[139] H. Beuchat, "Manuel d' Archéologie Américaine," 1912, p. 319.
[140] "Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts," Papers of the Peabody Museum, vol. iv., 1904.
[141] Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Bd. 40, 1908, p. 716.
[142] "Die Tierbilder der mexikanischen und der Maya-Handschriften," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Bd. 42, 1910, pp. 75 and 77. In the remarkable series of drawings from Maya and Aztec sources reproduced by Seler in his articles in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, the Peabody Museum Papers, and his monograph on the Codex Vaticanus, not only is practically every episode of the dragon-myth of the Old World graphically depicted, but also every phase and incident of the legends from India (and Babylonia, Egypt and the Ægean) that contributed to the building-up of the myth.
[143] Compare Hopkins, "Religions of India," p. 94.
[144] Herbert J. Spinden, "Maya Art," p. 62.
[145] Seler, "Codex Vaticanus," Figs. 299-304.
[146] See, for example, F. W. K. Müller, "Nang," Int. Arch. f. Ethnolog., 1894, Suppl. zu Bd. vii., Taf. vii., where the mask of Ravana (a late surrogate of Indra in the Ramayana) reveals a survival of the prototype of the Mexican designs.
[147] Joyce, op. cit., p. 37.
[148] For the incident of the stealing of the soma by Garuda, who in this legend is the representative of Indra, see Hopkins, "Religions of India," pp. 360-61.