[11] Like the Floating Island or Islands of the Blest. [↑]
[12] “Hid their persons” signifies, according to some commentators, that they died. But certain Egyptian deities were “hidden”; their influence remained: the Japanese hidden deity had a “mi-tama” (soul). [↑]
[13] Eight is a sacred number in Japan. [↑]
[14] See Myths of Crete and pre-Hellenic Europe, pp. 305–9. [↑]
[15] Shinto (1905), p. 90. [↑]
[16] He is the green falcon of the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts. [↑]
[17] The Dawn of Astronomy (London, 1894), pp. 383 et seq. [↑]
[18] Shinto (1905), p. 132. [↑]
[19] The Dragon in China and Japan, p. 137. [↑]
[20] De Visser, The Dragon in China and Japan, pp. 136–7; and Florenz, Japanische Mythologie, Chap. III, p. 33. [↑]