[12] The Diamond, pp. 55, 56, n. [↑]

[13] She is thus the divine spinner as the god Ptah of Egypt is the divine potter. [↑]

[14] The Syrian Goddess, Strong and Garstang (London, 1913), pp. 71, 72. [↑]

[15] Chicago, 1915, p. 58. [↑]

[16] The Diamond, p. 7. Lesser Fu-lin was Syria, and Greater Fu-lin the Byzantine Empire. [↑]

[17] Ibid., pp. 55, n. 2, 56. [↑]

[18] The Religious System of China, Book I, Vol. I, pp. 277–8. [↑]

[19] Laufer, The Diamond, p. 22 and n. 3, and p. 69 and n. 7. [↑]

[20] Ibid., pp. 68–9. [↑]

[21] Laufer, Chinese Clay Figures, pp. 138, 151. [↑]