Illustrations

God creating the stars. frontispiece Courtesy Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau.	The Precession of the Equinoxes. between 60-61 Courtesy Stefan Fuchs, University of Frankfurt "The internal motion of the cosmic tree," according to North-West Africans. Courtesy Institut d'Ethnologie, Paris.	The ways of the Demiurge during creation. Courtesy International African Institute, London.	Mount Meru, the world mountain, rising from the sea. A. Gruenwedel, Altbuddhistische Kultstaetten in Chinesisch Turkestan, D. Reimer, Berlin, 1912.
The collapse of the hourglass-shaped Meru. A. Gruenwedel, Altbuddhistische Kultstaetten in Chinesisch Turkestan, D. Reimer, Berlin, 1912.	The Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus. between 90-9 1 Courtesy Tall Tree Library, Jenkintown, Pa.	The whirlpool, here called "Norvegianus Vortex." Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus, 1665. The subterranean flow of rivers. Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus, 1665	How Kronos continually gives to Zeus "all the measures of the whole creation." Courtesy C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich between 134-135
[1] [2] The Precession of the Poles. Courtesy Flarnmarion Publishers, Paris. between 142-143	Horus and Seth in the act of drilling or churning. between 162-163 Egyptian Mythology, The Hamlyn Group, Middlesex, 1965.	The "incomparably mighty churn" of the Sea of Milk. A. B. Keith, Indian Mythology, MAR 6, 1917	The simplified version of the Amritamanthana. Courtesy Smithsonian Institution.Press, Washington, D.C
The Maya Codex Tro-Cortesianus presents the same event. Courtesy Akademische Druck. una Verlagsanstalt, Graz	The Mesopotamian constellation of Bow and Arrow. between 216-217 Courtesy Birkhauser Verlag, Basel The Chinese constellation of Bow and Arrow. Courtesy' Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague	The star maps for the celestial globe. Courtesy Cambridge University Press, New York	Drawing the bow at Sirius, the celestial jackal. J. C. Ferguson, Chinese Mythology, MAR 8, 1917
The so-called “Round Zodiac” of Dendera. Courtesy Springer Verlag, Berlin	The Polyhedra inscribed into the planetary orbits. between 222-223 Courtesy C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich	A detailed illustration of the motions of the Trigon of Great Coniunctions. between 268-269 Courtesy C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich	“The shepherd is shown on the left sighting between 272-273 first the pole star.” R. Eisler, The Royal Art of Astronomy, Herbert Joseph Ltd., London, 1946
The Chinese picture illustrates the surveying of the universe. Sir Aurel Stein, Innermost Asia, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1928	A terra-cotta mask of Humbaba/Huwawa. between 290-291 S. Langdon, Semitic Mythology, MAR 5, 1931	Tlaloc, the so-called "rain-god" of Mexico. Courtesy Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz	The movements of the planets Mercury and Saturn. Courtesy Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart
The Egyptian goddess Serqet, or Selket. Courtesy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge A green jasper scarab of Greco-Phoenician origin shows the Scorpion lady. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 3.11.14, New York	The Scorpion goddess in the Maya Codex Tro-Cortesianus Courtesy Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz	The Mesopotamian cylinder seal shows in the upper part the "God Boat." Courtesy Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris between 300-301 The "God Boat" surrounded by the crescent moon, three single stars, and constellations. Courtesy Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris	The "God Boat" in the Maya Codex Tro-Cortesianus. Courtesy Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz
The "God Boat" on the Arabian celestial globe made by Tabari. P. Casanova, Bulletin of the Institut Franfais d'Archeologie Orientale 2, Editions A. & J. Picard et Cie., Paris, 1902	The Pegasus-square, called "l-Iku," with the circumjacent constellations. Courtesy Birkhauser Verlag, Basel between 434-435 The same Babylonian constellation, according to A. Ungnad. A. Ungnad, Das wiedergefundene Para dies, 1923	The same square in the round and rectangular zodiacs of Dendera. A. Ungnad, Das wiedergefundene Paradies, 1923	A calabash from the Guinea Coast, Africa. Courtesy Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Muenster/Westfalen Another calabash from the Guinea Coast. Courtesy Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Muenster/Westfalen
The zodiacal Pisces, as drawn by the Toba Batak of Sumatra. A. Maass, Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 64, 66, 1924-26 A New World picture, described as "composite animal." Courtesy American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C