[17] Budge, Gods of the Egyptians. Vol. I, p. 203.
[18] De Groot, The Religious System of China, Book I, pp. 216-7.
[19] Ibid., Book I, pp. 28 and 332.
[20] I am indebted to the Abbé Breuil for this information which he gave me during the course of a conversation.
[21] Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I, p. 358. These scarabs have not been found in the early Dynastic graves. Green malachite charms, however, were used in even the pre-Dynastic period.
[22] The Myths of the New World, p. 294. According to Bancroft the green stones were often placed in the mouths of the dead.
[23] Laufer, Jade, pp. 294 et seq. (Chicago, 1912).
[24] Men of the Old Stone Age, pp. 297-8.
[25] Primitive Man (Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VII).
[26] Les Grottes de Grimaldi (Baousse-Rousse), Tome I, fasc. II—Géologie et Paléontologie (Monaco, 1906), p. 123.