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.