p. 104

"When Rattling Blanket Woman was taken to a cave by two plumed bears, she saw a weather –beaten old man sitting there, with the voice of a woman. Suddenly she realized that she was that ancient being."

p. 333, n. 10:1 "R. B. Hassrick, The Sioux (Norman, 1967), p. 230."

"At the beginning of the se’ance the Tamang shaman usually declares, ‘I am not a shaman born on this earth. My body was born of my spiritual mother and my spirit of my guru’;

A. Ho:fer, Is the bombo ecstatic? in von Fu:rer-Haimendorf, C. (ed.) Contributions to the Anthropology of Nepal (London, 1973), p. 173."

"The guru who introduces the Brahmacarin, turns him into an embryo in his insides; for three days, he carries him in his belly."

"Atharva-Veda"

p. 120

"Ulysses travelled to the navel of the world, the island of Circe, where the sun stood forever in the zenith."

p. 357, n. 11:49 "See E. Schwartz, Die Odysee (1924), p. 52; and Butterworth, [The Tree at the Navel of the Earth (Berlin),] p. 29."

p. 357, n. 11:50

"Also the Ka>abah in Mecca is the earthly ‘counterpart’ of the North Star;

see A. J. Wensinck, The Ideas of the Western Semites Concerning the Navel of the Earth (Amsterdam, 1916), p. 37."

p. 357, n. 11:52

"Ulysses avoided the clashing rocks of the Planctai ..., for the doves of Zeus flew through them carrying ambrosia;

see Butterworth, op. cit., p. 180; and G. Santillana and H. von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill (Boston, 1969), pp. 198, 273."

p. 357, n. 11:52

"An Australian native reported about a trip with his father to the sky as follows : ‘We went through the place where the Doctors go through, and it kept opening a shutting very quickly. ...’;

A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (London, 1904), p. 408. {This may be an instance of "mutual dreaming" : two dreamers participating in the same dream together.}

p. 357, n. 11:52

The Huicholes of nayarit call this spot ‘Gateway of the Clouds’ or ‘Where the Clouds Open and Close’;

(pp. 357-8, n. 11:52) see P. T. Furst, To find our life, in Furst, P. T. (ed.) Flesh of the Gods (London, 1972), pp. 150, 182."

p. 120

"Aristeas flew to foreign lands ‘like a bird’, while his body lay ‘as if dead’, according to the testimony of a Sophist, Maximos of Tyros. Similar journeys were carried out by the Hyperborean Abaris, who would mount the ‘arrow’ {cf. the deity ‘Arrow’ worshipped at Taj in >al-H.asa} of Apollo, or assume the shape of a raven."

p. 358, n. 11:54 "See J. D. P. Bolton, Aristeas of Proconnesus (Oxford, 1962), p. 132. With the help of Hermes Aithalides’s psyche was able to travel to the underworld; see W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy II (Cambridge, 1968), p. 11."

p. 358, n. 11:55

"It was maintained that both Pythagoras and Empedocles had the ability of bilocation {done by the "aitheric double"} ...;

see J. A. Philip, Pythagoras and early Pythagoreanism (Toronto, 1966), p. 161. Parmenides is greeted by the goddess with a handshake".

p. 121

"Hungarian fairy-tales usually begin with, ‘Once it was where it was not, beyond seven times seven countries {cf. 7 vars.a-s (countries) of each of some 7 dvipa-s (continent), according to the Puran.a-s} and the Sea of Operencia".

p. 359, n. 11:61 "See M. Lu:thi, ... p. 21; J. Bolte, [Name und Merkmale des Ma:rchens (Helsinki, 1920),], p. 21; and H. von Beit, Das Ma:rchen (Bern, 1965), p. 107."

p. 359, n. 11:61

" ‘Jinnistan is a realm far away from us, but it surrounds us and touches us on all sides’;

see [S.] Golowin, Die Magie der verbotenen Ma:rchen (Hamburg, 1974), p. 192."

p. 359, n. 11:61

The ‘cloud-cuckoo-land’, Aristophanes’s Nephelococcygia, hangs in the air upside down;

see K. von Spiess, [Deutsche Volkskunde als Erschliesserin deutscher Kultur (Berlin, 1934),] p. 219."

p. 122

"Ulysses had left the island of Circe in the morning, and by noon the wind subsided and the sun became so hot that the wax in the ears of his companions began to melt and they were in danger of hearing the song of the sirens, the demons of noon."

p. 360, n. 11:67 "See K. Latte, Die Sirenen, in Kleine Schriften (Mu:nchen, 1968), p. 109; and O. Crusius, Die Epiphanie der Sirene, Philologus (1891), pp. 96, 107."

p. 123

Ad midday, during Arkadian herdsmen’s "half sleep, shaggy Pan then appeared to them in their voluptuous dreams.

p. 360, n. 11:68 "See W. H. Roscher, U:ber den gegenwa:rtigen Stand der Forschung auf dem Gebiete der griesischen Mythologie, Archiv fu:r Religionwissenschaft (1898), pp. 69, 77; W. Drexler, Die Epiphanie des Pan, Philologus (1894), p. 732; and C. Meillier, L’e’piphanie du dieu Pan, Revue des e’tudes grecques (1975), p. 125."

This was the time for naked Artemis to descend into the pond

p. 360, n. 11:69 "see H. Herter, Bo:se Da:monen im fru:hgriechischen Volksglauben, Rheinisches Jahrbuch fu:r Volkskunde (1950), p. 120."

like ‘Frau Hulli’ later did into the waters of the Main,

p. 360, n. 11:70 "See A. Fries, Sagen aus Unterfranken, Zeitschrift fu:r deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde (1853), p. 24; and K. Haupt, Zwergsagen aus der Ober- und Niederlausitz, Zeitschrift fu:r deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde (1859), p. 223."

and the ‘noon wife’ roamed the fields to tickle her victims to death if they could not answer her questions

p. 360, n. 11:71 "See J. E. Schmaler, U:berreste der alten Mythologie in der Wendischen Lausitz, Zeitschrift fu:r deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde (1855), p. 133; and F. Sieber, Wendische Sagen (Jena, 1925), pp. 16, 20."

or at least carry them away on a whirlwind."

p. 360, p. 11:72 "See L. Laistner, Das Ra:tsel der Sphinx I (Berlin, 1889), p. 35."

p. 360, n. 11:69

"At times, the earth opens and the gods of the underworld appear;

see H. Diels, Himmels- und Ho:llenfahrten von Homer dis Dante, Neue Jahrbu:cher fu:r klassische Altertum (1922), p. 242."

p. 123

"It was also the time for witches and werewolves to become active."

p. 360, n. 11:73 "See R. Andree, Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche (Stuttgart, 1878), p. 64."

p. 124

crossroads : "according to the Vita Sancti Symphoriani, Diana, the mistress of the night travelers could be encountered there. Because of her preference for crossroads she was called Trivia."

p. 362, n. 11:82 "See M. Ihm, Der Mu:tter- oder Matronenkultus und seine Denkma:ler (Bonn, 1887), p. 87."

"The centre of the house, the hearth pit, afforded access to the spirits of the underworld."

p. 362, n. 11:85 "See O. A. Erich, Dreifusstopf und Dreiknubbenkanne, Niederdeutsche Zeitschrift fu:r Volkskunde (1936), p. 23."

p. 362, n. 11:86

smoke-hole in centre of roof : "The dead father, grandfather and great-grandfather climbed in through such a smoke-hole to enjoy the food set out for them;

see T. Volkov, Seelenspeisung bei den Weissrussen, Am Urquell (1888), p. 25, quoted in L. Petzoldt, Der Tote als Gast (Helsinki, 1968), p. 83."

p. 124

"the witches flew to their dance ... through the owl’s hole of Low German thatched roofs,

p. 363, n. 11:87 "O. Schell, Abwehrzauber am bergischen Haus, Globus (1907), p. 337."

even through the tips of the straw roofs of the African Thonga,

p. 363, n. 11:88 "See H. A. Junod, The Life of a South African Tribe II (Neucha^tel, 1913), p. 463."

in the same way as the Asiatic shaman started on his flight to the beyond through the central opening [in the ceiling] of his tent."

p. 363, n. 11:89 "See J. P. Roux, Le chaman gengiskhanide, Anthropos (1959), p. 410."