Jan.14] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1890.
greatlyresemblesthe Homeric, is sometimes comparedto a snake,
likethe Norse Midhgardhsormr(" Serpent-of-Midgard," i.e., Earth),
andsometimesto a rope, " and was thencalled ' the rope of the
greatgod'";and,in accordance withthis idea,we find thatthe
solargoat-god Uz is depicted as " watching the revolution of the
solardisk,whichis placed upona table and slowly turnedby means
of a rope."f Thatis to say, this Okeanos-rope, whichincludes the
Oversea in heaven above, by its flowing on turns the sun round
in it and with it. Hence, " the Ship of the Rope " would be the
solar vesselsailing in the all-encircling Okeanos; and, as such,
would he identical with the solar Capricorn. Considering the
Fig.I. Capricorn. (FromBauylonianUranographicStone.)Fig.II. Capricorn. (Froma Euphrateak BoundaryStone.)- Sayce, Kcl.And.Babylonians,116. f Ibid., 285.
% As to the solar Ship,videKoht.Brown,Jun.,Eridanus,Sec.V ; The Lav
of Kosmic Order,Sec.XIX. TheSea-goat.
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