It seems to be worth considering whether the symbolism of the sandal-string may not have been derived from the life-girdle, which in ancient Indian medical treatises was linked in name with the female organs of reproduction and the pubic bones. According to Moret (op. cit., p. 91) a girdle furnished with a tail was used as a sign of consecration or attainment of the divine life after death. Jung (op. cit., p. 270), who, however, tries to find a phallic meaning in all symbolism, claims that reference to the foot has such a significance.
[339] Evans, op. cit., p. 50.
[340] Her Latin representative, Diana, had a male counterpart and conjugate, Dianus, i.e. Janus, of whom it was said: "Ipse primum Janus cum puerperium concipitur ... aditum aperit recipiendo semini". For other quotations see Rendel Harris, op. cit., p. 88 and the article "Janus" in Roscher's "Lexikon".
[341] Rendel Harris, p. 73.
[342] No doubt the two uræi of the Saga of the Winged Disk.
[343] A. B. Cook, "Zeus," Vol. I, p. 244.
[344]Journal of the Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society, 1916.
[345] "The Influence of Egyptian Civilization in the East and in America," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 1916.
[346] Evans's, Fig. 41, p. 63.
[347] "The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia," 1910.