The Discovery of Genesis (90 page)

Chapter 10: Tower of United Defiance

1.
Will Durant,
The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942), pp. 224, 225.

2.
Durant, p. 741.

3.
in the earlier calligraphy is seen as
(right half of
), a form of
.

4.
.

5.
. In this ancient writing,
is clearly
flesh
; the
may represent
four
persons holding up
hands
(the males?) and may be comparable with an ancient figure for
all
, written as
, which shows four intertwining, united hands.

6.
Note how this radical for
west
is greatly compacted in this character taken from p. 109
. Compare this with the character
desire, necessary
. The radical
four
receives similar treatment, in
to punish
.