[638]. One sees upon corresponding representations how the elephant presses into Maya’s head with its trunk.
[639]. Rank: “The Myth of the Birth of the Hero,” translated by W. White.
[640]. The speedy dying of the mother or the separation from the mother belongs to the myth of the hero. In the myth of the swan maiden which Rank has analyzed very beautifully, there is the wish-fulfilling thought, that the swan maiden can fly away again after the birth of the child, because she has then fulfilled her purpose. Man needs the mother only for rebirth.
[641]. Indian word for the rustle of the wind in the trees.
[642]. Means sound of the waves.
[643]. An introjection of the object into the subject in the sense of Ferenczi, the “gegenwurf” or “widerwurf” (Objektum) of the mystics Eckart and Böhme.
[644]. Karl Joël (“Seele und Welt,” Jena 1912) says (p. 153): “Life does not diminish in artists and prophets, but is enhanced. They are the leaders into the lost Paradise, which now for the first time becomes Paradise through rediscovery. It is no more the old dull unity of life towards which the artist strives and leads, it is the sentient reunion, not the empty but the full unity, not the unity of indifference but the unity of difference.” “All life is the raising of the equilibrium and the pulling backwards into equilibrium. Such a return do we find in religion and art.”
[645]. By the primal experience must be understood that first human differentiation between subject and object, that first conscious placing of object, which is not psychologically conceivable without the presupposition of an inner division of the animal “man” from himself, by which precisely is he separated from nature which is at one with itself.
[646]. Crêvecoeur: “Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie,” I, 362.
[647]. The dragons of the Greek (and Swiss) legends live in or near springs or other waters of which they are often the guardians.