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Chapter XI

  1. P. Wheeler, The Sacred Scriptures of the Japanese (1952), pp. vf.

  2. The obscene dance of old Baubo, also called lambe in Eleusis, parallels the equally unsavory comic act of Loke in the Edda. The point in all cases is that the deities must be made to laugh. (cf. also appendix #36).

  3. For a comparison of the sequence of troublesome caves, holes, or “houses" that heroes of the Old World as well as of the New World have to pass through, see L. Frobenius, Das Zeitalter des Sonnengottes (1904), pp. 371f.

  4. Wheeler, pp. 44f.

  5. See Sir George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1956; 1st ed. 1855), pp. 97f.

  6. J. F. Stimson, The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (1934), pp. 51, 66.

  7. A. Fornander, Hawaiian Antiquities (1916-1920), vol. 4, pp. 50f.; vol. 5, p. 368.

  8. R. Eisler, Orpheus the Fisher (1921), pp. 25f.

  9. G. Schlegel, L’Uranographie Chinoise (1967), pp. 351-58, 365-70.