Origin of the Symbol in the Spirit of Music

There exists no special literature on the subject treated in this study. As introductory material, we recommend the following:

B. Spencer and F. Gillen , The Native Tribes of Central Australia and The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (London: 1899, 1904). Many myths of creation are to be found in the voluminous work of W. Schmidt, Der Ursprung der Gottesidee ( Munster , 1929-55) ; in H. Baumann , Schoepfung und Urzeit des Menschen im Mythus der afrikanischen Volker (Berlin, 1936 ; G. Dieterlen , La Religion Bambara (Paris , 1951); M. Griaule , Dieu d'eau (Paris , 1948) ; Craighill Handy , Polynesian Religion (Honolulu, 1927) ; M. Leenhardt , Do Kamo (Paris, 1947) ; For the Chinese see M. Granet , Danses et legendes de la Chine ancienne (Paris, 1926) and La Pensee chinoise (Paris, 1934). For the Indies see A. Daniélou, Theorie meta-physique du Verbe ( Paris: Approches de l'Inde, 1949 ) ; Sylvain Lévy , La Doctrine des sacrifices dans les Brahmanas (Paris, 1898) ; H. Oldenberg , Die Religion des Veda (Berlin, 1917) ; H. Zimmer , Ewiges Indien (Zurich, 1930) ; M. Schneider , Die Historischen Grundlagen musikalischen Symbolik ( Die Musikforschung , Vol. IV [1951 ]).

Of the Brâhmanas note especially the Brihadaranyaka-, Aitareya-, ChAndogya-, Taittiriya-, and Maitrâyana Upanishads.