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Originally Posted by Marc
Is even better to have you all doing such a good work around here, Jim 
And, regarding the Wilkinson symbol... he may say what he wants (and I actually happened to know that particular tidbit of information, casually... mainly from YOU mentioning it in a former discussion, by the way), but people will see a Solomon's Seal or a David's Star, there, no matter what.
Which should make us wonder how far we can go regarding ciertainty when trying to extricate the meaning of a symbol appearing in an ethnographic piece from a cultural and historical context that sometimes is as alien to us as in our imagination might be good ole' Cthulhu itself...  |
Extremely well said Marc!!! That is the difficulty of studying symbolism in any case, understanding the context historically at the time the weapon or item was used. Often;
"...discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen,
and thinking what nobody else has thought".
-Albert Szent-Gyorgy
and the Cthulhu analogy is absolutely perfect!
Thank you as always for the kind words, and please visit here more often OK.
Your insight on the weapons we discuss is key to better understanding of them, and the knowledge you share very much part of what we are trying to accomplish.
All the best,
Jim