Reference Notes
Part One: The Age of the Goddess
Introduction: Myth and Ritual: East and West
Kena Upaniad 2.3.
Tao Teh Ching 56.
Chndogya Upaniad 6.8.7.
Mumon, The Gateless Gate, translated by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (New York: A Doubleday Anchor Book, 1961), p. 109.
Prajpramit-hdya Stra.
Job 40:4.
Chapter 1: The Serpents Bride
William Hayes Ward, The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia (Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1910), p. 10. 129, citing Lon Heuzey, Catalogue des antiquits chaldennes (Paris: Imprimeries runies, 1902) , p. 281, Fig. 125.
Stephen Herbert Langdon, Semitic Mythology, The Mythology of All Races, Vol. V (Boston: Marshall 11 Jones Company, 1931), p. 177, citing J. de Morgan, Dlgation en Perse. Mmoires (Paris: E. 12. Leroux, 1911), Vol. XII, p. 173, 13. Fig. 288.
Henri Frankfort, Sargonid Seals, Iraq, Vol. I, Part I (1934), p. 11, Fig. 2.
Ward, op. cit., p. 275.
, pp. 1521.
Ward, op. cit., p. 276.
Ibid., p. 139, citing Joachim Mnant, Recherches sur la glyptique orientate (Paris: Maisonneure & Cie, 188386), Part I, p. 191, Fig. 121
Ward, op. cit., p. 138; also Mnant, op. cit., p. 189, Fig. 120.
The Fall theory was advanced by 19. George Smith, The Chaldean Account of Genesis (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1876), and Langdon, op. cit., p. 179; rejected, however, by Mnant, op. cit., pp. 18991, and Ward, op. cit., pp. 13839.
Jane Ellen Harrison, Themis (Cambridge: The University Press, 2nd revised edition, 1927), p. 286; from Johannes A. Over- beck, Atlas der griechischen Mythologie (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1872), Vol. I, Plate XVI, 2.
Hesiod, Theogony 97374; as cited to this figure by Jane Ellen Harrison, op. cit., p. 286.
Jataka 1.74.26.
Mah-vagga 1.3.13.
Genesis 3:2224. I am quoting throughout the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903; 3rd edition, 1922), p. 7.
Ibid., p. 19; citing Berlin Museum, Beschreibung der Antiken Skulpturen.
Ibid., p. 18.
Ibid., pp. 1415, citing Lucian, Icaro-Menippos 24, scholiast ad loc.
Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (New York: The Macmillan Company, one-volume edition, 1922), p. 1.
Aelian, De natura animalium XI. 2; following Harrison, Themis, p. 429.
Harrison, Themis, p. 431, Fig. 130.
Hesiod, Theogony 215.
Job 41:18. Compare Psalm 74: 1314.
Hesiod, Theogony 823880, abridged. Fig. 10 is from an early red-figured vase painting in the Munich Museum (c. 650 b.c.), in A. Furtwngler and K. Reichold, Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1900-1932), No. 32.
, pp. 18284.
Ibid., pp. 18489.
Harrison, Themis, p. 459.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.32431.
, p. 101.
From an early red-figured vase painting in Former National Museum, Berlin. Harrison, Prolegomena, p. 633, Fig. 168, citing Furtwngler and Reichold, op. cit.
Exodus 4:24.
Exodus 17:17.
Numbers 21:59.
II Kings 18:4.
Theophile James Meek, Hebrew Origins (New York: Harper Torchbook edition, 1960), p. 123.
Leo Frobenius, Monumenta Terrarum: Der Geist ber den Erdteilen, Erlebte Erdteile, Ed. 7 (Frankfurt-am-Main: Forschungsinstitut fr Kulturmorphologie, 2. Auflage, 1929), pp. 21314.
Leo Frobenius, Kulturgeschichte Africas (Zurich: Phaidon-Verlag, 1933), pp. 103104.
R. A. S. Macalister, Ancient Ireland (London: Methuen and Company, 1935), pp. 1314.
R. A. S. Macalister, The Archaeology of Ireland (London: Methuen and Company, 2nd revised ed., 1949), p. 9.
Ibid., p. 15.
Macalister, Ancient Ireland, p. 131.
The Book of Leinster 54a, 1118; following Standish Hayes OGrady, in Eleanor Hull (ed.), The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature (London: David Nutt, 1898), pp. 11113; and H. Zimmer, Die kulturgeschichtliche Hintergrund in den Erzhlungen der alten irischen Heldensage, Sitzungsberichte der Kniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Classe, IX (1911), pp. 213214.
Zimmer, op. cit., p. 217, citing Ancient Laws of Wales 1.92.12.
Ibid., pp. 21516.
Ibid., p. 218.
The Book of Leinster 54b; following Standish H. OGrady, Silva Gadelica (London: Williams and Norgate, 1892), vol. 2, pp. 114116, and Zimmer, op. cit., pp. 17879.
W. B. Yeats, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (New York: The Modem Library, no date), pp. 13.
Chapter 2: The Consort of the Bull
, p. 56.
, pp. 34364.
The Gospel of Sri RamaKa, translation by Swami Nikhilananda (New York: RamaKa-Vivekananda Center, 1942), p. 371.
, pp. 31334.
Aspirations from the Litany of Loreto (15th century; sanctioned 1587).
, pp. 15572. Fig. 12 is from Sir Arthur John Evans, British School at Athens, Annual, Vol. VII (1900-1901), p. 29, Fig. 9.
, pp. 42728.
Sir Arthur John Evans, The Palace of Minos (London: Macmillan and Company, Vol. I, 1921, to Vol. IV, Part II, 1935). Quotations and figures from The Palace of Minos are reproduced by permission of Mr. Wakeman-Long of Williams and James, Solicitors, Grays Inn, London, Miss Susan Minet, and Mrs. Anne Ridler, Trustees of the copyright of the work.
Ibid., Vol. II, Part I, p. 277.
Martin P. Nilsson, Geschichte der griechischen Religion, 2 Vols. (Munich: C. H. Becksche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2nd ed., 1955 and 1961).
Ibid., Vol. I, p. 298.
Michael Ventris, Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. LXXIII (1953), pp. 84 ff.
Leonard R. Palmer, Mycenaeans and Minoans (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p.. 127, citing Paul Kretschmer, Einleitung in die Geschichte der griechischen Sprache (Gttingen: Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, 1896).
Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek (Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press, 1956), p. 128.
Palmer, op. cit., pp. 12324.
Ibid., pp. 82, 94.
Odyssey VI. 290; cited in this connection by Palmer, op. cit., p. 95.
National Museum, Athens.
Palmer, op. cit., pp. 12425.
Harrison, Prolegomena, p. 555.
Palmer, op. cit., p. 124, and Harrison, Prolegomena, pp. 273, 555, 562 f., 609.
Harrison, Prolegomena, p. 273, citing O. Rubensohn, Mittheilungen des Kaiserlichen Deutschen Archologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung, Vol. XXIV (1899), Plate VII. From Former National Museum, Berlin.
Ibid., pp. 27273.
Gorgias 497c.
Evans, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 145- 55, with parenthetical passage on the Sacral Ivy from Vol. II, Part II, pp. 48283. See also Evans, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. XLIV (1925), p. 65, Fig. 55.
, pp. 107108, citing Samuel Noah Kramer, From the Tablets of Sumer (Indian Hills, Colo.: The Falcons Wing Press, 1956), pp. 17273, and Langdon, op. cit, pp. 19495.
Odyssey IV. 563, from the S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang translation; as cited by Evans, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 15556.
Nilsson, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 845.
, pp. 406407.
Robert H. Dyson, Jr., Art of the Twin Rivers, Natural History, Vol. LXXI, No. 6, JuneJuly 1962, p. 39.
, pp. 108 and 111.
, p. 85.
, passim.
Isaiah 11:69.
Euripides, Bacchae 1017; trans., Harrison, Prolegomena