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Title: The evolution of the dragon
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, G. Elliot (Grafton Elliot), Sir, 1871-1937
Subjects: Dragons Mythology Rain gods -- Egypt Mythology, Egyptian Aphrodite (Greek deity) Incense
Publisher: Manchester, The University press London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green & company
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
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of the soma by Garuda, who in thislegend is the representative of Indra, see Hopkins, Religions of India,pp. 360-61. Fia. 13. A photographic reproduction of the 36th page of the Dresden MayaCodex. Of the three pictures in the top row one represents the elephant-headed god Chac with a snakes body He is pouring out rain. Thecentral picture represents the hghtning animal carrying fire down fromheaven to earth. On the right Chac is shown in human guise carryingthunderweapons in the form of burning torches. in the second row a goddess sits m the rain : her head is prolongedinto that of a bird, holding a fish in its beak. The central picture showsChac in his boat ferrying a woman across the water from the East. Thethird illustration depicts the familiar conflict between the vulture andserpent. In the third row Chac is seen with his axe : in the central picture he isstanding in the water looking up towards a rain-cloud ; and on the righthe is shown sitting in a hut resting from his labours.
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Fig. 13.—A paok (the 36TH) of the Dresden .Mava Codex DRAGONS AND RAIN GODS 87 thunder-bird and the serpent, but also the identification of these tworivals in one composite monster, which, as I have aheady mentioned,is seen in the winged disks, both in the Old World and the New.Hardly any incident in the histoiy of the Egyptian falcon or thethunder-birds of Babylonia, Greece or India, fails to reappear inAmerica and find pictorial expression in the Maya and Azteccodices. What makes America such a rich storehouse of historical data isthe fact that it is stretched across the world almost from pole to pole ;and for many centuries the jetsam and flotsam swept on to this vaststrand has made it a museum of the cultural history of the Old World,much of which would have been lost for ever if America had notsaved it. But a record preseived in this manner is necessarily in ahighly confused state. For essentially the same materials reachedAmerica in manifold fornis. The original immigrants int

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