[29] Shinto (1905), p. 172. [↑]
[30] Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, p. 23. [↑]
[31] Shinto (1905), p. 174. Professor Benoy K. Sarkar compares Shiva to Osiris. See The Folk-Element in Hindu Culture (London, 1917), p. 7. [↑]
[32] In Ancient Egypt the mountain that splits when the sun emerges at dawn. [↑]
[33] The tree Sakaki (Cleyera japonica) planted beside Shinto shrines. [↑]
[34] The dance was a gross and indelicate one. [↑]
[35] This rope (shime-naha) is tied round trees at Shinto shrines. At Ise it stretches across a ravine, through which the sun is seen and adored at dawn. The straw is pulled up by the roots. [↑]