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The Swastika

The Swastika

Wilson, Thomas

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1503023052
ISBN13: 9781503023055
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 29 2014
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.47
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. An English gentleman, versed in prehistoric arch ology, visited me in the summer of 1894, and during our conversation asked if we had the Swastika in America. I answered, Yes, and showed him two or three specimens of it. He demanded if we had any literature on the subject. I cited him De Mortillet, De Morgan, and Zmigrodzki, and he said, No, I mean English or American. I began a search which proved almost futile, as even the word Swastika did not appear in such works as Worcester's or Webster's dictionaries, the Encyclop dic Dictionary, the Encyclop dia Britannica, Johnson's Universal Cyclop dia, the People's Cyclop dia, nor Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, his Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, or his Classical Dictionary. I also searched, with the same results, Mollett's Dictionary of Art and Arch ology, Fairholt's Dictionary of Terms in Art, L'Art Gothique, by Gonza, Perrot and Chipiez's extensive histories of Art in Egypt, in Chaldea and Assyria, and in Phenicia; also The Cross, Ancient and Modern, by W. W. Blake, The History of the Cross, by John Ashton; and a reprint of a Dutch work by Wildener. In the American Encyclop dia the description is erroneous, while all the Century Dictionary says is, Same as fylfot, and Compare Crux Ansata and Gammadion. I thereupon concluded that this would be a good subject for presentation to the Smithsonian Institution for diffusion of knowledge among men. The principal object of this paper has been to gather and put in a compact form such information as is obtainable concerning the Swastika, leaving to others the task of adjustment of these facts and their arrangement into an harmonious theory. The only conclusion sought to be deduced from the facts stated is as to the possible migration in prehistoric times of the Swastika and similar objects.

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