? or whither shall I flee from thypresence . If I… … widely distributed is the four-limhcd cross with lines atright angles to each limb, known as the svastika. It isfound in Scandinavia, Persia, India, Mexico, Peru, Greece,Scotland, and in the prehistoric burial-grounds of NorthAmerica, where it appears always to have been associatedwith sun-worship.…
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