nother Sanscrit legend: "At one time in the history of
the creation an attempt was made by Visvamitra to locate a southern
pole and another bear in positions corresponding to the northern,
this pole passing through the island Lumka or Vadavamukha (Ceylon)"
(Allen, p. 436). Professor Sayce writes: "In early Sumerian days,
the heaven was believed to rest upon the peak of 'the mountain of
the world' in the far northeast, where the gods had their
habitations (_cf._ Isa. XIV, 13) [the mount of congregation in the
uttermost parts of the north], while an ocean or 'deep' encircled
the earth which rested upon its surface." Von Herder referred to it
as "Albordz, the dazzling mountain on which was held the assembly of
the gods, and identified it with the holy mountain of God," alluded
to in the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel XXVIII, 14; and Professor
Whitney quoted from the sixty-second verse of the first chapter of
the Surya Siddhanta, "the mountain which is the seat of the gods"
and from the thirty-fourth verse of the twelfth chapter: "A
collection of manifold jewels, a mountain of gold, is Meru, passing
through the middle of the earth-globe, and protruding on either
side;" commenting on which he says: the "seat of the gods" is Mount
Meru, situated at the North Pole (p. 452).

120 I likewise deeply regret that it is only since the last pages of the
present investigation have been in proof, that a remarkable work,
full of valuable material relating to the universal spread of
pole-star worship and symbolism, was particularly recommended to me
by a distinguished fellow archaeologist. Had I realized before this
the great value of the late John O'Neil's "The Night of the Gods"
(David Nutt, London, 1897), as a compendium, the result of years of
conscientious and painstaking labor, I should have made extensive
use of it and should have been able to make my survey of the ancient
civilizations of the Old World far more complete and my material
more convincing. As it is, I can only warmly recommend the work to
all interested in the present investigation, who will see for
themselves the widely different points of view from which our
respective researches have been carried out but will probably be
struck with the identity of some of our views. I sho