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Greek: odino]--"to have the pains of childbirth".] [299: See Schliemann, "Ilios," p. 455; and Siret, _op. cit_.] [300: Siret, _op. cit. supra_, p. 59.] [301: "Les Theories de la Genese a Mycenes et le sens zoologique de certains symboles du culte d'Aphrodite," _Revue Archeologique_, 3^ie serie, T. XXVI, 1895, p. 13.] [302: It was adduced also by Tuempel and others before him.] [303: or _Pteroceras_.] [304: Jackson, _op. cit._, p. 38.] [305: "Koptos," pp. 7-9, Pls. III. and IV.: for a discussion of the significance of these statues see Jean Capart, "Les Debuts de l'Art en Egypte," Brussels, 1904, p. 216 _et seq._] [306: This may help to explain the peculiar sanctity of the shell.] [307: Frazer, _op. cit._, 4.] [308: Just as Hathor (or her surrogate Horus) turned men into the creatures of Set, _i.e._ pigs, crocodiles, _et cetera_.] [309: "Excavations at Saqqara," 1905-1906, p. 14.] [310: Maspero, "The Dawn of Civilization," p. 34.] [311: Saville, "Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador," 1907.] [312: A detailed summary of the literature relating to the world-wide distribution of certain phases of the dragon-myth is given by Frobenius, "Das Zeitalter des Sonnesgottes," Berlin, 1904: on pp. 63-5 he gives the Rata-myth.] [313: Which can also be compared with the conventional form of the thunderbolt.] [314: Of course the hands had the additional significance as trophies of her murderous zeal. But I think this is a secondary rationalization of their meaning. An excellent photograph of a bronze statue (in the Calcutta Art Gallery), representing Kali with her girdle of hands, is given by Mr. Donald A. Mackenzie, "Indian Myth and Legend," p. xl.] [315: F. T. Elworthy has summarized the extensive literature relating to hand-amulets ("The Evil Eye," 1895; and "Horns of Honour," 1900). Many of these hands have the definite reputation as fertility charms which one would expect if Houssay's hypothesis of their derivation from the octopus is well founded.] The Swastika. Houssay (_op. cit. supra_) has made the interesting suggestion that the swastika may have been derived from such conventionalized representations of the octopus as are shown in Fig. 23. This series of sketches is taken from Tuempel's memoir, which provided the foundation for Houssay's hypothesis. [Illustration: Fig. 23.--A series of Mycenaean conventionalizations of the Argonaut and the Octopus (after Tuempel), which provided the b
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