Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race - Knowledge Rush

CHAPTER II: THE RELIGION OF THE CELTS 61Buddha, 51 it is found sculptured on dolmens in Brittany, 52 andit occurs in rock-carvings in Scandinavia. 53 In Ireland it passesfor the footprints of St. Patrick or St. Columba. Strangest of all,it is found unmistakably in Mexico. 54 Tyler, in his “PrimitiveCulture” (ii. p. 197) refers to “the Aztec ceremony at the SecondFestival of the Sun God, Tezcatlipoca, when they sprinkled maizeflour before his sanctuary, and his high priest watched till hebeheld the divine footprints, and then shouted to announce, ‘OurGreat God is come.’ ”The Two Feet SymbolThe Ankh on Megalithic CarvingsThere is very strong evidence of the connexion of theMegalithic People with North Africa. Thus, as Sergi points [78]out, many signs (probably numerical) found on ivory tabletsin the cemetery at Naqada discovered by Flinders Petrie areto be met with on European dolmens. Several later Egyptianhieroglyphic signs, including the famous Ankh, or crux ansata,the symbol of vitality or resurrection, are also found in megalithiccarvings. 55 From these correspondences Letourneau drew theconclusion “that the builders of our megalithic monuments camefrom the South, and were related to the races of North Africa.” 5651 A good example from Amaravati (after Fergusson) is given by Bertrand,“Rel. des G.,” p. 389.52 Sergi, “The Mediterranean Race,” p. 313.53 At Lökeberget, Bohuslän; see Monteiius, op. cit.54See Lord Kingsborough's “Antiquities of Mexico,” passim, and theHumboldt fragment of Mexican painting (reproduced in Churchward's “Signsand Symbols of Primordial Man”).55 See Sergi, op. cit. p. 290, for the Ankh on a French dolmen.56 “Bulletin de la Soc. d'Anthropologie,” Paris, April 1893.