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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 



FI , G ;, f I '" Vase * fr ° m CyFUS times b y a north-eastern route 

 (Mykensean Age, circa 1200 ' 



b.c); painted with lotus, to the Far East. I have given 



bird and four swastikas some account of the latter, with 



(Metropolitan Museum, New illustrations, in " Science from 



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- spindle-whorl marked 



gether, as does the pose of the " flying w f sw ^ s ' Tx0 ^ 



11 „ ,.,. XT t- l j ts. 4th city (Schliemann). 



gallop, the Near East and later 



Greece. This is a very remarkable and interesting 



association. 



