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Selected references
Other sources for this volume are named in the text where they are used.
Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Translated by Willard R. Trask. Bollingen Series 76. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. Baiame, the sky being of the southeastern Australian peoples, sits on a throne of transparent crystal (p. 138).
Elkin, A. P. Aboriginal Men of High Degree. Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company, 1946. Baiame in the sky on a rock of crystal, and the quartz crystals of the Aboriginal healers.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Le Cru et le cuit (Mythologiques, vol. 1). Paris: Plon, 1964. English: The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, vol. 1, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. New York: Harper and Row, 1969. The rainbow told as a serpent by peoples of South America.
Zhang, X., et al. "A Late Pleistocene human genome from Southwest China." Current Biology 32 (2022): 3095 to 3109. The Red Deer Cave individual, about 14,000 years old, shown by ancient DNA to be a modern human.