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SECRETS OF EARTH AND SEA 



Crete and the other Greek islands. The same culture 



and the same race is revealed 

 to us by the discoveries of 

 Schliemann at Mykenae and 

 other spots in Greece, and at 

 Hissarlik, the seat of ancient 

 Troy. The Mykenaean art 

 seems not to have been trans- 

 mitted to the post-Homeric 

 Greeks, nor to Egypt, nor to 

 Babylonia and Assyria. The 

 Swastika seems, like the " flying 

 gallop" of Mykenaean art, to 

 have travelled in very ancient 

 t I '~~ VaSe A fr m CyprUS times b y a north-eastern route 



ykensean Age, circa. 1200 */* T i 



B.C.); painted with lotus, to the Far East - I have g lven 



bird and four swastikas some account of the latter, with 

 (Metropolitan Museum, New illustrations, in " Science from 



York City). T-. /-,, > o j 



an Easy Chair, Second series. 



Like the representation of the galloping horse, with 

 both fore and hind legs stretched and the hoofs of the 

 hind legs turned upwards, the Swastika is found in the 

 remarkable metal work (Fig. 43 bis) 

 discovered in the necropolis of Koban, 

 in the Caucasus, dating from 500 B.C. 

 The Swastika and the " flying gallop " 

 probably travelled together across 

 Asia to China and the Far East, 

 and so eventually to India on the 

 one hand and Japan on the other FIG. 42. Terra-cotta 

 the Swastika thus escaping alto- 

 gether, as does the pose of the " flying 

 gallop," the Near East and later 

 Greece. This is a very remarkable and interesting 

 association. 



spindle-whorl marked 

 with swastikas. Troy, 

 4th city (Schliemann). 



