. Cadrans de soleil et roses d'hier; les délices de jardin qui sont ici exposés dans toute vérité et sont d'ailleurs considérés comme des emblèmes . Aztec soleil-dialecte serait étonnamment ornemental. Et tout objectqui a une histoire, juste en cela est satisfaisant. Le symbole le plus connu au monde, le symbole le plus connu et, je pense, le symbole le plus fascinant est la croix gammée. Étendu et varié est sa bibliographie. Le compte courant alternatif le plus précis est la monographie de plusieurs centaines de pages préparée et imprimée pour le Museumat national de Washington. Je dois dire qu'il a été envoyé par un homme enthousiaste de scie
1607 x 1555 px | 27,2 x 26,3 cm | 10,7 x 10,4 inches | 150dpi
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. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Aztec sun-dialwould be strikingly ornamental. And any objectthat has a story, just in that is satisfying. The earhest-known symbol in the world, thewidest-known symbol, and, I think, the mostfascinating symbol is the swastika. Extended andvaried is its bibliography. The most accurate ac-count of it is the monograph of several hundredpages prepared and printed for the National Museumat Washington. Of this I must tell that it was sentme by an enthusiastic man of science, who wrote, I believe we have here every existing exponent ofthe swastika in the known world. I had thepleasure of sending to him, in a few hours after thereceipt of his letter, a domestic swastika which wasnot included in the book : a square of an old patch-work quilt; an everyday design found in old farm- Symbolic Designs for Sun-dials 193 houses in New England, where it is named, in atriumph of irrelevance, Bonapartes Walk. Great speculation has been made over the rela-tion between the swastika and the sun, because the. .Aztec Calendar-stone. two signs have been associated by primitive peoples.The sun-symbols of the bronze age were theswastika, the ring-cross, the wheel-cross, indicat-ing the sun-car ; the triskele or three-armed cross ;the S-shape or sun-snake ; in Egypt, the sun-ship. 194 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday In the Kensington Museum is a large bronze trum-pet found in a bog in Wismar, Germany, near theBaltic Sea. It may have been used in sun-worship, for it is covered with borders and ornaments com-posed of these sun-symbols. I would employ as a beautifully symbolic decora-tion for a sun-dial the sun-signs of this Wismar horn.They are simple ; and could easily be stamped witha die, or cut in stone or metal by a very plain work-man. It would be a pretty design and a meaningone, and would serve for pedestal and dial-face.The swastika alone would serve as a sui
