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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