The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

192 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
and Great Chief were the only people allowed to
see it. This custom is still extant amongst the
Nilotic Negroes in Africa. I give here two copper
sacred axes which originally belonged to two native
chiefs or priests on the West Coast of Africa (a
and b) ; also some ancient sacred copper axes of
Sacred Axes.
Fig. 70.
the Egyptians (c). In the Stellar Cult it
became one of the Symbols representing Horus.
"
The Great
"
Chief of the Hammer was one of
"
The Cleaver of the Way," " The
his names ;
God of the Double Power, or Double Equinox,"
were other names by which he was known.