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... is a first reconnaissance of a realm well-nigh unexplored and uncharted. From whichever way one enters it, one is caught in the same bewildering circular complexity, as in a labyrinth, for it has no deductive order in the abstract sense, but instead resembles an organism tightly closed in itself, or even better, a monumental "Art of ... of myth, which was astronomy- the Royal Science. This obliviousness is itself a recent turn of events- barely a century old. Today expert philologists tell us that Saturn and Jupiter are names of vague deities, subterranean or atmospheric, superimposed on the planets at a "late" period; they neatly sort out folk origins and "late" ...
... . Lethaby's book, but I see he also treats of others of the subjects of this Inquiry, such as the four-square Earth, the Centre of the Earth, the Labyrinth, the Gate, and so on. Having obtained his book at such a late period of my own work I regret that I have been unable to use it ... here we met-some ten or Twelve of us. The Twelve here are doubtless the celestial or zodiacal twelve round the Axis and the Table of the heavens. The temple of Jupiter on the capitol at Rome replaced, so tradition said, the sacred oak of Romulus.96 An Etruscan inscription showed the antiquity of another oak on the Vatican hill ...
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