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Title: The Mythology of all races ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Louis Herbert, 1875- ed Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931, joint ed MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott), 1868-1950. joint ed
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: Boston, Marshall Jones company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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posed to have come from Tellngana onthe eastern coast of India, but seem more probably to be anindependent branch of the Austro-Aslatics, and are possiblyat least as much allied to the Wa and Palaungs as to the Kolsof Chutia Nagpur. Unfortunately, not much is known of theMon language or mythology, for the language was bitterlyproscribed after the final conquest of the coastwise Yamanyacountry by the Burmese under Alaung-paya, or Alompra, aboutthe middle of the eighteenth century. The struggle betweenthe Mon and the Burmese had gone on for a thousand years,and the Burmese were merciless when they finally triumphed.The language has the intonations common to the Chinese,but this may have come from the interspersing of the Karensamong them. The Karens came peacefully into Indo-China, not, like the PLATE VI Shrine of the Stream-Spirit This elaborate shrine to the spirit of the flood andfall of the water stands outside Hsataw, a villageof Shan timber-traders in the country of the RtdKarens.
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INDO-CHINESE MYTHS AND LEGENDS 269 Mon, the Burmese, and the Shans, as a conquering horde.They migrated along the lines of least resistance and settledwhere they could do so without savage fighting, as is borneout by the fact that they have no distinctive name for them-selves, but are content with a great number of tribal appella-tions. Most of the tribes deny all relationship with one an-other, but they are convicted of error out of their own mouths.Their traditions speak of a river of running sand, whichdistinctly points to the Desert of Gobi, between Inner andouter Mongolia, stretching from Dzungaria to the KhinganMountains which lie north of Manchuria, though It appearsmore probable that they came from Central China. Thisseems to be confirmed by their legends, which suggest an ac-quaintance with the Jewish colonies In China or even with theNestorian pillar at Sl-ngan-fu.^ Further evidence of this con-tact with Jews or Christians Is apparently given by the fol-lowing stanzas transl

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