Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-16
31.-The Mystery of the Swastika Cross
IA HE Mediterranean or Ihnrtan division

S1.-The Mystery of the SWaStika Cross
TN HE Mediterranean or Ibertan division
OF the Caucasian race had wider
range in early times, and was less
specialized and distinctive type than the
Nordic. 1t is very hard to define its south
ward boundaries from the negro, or to mark
off it's early traces in Central Asia from those
Of early Mongolians.
Wilfred Scawen Blunt says that Huxley
chad long suspected common origin of the
Egyptians and the Dravdians of India, per-
haps long belt of brown-skinned men from
India 20 Spain in very early days"
1t is possible that this "belt' of Huxley's
Of dark-white and brown-skinned men, this
race Of brunet-brown folk, ultimately spread
even farther than India; that they reached
to the shores of the Pacific, and that they
were everywhere the original possessors of
the Neolithic culture and the beginners of
what we call civilization. 1t is possible that
these brunei people are, SO to speak; the
basic peoples of our modern world. The
Nordc and the Monaghan peoples may have
been but northwestern and northeastern
branches from this more fundamental stem.
Or the Nordc race may have been a branch,
while the Monaghan, like the Negro, may
have been another equal and distinct stem
with which the brunet-browns met and
mingled in south China. Or the Nordic peo-
pies also may have developed separately
from Palaeolithic stage.
A Culture That Went Around the World
At some period in human history (see Ell
lott Smiths "Migrations of Early Culture'')
there seems to have been a special type of
Neolithic culture widely distributed in the
world which had group of features so
curious and so unlikely to have been indie
pendently developed in differ lLt regions of
the earth as to compel us to believe that it
was il effect one culture.
1t reached through all the regions inhab-
tied by the brunei Mediterranean race, and
beyond through India, farther India, up the
Pacific coast Of China, and it spread at last
across the Pacific and to Mexico and Peru.
1t was costly culture not reaching deeply
inland.
culture which Elliot Smith called the hello
lithtic culture, included many or all of the
following odd practices; CD circumcision,
CD the very queer custom of sending the
father to bed when a child is born, known
as the couvade, CD The practice of massage,
(4) the making of mummies, 60 megalithic
monuments (e. g. Stonehenge), CD artificial
reformation of the heads of the young by
bandages, CD tattooing, (S) religious asso-
citation Of the sun and the serpent, and CD
the use Of the symbol known as the "sWastl-
ka" for good luck. This odd little symbol
spins gayly around the world 1t seems in
credible that men would have invented and
made a pet of it twice over.
Elliott Smith traces these associated prac-
tees in sort of constellation all over this
great Notwithstanding Ocean-Pacif1c area
Where one occurs most Of the others occur.
They link Brittany with Borneo and Peru.
But this constellation of practices does not
crop up in the primitive homes of Nordic or
Monaghan peoples, nor does it extend south
ward much beyond equatorial Africa.
For thousands of years, from 10000 to
1000 B. c.. such a heliolithic Neolithic cul-
ture and it's brownish possessors may have
been oozng round the world through the
warmer regions of the world, drifting by