Myths of China and Japan / with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs

by Donald A. Mackenzie

Axe and hammer gods, [262].

Babylonia, Ainu deities made drunk as in, [330];
as cradle of Bronze industry, [196];
Chinese hill goddess and Ishtar, [269];
Chinese Ishtar in Deluge legend, [151];
Chinese world-giant myth and Tiamat myth, [264];
colonists from, as Kurgan builders, [200];
copper used at early period in, [194];
search for copper, &c., [194];
religious use of copper in, [195];
culture of in Eastern Asia, [202];
jade from Chinese Turkestan in, [202];
Date Tree of Life, [179];
dragon of, and Polynesian dragon, [78];
dragons of, [74];
Ea and Chinese Fu Hi, [275];
Ea and Japanese Hiruko, [351];
eagle god of, and Garuda, [70];
Gilgamesh and Sargon and Chinese Wu, [288];
ideas of, regarding souls, in China, [[390]][240];
Indian makara and “goat fish”, [215];
Ishtar and Chinese goddess, [267];
Island of Blest in, [109];
Japanese Deluge myth and Tiamat myth, [345];
Japanese links with, [333] and also note [2];
Japanese Yomi and Otherworld of, [340];
food of the dead, [341];
Nig-gil-ma of, [245];
Plant of Birth, [335];
Plant of Life, legend of, [99];
Pole Star as god in, [232];
Chinese astronomy from, [232];
precious stones from Chinese Turkestan, [202];
evidences of ancient trade of, [203];
religious use of reeds in, [85] and also note [3];
sea-god of (see [Sumeria]), [30];
Siberia and, [204];
source of Siberian and Chinese mythological monsters, [203];
Tammuz of, and Chinese, [138];
Tammuz story and Japanese, [155];
the Japanese Gilgamesh and, [379];
Tiamat dragon of, [52];
Ea-dragon, [51];
Water of Life in Adapa myth, [132];
ghosts search for food and water, [132];
wide areas influenced by culture of, [387].

Bamboo, moon and, [150];
dragon and, [150].

Barge of Death, [240].

Beads, as Kami in Japan, [343];
children created from, [366];
in Japanese religion (see [Tama]), [337];
sun goddess, [362].

Bear, Ainu and, [355] (see [Great Bear]).

Bird and serpent myths, [66];
in Diamond Valley legend, [128].

Birds, as carriers of souls, [128];
in Diamond Valley legend, [128];
the Thunder-, [162].

Bird souls in China, [150].

Blood-bag myth, [286].