The finding of the dragon-sword is dealt with in the next mythical story. [[371]]
[1] Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. X (supplement), p. 34. [↑]
[2] The spirits of disease, decay, destruction, and darkness. [↑]
[3] This phallic symbol had, apparently, like jade, rhinoceros-horn, &c., nocturnal luminosity. [↑]
[4] Transactions of Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. VI, Part III, pp. 455–6. [↑]
[5] For representative versions in various lands, see Andrew Lang’s Custom and Myth (A Far-travelled Tale), pp. 87 et seq. [↑]
[6] Or “Flat Hill of Hades”, the frontier line between the land of the living and the land of the dead. [↑]
[7] In the Ainu story about the man who visited the Underworld and was transformed into a snake, a pine tree, inhabited by a goddess, occupies the spot on which grows the peach tree in this Japanese myth. [↑]