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102 TROY AND ITS REMAINS. [Chap. VI.
Christ, as religious symbols of the very greatest importance
among the early progenitors of the Aryan races in Bactria
and in the villages of the Oxus, at a time when Germans,
Indians, Pelasgians, Celts, Persians, Slavonians and Iranians
still formed one nation and spoke one language. For
I recognise at the first glance the " suastika" upon one
of those three pot bottoms,* which were discovered on
Bishop's Island near Konigswalde on the right bank of
the Oder, and have given rise to very many learned
discussions, while no one recognised the mark as that
exceedingly significant religious symbol of our remote
ancestors. I find a whole row of these "suastikas" all
round the famous pulpit of Saint Ambrose in Milan;
I find it occurring a thousand times in the catacombs of
Rome.f I find it in three rows, and thus repeated sixty
times, upon an ancient Celtic funereal urn discovered in
Shropham in the county of Norfolk, and now in the
British Museum.J I find it also upon several Corinthian
vases in my own collection, as well as upon two very
ancient Attic vases in the possession of Professor Kuso-
pulos at Athens, which are assigned to a date as early,
at least, as iooo years before Christ. I likewise find it
upon several ancient coins of Leucas, and in the large
mosaic in the royal palace garden in Athens. An English
clergyman, the Rev. W. Brown Keer, who visited me here,
assures me that he has seen the P|-j innumerable times in
the most ancient Hindu temples, and especially in those of
Ga'i'na.§ I find in the Ramayana that the ships of king
* Copied in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, Organ der Berliner
Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic und Urgeschichte, 1871, Heft III.
\ Emile Burnouf, La Science des Religions.
% A. W. Franks, Horce ferales, pi. 30, fig. 19.
§ The cut, for which we are indebted to Mr. Fergusson, represents
the foot-print of Buddha, as carved on the Amraverti Tope, near the
river Kistna. Besides the suastika, repeated again and again on the
heels, the cushions, and the toes, it bears the emblem of the mystic rose,
Christ, as religious symbols of the very greatest importance
among the early progenitors of the Aryan races in Bactria
and in the villages of the Oxus, at a time when Germans,
Indians, Pelasgians, Celts, Persians, Slavonians and Iranians
still formed one nation and spoke one language. For
I recognise at the first glance the " suastika" upon one
of those three pot bottoms,* which were discovered on
Bishop's Island near Konigswalde on the right bank of
the Oder, and have given rise to very many learned
discussions, while no one recognised the mark as that
exceedingly significant religious symbol of our remote
ancestors. I find a whole row of these "suastikas" all
round the famous pulpit of Saint Ambrose in Milan;
I find it occurring a thousand times in the catacombs of
Rome.f I find it in three rows, and thus repeated sixty
times, upon an ancient Celtic funereal urn discovered in
Shropham in the county of Norfolk, and now in the
British Museum.J I find it also upon several Corinthian
vases in my own collection, as well as upon two very
ancient Attic vases in the possession of Professor Kuso-
pulos at Athens, which are assigned to a date as early,
at least, as iooo years before Christ. I likewise find it
upon several ancient coins of Leucas, and in the large
mosaic in the royal palace garden in Athens. An English
clergyman, the Rev. W. Brown Keer, who visited me here,
assures me that he has seen the P|-j innumerable times in
the most ancient Hindu temples, and especially in those of
Ga'i'na.§ I find in the Ramayana that the ships of king
* Copied in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, Organ der Berliner
Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic und Urgeschichte, 1871, Heft III.
\ Emile Burnouf, La Science des Religions.
% A. W. Franks, Horce ferales, pi. 30, fig. 19.
§ The cut, for which we are indebted to Mr. Fergusson, represents
the foot-print of Buddha, as carved on the Amraverti Tope, near the
river Kistna. Besides the suastika, repeated again and again on the
heels, the cushions, and the toes, it bears the emblem of the mystic rose,