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Their presence is evidence of the homage rendered by the Chaldæans to the stars, and of the faith they placed in their supposed revelations. Further evidence to the same effect is given by the ancient writing, in which the ideogram for king was a star. "The imaginations of the Egyptians were mainly impressed by the daily and annual circlings of the sun.
Shorty shook his head. "I mean, what do you do after . . . " Joe meant, after you'd done pretty well, at least compared to these guys. The bartender said: "Beware of gnawing the ideogram of nothingness: Your teeth will crack. Swallow it whole, and you've a treasure Beyond the hope of Buddha and the Mind. The east breeze Fondles the horses ears: how sweet the smell of plum." "What!?"
From the Chinese ideogram for Sincerity, which is a combination of "Word" and "Perfect," one is tempted to draw a parallel between it and the Neo-Platonic doctrine of Logos to such height does the sage soar in his unwonted mystic flight. Lying or equivocation were deemed equally cowardly.
We have already come across several instances; thus Nin-girsu, the lord of Girsu, has been shown to be a form of Ninib, itself an ideogram, the reading of which, it will be recalled, is still uncertain; and again, Nin-khar-sag has been referred to, as one of the titles of the great goddess Belit.
I, pp. lxvi ff.; and cf. Skinner, Genesis, pp. 43 ff. Cf. Sev. Tabl., Vol. I, pp. 157 ff. Cf. Tabl. VII, ll. 116 ff. The number fifty was suggested by an ideogram employed for Enlil's name. For what then were the Semitic Babylonians themselves responsible?
Suppose you found a Chinese ideogram of course there is no such a one to express the forgotten Celtic culture; and it proved in analysis, to be composed of the signs for twilight, wind, and pine trees; or wind, night, and wild waters; with certain other elements which not the brain-mind, but the creative soul, would have to supply.
They asked him once if any single ideogram conveyed the whole law of life. "Yes," he said; and gave them one compounded of two others, which means 'As heart': the missionaries prefer to render it 'reciprocity. His teaching out of his own mouth we convict him was the Doctrine of the Heart. He was for the glow in the heart always; not as against, but as the one true cause of, external right action.
The compound ideogram expressing the deity signifies 'house of the fish. The word 'house' in Semitic parlance is figuratively extended to convey the idea of 'possessing or harboring. Applied to a settlement, the ideogram would be the equivalent of our 'Fishtown. It is with this same ideogram that the famous capitol of Assyria, Nineveh, is written in the cuneiform texts, and since the phonetic reading for the city, Ni-na-a, also occurs, it is only legitimate to conclude that the latter is the correct reading for the deity as well.
The two phases of the ideogram used in his name the sceptre and the stylus are thus united in the personage of Nusku precisely as in Nabu. On the other hand, the manner in which Ashurbanabal speaks of him reflects the mythological aspect of Nusku. In the religious literature Nusku is the messenger of Bel-Marduk, who conveys the message of the latter to Ea.
The Chinese ideogram denoting "the mysterious," "the unknowable," consists of two parts, one meaning "young" and the other "woman," because the physical charms and delicate thoughts of the fair sex are above the coarse mental calibre of our sex to explain. In the Bushido ideal of woman, however, there is little mystery and only a seeming paradox.
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