.

86 The following passages contain interesting evidences of the ancient
application of the number seven to tribal organization in China. "In
the time of the Suy dynasty Manchuria went by the name of Mo-ho in
China ... the people being _then divided into seven tribes_....
Towards the end of the eleventh century one Yang-ko was elected as
their chief ... and he organized something of a regular government
throughout the various tribes of Jou-tchi or Nio-tchi's and
collected taxes from them. The highest of his officers were all
styled po-k-eih-lee and _were distinguished by the names of the sun,
planets and 28 constellations of the Zodiac_. Every five, every ten
and every hundred men had their special officers.... From the chief
of five to the chief of ten thousand, each trained his dependents in
military art...." Wylie: On the origin of the Manchus (Chinese
Researches, p. 244).

87 The Nestorian Tablet in Si-ngan-foo (p. 24, Chinese Researches.
Shanghai, 1897).

88 (The Religion of Japan, Wm. Elliott Griffis. London, 1895, p. 67 and
note 9.) This curious agreement between the Japanese and other
ethnic traditions, in locating Paradise, the origin of the human
family and of civilization at the north pole, has not escaped the
attention of Dr. W. F. Warren, President of Boston University, who
makes extended reference to it in his suggestive book, "Paradise
Found, The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole. A Study of
the Prehistoric World. Boston, 1885."

89 An interesting parallelism in the development or evolution of the
idea of rotation around a central pole was brought to my notice by a
model in the Indian Department of the South Kensington Museum. It
represents the Hindu fanatical religious rite known as the "Churruck
Puja." Four individuals are suspended by cords, with hooks drawn
through their flesh, to a movable wooden structure like a wheel
surmounting a high pole, similar to that used by the Ancient Mexican
"flyers" (see p. 24) which likewise served as a pivot for the
circling motion of the performers. The torture voluntarily endured
by the latter recalls that accompanying the sacred sun pole-dance of
certain North American Indian tribes. It is interesting to contrast
the ancient Mexican refined and intellec