began to spin around in the dust, and lo! another witch grew
out of it. The piece of bone is the new moon ring that escapes from
the conflagration of the moon—it is Eve's rib. Sandipani, master-at-arms, had been the preceptor of Krishna and Bala-rama, and for his services he requested them to give him his dead son drowned in the sea. Taking up arms they marched against the ocean, but the all compre- hending sea said to them: "I have not killed the son of Sandi- pani, a demon who lives in the sea in the form of a conch shell, seized the boy; he is still under my waters." Krishna plunged into the water, and slew the demon and took the conch shell made of his bones and bore it as his horn; it strengthens the gods and fills demons with dismay; it is the conch shell of Venus, which is the shell of the new moon. It is the Gallar horn of Ragnarok, and the trumpet of the last day. It is the horn Heimer blows under the moon tree; it was the trump of Jericho; it sounds the knell of winter, and wakes the dead in spring, and becomes the nest of a demon under the sea, the serpent guarding the treasure. It was the horn of Amalthea, the goat that suckled Jupiter, who was the Christmas child, the redeemer born at the winter solstice in the
sign of Capricorn, the goat. They are all one the trumpet of the new moon, which is
the conch or shell of Venus. "To thee, O Bard of the borders, I adress myself; mayest thou be advanced by him whose bones were formed of mist in the place where two cataracts of wind mingle together."
(Davies' Mythology, 573.) That is where Adam was born; the two cataracts are the two
forks of the moon. Enchanted dice were made of bones from a graveyard and
used in the games called hucklebones, and knucklebones, used
