Part 36 (1/2)

Hewitt publishes an interesting drawing (reproduced as fig. 73, _c_), formed ”by the union of the four triangles representing the Southeastern and Northwestern races, who all looked on the mother mountain of the East, whence Indra gets the rain, as their national birthplace, where they became united as the Kus.h.i.+te race, the confederation of civilized man. It represents the Greek cross and the double dorje or thunderbolt of Vishnu and Indra and also a map of the Indian races, as distributed at the time of the union. It also forms, with s.p.a.ces left open for the parent rivers, ... an octahedron or eight-sided figure ... and the angles of the tribal angles form the swastika ... the sign of the rain-G.o.d ..., the great Sar of the Phnicians....” Referring the reader to Hewitt's interesting discussion of this figure with which he a.s.sociates the origin of the swastika, I point out a fact he barely notices, namely that the figure coincides with the description of Mt. Meru, a.s.sociated with four lakes, four rivers, four mythical animals and four guardians (p. 320). It is in connection with the cosmical Middle Mountain that the foundation of an earthly kingdom on the same plan becomes significant and the distribution of races figured by Mr. Hewitt a.s.sumes utmost importance. The representation of the four races by ”tribal triangles,” is of special interest when collated with the Egyptian sign for city or state and the pyramid, the building of which I have several times alluded to as an event facilitating, symbolizing and commemorating the foundation of a quadruplicate state (pp. 220 and 221).

ARABIA.

”In the land of Arabia, of the irrigating and building Minyans and star-wors.h.i.+pping Sabaeans, the land of the Queen of Sheba, or the number seven (sheba) ... a fresh confederacy was formed, to rival that of the Kus.h.i.+te mountain of the East ...” (Hewitt, p. 291).

It is significant that among the Sabaeans the seven-day period prevailed.

a.s.sYRIA.

Seven directions of heaven and earth, seven territorial districts, seven mountains, seven kings, seven-staged towers, seven year and day periods, etc., pp. 328, 348 and 358.

Four-G.o.d cities, square cities, square four-storied towers, four cities, four regions or provinces, four-fold power embodied in king wearing cross, tetrarchies (?).

EGYPT.

Seven cla.s.ses of people, seven districts, seven-day period, pp. 300 and 375.(137)

Quadruplicate division of capital and state, four fields of heaven, p.

372.

Sacerdotal group consisting of 12+1=13 individuals, p. 437.

Division of the country, at one time, into twelve parts (Ast).

CHINA.

Seven Manchurian tribes, p. 302.

Four provinces, four mountains, four seas, p. 286; four cla.s.ses of seven each, p. 292.

At the summit of the present administration in Pekin, Four Grand Secretaries, two of whom are Manchus and two Chinese.(138)

Twelve districts, p. 292.

ANCIENT j.a.pAN.

The ”Seven divine generations,” each consisting of a G.o.d and G.o.ddess.

Four cla.s.ses of people, 24=8 holy quarters, eight great islands.

Imperial council of twelve divided into the higher council of five called Golosew=”Imperial Old Men” and the lower council of seven members termed Waka Tosiyori=”Junior Old Men” (Chambers' Encyclopaedia). The imperial council, with the emperor, thus const.i.tuted the sacred thirteen.

PERSIA.

Seven divisions of Cosmos, seven regions, seven spirits personifying celestial bodies and moral qualities.

Ancient confederacy of Iran consisted of six kingdoms grouped around the central royal province, ”situated under the pole-star,” and called Kwan-iras or Hvan-iratha, ruled by Susi-nag, the original father-G.o.d of the model state identified with the pole-star, Draconis, the serpent (Hewitt, _op. cit._ p. 253), see also Appendix III, list II.

Four-fold rule embodied in king, p. 325. Darius distributed Persian empire into 45=20 satrapies, each including a certain continuous territory (Grote).

GREECE.

Tenos divided into seven quarters, seven divisions of state.(139)