Medicine. Primitive knowledge of, [55]–[56]; Ministry of, [246]–[247]; Gods of, [247]–[248]
Mên Shên. Gods of the Door, [165], [172] sq.; legend of, [172] sq.; Shên Shu and Yû Lû as, [173]; Ch’in Shu-pao and Hu Ching-tê as, [173]–[174]; Wei Chêng and, [174]
Mencius, Mêng K’o, or Mêng Tzŭ. Teacher and philosopher; his cosmogony, [80]; and the First Cause, [90]
Mêng K’o. See Mencius
Mêng Tzŭ. See Mencius
Merchants. Shang; the fourth class of the people, [28]
Mercy, Goddess of. See Kuan Yin and Miao Shan
Mi-lo. A river; Ch’ü Yüan drowns himself in, [152]
Mi-lo Fo. Maitrêya; the successor of Shâkyamuni, [120]
Miao. Creation legends of the, [406] sq.; legend of the tailed tribes, [422] n.