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Excerpt from The Calendar Plant of China: The Cosmic Tree and the Date Palm of Babylonia In the oldest figuration of the Babylonian sacred tree, the outlines are rough, and the fixed number for branches and offshoots are not strictly observed. The symbolism had not grown as yet to command the icono graphy; but this was only so in the primitive times, and the sacred numbers of seven, or fourteen, or twenty eight. Of twelve or fifteen became afterwards gradually paramount. And, as we are now well aware that the blame-babylonian civilisation was spread to China but some twenty seven centuries or thereabout later than the ancient monuments of Baby lonian culture hitherto known, namely those of Ingash circd 4000 there was consequently plenty of time for the calendaric symbolism to have assumed its developement and have imposedits sway on Art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.