[1] Some thunder birds are dark as thunder-clouds. [↑]
[2] De Visser, The Dragon in China and Japan, p. 63. [↑]
[3] G. A. Reisner, Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ad-Dêr, Vol. I, 1908, Plates 6 and 7, and Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture, 1917, p. xxi. [↑]
[5] The Norse gods grew old when the apples of immortality, kept by the goddess Idun, were carried away. After the apples were restored, they ate of them and grew young again.—Teutonic Myth and Legend, p. 57. [↑]
[6] De Groot, The Religious System of China, Vol. I, p. 300. [↑]
[7] De Groot, The Religious System of China, Vol. I, p. 295. [↑]
[8] Shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth.—Romeo and Juliet, iv, 3.
Give me to drink mandragora …
That I may sleep out the great gap of time