^65:2 The Shingon signs of the, Zodiac are: (1) Hobyogu, Aquarius; (2) Suigyogu, Pisces; (3) Byakuyogu, Aries; (4) Go mitsugu, Taurus; (5) Nannyogu, Virgo (though this is bisexual); (6) Bugegu, Cancer; (7) Sonyogu, Gemellae (not Gemini); (8) Shishigu, Leo; (9) Hyoryogu, Libra; (10) Kattchengu, Scorpio; (11) Kugu, Sagittarius; (12) Makatsugu, Capricornus.

The ordinary signs are the Rat, Bull, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Cock, Dog, Boar. This is the Turkish cycle. In some of the trades, such as the building trade, which abounds in ancient customs, I have found an occasional use of the Buddhist cycle.

^66:1 The resemblances between these two books are extremely striking. I have called attention to the subject in a lecture delivered before the Asiatic Society of Japan. The resemblances lie principally in the structure and conception of the two dialogues, in certain mannerisms' of speech and action, and in the light that emanates from the Teacher in either case. There is also a s'trong similarity between the two books in respect to the use of gathas and songs.

^66:2 In Nanjo's "Catalogue of the Tripitaka," No. 1326. Another Han book, the earliest edition of the Sukhavati Vyuha, differs largely from the versions made in the fourth and fifth centuries which are now current in Japan.

^67:1 Cyril, "Cat. Lect.," vi. 22. Also "Acta Archelai," c. li.

^67:2 See, below, the chapter on Manichaeism, p. 147.

^68:1 See, e.g., "Pistis Sophia," cap. 64.

^68:2 I have worked out many of these in an article on the "Care of the Dead," written for Hasting's" Encyclopaedia of Sects and Religion," and one of the publications of the Musee Guimet is entirely devoted to them.

^68:3 See article by Sewell on "Roman Coins found in India," in J.R.A.S for October, 1904.

^68:4 Nanjo, "Twelve Buddhist Sects," p. 79.

^69:1 This points to a belief, of which I have found traces elsewhere in Japan, of a reappearance of S'akyamuni somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era.

^69:2 In an article by J. Kennedy in J.R.A.S, 1904, we learn that there was an Indian colony in Armenia from B.C. 130 to A.D. 300, when it was broken up by St. Gregory the Illuminator. They were snake-worshippers ("Nagas") from Nagpur, and may thus have had some connection with Ophitism.

^69:3 Acts vi. 5; Rev. ii. 15

^70:1 Ekai Kawaguchi, "Three Years in Tibet," pp. 409-411.