Postscriptum
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"The Migration of Symbols", by Goblet d'Alviella, [1894],
p. xxiv
Postscriptum.
At the last moment of going to press I have chanced upon three remarkable variants of the "swastika" which the Count Goblet d'Alviella wishes me to reproduce here. The first is from a sepulchral stone at Meigle in Perthshire, and the second, which is a sinister "swastika", from a Cross at St. Vigeans in Forfarshire.
Both these are illustrated in Stuart's "Sculptured Stones of Scotland". The third is from one of the old Mahometan buildings of the Mo(n)gol period at Lahore.
This is also ignorantly rendered as the inauspicious "suwastika;" and twisted into a legend, which I read as, "ya Fattah", "O Opener, Beginner, Leader, Victorious, Conqueror," and so forth.
Geo. B.
"The Migration of Symbols", by Goblet d'Alviella, [1894],
p. xxiv
Postscriptum.
At the last moment of going to press I have chanced upon three remarkable variants of the "swastika" which the Count Goblet d'Alviella wishes me to reproduce here. The first is from a sepulchral stone at Meigle in Perthshire, and the second, which is a sinister "swastika", from a Cross at St. Vigeans in Forfarshire.
Both these are illustrated in Stuart's "Sculptured Stones of Scotland". The third is from one of the old Mahometan buildings of the Mo(n)gol period at Lahore.
This is also ignorantly rendered as the inauspicious "suwastika;" and twisted into a legend, which I read as, "ya Fattah", "O Opener, Beginner, Leader, Victorious, Conqueror," and so forth.
Geo. B.
