Assyrian or
Syro-Hittite design of the Winged Disk and Tree of Life in an
extremely conventionalized form (Ward, Fig. 1310).
(d) Assyrian conventionalized Winged Disk and Tree of Life,
from the design upon the dress of Assurnazipal (Ward, Fig.
670). (e) Part of the design from a tablet of the time of
Dungi (Ward, Fig. 663). (f) Design on a Cretan sarcophagus from
Hagia Triada (Blinkenberg, Fig. 9). (g) Double axe from a gold
signet from Acropolis Treasure, Mycenae (after Sir Arthur Evans,
"Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult," p. 10). (h) Assyrian Winged
Disk (Ward, Fig. 608). (i) "Primitive Chaldean Winged Gate"
(Ward, Fig. 349). (k) Persian Winged Disk (Ward, Fig. 1144).
(l) An Assyrian Tree of Life and Winged Disk crudely
conventionalized (Ward, Fig. 691). (m) Assyrian Tree of Life
and Winged Disk in which the god is riding in a crescent
replacing the Disk (Ward, Fig. 695) 184

Fig. 26.--(a) An Egyptian picture of Hathor between the mountains
of the horizon (on which trees are growing) (after Budge,
"Gods of the Egyptians," Vol. II, p. 101). (b) The mountains
of the horizon supporting a cow's head as a surrogate of
Hathor, from a stele found at Teima in Northern Arabia, now in
the Louvre (after Sir Arthur Evans, _op. cit._, p. 39).
(c) The Mesopotamian sun-god Shamash rising between the
Eastern Mountains, the Gates of Dawn (Ward, _op. cit._, p.
373). (d) The familiar Egyptian representation of the sun
rising between the Eastern Mountains (the splitting of the
mountain giving birth to "the ridiculous mouse"--Smintheus).
(e) Part of the design from a Mycenaean vase from Old Salamis
(after Evans, p. 9). (f) Part of the design from a lentoid gem
from the Idaean Cave, now in the Candia Museum (after Evans,
Fig. 25). (g) The Eastern Mountains supporting the pillar-form
of the goddess (after Evans, Fig. 66). (h) Another Mycenaean
design comparable with (e). (i) Design from a signet-ring from
Mycenae; (after Evans, Fig. 34). (k) The famous sculpture above
the Lion Gate at Mycenae 188

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Fig 1.--Early representation of a "Dragon" compounded of the
forepart of an eagle and the hindpart of a lio