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n," _Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, Bd. 42, 1910, pp. 75 and 77. In the remarkable series of drawings from Maya and Aztec sources reproduced by Seler in his articles in the _Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, the _Peabody Museum Papers_, and his monograph on the _Codex Vaticanus_, not only is practically every episode of the dragon-myth of the Old World graphically depicted, but also every phase and incident of the legends from India (and Babylonia, Egypt and the AEgean) that contributed to the building-up of the myth.] [143: Compare Hopkins, "Religions of India," p. 94.] [144: Herbert J. Spinden, "Maya Art," p. 62.] [145: Seler, "Codex Vaticanus," Figs. 299-304.] [146: See, for example, F. W. K. Mueller, "Nang," _Int. Arch. f. Ethnolog._, 1894, Suppl. zu Bd. vii., Taf. vii., where the mask of _Ravana_ (a late surrogate of Indra in the _Ramayana_) reveals a survival of the prototype of the Mexican designs.] [147: Joyce, _op. cit._, p. 37.] [148: For the incident of the stealing of the soma by Garuda, who in this legend is the representative of Indra, see Hopkins, "Religions of India," pp. 360-61.] [149: "The Influence of Ancient Egyptian Civilization in the East and in America," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 1916, Fig. 4, "The Serpent-Bird".] [150: Probably from about 300 B.C. to 700 A.D.] [151: For information concerning Ea's "Goat-Fish," which can truly be called the "Father of Dragons," as well as the prototype of the Indian _makara_, the mermaid, the "sea-serpent," the "dolphin of Aphrodite," and of most composite sea-monsters, see W. H. Ward's "Seal Cylinders of Western Asia," pp. 382 _et seq._ and 399 _et seq._; and especially the detailed reports in de Morgan's _Memoires_ (Delegation en Perse).] [152: _Nature, op. cit., supra_.] [153: Juan Martinez Hernandez, "La Creacion del Mundo segun los Mayas," Paginas Ineditas del MS. De Chumayel, _International Congress of Americanists, Proceedings of the XVIII. Session_, London, 1912, p. 164.] [154: From the folk-lore of America I have collected many interesting variants of the Indra story and other legends (and artistic designs) of the elephant. I hope to publish these in the near future.] [155: _Peabody Museum Papers_, 1901.] [156: See, for example, Wilfrid Jackson's "Shells as Evidence of the Migration of Early Culture," pp. 50-66.] [157: "Notes on the Maoris, etc.," _Journal of the Ethnological Society_, vol. i., 1869, p. 368.] [
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