[106] Guide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age (British Museum), 1905, p. 8.
[107] Hans Seger, "Figürliche Darstellungen auf schlesischen Gräbgefässen der Hallstattzeit," Globus, Nov. 20, 1897.
[108] Ibid. p. 297.
[109] Homer's ἡμιθέων γένος ἀνδρῶν, Il. XII. 23, if the passage is genuine.
[110] Such as the Greek Andreas, the "First Man," invented in comparatively recent times, as shown by the intrusive d in ἄνδρες for the earlier ἄνερες, "men." Andreas was of course a Greek, sprung in fact from the river Peneus and the first inhabitant of the Orchomenian plain (Pausanias, IX. 34, 5).
[111] For instance, the flooding of the Thessalian plain, afterwards drained by the Peneus and repeopled by the inhabitants of the surrounding mountains (rocks, stones), whence the myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, who are told by the oracle to repeople the world by throwing behind them the "bones of their grandmother," that is, the "stones" of mother Earth.
[112] Such instances as George Guest's Cherokee system, and the crude attempt of a Vei (West Sudanese) Negro, if genuine, are not here in question, as both had the English alphabet to work upon. A like remark applies to the old Irish and Welsh Ogham, which are more curious than instructive, the characters, mostly mere groups of straight strokes, being obvious substitutes for the corresponding letters of the Roman alphabet, hence comparable to the cryptographic systems of Wheatstone and others.
[113] Maspero, The Dawn of Civilisation, 1898, p. 728.
[114] Ibid.
[115] Ibid. p. 233.