Note 325 — Chapter V · THE MOST PROMINENT FIGURES IN HEBREW MYTHOLOGY.
R. (Russell) Martineau translation
According to Rawlinson this conception came from the Assyrians to the Persians. Put the learned explorer of Assyrian antiquity seems to ignore the solar significance of the winged disc when he says: ‘The conjecture is probable that ... the wings signify Omnipresence and the circle Eternity’ (History of Herodotus, note to I. c. 135, I. 215 of the edition of 1862).