. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Aztec sun-dialwould be strikingly ornamental. And any objectthat has a story, just in that is satisfying. The earhest-known symbol in the world, thewidest-known symbol, and, I think, the mostfascinating symbol is the swastika. Extended andvaried is its bibliography. The most accurate ac-count of it is the monograph of several hundredpages prepared and printed for the National Museumat Washington. Of this I must tell that it was sentme by an enthusiastic man of scie
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. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Aztec sun-dialwould be strikingly ornamental. And any objectthat has a story, just in that is satisfying. The earhest-known symbol in the world, thewidest-known symbol, and, I think, the mostfascinating symbol is the swastika. Extended andvaried is its bibliography. The most accurate ac-count of it is the monograph of several hundredpages prepared and printed for the National Museumat Washington. Of this I must tell that it was sentme by an enthusiastic man of science, who wrote, I believe we have here every existing exponent ofthe swastika in the known world. I had thepleasure of sending to him, in a few hours after thereceipt of his letter, a domestic swastika which wasnot included in the book : a square of an old patch-work quilt; an everyday design found in old farm- Symbolic Designs for Sun-dials 193 houses in New England, where it is named, in atriumph of irrelevance, Bonapartes Walk. Great speculation has been made over the rela-tion between the swastika and the sun, because the. .Aztec Calendar-stone. two signs have been associated by primitive peoples.The sun-symbols of the bronze age were theswastika, the ring-cross, the wheel-cross, indicat-ing the sun-car ; the triskele or three-armed cross ;the S-shape or sun-snake ; in Egypt, the sun-ship. 194 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday In the Kensington Museum is a large bronze trum-pet found in a bog in Wismar, Germany, near theBaltic Sea. It may have been used in sun-worship, for it is covered with borders and ornaments com-posed of these sun-symbols. I would employ as a beautifully symbolic decora-tion for a sun-dial the sun-signs of this Wismar horn.They are simple ; and could easily be stamped witha die, or cut in stone or metal by a very plain work-man. It would be a pretty design and a meaningone, and would serve for pedestal and dial-face.The swastika alone would serve as a sui