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By Count Eugene Goblet d’Alviella

ISBN-10: 048641437X

ISBN-13: 9780486414379

This amazing vintage by means of a global professional at the evolution and migration of symbols explains intimately what a logo is, the way it served a tradition, built or fell into disuse. massive realization is paid to how a number of symbols have replaced in which means and shape in the course of their migrations. one of the configurations mentioned: the triskelion, swastika, caduceus, double-headed eagle, "tree of life," lotus, and various crosses. 161 black-and-white illustrations plus 6 plates.

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48:2 J. C. NESFIELD. Mythology of Fire in the Calcutta Review of April, 1884, p. 375. ^48:3 It is thus the Buddhists have even erected stoupas in the form of the gammadion. (Cf. SCHLIEMANN. Ilios, p. ) ^48:4 SCHLIEMANN. Ilios, figs. 1872, 1911, 1914, 1916. -P. GREG. The Fylfot and Swastika, in Archaeologia, 1885, p. 293 et seq. , p. 302. -P. GREG. Loc. , pp. 307 and 309. ^50:2 LUDVIG MuLLER. Op. , fig. 29. ^50:3 H. GAIDOZ. Le dieu gaulois du Soleil et le symbolisme de la roue. Paris, 1886. III.

1885, p. 298. ^39:3 LUD. MuLLER. Op. --R. P. GREG. Loc. , pl. , fig. --C. A. HOLMBOE. Traces du bouddhisme en Norvege. Paris, 1857, pp. 34 et seq. ^39:4 LUD. MuLLER. Op. , p. 113. ^39:5 Nineteenth Century for June, 1879, p. 1098. ^40:1 ERN. CHANTRE. Recherches archeologiques dans le Caucase. Paris, 1886, vol. , atlas, pl. , etc. ^40:2 LUD. MuLLER. Op. , fig. 3. ^40:3 PERROT and CHIPIEZ. Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquite, vol. , fig. 354. ^40:4 Numismatique de l'ancienne Afrique. Copenhagen, 1860-1862, vol.

Ilios, figs. 1872, 1911, 1914, 1916. -P. GREG. The Fylfot and Swastika, in Archaeologia, 1885, p. 293 et seq. , p. 302. -P. GREG. Loc. , pp. 307 and 309. ^50:2 LUDVIG MuLLER. Op. , fig. 29. ^50:3 H. GAIDOZ. Le dieu gaulois du Soleil et le symbolisme de la roue. Paris, 1886. III. PROBABLE MEANING OF THE GAMMADION. We have seen that most nations represented the sun by a circle. Some, also, have depicted it by a cruciform sign, more particularly the Assyrians, the Hindus, the Greeks, the Celts, etc.

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