CHAPTER 10: MYTHOLOGICAL THRESHOLDS OF THE NEOLITHIC

[Back to Note 1] J. Meier, “Mythen und Sagen der Admiralitats-insulaner,” Anthropos, Vol. II (1907), p. 654.

[Back to Note 2] Robert Heine-Geldern, “Urheimat und fruheste Wanderungen der Austronesier,” Anthropos, Vol XXVII (1932), p. 556.

[Back to Note 3] Menghin, Weltgeschichte der Steinzeit, p. 604.

[Back to Note 4] Heine-Geldern, “Urheimat und fruheste Wanderungen der Austronesier, ” p. 607.

[Back to Note 5] P. Bley, “Sagen der Baininger auf Neupommern,” Anthropos, Vol. IX (1914), p. 198.

[Back to Note 6] J.E. Weckler, “The Relationships between Neanderthal Man and Homo Sapiens,” American Anthropologist, Vol. 56, No. 6 (December 1954), pp. 1003-1025.

[Back to Note 7] Ibid.

[Back to Note 8] Coon, op. cit., pp. 60-63.

[Back to Note 9] Two Rediscovered Works of Ancient Christian Literature: Gregory of Nyssa and Macarius (Leiden: Brill, 1954), XLIV, 1033 D-1036 A; cited by Jean Danielou, “La Colombe et la tenebre dans la mystique byzantine ancienne,” Eranos-Jahrbuch 1954, p. 417.

[Back to Note 10] Frobenius, Kulturgeschichte Afrikas, Plate 19.

[Back to Note 11] Henri Frankfort, “A Note on the Lady of Birth,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. III, No. 3 (July 1944), p. 200.

[Back to Note 12] Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, Ur of the Chaldees (London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929), pp. 33-34.

[Back to Note 13] Ibid., pp. 46-56, with omissions.

[Back to Note 14] Ibid., p. 57.

[Back to Note 15] Ibid., p. 58.

[Back to Note 16] Ibid., pp. 64-65.

[Back to Note 17] Ibid., pp. 59-60.

[Back to Note 18] Ibid., p. 63.

[Back to Note 19] Henri Frankfort, “Gods and Myths on Sargonid Seals,” Iraq, Vol. I, No. 1 (1934), p. 8.

[Back to Note 20] Woolley, op. cit., p. 52.

[Back to Note 21] H. de Genouillac, Textes religieux sumeriens du Louvre (Paris: Paul Geuther, 1930), text no. 5374, lines 191 ff., as cited and translated by Langdon, op. cit., p. 345, abridged.

[Back to Note 22] Kramer, op. cit., pp. 88-89, abridged.

[Back to Note 23] Ibid., pp. 91-93, abridged.

[Back to Note 24] Langdon, op. cit., pp. 176-77.

[Back to Note 25] Frankfort, Iraq I, 1, op. cit., p. 12.

[Back to Note 26] Kramer, op. cit., pp. 90-95, abridged.

[Back to Note 27] John 20:11-18.

[Back to Note 28] Huizinga, op. cit., p. 39.

[Back to Note 29] Ibid., pp. 34-35.

[Back to Note 30] Ibid., p. 45.

[Back to Note 31] Leo Frobenius, Erythraea: Lande und Zeiten des heiligen Konigsmordes (Berlin-Zurich: Atlantis-Verlag, 1931), pp. 133-36.

[Back to Note 32] Frobenius, Das unbekannte Afrika, p. 132.

[Back to Note 33] Frobenius, Erythraea, pp. 329-30.

[Back to Note 34] J.D. Clark, ed., Proceedings of the Third Pan-African Congress on Prehistory (1955) (London: Chatto and Windus, 1957), p. 428.

[Back to Note 35] G.A. Wainwright, as cited by Basil Davidson, “Aspects of African Growth before a.d. 1500,” Diogenes 23 (Fall 1958), p. 88.

[Back to Note 36] See Childe, op. cit., pp. 52-84.

[Back to Note 37] A number of versions of the myth existed. I have followed, in the main, that of Plutarch, as summarized by Frazer, The Golden Bough, pp. 362-67.

[Back to Note 38] Ovid, Metamorphoses, X, 708 ff.

[Back to Note 39] Frazer, The Golden Bough, p. 471.

[Back to Note 40] Odyssey XIX, 172-78, translated by S.H. Buthcher and Andrew Lang (London: Macmillan and Company, 1879).

[Back to Note 41] Bedrich Hrozny, Ancient History of Western Asia, India, and Crete (New York: Philosophical Library, 1953), p. 198, NOte 1.

[Back to Note 42] Frazer, The Golden Bough, p. 280.

[Back to Note 43] Marija Gimbutas, “Culture Change in Europe at the Start of the Second Millennium b.c.” Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Philadelphia, 1956.

[Back to Note 44] R.A.S. Macalister, Newgrange, County Meath (Dublin: Government Publications, offical handbook, no date).

[Back to Note 45] J.A. MacCulloch, The Religion of the Ancient Celts (Edinburgh: T.and T. Clark, 1911), p. 63.

[Back to Note 46] P.W. Joyce, A Social History of Ireland (London: Longmans, Green and Company; Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, Ltd., 1913), Vol. I, pp. 251-52.

[Back to Note 47] MacCulloch, op. cit., p. 67.

[Back to Note 48] Ibid., p. 69.

[Back to Note 49] Ibid., p. 42.

[Back to Note 50] After Curtin, op. cit., pp. 327-32.

[Back to Note 51] W. Norman Frown, “The Beginnings of Civilization in India,” Supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Bo. 4 (December 1939), p. 44.

[Back to Note 52] Heinrich Zimmer, The Art of Indian Asia, edited and completed by Joseph Campbell (New York: Pantheon Books, The Bollingen Series XXXIX, 1955), Vol. I, p. 27.

[Back to Note 53] Menghin, op. cit., pp. 319, 322-24.

[Back to Note 54] Heine-Geldern, “Urheimat und fruheste Wanderungen der Austronesier,” loc. cit., p. 608.

[Back to Note 55] Carl W. Bishop, “The Beginnings of Civilization in Eastern Asia,” Supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, No. 4 (December 1939), p. 49.

[Back to Note 56] Li Chi, The Beginnings of Chinese Civilization (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1957), p. 14; and Heine- Geldern, “The Origin of Ancient Civilizations,” loc. cit., pp. 89-90. See also Walter A. Fairservis, Jr., The Origins of Oriental Civilization (New York: The New American Library, Mentor Books, 1959), pp. 82-141; especially p. 140, note, discussing the revised dating of the Chinese dynasties.

[Back to Note 57] G.D. Wu, Prehistoric Pottery in China (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1938), Figs. V-LII; and compare Hrozny, op. cit., Figs. 5 and 8.

[Back to Note 58] Heine-Geldern, “Urheimat und fruheste Wanderungen der Austronesier,” loc. cit., pp. 598-602.

[Back to Note 59] Ibid., p. 598.

[Back to Note 60] Ibid., p. 599.

[Back to Note 61] Childe, in Anthropology Today, p. 209.

[Back to Note 62] Layard, Stone Men of Malekula, passim.

[Back to Note 63] Roberth Heine-Geldern, “Die Megalithen Sudostasiens und ihre Bedeutung fur die Klarung der Megalithenfrage in Europa und Polynesien,” Anthropos, Vol, XXIII (1928), p. 303.

[Back to Note 64] Layard, Stone Men of Malekula, pp. 209-10.

[Back to Note 65] Ibid., p. 210.

[Back to Note 66] John Layard, “The Making of Man in Malekula,” in Eranos- Jahrbuch 1948 (Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, 1949), p. 235.

[Back to Note 67] Layard, Stone Men of Malekula, pp. 620-21, note 6.

[Back to Note 68] Ibid., pp. 733-34.

[Back to Note 69] Ibid., p. 734.

[Back to Note 70] Layard, “Der Mythos der totenfahrt auf Malekula,” loc. cit., pp. 253-61.

[Back to Note 71] Ssu-ma Ch’ien, Historical Records (Shih Chi), ch. vii.

[Back to Note 72] Notes on Music (Yo Chi) — a chapter interpolated in The Record of Rites (Li Chi), as cited by Maurice Courant, “Essai sur la musique classique des Chinois,” Encyclopedie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire (Paris, 1924), Vol. I, p. 206, and by Alain Danielou, Introduction to the Musical Scales (London: The India Society, 1943), pp. 16-17.

[Back to Note 73] Doctrine of the Mean (Chung Yung), XX, 8, translated by Ezra Pound in Confucius, The Unwobbling Pivot (New York: New Directions, 1951).

[Back to Note 74] Record of Rites (Li Chi), as cited by A. Preau, “Lie Tseu,” Le Voile d’Isis, Bos. 152-53 (1932), pp. 554-55, and by Alain Danielou, op. cit., pp. 6-7.

[Back to Note 75] Vākyapadīya 1.124.

[Back to Note 76] Lu Shih, Commentary to the Wu Ching, as cited by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, A Brief History of Early Chinese Philosophy, 2nd ed. (London: Probsthain and Company, 1914), p. 175.

[Back to Note 77] H.A. Giles, Confucianism and Its Rivals (London: Williams and Norgate, 1915), p. 180.

[Back to Note 78] Heine-Geldern, “The Origin of Ancient Civilizations,” loc. cit., pp. 82-83, 89.

[Back to Note 79] Ibid., pp. 93-94.

[Back to Note 80] Daniel G. Brinton, American Hero-Myths (Philadelphia: H.C. Watts and Company, 1882), pp. 65-67.

[Back to Note 81] Torquemada, Monarquia Indiana, Lib. VI, Cap. XXIV, cited by ibid., p. 134.

[Back to Note 82] After Brinton, op. cit., pp. 9-136, condensed, and Bernardino de Sahagun, Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana (Mexico, 1829), Lib. III, Cap. xii-xiv, condensed.