[8] Legge, The Shu King (Sacred Books of the East), pp. 64 et seq. [↑]
[9] Boats, carriages, sledges, and spiked boots. [↑]
[10] W. G. Old, The Shu King (London, 1904), pp. 36–7. [↑]
[11] Legge, The Shu King, p. 139. [↑]
[12] Legge, Ibid., p. 309. [↑]
[13] The sky is the “dark sphere”, and the mace is therefore a sky-mace. [↑]
[14] Legge, The Annals of the Bamboo Book, pp. 128, 129 (The Chinese Classics, Vol. III, Part 1). [↑]
[15] Legge, The Shu King, n. 5, p. 269 (The Chinese Classics, Vol. III, p. 1). Herodotus tells (Book II, chapter 122) that Pharaoh Rhampsinitus (? Rameses) of Egypt descended to Hades and played dice with Ceres (Isis), “sometimes winning and sometimes suffering defeat”. A curious festival celebrated the event. [↑]
[16] Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels (London, 1814), XVI, 696. [↑]