Water of Life, Alexander’s search for, [125];
body moistures and, [159];
Chinese and Japanese search for, [138];
dew as, [139];
dragons and, [75], [159];
Hawaiian story of, [120];
Gaelic story of, [120];
in Chinese Island of Blest, [110];
in Egyptian Paradise, [133];
in Fung-shui doctrine, [234];
in Taoism, [302], [317], [321];
in various Paradises, [129];
in Babylonian myth, [132];
lunar pot of, [187];
lunar source of, [183];
Pot and, [246];
South Sea Island tradition of, [121];
tear from goddess star, [184];
Siberian wells, [204];
lunar, [145];
purple, [140];
see [Well of Life].
Water snakes and dragons, [54].
Wealth, religious incentive to quest of, [45].
Well of Life, Ceylon, [121];
at Heliopolis, [122];
green water of, [125];
in Koran, [126];
in Egyptian Pyramid Texts, [108];
in Taoism, [318];
search for, led to discovery of Florida, [119];
Polynesian search for, [119];
see [Water of Life].
West, cult of, [134], [210];
Chinese goddess and, [137];
Chinese Ishtar and, [266];
in China and Egypt, [60], [229];
in Japan, [380];
in Polynesia, [121];
in Taoism, [302];
Japanese and, [229].
West, Paradise of, Chinese souls in, [240]; in Japanese myth, [377], and also note [4].
West, Royal Lady of, and Buddha, [210];
Chinese empress becomes, [151].
West, Royal Mother of, [137].
Western Paradise, Buddha of, [210].
Whale, Maori dragon compared to, [49];
Scottish witches and, [49];
dolphin, dugong, and, [50];
worshipped in Peru, [49];
dragons and, [49];
backbone of, as amulet in Crete, in Liguria, and America, [49];
pearls as eyes of, [218].