Stone, coffins of, 226.
“Stone of Darkness”, copper and, 39.
Stones, as Dragon Eggs, 58, 59;
deities in, 182;
formed by sap, 182;
goats as, 184;
Chinese spirits in, 185;
herbs and, 186;
night-shining, 64, 186;
water-yielding, 186;
Norse gods spring from, 182;
Mithra springs from rock, 182;
Indonesian beliefs regarding, 182, 183;
Syrian goddess and, 217;
Syrian goddess’s night-shining gem, 217;
the Dragon, 182;
turquoise, and goddess, 58;
Egyptian goddess and, 58;
vital essence graded in, 186.
Stones and trees, 180.
Stork, the blue, 140.
Sumeria, culture of, begins in seaport, 30;
dragon-god (Ea) of, 30, 52;
early seafarers reach, 31, 32
(see Babylonia).
Sung Dynasty, 292.
Sun goddess, Japanese, in cave, 368, 369.
Sun, gold as metal of, 37.
Susa-no-wo, as Lord of Hades, 374;
banishment of, 365;
creates children from jewels, 366;
children of, 373;
dragon-slaying myth, 371;
slays food goddess, 369;
harries Heaven, 368;
expulsion and punishment of, 369;
Japanese dragon-slayer, 346;
son of Izanagi, 362;
as weeping god, 363;
Indra and, 363.
Sword, the Dragon (Kusanagi sword), 382.
Sword, the Japanese Dragon, 372.
Sword transformed into tree, 183.
Swords, dragons and stars and, 275;
and herbs, 100.
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Sycamore Fig Tree of Life, 134
(see Tree of Life).
Tama, 350, 369 (see Maga-tama and Kuda-tama);
foxes and, 221;
the Japanese, pearl, jade, &c., as, 220;
soul and, 335.
Tammuz, the Far Eastern, 138.
Tʼang, founder of Shang Dynasty, 285.
Tʼang Dynasty, 292.
Taoism, Buddhism and, 210, 323;
doctrines of, 297;
Egyptian and Indian elements in, 303;
Lao Tze founder of, 299;
Kwang Tze, 302.
Tea as elixir, 175
(see Plant of Life and Tree of Life).
Tears, “Tree tears” and “Stone tears”, 180, et seq.;
of deities, 180;
plants grow from, 180.
Thunder-ball, -axe, and -drum, 262, 263.
Thunder-god, goats of, 183.
Thunder-pearls, dragon and, 39.
Tibet, bird and serpent combined in, 72;
Nagas of, 70;
Ymir myth of, 261;
Ymir of, 274.
Tiger, as Chinese were-animal, 221;
as enemy of dragon, 47;
as Kami in Japan, 343;
as wind controller, 235;
Chinese goddess and, 138;
and war, 236;
Emperor Yu and, 282;
influence of, on towns, 236;
metal and, 233;
the white, Chinese
goddess and, 140;
see Cardinal Points and Colour Symbolism.
Tigress, Mother Goddess as, 237.
Tongue amulets of jade, 222.
Tongue and heart connection, 222.
Toriwi, symbolic gateway, 339.
Tortoise, Chinese goddess and, 140;
god as, in India and Japan, 112;
use of, in China, 112;
in royal legend, 280.
Tortoise god, the Ainu, 330.
Trade, earliest Egyptian, 10;
Chinese, 293.
Tree, deities and dragons become, 152;
fire from, 162;
sword becomes, 183.
Tree-lore, blood from trees, 143 (see Tree of Life);
gold, jade, pearls, shells, and, 157.
Tree of Life, animals that browse on, 174;
as “World Tree”, 136;
at Heliopolis, 122;
Buddhist Bodhi-tree as, 126;
cassia tree as, 141;
peach tree indigenous in China, 141;
Chinese goddess and, 152;
Chinese Peach, 138;
cicada and, 225;
butterfly and, 225;
Plum, 225;
Coral Tree, 219;
date stone elixir, 178;
dragon and, 75;
dragons and, 167;
evergreen as, 167;
mandrake and cypress, 167;
fruit of, ensures 3000 years of life, 166;
pine tree elixir, 166;
cypress seeds as elixir, 166;
camphor as life-giver, 166;
gems as fruit of, 165;
gold trunk, silver roots, and gem leaves of, 116;
in Egyptian Paradise, 134;
in Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 108;
in Greek myths, 123;
apple tree as, 124;
in Polynesia, 121;
life-giving incense from, 142;
blood from, 143;
linden tree as, 135;
Chinese peach tree as, 136;
men climb, to reach Paradise, 149, 150;
mugwort and pine, 168;
orange tree as, in Japan, 379;
sap of, as elixir, 146;
souls ascend, 240;
sycamore fig as, 134;
Cretan, 134;
British and Indian, 134;
Polynesian, 135;
the ash as, 136;
Indian, 136;
Assyrian, 137;
date, vine, fir, cedar, oak, and pomegranate, 137;
Biblical reference to, 137;
the date, 178;
the jujube, 179;
world mountain and, 137;
peach, plum, and pine as, 116.
Trees, jade and, 165;
coral and, 165;
stones formed from, 182;
weeping, 181.
Trees and stones, 180.
Tree tears, 180.
Tree under water, dragon as, 75.
Trigrams, 275.
Tsʼin Dynasty, 291.
Turquoise, Babylonian supplies of, from Chinese Turkestan, 203;
Hathor goddess of, 58.
Turtles in Isle of Blest legend, 112.
Underworld, Ainu ideas of, 331;
dragons of, 95;
Gaelic story of, 120;
Isles of Blest and, 135;
Osiris and, 99;
Susa-no-wo as lord of, 374;
Yomi as, 340;
see Islands of Blest and Paradise.
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Unicorn, rhinoceros and, 250.
Wani, Japanese, 354
(see Dragon).
War god of China, tiger as, 236.
Water, dragon controller of, 235;
stones and, 58, 59.
Water of Life, Alexander’s search for, 125;
body moistures and, 159;
Chinese and Japanese search for, 138;
dew as, 139;
dragons and, 75, 159;
Hawaiian story of, 120;
Gaelic story of, 120;
in Chinese Island of Blest, 110;
in Egyptian Paradise, 133;
in Fung-shui doctrine, 234;
in Taoism, 302, 317, 321;
in various Paradises, 129;
in Babylonian myth, 132;
lunar pot of, 187;
lunar source of, 183;
Pot and, 246;
South Sea Island tradition of, 121;
tear from goddess star, 184;
Siberian wells, 204;
lunar, 145;
purple, 140;
see Well of Life.
Water snakes and dragons, 54.
Wealth, religious incentive to quest of, 45.
Well of Life, Ceylon, 121;
at Heliopolis, 122;
green water of, 125;
in Koran, 126;
in Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 108;
in Taoism, 318;
search for, led to discovery of Florida, 119;
Polynesian search for, 119;
see Water of Life.
West, cult of, 134, 210;
Chinese goddess and, 137;
Chinese Ishtar and, 266;
in China and Egypt, 60, 229;
in Japan, 380;
in Polynesia, 121;
in Taoism, 302;
Japanese and, 229.
West, Paradise of, Chinese souls in, 240; in Japanese myth, 377, and also note 4.
West, Royal Lady of, and Buddha, 210;
Chinese empress becomes, 151.
West, Royal Mother of, 137.
Western Paradise, Buddha of, 210.
Whale, Maori dragon compared to, 49;
Scottish witches and, 49;
dolphin, dugong, and, 50;
worshipped in Peru, 49;
dragons and, 49;
backbone of, as amulet in Crete, in Liguria, and America, 49;
pearls as eyes of, 218.
Willow, sacred in Siberia, 330;
sacred to Ainu, 330.
Wind, controlled by White Tiger god, 235
(see Tiger).
Winged disk, in Egypt and Mexico, 71.
Winter, as dry season in China, 56.
Wolf, as Kami in Japan, 343.
World Guardians, Japanese, 343.
World Mill, “Great Bear” constellation and, 232.
World Mountain, 137.
World Tree, 136 (see Tree of Life).
World’s Ages, metals and doctrine of, 37;
Greek and Indian, 37
(see Ages, the Mythical).
Wu, founder of Chou Dynasty, Gilgamesh, &c., and, 288;
ode on birth of, 288;
reign of, 289;
human sacrifices introduced by, 290.
Wu-Yih, the Emperor, blood bag of, 286;
plays dice with god, 286;
Kafir idol-beating, 287;
Egyptian king and, 287, and also note 1.
Yakuts, poor potters but good wood- and iron-workers, 15.
Yamato-Take, Japanese hero, 382;
worship of, 386.
Yang and Yin, 230;
controlled by “Great Bear”, 231;
in Japan, 348.
Yellow River, Paradise reached by, 143.
Yin and Yang (see under Yang).
Ymir, Pʼan Ku and, 263.
Yomi, Izanami and Izanagi in, 357;
Indian Yama and, 357;
Japanese Otherworld, 340;
Peach Tree of Life on border of, 380;
Susa-no-wo as lord of, 374.