[27] The significance of Belili’s breaking a precious utensil in the ritual of lamentation is not clear.
[28] From Woermann’s Geschichte der Kunst.
[29] For further details with regard to this relief see the author’s The Bride of Christ, p. 8.
[30] See the author’s article. “The Fish as a Mystic Symbol in China and Japan,” The Open Court, July, 1911.
[31] Val means “the battle-field”; the name Valkyrie designates “the one who chooses,” viz., the maiden of Odin who selects heroes for Valhall, the great hall of the god of battles. The root Val is still preserved in the modern German word Wahlstatt, “place of battle.”
[32] See the author’s Soul of Man, pp. 399ff.
[33] Pronounce Russakósh. The name refers to the part he will play in the story; it means both “a ball of mercury,” and “a treasure of taste, wit, literary sentiments or flavors,” a sort of walking encyclopedia. The King’s companion is a salient figure in Hindu drama: he is a sort of Sancho Panza, minus the vulgarity and the humor.
[34] “A tree with orange-colored fragrant blossoms.”
[35] The Hindu Vulcan, sometimes, as here, used for the Creator, dhatri = Plato’s δεμιοῡργος. Sanskrit literature is the key to Plato; much of his philosophy is only the moonlike reflection of Hindu mythology.
[36] Hindu poets see a resemblance between rows of bees and eye-glances.