Author: Goblet D'alviella

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-03

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781333166533

Excerpt from The Migration of Symbols One of the most remarkable instances of the migration qfa symbolical type is that afforded by the trash/ion tripes or, as we more familiarly know it, the Three Legs of Man. It first ap pears on the coins of Lycia, circa 480; and then on those of Sicily, where it was adopted by Agathocles, b.c. 317-7, but not as a symbol of the Morning, Mid-day and Afternoon Sun [the Three Steps of Vishnu but of the three-sided, or rather three-ended, or three-pointed [tri quetrous land of Trin-akria, Three Capes, the ancient name of Sicily; and, finally, from the seventeenth century, on the coins of the Isle of Man; where, as Mr. John Newton has shown, in the At/zemum of the roth of September, 1892, it was introduced by Alexander III. Of Scotland, when. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.