temple of the Third Pyramid at Giza. It shows the Pharaoh
Mycerinus supported on his right side by the goddess Hathor,
represented as a woman with the moon and the cow's horns upon
her head, and on the left side by a nome goddess, bearing upon
her head the jackal-symbol of her nome. (b) The Ecuador
Aphrodite. Bas-relief from Cerro-Jaboncillo (after Saville,
"Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador," Preliminary Report, 1907,
Plate XXXVIII). A grotesque composite monster intended to
represent a woman (compare Saville's Plates XXXV, XXXVI, and
XXXIX), whose head is a conventionalized Octopus, whose body
is a _Loligo_, and whose limbs are human 164

Fig. 22.--(a) _Sepia officinalis_, after Tryon, "Cephalopoda".
(b) _Loligo vulgaris_, after Tryon. (c) The position usually
adopted by the resting Octopus, after Tryon 168

Fig. 23.--A series of Mycenaean conventionalizations of the Argonaut
and the Octopus (after Tuempel), which provided the basis for
Houssay's theory of the origin of the triskele (a, c, and d)
and swastika (b and e), and Siret's theory to explain the
design of Bes's face (f and g) 172

Fig. 24.--(a) and (b) Two Mycenaean pots (after Schliemann). (a) The
so-called "owl-shaped" vase is really a representation of the
Mother-Pot in the form of a conventionalized Octopus (Houssay).
(b) The other vase represents the Octopus Mother-Pot, with a
jar upon her head and another in her hands--a three-fold
representation of the Great Mother as a pot. (c) A Cretan vase
from Gournia in which the Octopus-motive is represented as a
decoration upon the pot instead of in its form, (d), (e), (f),
(g), and (h) A series of coins from Central Greece (after Head)
showing a series of conventionalizations of the Octopus, with
its pot-like body and palm-tree-like arms (f). (i) _Sepia
officinalis_ (after Tryon). (h) and (l) The so-called "spouting
vases" in the hands of the Babylonian god Ea, from a cylinder
seal of the time of Gudea, Patesi of Tello, after Ward ("Seal
Cylinders, etc.," p. 215) 180

Fig 25.--(a) Winged Disk from the Temple of Thothmes I. (b) Persian
design of Winged Disk above the Tree of Life (Ward, "Seal
Cylinders of Western Asia," Fig. 1109). (c)