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Identifier: evolutionofdrago00smituoft (find matches)
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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Fig. 14 DRAGONS AND RAIN GODS 89 of the conquest of the Americas, but had been overlooked until sixyears ago. It is an account of the creation, and includes the follo^v-ing passages : All at once came the water (? rain) after thedragon was earned away. The heaven was broken up ; it fell uponthe earth ; and they say that CiDilnl-ti-kit (four gods), the fourBaccab, were those who destroyed it. ... The whole world, saidAk-mic-chek-nalc (he who seven times makes fruitful), proceededfrom the seven bosoms of the earth. And he descended to makefruitful Itzaiu-kab-aiu (the female whale with alligator-feet), whenhe came down from the central angle of the heavenly region (p. 171). Hernandez adds that the old fishemien of Yucatan still call thewhale Itzani.: this explains the name of Itzaes, by which the Mayas\Nere known before the founding of Mayapan. The close analogy to the Indra-story is suggested by the phrase de-scribing the coming of the water after the dragon was carried away .Moreover,

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