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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 20.—Diagrams illustrating the form of cowry-belts worn in (a) EastAfrica and (b) Oceania respectively. (c) Ancient Indian girdle (from the figure of Sirima Devata on the Bharat Tope), consisting of strings of pearls and precious stones, and what seemTO be (fourth row from the top) models of cowries. (d) The Copan girdle (from Fig. 19) in which both shells and heads of deities are represented. The two objects suspended from the belt between theheads recall Hathors sistra. THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE 153 bility that these special uses of shells by the former were inspired bythe latter. This hint assumes a special significance when we first get a clearview of the more fully-developed shell-cults of the Eastern Mediter-ranean many centuries later/ For then we find definite indicationsthat the cultural uses of shells were obviously bonowed from theErythraean area. Long before the shell-amulet became personified as a woman theMediterranean people had definitely adopted the belief in the c

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