Boas Anniversary Volume; Anthropological Papers Written in Honor of Franz Boas ..
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The latter are, as a rule, easier to deal with than the originals, especially if the letterpress accompanying them assists us with plausible clews.
The twelve horary symbols, denoting either the twelve double hours into which the day is divided, or the twelve months of the year, or the twelve years of the duodenary cycle adopted by certain Central Asiatic nations, such as the Turks,* appear either in the shape of certain cyclical characters denoting them, the so-called ** twelve branches," * or... as the twelve animals representing them, in the following order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Serpent, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Cock, Dog, Pig. The Turks of the seventh and eighth centuries, as we have learned since the discovery of the Old-Turkish inscrip- tions of Mongolia, designated their years by the Turkish names of these animals. Klaproth first drew attention to a metallic mirror containing representations of these "twelve animals" and an unmistakable date showing that the animals could stand in lieu of the Chinese character-symbols (twelve branches) as early as A.D.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The latter are, as a rule, easier to deal with than the originals, especially if the letterpress accompanying them assists us with plausible clews.
The twelve horary symbols, denoting either the twelve double hours into which the day is divided, or the twelve months of the year, or the twelve years of the duodenary cycle adopted by certain Central Asiatic nations, such as the Turks,* appear either in the shape of certain cyclical characters denoting them, the so-called ** twelve branches," * or... as the twelve animals representing them, in the following order: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Serpent, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Cock, Dog, Pig. The Turks of the seventh and eighth centuries, as we have learned since the discovery of the Old-Turkish inscrip- tions of Mongolia, designated their years by the Turkish names of these animals. Klaproth first drew attention to a metallic mirror containing representations of these "twelve animals" and an unmistakable date showing that the animals could stand in lieu of the Chinese character-symbols (twelve branches) as early as A.D.
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