should develop into the Chinese Dragon or the American
elephant-headed god 88

Fig. 15.--Photograph of a Chinese embroidery in the Manchester
School of Art representing the Dragon and the Pearl-Moon
Symbol 98

Fig. 16.--The God of Thunder (from a Chinese drawing (? 17th
Century) in the John Rylands Library) 136

Fig. 17.--From Joannes de Turrecremata's "Meditationes seu
Contemplationes". _Rome: Ulrich Han_, 1467 137

Fig. 18.--(a) The Archaic Egyptian slate palette of Narmer showing,
perhaps, the earliest design of Hathor (at the upper corners
of the palette) as a woman with cow's horns and ears (compare
Flinders Petrie "The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty," Part
I, 1900, Plate XXVII, Fig. 71). The pharaoh is wearing a belt
from which are suspended four cow-headed Hathor figures in
place of the cowry-amulets of more primitive peoples. This
affords corroboration of the view that Hathor assumed the
functions originally attributed to the cowry-shell. (b) The
king's _sporran_, where Hathor-heads (H) take the place of the
cowries of the primitive girdle 150

Fig. 19.--The front of Stela B (famous for the realistic
representations of the Indian elephant at its upper corners),
one of the ancient Maya monuments at Copan, Central America
(after Maudslay's photograph and diagram). The girdle of the
chief figure is decorated both with shells (_Oliva_ or
_Conus_) and amulets representing human faces corresponding to
the Hathor-heads on the Narmer palette (Fig. 18) 151

Fig. 20.--Diagrams illustrating the form of cowry-belts worn in
(a) East Africa 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 seem to 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 the heads recall Hathor's
sistra 153

Fig. 21.--(a) A slate triad found by Professor G. A. Reisner in the