all 'that born alone': this
is the self-created thirteenth or central month; the six twinned months
are said to be those begotten of the gods. They are arranged in their
order, six on each side of the central month, by the leader who dwells
above." A striking analogy to the ideas I detected, as associated with
central rulership, in ancient America, is set forth in Hewitt's statement
that, it was to the one wheel year "that the Hindus likened their
universal monarch, the Chakravarta or king, who sits, like the Kushite
monarch, as the father of his subject tribes, in the central province of
his dominions, and directs his satellites, the rulers of the seasons, who
became the ruling stars of the frontier provinces--the Nakshatra stars--to
turn the wheel (chakra) of time in its yearly round" (_op. cit._ p. 31,
vol. II, see also p. 314.)(147)

The single wheel, without any indication of an utilitarian employment, is
found directly associated with the pole-star in Japan, where, as in China,
the use of the wheel has been known from earliest times. It will be for
Scandinavian archaeologists to enlighten us as to the earliest traces of
the use, by northern races, not only of the wheeled chariot, familiar to
those who named Ursa Major, Thor's wagon, but also that of the mill-stone.
The employment of the latter in the description of the "revolving world
mill-stone through which the waters of the Universe fountain flowed," is a
proof that the Eddas were written by an agricultural people, possessing
advanced methods of grinding or of extracting oil or juice from food
stuffs. The association of the Norse mill-stone with the distribution of
liquid, appearing to indicate that, like the oil-press of ancient India,
the stone-mill of Scandinavia had been employed to extract fluids,
challenges investigation as to the original home of the mill-stone and
chariot of the Eddas.

Personally I am inclined to regard the term "world mill-stone" as a
modernized transcription of the term "axle," and the whole as a rendering
of the archaic idea that "heat was engendered by the revolution of the
Great Bear" and that the axle of heaven was the distribution of vital heat
and vivifying water. I shall await enlightenment as to the relationship of
the Norse tree of the pole and Thor, with the creating fire-drill of Tur,
the father-god; and the connection of the Norse "mill-stone" and fountain,
to the fire-socket and celestial cistern of the Kushites, said t