The Evolution of the Dragon

by Grafton Elliot Smith

[304] Jackson, op. cit., p. 38.

[305] "Koptos," pp. 7-9, Pls. III. and IV.: for a discussion of the significance of these statues see Jean Capart, "Les Débuts de l'Art en Égypte," Brussels, 1904, p. 216 et seq.

[306] This may help to explain the peculiar sanctity of the shell.

[307] Frazer, op. cit., 4.

[308] Just as Hathor (or her surrogate Horus) turned men into the creatures of Set, i.e. pigs, crocodiles, et cetera.

[309] "Excavations at Saqqara," 1905-1906, p. 14.

[310] Maspero, "The Dawn of Civilization," p. 34.

[311] Saville, "Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador," 1907.

[312] A detailed summary of the literature relating to the world-wide distribution of certain phases of the dragon-myth is given by Frobenius, "Das Zeitalter des Sonnesgottes," Berlin, 1904: on pp. 63-5 he gives the Rata-myth.

[313] Which can also be compared with the conventional form of the thunderbolt.