The Covenant of Salt / As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

by H. Clay Trumbull

[151] Smith and Cheetham's Dict. of Chris. Antiq., arts. "Elements," "Salt."

[152] Rituale Romanorum, p. 29 f.

[153] Ibid.

[154] Ibid., p. 276 f.

[155] Smith and Cheetham's Dict. of Chris. Antiq., art. "Salt."

[156] Fire is masculine, water is feminine, gold is seed, according to the Vedic literature.

[157] Müller's Sacred Books of the East, XII., 278 (Satapatha Brâhmana).

[158] Ibid., p. 50.

[159] Müller's Sacred Books of the East, XII., 278, note.

[160] Morris's China and the Chinese, p. 154.