[25] Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. II, p. 104. [↑]
[26] Babylonian Myth and Legend, p. 126–7. [↑]
[27] Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 173 et seq., and 192–94. [↑]
[28] Egyptian Myth and Legend, p. 19 et seq. [↑]
[29] Teutonic Myth and Legend, pp. 352 (n.), 376, 383, 389, 391, 446. [↑]
[30] For beliefs connected with pearls and shells, see Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture, I. Wilfrid Jackson (London, 1917). [↑]
CHAPTER XI
Tree-, Herb-, and Stone-lore
“Soul Substance” in Medicinal Plants—Life-fire in Water and Plants—“The Blood which is Life”—Colour Symbolism in East and West—Charm Symbolism—Gems as Fruit—Jade and Vegetation—Far Eastern Elixirs of Life—Links between Pine, Cypress, Mandrake, and Mugwort—Story of Treasure-finding Dog—The Far Eastern Artemis—Her Mugwort, Lotus, and Fruit Basket—Herbs and Pearl-shell—Goats and Women’s Herb—Chinese and Tartar’s Fight for Mandrake—Tea as an Elixir—Far Eastern Rip Van Winkles—Problem of the Date Tree—“Tree Tears” and “Stone Tears”—Weeping Deities—Goats and Thunder-gods—Goats and Sheep become Stones—Gems and Herbs connected with Moon—Graded Herbs, Deities, and Stones—Foreign Ideas in China.