THE MYSTIC EYE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 11

THE MYSTIC EYE.

RELATIONSHIP WITH MAORI MARKINGS. (I'jieu OCK OWS COABEBPOKDEKT.) LONDON. November 17. Apropos of an article in the "Morning Post," Dr. Horatio Matthews, ot Ealing Scientific Society, refers in a letter to the peculiar sign on the front of carters' waggons in Scotland, and shows their relationship, among other thing*, with Maori fuce-markings. The sign 011 the carters' waggons, he bays, is a cryptic form of the right and left eyes or circles; and the intervening angles are the compasses. The common variant is the solar disc with several concentric circles, or a seven turned spiral, as in the -Scottish spectacle-sign. "These wheels within wheels, or multiple eyes on one stone,aarte t seen to advantage on the main staircase of the British Museum, in large twofeet discs from the Amaratavi Tope on the Indus. And m the adjoining Stone Age room are the Folkton chalkdrums taken from an ancient barrow, with similar marking, which the Rev. Mr Groemvull pronounced as the mystic eye. If , I remember rightly, he related them to the Mann t. i ings. ~ ~ "Anyway, t)ie> are traceable all over tho world, and as far back Babylonia, in which latter place they were of astronomic import. and secretly numbered.''