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524 Themis [CH.
Gallic altar 1 in Fig. 147. The thunder and the thunder-god have
Fig. 147.
everything to do with Kratos and Bia, but
have no lot or part in Dike ; hers is the
regular course of the heavenly bodies
symbolized by the rotation of the wheel.
The Paeonians we remember 2 worshipped
the sun in the form of a disk. At the
Daphnephoria 3 , sun and moon and stars
were represented by globes. On the archaic
Greek mirror in Fig. 136 the sun is a rayed
disk with the head of a Kouros. But these
represent rather the stationary aspect of
the sun than his perennial motion, his
ceaseless way. The going of the sun is
drastically represented by the little votive
solar chariot 4 in Fig. 148. The chariot
has six wheels and is drawn by one horse. It contains the
solar disk itself. It is of course the wheel in motion that has
Fig. 148.
power magically to compel the sun to rise. The wheels in
sanctuaries 5 were turned by ropes with the like intent.
1 In the Maison Carree at Nismes. See Gaidoz, Le Dieu Gaulois du Soleil,
Rev. Arch. vi. 1885, p. 187, Fig. 26.
2 Supra, p. 465.
3 Supra, p. 438.
4 Found at Trundholm. Sophus Muller, La Representation solaire de Trundholm,
Antiques Scandinaves, Copenhague, 1903, pp. 303—321 ; and J. Dechelette, Le
Culte du Soleil aux Temps Prehistoriques, in Eev. Arch. 1909, xiv. p. 94. For the
whole subject see Gaidoz, Le Dieu Gaulois du Soleil, in Eev. Arch. 1884, p. 33.
5 See Prolegomena, p. 591.