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I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the highest respect and esteem, your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson. LETTER CLXI. TO MONSIEUR DE REYNEVAL, March 8, 1786 Paris, March 8, 1786. Sir,
The most complicated of all the star-shape figures, like the simplest, takes us to sun emblems, and it seems probable that there is a relationship between the two. Plate CLXI, f, represents four bundles of feathers arranged in quadrants about a rectangular center.
The twin triangles outside the main figure are identical with those in the mouth of modern sun emblems. These same twin triangles are arranged in lines which cross at right angles in plate CLXI, d, but from their resemblance to figure b they possibly have a different meaning.
Confut., fol. clxi., gives the following list of Popes who, up to his time, had called on the Princes of Christendom to direct their arms against the Turks: Urban II., Paschal II., Gelasius II., Calistus II., Eugenius III., Lucius III., Gregory VIII., Clement III., Coelestine III., Innocent III., Honorius III., Gregory IX., Innocent IV., Alexander IV., Gregory X., John XXII., Martin IV., Nicolas IV., Innocent VI., Urban V.
Some men say that the man and woman whom Thakur hid in the cave were Pilchu Haram and Pilchu Budhi and they had twelve sons and twelve daughters and mankind is descended from them and has increased and filled the earth; and that it was in that country that we were divided into twelve different races according to the food which our progenitors chose at a feast. CLXI. Chando and His Wife.
This symbol, however, is not always used as that of the sun, for in the Oraibi Powalawû there is an altar in which a sand picture of the sun has the form of a four-pointed star. The former of these sun symbols is not found on Sikyatki pottery, but there is one picture which closely resembles the latter. This occurs on the bowl illustrated in plate CLXI, c.
A spiral line with round spots at intervals adorns the specimen shown in plate CLXI, a. Parallel lines with similar spots appear on the vessel illustrated in plate CLXII, e, and a network of the same is shown in f of the same plate. Plate CLXVII, b, represents a compound star. While simple swasticas are not found on any of the Sikyatki pottery, modified and compound forms are well represented.
CLXI. TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday morning Dear master, It is not staying in Paris that wears me out, but the series of misfortunes that I have had during the last eight months! I am not working too much, for what would become of me without work? However, it is very hard for me to be reasonable. I am overwhelmed by a black melancholy, which returns a propos of everything and nothing, many times a day.
The sand picture of the sun which is made at that time is in its essentials identical with the design on the food bowl illustrated in plate CLXI, c; consequently it is possible that this star emblem represents the sun, and the occurrence of the eight triangles in the rim, replaced in the modern altar by four concentric bands of differently colored sands, adds weight to this conclusion.
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