[19] Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, pp. 156 et seq. [↑]
[20] De Visser, The Dragon in China and Japan, p. 13. [↑]
[21] The modern Omi, Afumi (Aha-humi), “Fresh-water Lake”: Chamberlain, Transactions of Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. X (supplement), p. 45, n. 12. [↑]
[22] That is, the elder brother of her family. He was really younger than herself. [↑]
[23] As the Babylonian Nergal wrested Hades from Eresh-ki-gal (Persephone). [↑]
[24] The so-called “comma-shaped” beads, which represented the claws of tigers or bears, or a cut sea-shell. [↑]
[25] The “Milky Way” by night, also called the “Heavenly River of Eight currents (or ‘reaches’)”. [↑]
[26] The ancient Egyptian Celestial Pool of the Gods. [↑]
[27] Each jewel was eight feet long. [↑]
[28] The “hohi of Heaven”. What “hohi” signifies is a puzzle. [↑]