[1] De Visser, The Dragon in China and Japan, p. 109. [↑]
[2] Quoted by Prof. G. Elliot Smith, The Evolution of the Dragon, p. 160. [↑]
[3] Ellis, Polynesian Researches, First Edition, Vol. I, p. 178. [↑]
[4] Rev. George Turner’s Nineteen Years in Polynesia (1861), pp. 238–9. The god emerging from the shell-fish is found in Mexico. Jackson’s Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture, p. 52. [↑]
[5] De Visser, The Dragon in China and Japan, p. 88. [↑]
[6] Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe, pp. 306–7. Pierced fish vertebræ have been found in Malta, Italy, the south-east of Spain, and Troy. See Malta and the Mediterranean Race, R. N. Bradley (London, 1912), p. 136. [↑]