[ [49] See above, [p. 12], and Index--'Dreams,'
[ [50] See Dr. Tylor's 'Primitive Culture,' second edition, i. 285.
[ [51] See 'Rig-veda,' x. 129, for a similar rationalistic dissertation on the origin of the universe. Here and below the italics indicate translations.
[ [52] In Chinese, Yin and Yang. The Yin is the dark, negative, passive, feminine, and terrene principle; the Yang is light, positive, active, male, and celestial.
[ [53] 'Philosophy of Religion,' i. 269.
[ [54] "Into human shape" is another version.
[ [55] I shall usually omit this purely honorific addition to the names of Japanese Gods and sovereigns.
[ [56] Hirata says that "the five generations of deities which in the Kojiki precede Izanagi and Izanami are only names descriptive of the successive stages of formation of these deities. Their functions are obscure, and they have no shrines or worship. They are unnecessary, as all that are required are two Gods for the creation of Heaven, two of Yomi and two of Earth."
[ [57] There is a close association in Hebrew between the ideas of creation and begetting. Bara, create, and jalad, beget, are often interchanged.