Fig. 1118.—Sun. Oakley springs.
Fig. 1118 shows various representations of the sun taken from a petroglyph at Oakley springs.
Fig. 1119.—Sun. Gesture sign.
The common Indian gesture sign for sun is: Right hand closed, the index and thumb curved, with tips touching, thus approximating a circle, and held toward the sky, the position of the fingers of the hand forming a circle as is shown in Fig. 1119. Two of the Egyptian characters for sun, the left-hand upper characters of Fig. 1120 are the common conception of the disk. The rays emanating from the whole disk appear in the two adjoining characters on the same figure, taken from the rock etchings of the Moki pueblos in Arizona. From the same locality are the two remaining characters in the same figure, which may be distinguished from several similar etchings for “star,” Fig. [1129], infra, by their showing some indication of a face, the latter being absent in the characters denoting “star.”
Fig. 1120.—Devices for sun.
With the above characters for sun compare the left-hand character of Fig. 1121, found at Cuxco, Peru, and taken from Wiener (h).