1 Jade and other stone mirrors are referred to in ancient texts. No doubt these were religious symbols. None survives. Jade shoes are mentioned too, but there are [212]no surviving specimens. In Ireland bronze shoes were worn in ancient times—perhaps in connection with religious ceremonies. Obsidian mirrors were used in Mexico for purposes of divination, and there were stone mirrors in Peru. ↑
2 Jade: A Study in Chinese Archæology and Religion, Berthold Laufer (Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 154, Anthropological Series, Vol. X, Chicago, 1912, p. 23). ↑
3 Laufer notes that yu included nephrite, jadeite, bowenite, and sometimes “beautiful kinds of serpentine, agalmatolite, and marble”.—Jade, p. 22. ↑
10 Like the ginseng (mandrake) in the Kang-ge mountains in northern Korea. (See Chapter XVII.) ↑
23 Elliot Smith, The Evolution of the Dragon, p. 157, n. 1. Laufer, Sino-Iranica, pp. 520 and 525. ↑
64 See Egyptian Myth and Legend, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria, Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe, and Indian Myth and Legend. ↑
66 See terra-cotta image of pig marked with stars in Schliemann’s Troy and its Remains (translation by Smith, London, 1875), p. 232. ↑
85 Legends of Babylonia and Egypt in relation to Hebrew Tradition (The Schweich Lectures), London, 1918, pp. 56 et seq. and pp. 88 et seq. ↑
86 The Babylonian Noah, who became an immortal and lived on an “Island of the Blest” and near the island on which were the Plant of Life and the Well of Life. ↑
89 History of the Rhinoceros in Chinese clay figures (Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 177), Chicago, 1914, pp. 73 et seq. ↑
102 Referred to by the philosopher Wang Chʼung in his work Lun heng (A.D. 82 or 83), quoted by Laufer, op. cit., p. 171 n. 3. ↑